Muhammad Alsebaey hett schreven:
The mission of
the foundation is an educational one. So it would be
better to ask the uneducated masses of Egypt, whether they feel a gain
from a Wikipedia in their language or whether they stick with the
"Latin" Wikipedia.
Marcus Buck
It is interesting to me to see that Masri condones writing in a Latinized
alphabet, I didnt know that until I saw Mohamed's email, so I went looking
and they say you can write in both Arabic and 'latinized' characters. I said
earlier that I am against deleting any project already opened with an active
user base, still I fail to see how articles like the following are of any
use to anybody but an elite few who would like to see their language more
westernized, and are using Wikipedia to give ground to such
experimentation... Do people actually think that the illiterate masses are
willing to learn a totally new alphabet that is of no use to them in daily
life just to read some information on Wikipedia? anyone else seeing this
premise as kind of nonsensical?
http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D…
http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7
I don't know, how widespread knowledge of Latin letters is, but I'm
quite sure, that you are right. Latin letters shouldn't be encouraged. I
did some "random article" and in 36 random articles (that's a 10% sample
of arz.Wikipedia) I found no article written in Latin letters. So I
guess, articles in Latin letters are a very limited number. Both
examples given by you were created by Dudi on the Incubator. It seems
Dudi isn't active anymore, no edits since November. The account wasn't
even recreated after the move from the Incubator to the wiki (but
perhaps he chose another username). It seems, the problem is very limited.
Marcus Buck