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CHALLENGES TO THE ARABIC WIKIPEDIA:
STORIES FROM DIFFERENT VOLUNTEERS
BACKGROUND
Extreme Diversity
1 Language
Many Dialects
Standard VS. Colloquial
STATISTICS
347 Million Speakers
18.8% With Internet Access

Let's get down to Business!

TRANSLATION
ROOTS
OBSTACLES
Now for some fun! ;)
Solutions
Dead Room
Quantum
Weathering
Camera
Pepsin
Biology
Transistor
Computer
Resistance
Reluctance
Attracting Volunteers
Arabic Content Distribution
Online Forums
Friendly
Encouraging
Collobarative
Formal? Official?
Arabic Wikipedia
Small Community
Strict Policies
Uncommon Culture
Edit?
Volunteer?
Steep Learning Curve
IT Infrastructure
Limited Internet Access
Centralized Contributions
High Mobile Penteration
Current Efforts
ADEF
Community Workshops in Jordan
Taghreedat in the Arabian GULF
And We Need More!
Hopes!
Social Plugins
USA Article feedback Thank an edit!
TECHNICAL CONCERNS
SERVERS OVERLOAD
Let me Tell you a story.
Message
GENERAL THEME
Editing Long Articles is a pain
Editing Long Articles is a pain
Manually or By Bots!
RTL SUPPORT
Broken Features!
PDF EXPORT
Timeline
*Fonts
Semantic MediaWiki
Among Others!
Proposals
Geo Load Balancing
Example
Tech-Savy Volunteers
Arab World Chapter