[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

[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.

--heema

----- Original Message ----
From: James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/13/06, Sean Whitton <sean at 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?
>
>
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