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The Arabic Wikipedia ((アラビア語:ويكيبيديا العربية) ''Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya'' or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة ''Wīkībīdyā, al-Mawsūʿa al-Ḥurra'') is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of April 2015, it has over 350,000 articles, 974,500 registered users and over 23,000 images. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 21st largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and was the first Semitic language to exceed 100,000 articles.〔List of Wikipedias by number of articles〕 The design of the Arabic Wikipedia differs somewhat from other Wikipedias. Most notably, since Arabic is written right-to-left, the location of links is a mirror image of those Wikipedias in languages written left-to-right. Prior to Wikipedia's update to MediaWiki 1.16, Arabic Wikipedia had a default page background of the site inspired by Arabic/Islamic tiling or ornament styles. Switching from MediaWiki's new default Vector layout to the original MonoBook layout may restore this page background. == History == At the emergence of the Wikipedia project in 2001, there were calls to create an Arabic domain raised by Arab engineers.〔(The Arab Scientific Community Organization, profile of Dr. Tareq Qabeel who advocated the creation of the Arabic Wikipedia. Accessed 4 August 2014 )〕 The domain was created as "ar.wikipedia.org" but no serious activity took place except with anonymous users who experimented with the idea.〔(Archived discussions about International languages. Refer to section "Provisional is Best, Sort by Population". ) Note the comment "Outside jokes, the french an german wikipedias is more developed than the one of hindi or Arab.". Last accessed 4 August 2014〕 Until 7 February 2003, all contributors to the Arabic Wikipedia were non-Arab volunteers from the International Project Wikipedia〔http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/February/msg00023.html Correspondence between Elisabeth Bauer and ArabEyes about the handing over the operation of the Arabic Wikipedia to Arab volunteers. Accessed on 4 August 2014. Note the phrase "First, there are no arabs in the arabic wikipedia, only some people from the other projects willing to help with technical questions about the wiki, but they don't speak much arabic"〕 that handled the technical aspects. Elizabeth Bauer, who used the user name Elian in the Arabic Wikipedia, approached many potential Arabs who might be interested in volunteering to spearhead the Arabic project. The only group who responded were the ArabEyes team who were involved in Arabizing the Open Source initiatives. Elian's request were conservatively received and ArabEyes team were ready to participate but not take a leadership role〔(Reply from ArabEyes offering participation on tasks. Accessed on 4 August 2014 )〕 and then declined participating on the second of February 2003. During this negotiation time, volunteer users from the German Wikipedia project continued to develop the technical infrastructure of the Arabic Wikipedia backbone.〔(The first version of the Arabic Wikipedia page created by the German user Stevertigo on 1 August 2003. Accessed on 4 August 2014 )〕〔The discussion page of Svertigo that shows the non-Arab volunteers working on the Arabic Wikipedia in late 2003〕 In 2003 Rami Tarawneh ((アラビア語:رامي عوض الطراونة)), a Jordanian PhD student in Germany who originated from Zarqa, encountered the English Wikipedia and began to edit content. Contributors encouraged him to start an Arabic Wikipedia.〔 ((Archive ))〕 The Arabic Wikipedia opened in July 2003.〔Panović, Ivan (University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies). "(The Beginnings of Wikipedia Masry )." ''al-Logha Series of Papers in Linguistics'', 2010. 8: 93-127. (sourced content from p. 94)〕 By that year a significant group of contributors included Tarawneh and four other Jordanians studying in Germany.〔 On 7 February 2004,〔(WMFLABS page that provide general statistics about the contribution of Isam Bayazidi on the Arabic Wikipedia. Last accessed on 4 August 2014. )〕 one member from the ArabEyes, Isam Bayazidi ((アラビア語:عصام بايزيدي)), volunteered with 4 other friends to be involved with the Arabic Wikipedia and assumed some leadership roles. In 2004, Bayazid was assigned the SysOp responsibilities and he, with another 5 volunteers, namely Ayman, Abo Suleiman, Mustapha Ahmad and Bassem Jarkas〔These were Ayman, Abo Suleima, Mustapha Ahmad and Bassem Jarkas〕 are considered to be the first Arabs to lead the Wikipedia project and they are attributed for working on translating and enforcing the English policies to Arabic. The Arabic Wikipedia faced many challenges at it inception. In February 2004, it was considered to be the worst Wikipedia project among all other languages. However, in 2005, it showed phenomenal progress by which in December 2005, the total number of articles reached 8,285.〔Wikipedia Statistics - Arabic Wikipedia. Accessed on 4 August 2014〕 By that time, there were fewer than 20 contributors and the administrators and contributors made efforts to recruit new users.〔 In 2007 the secret police in an unspecified country detained Tarawneh and demanded that he reveal the IP address of a contributor. To protect the Wikipedian, the administrators forged a dispute that was the presumed reason for Tarawneh losing his administrator access, so the secret police was unable to obtain the IP. In response to the incident, the rules now state that no one user may have access to all information about the Wikipedia's users.〔 In 2008 the Wikipedia had had fewer than 65,000 articles and was ranked #29 out of the Wikipedias, behind the Esperanto Wikipedia and the Slovenian Wikipedia. Noam Cohen of ''The New York Times'' reported that, to many of the attendees of the 2008 Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt, the "woeful shape of the Arabic Wikipedia has been the cause of chagrin."〔 ((Archive ))〕 Cohen stated that out of Egyptians, fewer than 10% "are thought to have internet access" and of those with internet access many tend to be knowledgeable in English and have a preference of communicating in that language.〔 The Arabic Wikipedia had 118,870 articles as of 15 January 2010. As of July 2012 there are around 630 active Arabic Wikipedia editors around the world. Ikram Al-Yacoub of ''Al Arabiya'' says that this is "a relatively low figure."〔Al-Yacoub, Ikram. "(‘Taghreedat’ to offer Arab Tweeps their own search engine )." ((Archive )) ''Al Arabiya''. Thursday 19 July 2012. Retrieved on 24 August 2012.〕 At the time there were hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia articles on the Arabic Wikipedia.〔 The Wikimedia Foundation and the nonprofit group Taghreedat established the "Arabic Wikipedia Editors Program" intended to train users to edit the Arabic Wikipedia.〔 By the end of June 2014, the number of articles has reached 384,000〔(Wikipedia Statistics Arabic. Retrieved on 4 August 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arabic Wikipedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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