I won't want to add an extra weight on everyone, but Arabic Wikipedia
have a very high rank in Google (Thanks to other Wikipedias of course)
.. So if you search in google in Arabic for anything that we already
have an article for in Arabic Wikipedia it will have a very high rank...
some examples, (and ranks):
- يابان [Japan] (#1)
- جائزة نوبل [Nobel Prize] (#7 in the first page)
- مناحيم بيغن [Menachem Begin] (#2)
- احمد ياسين [Ahmed Yasin] (#5)
and so on.. for me that made me feel that we should make quality
articles, of course I release that the rank of Arabic Wikipedia is
inherited from the international Wikipedia project, but I hope that soon
the Arabic Wikipedia will be a reference as well that will help help
raise or sustain the Wikipedia rank in general.
(for many search rank is a non-issue, but at least for me it means that
more people will find Arabic Wikipedia)
Yours
Isam Bayazidi