It is not a political stand that the first body of written non-fiction work
published in Egyptian Arabic will be on Wikipedia? I said before that there
is an ongoing debate in Egypt about the adoption of Egyptian Arabic as
written in addition to being spoken in order to bolster the national
identity of Egypt. This debate is currently dead in the water AFAIK, with a
lot of argument going for and against. Wikipedia hosting the first
non-fiction written work *is* a political stand in this debate IMHO.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:
Hi Ting,
In the days since I have first sent my email, I talked to several people,
and due to their arguments, I am less worried now about division of
effort,
however, I still strongly believe that my
arguments about the language
being
mostly a spoken one with no stable orthography
and that by WMF approving
any
of those dialects/language, it will be
essentially making a political
stand,
still hold.
No, I don't think that we make any political stand. For me politics is
neither an argument for nor against anything. If you are saying that the
LangCom is political insensitive, for me it is not a failure. For me it
is a merit.
Ting
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