. At the time, the WMF board was not all too pleased with
an Egyptian Wikipedia. Having said that, localisation is not a problem from
a language committee position. Having new projects in Arabic family
languages requires the blessing of the board.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 16:05, Houcemeddine A. Turki <
turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. It was a long time since I began working on
the issue of Arabic dialects in wikis. This issue is complicated as it has
many significant sides such as the linguistic side and the sociopolitical
side. In 2008, Language Committee approved the creation of Egyptian
Wikipedia. Nowadays, many of the articles of this Wikipedia are written in
Modern Standard Arabic and not in Egyptian Arabic. Moreover, most of the
articles written in Egyptian Wikipedia are stubs. This can be explained by
the difficulty of writing Egyptian and finding technical terms in this
language as well as many other Arabic dialects due to the lack of
standardization. In 2017, I proposed in AICCSA 2017 conference (ERA C Class
Conference) the that Wikidata can be used a knowledgebase for Arabic
dialects (
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_Mult…).
In fact, we can be simply done by adding labels in Arabic dialects to all
Wikidata entities and we will not face the matters faced by active Egyptian
Wikipedia editors as we do not need to formulate statements into sentences
to put them in Wikidata. Furthermore, the database can be useful for a
variety of other important tasks such as Named Entity Recognition. All what
we should do is to translate Mediawiki system messages to Arabic dialects
and add labels, descriptions and aliases in Arabic dialects. Since 2017, I
worked to add support to Tunisian Arabic in Wikidata so that I can convince
users of the accuracy of this solution. As you can know, Tunisian is
represented in Mediawiki with three language codes: aeb, aeb-arab (Arabic
Script) and aeb-latn (Latin Script: Arabizi). I added labels, descriptions
and aliases in aeb-arab and aeb-latn. However, aeb remained without labels.
I ask if you can add a module to Wikidata that adds any label, description
or alias of aeb-arab to aeb. I also ask about your opinions about this
Wikidata project.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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