Fwd: Contribution & Participation

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

Ahmad brings up some very relevant and intesesting points.  I wanted to
forward this to 'general', but ahmad notes that it will simply get lots
in the noise.

Comments/Ideas/views ?

 - Nadim

--- Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:14:16 +0300
> 
> Please feel free to share this with 'core'.
> We need to do something.
> --------------------
> There is something the guys at Arabic Wikipedia are doing right and we
> are not! Looking at the amount of changes that takes place over there
> makes me wonder what aren't we doing and they are!
> 
> I am a translator at Wikipedia and a translator here but I enjoy what I
> do over there more. Not minutes go by (depending on time of day) until
> someone modify/add to an article I submit or the other way around. If
> we can have this level of output over here, our projects would be in a 
> different shape. Please note that translating an article is much harder
> and more time consuming than translating words or a strings, yet we
> reached a point we ask non-contributing members to submit one translated
> word and we got no where!
> 
> Guys, I am just jealous & frustrated.
> 
> I bitched but I think I have the answer, it is the way Wiki operates.
> You get to use a browser and edit/save/publish on the fly.
> 
> I did this article http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/اسرائيل . Can you
> see the amount of work? thats a lot of reading and translating, but
> I had no problem. Can you imagine if 1/10 of that is being input
> by members of Arabeyes for our projects?
> -- 
> Ahmad Al-rasheedan (http://webhost.fasttelco.com/asr)


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