[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 19:45:49 UTC 2006

In the words of Strong Bad,

PRROOOBLEMMMATTTIICC.

On 7/13/06, Heema Khan <heema_khan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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 at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/13/06, Sean Whitton <sean at silentflame.com> 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
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