Urdu Wikipedia

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages. The original site add ress for Urdu Wikipedia was http://ur.wikipedia.com and all pages were written i n the Latin alphabet, as the software did not work with Urdu characters. 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 somet imes need to configure their operating systems and web browsers accordingly. Currently Urdu Wikipedia uses "Urdu Naskh Asiatype" font, which was introduced a nd is freely distributed by BBC at BBC Urdu Service website.[6] The font is prim arily 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 supported only as a secondary choice in class definitions of CSS, i.e. if default font is not fou nd on client system, then Nasta'liq script is used. The translation of the Wikipedia interface and project information pages into Ur du is still in progress. Some pages about how to edit have been translated.