Arabic Wikipedia

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Arabic Wikipedia

The logo of Arabic Wikipedia, a globe with puzzle pieces featuring several glyphs from various writing systems. Due to the Israel–Gaza war, the pieces are in the colours of the flag of Palestine
Native name	وِيكِيبِيدْيَا الْعَرَبِيَّةُ
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Arabic
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Arab wiki community
URL	ar.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	9 July 2003; 23 years ago (2003-07-09)

The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: وِيكِيبِيدْيَا الْعَرَبِيَّةُ) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in September 2001.

It was the 23rd largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, but grew to 16th largest edition.

As of June 2022, it had over 1,100,000 articles, over 7,700,000 pages, over 2,260,000 registered users and over 49,000 files.

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Other websites

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arabic Wikipedia.

• Arabic Wikipedia's main page