Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Arab Wikipedians Facebook group

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What group or community is this source coming from?

Name of group Arab Wikipedians
Virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country) URL
Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference) Facebook
# of participants in this discussion (a rough count) ?

Further details

  • About 3,700 members.
  • Most bureaucrats/admins/active users are members.
  • A common place to hold Wiki-related discussions and to express the concerns of the community.
  • Usually, discussion about policies or important stuff are not allowed, because they should be held somewhere on Wikipedia.

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Summary for the discussion:

Line Statement (summary sentence) Keywords
1 I hope Wikimedia will focus more on developing the technical side of WikiProjects. Technical, software
2 Referring to comment 1: How can we particularly improve technically? I believe that a major problem could be the excessive difficulty of using wiki plugins for non-programmers. Technical difficulty, non-programmers
3 Referring to comment 2: This is a major issue that started 15 years ago, when Danny insisted on keeping Wikipedia technically simple in order to allow older computers to run the website. Technical simplicity
4 Referring to previous comments: Wikimedia Foundation has made enormous technical improvements recently, such as the visual editor and flow. However, we are still looking for more softwares on Arabic language projects, for example, I had like to see the auto voting tool introduced to Arabic Wikipedia. Visual editor, flow, vote
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