Thanks! It's clearer now. A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:41 PM yamen bousrih <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Asaf, > > Some of them are in Egyptian dialect (1 > <https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1>) > but many stubs are in arabic (2 > <https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2> > ) > > The user is using Wikidata to populate the articles (bios, cities ...). > > According to a sysop friend from ar.wp the user was inspired and copied > what has been done in the last few years in ar.wp. > > If the user is going to continue populating articles using this technique > we can expect that the number of articles can increase more and more (it's > even possible to exceed 1m soon). > > PS: the user started editing July 2019 and became admin on arz.wp 4 months > ago. > > Thanks > Yamen > > > > Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 à 18:20:40 UTC+1, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > a écrit : > > > And to Ingo's other questions? What is the language like? Is it actually > the Egyptian dialect? > > A. > > Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) > > Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 6:37 PM yamen bousrih <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Ingo, > > That's very interesting ! > > It looks that more than 130k new articles have been created by the same > user: *HitomiAkane *and apparently it's not a bot. > > I'm wondering what is the trigger behind this ? > > > Thanks > Yamen > > > > Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 à 17:27:13 UTC+1, Ingo Koll <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > NB: looking at it: they might even work manually, not purely by bot? > > > On 05.03.2020 19:21, Ingo Koll wrote: > > Hi everybody > > I noticed a sudden expansion of arz.wikipedia (Egyptian Arabic dialect > version). Can one of our Arabic speakers help (it would save time for me as > my Arabic is bati' ktir -too slow)? > > Arz.wiki used to hover under 20,000 articles for years, was at 24,000 > until November 2019 and then started adding, reaching 158,107 today 5 March > 2020 (adding 10,000 articles in the 5 days of March!). Looks like some > programme doing articles. I wonder: is there anything readable coming out > of it? Is it actually masri or do they just copy regular existing material > from ar.wikipedia? Appreciate our Arabic speakers' wisdom! Cheers, Ingo - > Kipala from sw.wiki > > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virenfrei. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > <#m_7467257356989351114_m_4361741965561098002_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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