<div dir="ltr">For the record, the day was organized across all of ar.wp , so Arabic speakers from all around the world participated, there was however two large teams: the one in Bib. Alex. that Samuel mentioned and one in Cairo in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Marine transport. As far as I know there was also some smaller focus groups elsewhere, and a LOT of people on IRC. And yes there was 685 distinct articles contributed, the goal was 1000 but people are pleased with the 685 result :) . <br>
<br><a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9">http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Florence Devouard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Anthere9@yahoo.com">Anthere9@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Samuel Klein wrote:<br>
> The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular)<br>
> helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read<br>
> correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and<br>
> 4200 this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and<br>
> 6% this month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed<br>
> scripted, /many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of<br>
> anons. And it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier<br>
> volume is being taken seriously:<br>
> <a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86" target="_blank">http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278" target="_blank">http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278</a><br>
><br>
> I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own<br>
> Wikipedia day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of<br>
> Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's<br>
> pretty awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good<br>
> spectator sport (and motivation to practice a new language :-).<br>
> Congrats to everyone involved, browsing the results made my night.<br>
><br>
> SJ<br>
> (who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded<br>
> by the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>That's wonderful news !<br>
<br>
Regarding participation from the (by large) area of the world, I spent a<br>
while being bold on the french wikipedia in the past 2-3 days (active<br>
deletionnist) and I was very pleased to note the very serious increase<br>
in articles related to Marrocco. These are not always good ones, lot's<br>
of stuff on small villages, famous sportmen, actresses etc... but this<br>
is a very good sign that Wikipedia is now hosting a significant number<br>
of editors in that country ;-) So, I thought it was very good news.<br>
<br>
Ant<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best Regards,<br>Muhammad Alsebaey<br>
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