
It currently has 957,883 articles, making it the 19 th largest Wikipedia by article count. A few days later, on 19 February 2013, the Persian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles, ranking it 18th among all Wikipedias based on number of articles. In January 2013, close to 50,000 new articles were added within a month.
It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer and bureaucrat. As of April 2023, it has 957,883 articles, 1,207,284 registered users and 85,076 files and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. The Persian Wikipedia ( Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wikipediā, Dānešnāme-ye Āzād, lit.'Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia') is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. You should also add the template to the talk page. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Persian Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 299 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. View a machine-translated version of the Persian article.