Arabic Wikipedia
This page is a descriptive article on the Arabic Wikipedia, feel free to add any comment.
Many of the answers here are courtesy of Isam Bayazidi
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Facts [edit]
Started: Although the home page of Arabic Wikipedia say that it started in July 2003, it was actually until Feb 2004 that it really started. Elian, sent an email to Arabeyes Mailing List ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabeyes), Following is the email: http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/February/msg00023.html
Areas of strength
- TK
Areas of weakness
Who is the competition (print, online)?
- TK
Prominent milestones/events [edit]
- TK
What has its impact been?
- TK
Features [edit]
What language features are challening?
- Arabic is read right-to-left, and Arabic wikipedia didn't even have an Arabic interface originally. Isam Bayazidi volunteered to translate the interface, and worked with other. Reference:
What would surprise the outside reader about the community?
- TK
What are some unique practices/characteristics?
- TK
Who were the earliest participants, who started it?
- Isam Bayazidi
Other prominent Wikipedians?
- Khaled AlShurafa (Oxydo)
- Meno25
- Ciphers
Statistics [edit]
First test made by Toira on 25/02/07 [edit]
Using alt-shift-x (to display a random page) 20 times I got:
- 13 articles with decent content [65%], of wich 04 are about arab personalities.
- 03 stubs. [15%]
- 04 date articles, half of them have some content. [20%]
Second test made by SegeWiki on 6/01/11 [edit]
Viewing a random article 20 times I got:
- 3 one-lined stubs (15%)
- 10 stubs (50%)
- 1 good date article (5%)
- 4 weak articles, not stubs (20%)
- 2 fair articles (10%)
Third test made by Rich Farmbrough on 2012-01-31 [edit]
(Note this only reflects the distribution of articles, see some of my research for more details.) Viewing a random article 20 times I got:
- 3 one-lined stubs (15%)
- 13 stubs (65%)
- 1 good date article (5%)
- 2 weak articles, not stubs (10%)
- 1 fair articles (5%)
