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Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic-language edition of Wikipedia
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Summary

Arabic Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Arabic Language[3]
  • Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[4]
  • Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[5]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[6], GNU Free Documentation License[7]
  • Writing system: Arabic alphabet[8]
  • Commons category: Arabic Wikipedia[9]
  • Language of work or name: Modern Standard Arabic[10]
  • Wikimedia language code: ar[11]
  • Inception: July 9, 2003[12]
  • Official website: https://ar.wikipedia.org/[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Arabic Wikipedia[14]
  • Email address: mailto:info-ar@wikimedia.org[15]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[16]
  • Official name: ويكيبيديا العربية[17]
  • Motto text: الموسوعة الحرة التي يستطيع الجميع تحريرها[18]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikipedia-ar[19]
  • Number of registered users/contributors: 1,184,662[20], 1,395,156[21], 1,405,795[22], 1,543,563[23]
  • Different from: Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia[24], Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia[25]
  • House publication: The Signpost[26]
  • Search formatter URL: https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1[27]
  • Number of records: 1,041,592[28], 1,302,929[29]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[30]
  • API endpoint URL: https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[31]
  • Form of creative work: encyclopedia[32]
  • Social media followers: 79,328[33], 72,337[34], 81,352[35], 83,752[36]

Why It Matters

Arabic Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

FAQs

What awards did Arabic Wikipedia receive?

Honors received include Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Arabic Language[3].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . arabicaward.ae. arabicaward.ae. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . ar.wikipedia.org. ar.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikistats.wmflabs.org. Retrieved . wikistats.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · MidleadingBot bot · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Domain name → ar.wikipedia.org
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Domain name: ar.wikipedia.org, bot ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/2d1f480bdbec40f1b7e8525ff93b784d|details]])"
  2. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product or material produced → online encyclopedia
    Language of work or name → Modern Standard Arabic
    Product → —
    Award received → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||hu, fr, es, ru, ca, en, bho, ace, id, jv, su, min, bjn, mul */ Cleanup: normalize text; remove alias=label/mul; replace property; add mul alias ([[U"
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