Persian Wikipedia () is the

Persian language Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...

version of

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. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of , it has articles, registered users, and files, and it is the largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat. It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan.

Number of articles

In January 2013, nearly 50,000 new articles were added within a month. A few days later, on 19 February 2013, the Persian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles, ranking it 18th among all Wikipedias based on the number of articles. It currently has articles, making it the 19th largest

by article count. History of the number of articles: * 19 December 2003: started * 18 February 2006: reached 10,000 articles * 30 October 2008: reached 50,000 articles * 25 August 2010: reached 100,000 articles * 9 July 2012: reached 200,000 articles * 19 February 2013: reached 300,000 articles * 18 July 2014: reached 400,000 articles * 27 July 2016: reached 500,000 articles * 3 May 2018: reached 600,000 articles *8 November 2019: reached 700,000 articles *26 May 2021: reached 800,000 articles *13 April 2022: reached 900,000 articles *22 April 2024: reached 1,000,000 articles

Article depth

With article depth of , the Persian Wikipedia is currently ranked 23rd among all Wikipedias based on article depth.

Issues

Government intervention

According to reports by human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr, RFERL, Iranwire, Iran International, Justice for Iran, Open Democracy,

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and other news outlets, the

Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (, ''Vezârat-e Farhang va Ershâd-e Eslâmi'') ("Ministry of CIG") is a ministry responsible for managing access to media that, in the view of the Iranian government or the ministry, violates Iranian ...

and the Iranian Cyber Army may be interfering with the Persian Wikipedia, although the

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denies that there is abuse taking place. In 2019, German news outlet

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reported that WMF had launched an investigation.

Censorship

In a November 2013 report published by the Center for Global Communication Studies of the

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, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles and found that the Iranian government blocks 963 of these pages. According to the authors, "Censors repeatedly targeted Wikipedia pages about government rivals, minority religious beliefs, and criticisms of the state, officials, and the police. Just under half of the blocked Wiki-pages are biographies, including pages about individuals the authorities have allegedly detained or killed." Anderson said that Persian Wikipedia, as a microcosm of the Iranian internet, is a "useful place to uncover the types of online content forbidden and an excellent template to identify keyword blocking themes and filtering rules that apply across the greater internet." On 2 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the Persian Wikipedia appeared to be disrupted in Iran after the death of

Mohammad Mirmohammadi Sayyid Mohammad Mirmohammadi (‎; 1948 – 2 March 2020) was an Iranian conservative and Iranian Principlists, principlist politician who served as the senior adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an ...

, who was a close confidant to the country's supreme leader,

Ali Khamenei Ali Hosseini Khamenei (; born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the third President of Iran, president from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei's tenure ...

Gallery

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References

External links

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