Arabic Wikipedia
This page is a descriptive article on the Arabic Wikipedia, feel free to add any comment.
Many of the answers here are courtesy of Isam Bayazidi
Facts
editStarted: Although the home page of Arabic Wikipedia says it started in July 2003, it did not really start until February 2004. Elian sent an email to Arabeyes Mailing List (Arabeyes). You can read the email.
Areas of strength
- TK
Areas of weakness
Who is the competition (print, online)?
- TK
- Arab-ency.com
Prominent milestones/events
edit- TK
What has its impact been?
- TK
Features
editWhat language features are challening?
- Arabic is read right-to-left, and Arabic wikipedia didn't even have an Arabic interface originally. Isam Bayazidi volunteered to translate the interface, alongside others. Reference
- Finding translation for the names creatures like Clarkia Amonea and Pithovirus
What would surprise the outside reader about the community?
- TK
What are some unique practices/characteristics?
- TK
Who were the earliest participants, who started it?
- Isam Bayazidi
Other prominent Wikipedians?
- Meno25
- Ciphers
Statistics
editUsing alt-shift-x (to display a random page) 20 times I got:
- 13 articles with decent content [65%], of wich 04 are about arab personalities.
- 3 stubs. [15%]
- 4 date articles, half of them have some content. [20%]
Viewing a random article 20 times I got:
- 3 one-lined stubs (15%)
- 10 stubs (50%)
- 1 good date article (5%)
- 4 weak articles, not stubs (20%)
- 2 fair articles (10%)
Third test made by Rich Farmbrough on 2012-01-31
edit(Note this only reflects the distribution of articles, see some of my research for more details.) Viewing a random article 20 times I got:
- 3 one-lined stubs (15%)
- 13 stubs (65%)
- 1 good date article (5%)
- 2 weak articles, not stubs (10%)
- 1 fair articles (5%)