I just read the news letter and was not too happy since Arabic did not even make it in the list of _considered_ languages to have sizable article count.
- Just a note for the maintainers of ar.wiki from a humble 3 days old contributor; a live article count would be really encouraging to see where we are as far as article count.
- Writing a 3 lines article on a heavy subject is not advisable. I think either a writer write something meaningfull or leave the topic blank. I tried to explain this to my son who submitted his first article yesterday to no avail :)
Kind regards,
I've added the article count to the main page. Someone should probably change the wording. Currently it just says 95 الصفحة.
The automatically updated count comes from {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}.
Only articles with at least one internal link to an existing article are counted, which is why the press release did not mention Arabic, as it has very few pages at this time.
I disagree that "writing a 3 lines article on a heavy subject is not advisable". Stubs are often better than nothing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_stub_article on the English Wikipedia.
Angela.
--- Ahmad Al-rasheedan asr@baldi.cc wrote: > I just read the news letter and was not too happy
since Arabic did not even make it in the list of _considered_ languages to have sizable article count.
- Just a note for the maintainers of ar.wiki from a
humble 3 days old contributor; a live article count would be really encouraging to see where we are as far as article count.
- Writing a 3 lines article on a heavy subject is
not advisable. I think either a writer write something meaningfull or leave the topic blank. I tried to explain this to my son who submitted his first article yesterday to no avail :)
Kind regards,
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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:58, you wrote:
I've added the article count to the main page. Someone should probably change the wording. Currently it just says 95 الصفحة.
Cool. I think it should read "موضوع" or "مقال". And by the way, I don't think your mailer writes in utf-8. I get funny characters on my end.
I disagree that "writing a 3 lines article on a heavy subject is not advisable". Stubs are often better than nothing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_stub_article
Aha:) and I fell for that just today when I read "محمد رسول الله" and I couldn't just leave the article the way it was.
Regards,