Re: arabic wikipedia

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Elzubair is true whith what he's saying at first glance I totally agreed
with him.
BUT now I am thinking that IF we really want to be a dominant force in
the linux world we have to be the most dominent Arabic group in the
linux world, some will I became crazy as I am searching for more power
now ;) But the truth is that to capture momentum to increase and make
momentum and to stabilize Arabic support in the open world, which means
: steady support, good support,etc... we need to be in the boat.
This means in my op that we have to become the dirctors of arabic
wikipedia, and this for several reasons.
Most important reason is that with open standards and the internet
knowledge is becoming free in truth the classic patents on knowledge or
loosing their power, in future (better said NOW) every one can share
everything with everyone, wikipedia is exactly about this, and I think
we have to be in there...
I can tell a thousand of other arguments FOR a marriage btw wiki and
Arabeyes. But let me say that we have AT LEAST to keep an eye on this.
Our image is very high, so we have to be very open-eyed toward changes
in the open source spectrum, it doesn't matter how little we are...

yours
Arafat
 
Am Sam, den 07.02.2004 schrieb Arafat Medini um 8:33:
> Well the Problem is simply a lack of ppl, we arevery few and so busy
> working on other projects for eg. there are only 3 ppl (if I am right)
> workng on the wordlist which is a HUGE project, with only one member
> working very hard on it (Mr Alrashedeen) for gnome there is only one
> translator, me... So you can see we are very few that's why we can't
> work on Wikipedia even i you REALLY want to...
> Still if there are some volounteers wanting our support I think no one
> will be against this!
> 
> yours
> Arafat Medini
> 
> p.s: es überrascht mich immer wieder wie sehr Menschen an der arabischen
> Kultur interessiert sind ;)
> 
> Am Sa, den 07.02.2004 schrieb Elisabeth Bauer um 01:43:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It has been mentioned already on this list some while ago: at 
> > http://ar.wikipedia.org an open content encyclopedia in arabic waits to 
> > be born.
> > 
> > It's part of the international project wikipedia, an encyclopedia with 
> > now almost 500 000 articles in more than 40 languages, written entirely 
> > by volunteers. Its content is licensed under the GNU free documentation 
> > license.
> > 
> > Currently there are several unsolved things, and I hope that maybe 
> > someone here on the list can help:
> > 
> > First, there are no arabs in the arabic wikipedia, only some people from 
> > the other projects willing to help with technical questions about the 
> > wiki, but they don't speak much arabic (I am a project member of the 
> > German wikipedia and quite interested in arabic culture, but my arabic 
> > is... better don't speak about it). So, if you have friends with 
> > internet access who might enjoy working together in building the biggest 
> > free resource of knowledge in the web, tell them about it!
> > 
> > I tried to localize parts of the interface (many thanks for the wordlist 
> > :-))), but I am sure there are many mistakes and a good deal remains to 
> > be translated (btw, the software, mediawiki, is GPL and can be used for 
> > other wikis as well).
> > 
> > Second problem is the name - something which is quite difficult to 
> > change afterwards if it turns out to be wrong. Currently ويكيبيديا
> > is used. Is this correct? (Someone made already a logo 
> > http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_other_languages)
> > 
> > Third are browser problems with Mozilla and Firebird which behave quite 
> > strangely with arabic in the textboxes (at least on my systems). I don't 
> > know much about how it should behave correctly, since I don't type much 
> > in arabic, so we were absolutely grateful for good, developer style bug 
> > reports (and hints how to fix the problems).
> > 
> > If you have any questions, please ask, here on the list, by mail or on 
> > my talk page at http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Elian
> > 
> > kind regards,
> > Elian
> > 
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