Arabic Wikipedia

Also known as arwiki, arawiki, arwp, ar.wikipedia.org, arwikipedia

Arabic-language edition of Wikipedia

AI overview

Arabic Wikipedia is the version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia written in Arabic, allowing Arabic speakers around the world to access and contribute to knowledge in their native language. It matters because it helps ensure that the world's roughly 400 million Arabic speakers can participate in the global sharing of information and have their perspectives represented in a major knowledge resource.

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Vinony's link graph records 157 inbound references to Arabic Wikipedia, and connects out to list of Wikipedias, Slovene Wikipedia and The Jerusalem Post.

It sits within the topics Arabic-language websites, Arabic Wikipedia and Encyclopedias in Arabic.

Vinony links it to 93 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Official name: ويكيبيديا العربية
Official website: ar.wikipedia.org
Image: Screencapture-ar-wikipedia-org-wiki-2019-11-17-16 44 55.png
Motto: الموسوعة الحرة التي يستطيع الجميع تحريرها

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social media followers: 83752
Commons category: Arabic Wikipedia
inception: 2003-07-09
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikipedia-ar
email address: mailto:[email protected]
number of registered users/contributors: 1543563
Wikimedia language code: ar
search formatter URL: ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1
number of records: 1302929
API endpoint URL: ar.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
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Encyclopedic overview

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The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية, romanized: Wīkībīdyā al-ʻArabīyah) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of June 2026, it has 1,316,343 articles, 2,932,525 registered users and 56,347 files and it is the 15th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 4th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was the first Wikipedia in a Semitic language to exceed 100,000 articles on 25 May 2009, and also the first Semitic language to exceed 1 million articles, on 17 November 2019.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arabic Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.