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right Wikipedia Urdu, started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of November 2005, it is relatively small in size, with only about 600 articles.

History

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. According to the announcement,[link] about 12 non-English editions had been created, including a Japanese one. The original site address was http://ur.wikipedia.com and all pages were written in the Latin alphabet, as the software did not work with Urdu characters.

Urdunization

Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu
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Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu

At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical problems with the Urdu script font, but now this matter is mostly settled; some unsolved areas remain. Urdu, like Arabic, uses a right-to-left writing system (a variant of the Arabic alphabet), so clients must configure their operating systems and web browsers accordingly.

The translation of the Wikipedia interface and project information pages into Urdu is still in progress. Some pages about how to edit have been translated.

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