Put an End to the Distasteful Joke Known as Egyptian Wikipedia!

  • by: HZ
  • recipient: Headquarters of The Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

"The overall accuracy of the encyclopedia is improving all the time. You are encouraged to help by correcting articles, validating content, and providing useful references" is the method that Wikimedia claims to be using in its presumably respectful encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Nevertheless, there is a whole section in Wikipedia that is written completely using a slang; namely Egyptian.

Although Arabic is:
- the official language in Egypt, used in almost every official aspect by Egyptian slang speakers, be it their leaders and presidents, or their first graders, whether in books, schools, newspapers, national anthem, speeches or televisions,
- the language used by respectful Arab poets and writers who were born and raised in Egypt,
- the language used by the majorities (Muslims) and minorities (eg. Christians, or Copts, and Jews) in prayers, religious books and sermons,
the Egyptian slang was adopted as a "language" by certain organizations, which adopt so-called languages very loosely, and was consequently proposed to Wikimedia Incubator, "where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage can be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation", according to Wikimedia Incubator.

Current status of Egyptian Wikipedia:
- Articles are closer to a gossip magazine pages than encyclopedia articles, except that Egyptian gossip magazines are written in real Arabic!
- Discussions are being handled by administrators poorly. Most end up with rejection or banning.
- Most articles have a mixture of incorrect phrases and terms that are based on other languages and are not used in Arabic language or Egyptian slang.

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