[Wikipedia-l] More Arabic

Mon Jul 1 22:16:19 UTC 2002

> At 07:05 AM 7/1/02 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >Asmar uploaded a photocopy of a letter in Arabic with the heading
> >"Al-`ahrab", with what I at firt was a date, but as it says "Almand 50,
> >1355", it can't be a date on any calendar I'm aware of. It is a list with
> >five numbered items, but as I don't know Arabic, I have no idea what they are.

Note another number at the bottom that looks like a Gregorian year:
1937, which is equivalent for part of the year to 1355 in the Islamic
calendar.

However, I also cannot read Arabic (nor other languages written in
arabic script), so can't much help to figure out what it is.

> >If someone uploads something in Arabic to Wikipedia, what, besides delete it,
> >should I do?

On lun, 2002-07-01 at 05:40, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
> Don't delete it.
> 
> The upload area is shared by all the Wikipedias, not just the English-language
> one; this could very well be an entirely reasonable example or illustration for
> the Arabic wiki.

Doubtful. The Arabic wiki is not what I'd call very active:
http://ar.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=90

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)