Persian Wikipedia

Persian Wikipedia is a member of Wikimedia Foundation. It started work in December 2003. founder of Persian version is Roozbeh Pour-Nader.Washington Post

It is the 18th largest edition by article count.  Persian Wikipedia has currently more than 500,000 articles.

Articles
Many of the first articles on the Persian Wikipedia were about chemical materials and historical subjects.  The Wikipedia added geography and religious subjects soon after.  On 16 December 2004, the Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.

Charts Progress
 Articles  Date  Position 0  December 2003   1,000  16 December 2004   10,000  February 2006  38th 20,000  24 April 2007   50,000  30 October 2008  36th 100,000  25 August 2010  33th 150,000  23 May 2011  24th 200,000  9 July 2012  21st 250,000  13 January 2013  19th 300,000  19 February 2013  18th 400,000  18 July 2014  19th 450,000  27 April 2015  18thList of Wikipedias/Table  meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics at 00:00, 26 December 2015 (UTC) 

Related pages

Persian language

References

Sources
Persian Wikipedia
Wikipedias at MetaWiki

Category:Wikipedias