WikIran
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WikIran (Persian: vikIran) is a Web-based collaborative project to develop a free English-language encyclopedia, running the MediaWiki software. Unlike other wiki projects such as Wikipedia, wikIran limits its focus to a specific specialization, concentrating primarily on Iranian history, civilization, and peoples. It's foundation was inspired by both the Encyclopædia Iranica, a proprietary reference to which wikIran aims to provide a free alternative to, and Wikipedia.[1]
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History
WikIran was launched in 2006 as a response to the demand in Wikipedia's Iranian articles for specialized and accurate information on issues of Iran and Iranian heritage and history.
Content
Like Wikipedia, wikIran's content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. As of November 2006, wikIran contains over 539 articles (see the Statistics page for a more up-to-date number.)
Notability
WikIran has been referenced online on Iranian.com as "our Wiki" referring to the Iranian community.[2] Iranian.com is "the largest online community for Iranians residing in North America"[3]. WikIran is also noted on the Persian Journal list of Iranian sources of reference.[4] Articles by WikIran continue to be mirrored, referenced, and copied by various other sources such as factbites.com.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.wikiran.org/wiki/WikIran
- ^ See: http://www.iranian.com/updates.html
- ^ http://www.iranian.com/contact.html
- ^ See: [1]
- ^ See for example: http://www.factbites.com/topics/City-Council-of-Tehran
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