Persian Wikipedia Explained

Persian Wikipedia
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Url:fa.wikipedia.org
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Type:Internet encyclopedia
Language:Persian
Num Users:1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)[1]
Content License: (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies
Registration:Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
Owner:Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)

Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی|Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of, it has articles, registered users, and files, and it is the largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat.

It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan.

Number of articles

In January 2013, nearly 50,000 new articles were added within a month. A few days later, on 19 February 2013, the Persian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles, ranking it 18th among all Wikipedias based on the number of articles.[2]

It currently has articles, making it the 19th largest Wikipedia by article count.

History of the number of articles:

Article depth

With article depth of, the Persian Wikipedia is currently ranked 23rd among all Wikipedias based on article depth.[4]

Issues

Government intervention

According to reports by human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr, RFERL, Iranwire, Iran International, Justice for Iran, Open Democracy, Radio Zamaneh and other news outlets, the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance and the Iranian Cyber Army may be interfering the Persian Wikipedia, although the Wikimedia Foundation denies that there is abuse taking place.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] In 2019, German news outlet Deutsche Welle reported that WMF had launched an investigation.[12]

Censorship

In a November 2013 report published by the Center for Global Communication Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles and found that the Iranian government blocks 963 of these pages. According to the authors, "Censors repeatedly targeted Wikipedia pages about government rivals, minority religious beliefs, and criticisms of the state, officials, and the police. Just under half of the blocked Wiki-pages are biographies, including pages about individuals the authorities have allegedly detained or killed."[13] Anderson said that Persian Wikipedia, as a microcosm of the Iranian internet, is a "useful place to uncover the types of online content forbidden and an excellent template to identify keyword blocking themes and filtering rules that apply across the greater internet."[14]

On 2 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the Persian Wikipedia appeared to be disrupted in Iran after the death of Mohammad Mirmohammadi, who was a close confidant to the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.[15]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles List of Wikipedias
  2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles List of Wikipedias
  3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias/Table&diff=next&oldid=17750638 List of Wikipedias/Table
  4. Web site: Wikipedia article depth - Meta . meta.wikimedia.org . 12 July 2022 . en . 9 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032206/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_depth . live .
  5. Web site: Persian Wikipedia: an independent source or a tool of the Iranian state?. 2021-06-15. openDemocracy. en. 2021-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20210406200848/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/persian-wikipedia-independent-source-or-tool-iranian-state/. live.
  6. Web site: Mehdi. 2019-10-21. چرا پاسخ بنیاد ویکی‌مدیا مبنی بر عدم دخالت جمهوری اسلامی در ویکی‌پدیای فارسی نادرست است؟. 2021-06-15. Justice for Iran. fa-IR. 2021-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20210128190431/https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/iraninternational-wikipedia-interview/. live.
  7. News: 2021-06-15. انتقاد سازمان عدالت برای ایران از "سانسور و مداخله جانبدارانه" در ویکی‌پدیای فارسی. رادیو فردا . 2021-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615052707/https://www.radiofarda.com/a/justice-for-Iran-called-probe-on-Persian-Wikipedia/30208387.html. 2021-06-15. فردا . رادیو .
  8. Web site: 2021-06-15. شادی صدر: از ویکی‌پدیا می‌خواهیم مثل فیس‌بوک و توییتر با ارتش سایبری جمهوری اسلامی برخورد کند – Justice for Iran. 2021-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615052720/https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/iranwire-wikipedia-interview-with-shadi-sadr/. 2021-06-15.
  9. Web site: شادی صدر: از ویکی‌پدیا می‌خواهیم مثل فیس‌بوک و توییتر با ارتش سایبری جمهوری اسلامی برخورد کند. 2021-06-15. IranWire خانه. fa. 2021-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615052730/https://iranwire.com/fa/jinac/33556. live.
  10. Web site: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی: منبعی مستقل یا ابزاری در دست دولت ایران؟. 2021-06-15. www.radiozamaneh.com. 19 September 2019 . fa-IR. 2021-05-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20210501004449/https://www.radiozamaneh.com/465889/. live.
  11. Web site: Critics Say Some Persian Wikipedia Content Manipulated By Iran's Government. 2021-06-15. RFE/RL. 11 October 2019 . en. 2021-01-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20210127191610/https://en.radiofarda.com/a/critics-say-some-persian-wikipedia-content-manipulated-by-iran-s-government/30211340.html. live.
  12. Web site: Welle (www.dw.com). Deutsche. "تحقیقات بنیاد ویکی‌مدیا درباره ویکی‌پدیای فارسی آغاز شده است" DW 10.10.2019. 2021-06-15. DW.COM. fa-IR. 2021-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615055133/https://www.dw.com/fa-ir/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D8%A2%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA/a-50771615. live.
  13. Web site: Citation Filtered: Iran's Censorship of Wikipedia . Anderson . Colin . Nazeri . Nima . 7 November 2013 . Center for Global Communication Studies (University of Pennsylvania) . https://web.archive.org/web/20181126090403/http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/fileLibrary/PDFs/CItation_Filtered_Wikipedia_Report_11_5_2013-2.pdf . 26 November 2018 . dead .
  14. News: 12 November 2013 . How Iran Uses Wikipedia To Censor The Internet . BuzzFeed . 8 September 2017 . 25 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181225230439/https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-iran-uses-wikipedia-to-censor-the-internet%20 . live .
  15. News: Iranian Wikipedia disrupted amid coronavirus outbreak: Rights group . 3 March 2020 . 6 March 2020 . . 6 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200806050641/https://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2020/03/03/Iranian-Wikipedia-disrupted-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-Rights-group.html . live .

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