The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة Wīkībīdyā, al-Mawsūʿa al-Ḥurra) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in 9 July 2003. As of August 2009, it has over 100,000 articles, 530,000 pages, 210,000 registered users and 6400 files. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 27th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and is the first Semitic language to exceed 100,00...
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The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة Wīkībīdyā, al-Mawsūʿa al-Ḥurra) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in 9 July 2003. As of August 2009, it has over 100,000 articles, 530,000 pages, 210,000 registered users and 6400 files. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 27th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and is the first Semitic language to exceed 100,000 articles.
The design of the Arabic Wikipedia differs somewhat from other Wikipedias. Most notably, since Arabic is written right-to-left, the location of links is a mirror image of those Wikipedias in languages written left-to-right. Also, the background uses a traditional Arabic geometric tessellation pattern in place of the standard look.
The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in Syria with no official reasons given by the Syrian government. The block began on April 30, 2008 while all other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked...
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