Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia is the version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia written in Urdu, the official language of Pakistan and spoken by millions of people worldwide. It makes knowledge accessible to Urdu speakers who may not be fluent in English or other languages where Wikipedia has more extensive content.
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The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا, romanized: Urdū Vikīpēdiya), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of 1 June 2026, it has 465,726 articles, 212,759 registered users and 9,784 files, and it is the 33rd largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 8th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. There were 6 million page views in January 2024. On 7 January 2024, the Urdu Wikipedia became the first South Asian-language Wikipedia to surpass 200,000 articles.
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