Arabic language Wikipedia
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| الموسوعة الحرة / al-Mawsūʿa al-Ḥurra ("The Free Encyclopedia") | |
| Internet encyclopedia | |
| languages | Arabic |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | Wikipedia community |
| items | over 1,000,000 |
| Registration | option |
| On-line | July 9, 2003 (currently active) |
| ar.wikipedia.org | |
The Arabic-language Wikipedia ( Arabic ويكيبيديا العربية, DMG Wīkībīdiyā al-ʿArabiyya ) is a variant of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Arabic . It was founded on July 9, 2003. In April 2019, the Arabic-language Wikipedia had over 716,000 articles and over 1,640,000 registered users, of which around 4,650 were active. Arabic-language Wikipedia is currently the sixteenth largest language version of Wikipedia by article number and is the first Semitic language to have over 100,000 and over 1,000,000 articles.
Since 2008 there has been another Wikipedia version in the Egyptian-Arabic dialect .
Font and design
As with all left-hand fonts, the design of the Arabic-language Wikipedia is a mirror image of the language versions, which are written from left to right. Before Wikipedia was updated to MediaWiki 1.16, the Arabic language Wikipedia had a preset background that was inspired by the ornaments found in Arabic architecture. If you switch from MediaWiki's new preset Vector layout to the original MonoBook layout, you get this page background again.
Blockages
The Arabic-language Wikipedia was blocked in Syria by the Syrian government without any official reason. The blockade began on April 30, 2008 and continues to this day, whereas all other language versions of Wikipedia remained freely accessible. The domain of the server for media files is also blocked, so that no images can be loaded in all Wikipedia language versions.
In Saudi Arabia , some articles on the Arabic-language Wikipedia are censored .
Evaluation and criticism
In February 2018, the Arabic-language Wikipedia achieved a score of 233 for the depth of processing (a rough indicator of the quality of the encyclopedia), which is better than the result of the German-language (96), the French-language (223) or the Japanese-language Wikipedia (80 ), and is the sixth highest of a Wikipedia with more than 100,000 articles after the English language (1017), the Serbo-Croatian language (782), the Vietnamese language (274), the Hebrew language (245) and the Thai language Wikipedia (238).
At Wikimania 2008, Jimmy Wales argued that arrests like the one of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer could negatively affect the development of Arabic-language Wikipedia because Wikipedians were afraid to contribute to it.
In 2010, Tarek Al Kaziri of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep took the view that the Arabic-language Wikipedia reflected Arabic reality in general. Low participation reduces the possibility that the articles will be rated, developed and updated and the political polarization of the participants makes it likely that the articles contain a one-sided view.
According to Alexa Internet , the Arabic language Wikipedia is the eleventh most visited language version of Wikipedia, with the subdomain ar.wikipedia.org attracting approximately 1.37% of the total visits to the website wikipedia.org .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview on Wikimedia.org
- ↑ Khaled Wahl: ويكيبيديا "يختفي عن صفحات الانترنت السوري (" Wikipedia disappears from the Syrian Internet sites. "). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 21, 2019 ; retrieved on September 21, 2018 (Arabic). Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Syrian youth break through internet blocks. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia page views per country, September 2009 to July 2010 , map by Ziko van Dijk and figures by Erik Zachte ( recent stats )
- ↑ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
- ^ Noam Cohen: Wikipedia Goes to Alexandria, Home of Other Great Reference Works . In: The New York Times . July 17, 2008. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ (Arabic) (ويكيبيديا والعرب: خلل في المشروع أم في الثقافة؟) Wikipedia and the Arabs: a mistake in the project or in the culture? . Archived from the original on April 4, 2010. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
- ↑ Alexa - Wikipedia.org Site Info
