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> Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June - Times of India
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post Thu 31st May 2012, 9:50pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Urdu [b]Wikipedia to be up and running in June[/b]
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NEW DELHI: Can Mirza Ghalib be made cool? It's a tough challenge but one that some Urdu scholars are willing to take up. Keen to make Urdu culture, poetry, language and traditions accessible to the young generation, especially the growing diaspora, ...



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post Fri 1st June 2012, 3:29pm
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This makes no sense. There has long been an Urdu Wikipedia, aparently since 2004.

http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%81%...%A7%D9%88%D9%84

While I have myself never edited it, colleagues surely have. And if they mean to create a new site not part of WMF, is not that a breach of copyright?

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