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The Persian-language Wikipedia ( Persian ویکی‌پدیا ، دانشنامهٔ آزاد Wikipedia, Dānešnāmaye āzād , 'Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia') is a Wikipedia in Persian . It was founded in December 2003. On December 16, 2004, it reached 1,000 articles. As of July 28, 2016, it had 500,000 items. This makes it the largest language version in the Middle East .

The Persian-language Wikipedia is censored by the Iranian government.

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Commons : Persian Wikipedia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias / Table
  2. Collin Anderson, Nima Nazeri: Citation Filtered: Iran's Censorship of Wikipedia. (PDF) Center for Global Communication Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, November 7, 2013, accessed May 18, 2014 .
  3. Taha Yasseri, Robert Sumi, János Kertész: Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis . In: PLoS ONE . 7, No. 1, January 17, 2012, p. E30091. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0030091 .