Isam Bayazidi’s Blog

The Arabic Wikipedia had reached few days ago, which is a pretty significant event as Arabic wikipedia now joins another 35 wikipedias in different languages that are over 10,000 article in size. Now the Arabic Wikipedia had gone a long way since it started less than 2 years ago, and still have a much longer way to go. The current active contributors in the Arabic wikipedia are the ones behind it’s success. Namely Chaos, Oxydo, Uwe a , Jak, Tarawneh, and Al-Tayeb. They, as well 10s others had been the real heroes in this success.

Now, Although the arabic wikipedia could be considered rich and accurate in some fields, I think it is still far from being considered a resource. The effort needed in enriching and increasing the quality of the articles will be taking most of next year as well.

Now Arabic holds the ranking of 35 between all wikipedias when it comes to article count. I predict that by the end of 2006, it will have the rank of 25, with around 25k articles. Don’t ask me were did I get that feeling from, but this is where I see Arabic Wikipedia heading.

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