In January 2013, close to 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 number of articles. It currently has articles, making it the 18th largest Wikipedia by article count. History of articles number:
With of, the Persian Wikipedia is currently ranked 14th among all Wikipedias based on article depth.
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." 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." On 2 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, Persian Wikipedia appears to be disrupted in Iran after the death of Mohammad Mirmohammadi, whom is a close confidant to the country's supreme leaderAli Khamenei.
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Topics
As of 2019 the Persian Wikipedia has 500 thousand unique categories. The average article in this language version has 15 categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.743. The largest number of articles has Organizations and Geography category. In Persian Wikipedia articles related to Religion and Law has the highest average quality. Content about Philosophy is read more often and articles in Religion category have the highest authors' interest on average.
Verifiability
In March 2020 the Persian Wikipedia contained 1.4 million references, wherein 1.94% of them had the DOI identifier and 3.29% of references contained the ISBN number. Total share of articles on the Persian Wikipedia with at least one reference was 53.79%. At the time it had 3.26% and 0.16% of articles with at least 10 and 100 references respectively.
