On Urdu Wikipedia, article on Israel is very short:
http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84
I can translate it:
"Israel, a palce where jews live. In addition to Pakistan there are many other
countries that do not recognize this place of Jews as a country.
Majority of the Urdu speaking public believes that there
is no country by the name of Israel exists. But there is
a country named Palestine, whose some part is captured
by Jews and they call it Israel. And the English speaking
world says that in a country called Israel some
Palestenians want to create a country called Palestine."
This is the whole article. Quite extraordinary, nothing to add more.
--heema
----- Original Message ----
From: James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:26:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice
That's a scary thought.
What's the article on Israel on Arabic or Farsi Wikipedia like?
On 7/13/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/13/06, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
That sounds sensible, how about something along
the lines of (after
translation by a kind soul):
Discussion on the [[foundation-l]] mailing list about the Urdu
Wikipedia's sitenotice has come to the conclusion that according to
policy the sitenotice should not be used <perhaps a quote from Jimbo
here>. We'd like to hear the opinions of the users of this wiki before
we take any action over this issue.
Sound okay?
Discussion on the [[foundation-l]] mailing list and IRC about the Urdu
Wikipedia's sitenotice has come to the conclusion that according to
policy sitenotices of that type should not be used on wikimedia
foundation projects. In particular it conflicts with the principle
that wikipedia is written in NPOV (this includes religious
endorsements). As a result we would like to disscuss the removal of
the the text from site notice.
That gives the reasons but the ending is too weak.
Incerdentaly what is their article in Israel like?
--
geni
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