Started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of October 2019, it has 148,731 articles, 100,938 registered users and 10,056 files and it is the 50th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count. Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007,
Wikipedia had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages. The Urdu Wikipedia was created on January 27 2004 At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical problems with the Urdu script font,
but now this matter is mostly settled; some unsolved areas remain. Urdu is written in Perso-Arabic script, a right-to-left writing system. As a result, users sometimes need to configure their operating systems and web browsers accordingly.
Currently Urdu Wikipedia uses “Urdu Naskh Asiatype” font, which was introduced and is freely distributed by BBC at BBC Urdu Service website. The font is primarily used for article bodies and headings.
Urdu variation of Times New Roman is used for navigation links. Both of these fonts are variations of Naskh style.Some Pakistani variations of complex Nasta’liq script are also,,,,
