As another historical note from Wikimania 2008 ... In our session (of mine and Arria Belli) which focused on translation, a girl who seemed to be Arabic but not known to me from where she came asked me if there would be a possibility of āmmiyya Wikipedias. I don't know which āmmiyya she cared for and don't know if she has joined the Egyptian Arabic. But it could be a sign some literal people thought it serious ... despites of other folks' questionable attitude.
I am rather inclined to Alsebaey's position. If they think it the best aim they could achive, just give them a chance and blessings. It won't ruin other projects at worst, hopefully. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jimmy Wales <[email protected]> wrote: > Mohamed Magdy wrote: >> (I heard that people were happy at Wikimania (Florence?) >> because of that proposal but I fail to understand why the Egyptian people >> there didn't express their opinion about it (it was in Egypt :!). > > I was sitting next to an Egyptian VIP in the front row when the > announcement was made, and he laughed and indicated that he thought this > was stupid. > > It is not up to me to make any decisions nor have any particular opinion > about Egyptian, but this is one of many data points that suggest to me > that the current process is widely regarded as being broken. > > --Jimbo > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
