Persian Wikipedia

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You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Persian. (August 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Persian article. 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. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Persian Wikipedia article at [[:fa:ویکی‌پدیای فارسی]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fa|ویکی‌پدیای فارسی}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Persian Wikipedia

Screenshot Main Page of the Persian Wikipedia in June 2011
Native name	ویکی‌پدیا فارسی
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Available in	Persian
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
URL	fa.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
Users	1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)[1]
Launched	19 December 2003; 21 years ago (2003-12-19)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of January 2025, it has 1,026,938 articles, 1,367,455 registered users, and 95,448 files, and it is the 19th 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.