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The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in [[Syria]] with no official reasons given by the Syrian government.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} The block began on [[April 30]] [[2008]]. Interestingly, all other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked and freely accessible. |
The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in [[Syria]] with no official reasons given by the Syrian government.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} The block began on [[April 30]] [[2008]]. Interestingly, all other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked and freely accessible. |
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== Content restrictions == |
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* The Arabic Wikipedia suffers restrictions and blocking from editing sensitive subjects, by some of it's editors and administrators, biased toward a heavy Islamic view, ban can follow substantially, and the [[NPOV]] standards are flouted. |
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As examples: |
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: The article about the prophet Mohamed is in the watchdog list, for any scientific or moral critics, and doesn't contain any picture of him, as per other Wikipedia versions. |
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: The death of the caliph othman is subject to high sensibility among admins, where they prevent to cite, the feuds occurred between the very close men to the prophet. |
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== Related Wikipedias == |
== Related Wikipedias == |
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Revision as of 18:50, 14 July 2008
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| The Main Page of the Arabic Wikipedia, taken on November 24th, 2007 | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | http://ar.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة Wīkībīdyā, al-Mausūʿa al-Ḥurra) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in September 2001[1]. By the end of 2007, it had over 50,000 articles, 200,000 pages, 100,000 registered users and 13 administrators. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 30th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.[2]
The design of the Arabic Wikipedia differs somewhat from other Wikipedias. Most notably, since Arabic is written right-to-left, the location of links is a mirror image of those Wikipedias in languages written left-to-right. Also, the background uses a traditional Arabic geometric tessellation pattern in place of the standard book.
Milestones
- Wikipedia Arabic launched September 2001
- Article number 10,000 was نكاف (mumps).
- Article number 50,000 was reached in December 31, 2007
- Article number 60,000 was مشروع معلق. reached in May 26, 2008.
Blocking
The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in Syria with no official reasons given by the Syrian government.[citation needed] The block began on April 30 2008. Interestingly, all other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked and freely accessible.
Related Wikipedias
These are the Wikipedias which either share the direction of writing the language script or the Arabic alphabet.
- Persian Wikipedia:alphabet.
- Urdu Wikipedia:alphabet.
- Hebrew Wikipedia:direction.
- Yiddish Wikipedia:direction.
- Divehi Wikipedia:direction.
References
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