Hi all.
(I apologise this won't show up in threading - I've only just
subscribed and I'm reading old mesages through the archives)
Heema Khan:
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.
In this specific case, if my reading of the page is right, this
article has had a grand total of 21 edits, the ten most recent of them
in a single three-day period in June. Every single bit of the content
has been contributed by one single registered user; all anon edits
have been vandalism (well, one was pageblanking, that might count as
justified!) No discussion page, of course.
On the whole, while it's still a pretty terrible article, it scares me
less once I know that it's the work of one guy and it's just that
no-one sane has managed to look at it yet...