It seems Sj thought the mailing list was called "meta-l" and meant to send it here. :-)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:37 AM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Arabic Wikipedia day(s) -- barnraising joys and results To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Meta-Wiki meta-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular) helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and 4200 this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and 6% this month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed scripted, /many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of anons. And it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier volume is being taken seriously: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86 http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278
I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own Wikipedia day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's pretty awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good spectator sport (and motivation to practice a new language :-). Congrats to everyone involved, browsing the results made my night.
SJ (who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded by the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)
Whoops! Thanks Casey. I think the meta list should be renamed "meta-l" so I guess I was letting my subconscious get the better of my address book (which knew the diff all along :) .
meta.sj
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.comwrote:
It seems Sj thought the mailing list was called "meta-l" and meant to send it here. :-)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:37 AM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Arabic Wikipedia day(s) -- barnraising joys and results To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Meta-Wiki meta-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Translators translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular) helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and 4200 this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and 6% this month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed scripted, /many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of anons. And it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier volume is being taken seriously: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86 http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278
I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own Wikipedia day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's pretty awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good spectator sport (and motivation to practice a new language :-). Congrats to everyone involved, browsing the results made my night.
SJ (who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded by the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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