Subject: Re: Quran in Sitenotice
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
Date: 2006-07-13 19:42:35 GMT (2 years, 6 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes ago)
On Urdu Wikipedia, article on Israel is very short: http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84 I can translate it: "Israel, a palce where jews live. In addition to Pakistan there are many other countries that do not recognize this place of Jews as a country. Majority of the Urdu speaking public believes that there is no country by the name of Israel exists. But there is a country named Palestine, whose some part is captured by Jews and they call it Israel. And the English speaking world says that in a country called Israel some Palestenians want to create a country called Palestine." This is the whole article. Quite extraordinary, nothing to add more. --heema ----- Original Message ---- From: James Hare <messedrocker@...> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:26:39 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice That's a scary thought. What's the article on Israel on Arabic or Farsi Wikipedia like? On 7/13/06, geni <geniice@...> wrote: > > On 7/13/06, Sean Whitton <sean@...> wrote: > > That sounds sensible, how about something along the lines of (after > > translation by a kind soul): > > Discussion on the [[foundation-l]] mailing list about the Urdu > > Wikipedia's sitenotice has come to the conclusion that according to > > policy the sitenotice should not be used <perhaps a quote from Jimbo > > here>. We'd like to hear the opinions of the users of this wiki before > > we take any action over this issue. > > > > Sound okay? > > > Discussion on the [[foundation-l]] mailing list and IRC about the Urdu > Wikipedia's sitenotice has come to the conclusion that according to > policy sitenotices of that type should not be used on wikimedia > foundation projects. In particular it conflicts with the principle > that wikipedia is written in NPOV (this includes religious > endorsements). As a result we would like to disscuss the removal of > the the text from site notice. > > That gives the reasons but the ending is too weak. > > Incerdentaly what is their article in Israel like? > > > -- > geni > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@... > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l