Samuel Klein wrote:
> The Library of Alexandria (and Moushira and Abdel Rahman in particular)
> helped organize and host an Arabic Wikipedia day yesterday... if I read
> correctly, people contributed roughly 685 new articles in a day, and
> 4200 this month (increasing the project size by almost 1% in a day! and
> 6% this month). I looked at a selection from today, and nothing seemed
> scripted, /many/ contributors added new articles, including a number of
> anons. And it's good to see that the obligations imposed by the heavier
> volume is being taken seriously:
>
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86
>
http://www.bibalex.org/english/media/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=2278
>
> I think Khaled Hosny and EGLUG in Cairo helped put on their own
> Wikipedia day(s?) earlier in August. There was certainly discussion of
> Arabic-language editing drives at Wikimania in Alexandria, but it's
> pretty awesome to see it taking place -- barnraisings are a good
> spectator sport (and motivation to practice a new language :-).
> Congrats to everyone involved, browsing the results made my night.
>
> SJ
> (who heard about the event but forgot during the day, and was reminded
> by the sitenotice when browsing ar:wp for something quite different...)