For the record, the day was organized across all of ar.wp , so Arabic speakers from all around the world participated, there was however two large teams: the one in Bib. Alex. that Samuel mentioned and one in Cairo in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Marine transport. As far as I know there was also some smaller focus groups elsewhere, and a LOT of people on IRC. And yes there was 685 distinct articles contributed, the goal was 1000 but people are pleased with the 685 result :) .
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9 On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Florence Devouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Samuel Klein wrote: > > The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular) > > helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read > > correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and > > 4200 this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and > > 6% this month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed > > scripted, /many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of > > anons. And it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier > > volume is being taken seriously: > > http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86 > > http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278 > > > > I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own > > Wikipedia day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of > > Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's > > pretty awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good > > spectator sport (and motivation to practice a new language :-). > > Congrats to everyone involved, browsing the results made my night. > > > > SJ > > (who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded > > by the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...) > > > That's wonderful news ! > > Regarding participation from the (by large) area of the world, I spent a > while being bold on the french wikipedia in the past 2-3 days (active > deletionnist) and I was very pleased to note the very serious increase > in articles related to Marrocco. These are not always good ones, lot's > of stuff on small villages, famous sportmen, actresses etc... but this > is a very good sign that Wikipedia is now hosting a significant number > of editors in that country ;-) So, I thought it was very good news. > > Ant > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Alsebaey
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