altered or deleted a certain content from the website, claims of which surfaced after an internal investigation. According to reports, there was an internal investigation led by the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, leading to the suspension of 16 users following “conflict of interest” editing on the website in the Middle East. Wikipedia operators later denied the claims about Saudi government infiltrating its Middle East team, while the Saudi authorities refrained from sharing any comments on the claims. Usage and page views by country Florence Devouard, the former president of the Wikimedia Foundation, stated in 2010 that the largest number of articles on the Arabic Wikipedia were written by Egyptians and that the Egyptians were more likely to participate in the Arabic Wikipedia compared to other groups. Generally, Arabic Wikipedia, as of 2018, is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in the most Arabic countries, except Tunisia, Comoros, Chad, Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE. Arabic Wikipedia has its highest percentages in Egypt, Libya and the countries of the Levant (except Israel and Lebanon) and the Arabic peninsula. This discrepancy happens because of the deficits of Wikipedia in Arabic regarding quality and quantity, while in the latter three the lead of English there is associated with the fact that most residents there are migrants from various countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines and other countries, where English is the most popular language there. As of December 2022, Arabic receives around to 180 to 260 million pageviews per month, depending on the season. The most pageviews are recorded in winter and spring. Also, the Ideas Beyond Borders project, in cooperation with the I Believe in Science website, launched the Bayt Alhikma 2.0 project in December 2018 in order to translate science-related articles in Arabic. See also Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia References External links Arabic Wikipedia Arabic Wikipedia mobile version Arabic-language encyclopedias Arabic-language websites Science and technology in the Arab world Wikipedias by language Internet properties established in 2003