[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Muhammad Alsebaey]

hmm I didnt do an extensive search the first time around but I was looking
at their writing guidelines and they say they encourage writing in either
Latin or Arabic, which means that as of now, more articles are encouraged,
and I think dudi is the admin MahmudMasri, who is still very active as I can
see. I do agree though it is not widespread as I can only find few articles
after another search, still, it is invited openly in their guidelines...


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:

> Muhammad Alsebaey hett schreven:
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 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%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_%28%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9%29>
> >
> > http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7
> >
> >
> I don't know, how widespread knowledge of Latin letters is, but I'm
> quite sure, that you are right. Latin letters shouldn't be encouraged. I
> did some "random article" and in 36 random articles (that's a 10% sample
> of arz.Wikipedia) I found no article written in Latin letters. So I
> guess, articles in Latin letters are a very limited number. Both
> examples given by you were created by Dudi on the Incubator. It seems
> Dudi isn't active anymore, no edits since November. The account wasn't
> even recreated after the move from the Incubator to the wiki (but
> perhaps he chose another username). It seems, the problem is very limited.
>
> Marcus Buck
>
>
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Best Regards,
Muhammad Alsebaey