The Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia was launched at the beginning of 2004. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and one of the official languages of India, spoken by many millions of people, and it is written in a modified form of the Perso-Arabic script, in the Nastaliq style. Displaying the script correctly on computers and in web fonts posed difficulties in the first years, which made it harder for volunteers to write. The edition is written by volunteers in Pakistan, India and the diaspora, and it has grown into a large reference. Its size is still smaller than many other editions, in relation to the number of speakers.
Before and after
- c. 2000sCreation of Watson
- 2004Construction of Cam Ranh International Airport
- January 2004Spirit and Opportunity land on Mars
- 20 January 2004Creation of Scala
- 27 January 2004Release of Urdu Wikipedia
- 27 January 2004Release of Bangla Wikipedia
- from 28 January 2004 to 17 September 2019Premiere of Winx Club
- 30 January 2004Release of Ukrainian Wikipedia
- 4 February 2004Founding of Facebook
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.