[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Muhammad Alsebaey]

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> 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
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>
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%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A_(%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9)

http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7


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Best Regards,
Muhammad Alsebaey