Dear friends, I am pleased to inform you that today the Urdu Wikipedia has crossed the 50,000 article mark. I am honoured to be a humble contributor of this Wikipedia which has reached milestone yet to be covered by many other Wikipedias. The focus, as the community feels, will now shift on referencing and elaborating many of the existing articles to satisfactory levels. Muzammil. مجھے خوشی ہے کہ برصغیر کی اس ویکی پیڈیا کا میں ادنیٰ سا حصہ ہوں جس نے وہ سنگ میل عبور کیا ہے جو دنیا کی کئ دیگر ویکیپیڈیا نہیں کر پائ ہیں۔ اب مجھے خوشی ہوگی اگر ہم حوالہ جات اور مضامین کو تشفی بخش حد تک تفصیلات کا حامل بنانے پر اپنی توجہ مرکوز کریں۔--مزمل <https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81:Hindustanilanguage> (تبادلۂ خیال <https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%82_%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81:Hindustanilanguage> • شراکتیں <https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%BA/Hindustanilanguage>) 08:13, 24 اپریل 2014 (م ع و <https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC>

Congrats and thanks for letting us know Muzammil, I belongs to Wikimedia Community User Group Pakistan but I wasn't aware of this milestone. Unfortunately I'm not on Urdu WP nor we have much editors from Urdu WP in our user group yet. RegardsSaqib From: amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:13:45 +0300 To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark Congratulations! Always a pleasure to do edits like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languages&… (In case it's not clear, it goes to English Wikipedia's Main Page :) ) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-04-24 11:35 GMT+03:00 muzammil &lt;muzammil(a)cis-india.org&gt;rg>: Dear friends, I am pleased to inform you that today the Urdu Wikipedia has crossed the 50,000 article mark. I am honoured to be a humble contributor of this Wikipedia which has reached milestone yet to be covered by many other Wikipedias. The focus, as the community feels, will now shift on referencing and elaborating many of the existing articles to a satisfactory levels. Muzammil. مجھے خوشی ہے کہ برصغیر کی اس ویکی پیڈیا کا میں ادنیٰ سا حصہ ہوں جس نے وہ سنگ میل عبور کیا ہے جو دنیا کی کئ دیگر ویکیپیڈیا نہیں کر پائ ہیں۔ اب مجھے خوشی ہوگی اگر ہم حوالہ جات اور مضامین کو تشفی بخش حد تک تفصیلات کا حامل بنانے پر اپنی توجہ مرکوز کریں۔--مزمل (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:13, 24 اپریل 2014 (م ع و) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Thanks for pointing this out. Now it is :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-04-24 16:10 GMT+03:00 Yann Forget &lt;yannfo(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had ~27.5k articles in February. Much bot-generated content? Thanks, Asaf 2014-04-24 1:39 GMT-07:00 muzammil &lt;muzammil(a)cis-india.org&gt;rg>: -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

Urdu Wikipedia lists two bots having admin access too. https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D9%81%DB%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D… Please let me know if there are guidelines / precedents for this.

Till no one answer the basic question raised by Asaf, //Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had ~27.5k articles in February. Much bot-generated content// within a two month 27+ to 50+!!!!