Talk:Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

I'm sorry... This is quite retarded.

I'd like to start a new Texan accent Wikipedia.

Never knew that Wikipedia is in the business of creating new languages.

But anyway, I'd like to see this wikipedia to see how it is? It will be worth trying to see that these dialects aren't at all popular in writing. I expect a swift abandoning of the project within 1 year.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.186.158 (talk • contribs)

I agree with this person. Wikipedia should be a place where people from all over the world can get together and contribute to articles, limiting it to one register of a language is silly. Imagine how much less invigorating en.wikipedia.org would be if only Americans or only Brits or only Aussies or only Kenyans wrote in it. As is, it great and has articles about almost everything because everyone in the Anglophone world and beyond write in it. Arabic wikipedia I'm sure benefits from the same diversity, why limit that with a specific wikipedia? Arthurian Legend (talk) 00:49, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind the way this point was put and the style for explaining the POV , Masry language is not a new language and wikipedia Masry has been approved and the notability has been aknowledged by the approval of the project , the examples for similar articles on wikipedias in different languages could be found in Category:Wikipedias by language and this page is meant to follow these examples and the article is meant to be like these articles . Ghaly (talk) 13:12, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If your going to make silly comments like that, then you might as well be productive or leave Wikimedia projects all together. I'm not going to waste time with people how criticise other work when they're to lazy to do anything else in their lives. ~ Troy (talk) 18:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Masry Wikipedia has been approved by the language subcommittee and very soon it will be created. The number of Editors and their valuable contributions is increasing. The New page and bytes added are rising.Please take a look on theanalysis page and I think it is wiser when figures speaks up, for Emotional and Wishful thinking to shut up.--Ramsis II (talk) 06:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arabic Wikipedia and MAsry Wikipedia

I am a regular contributor to the English Wikipedia and I also translate articles into standard Arabic for the Arabic Wikipedia. I believe some of the comments above are perhaps a little personal for this talk page. Nonetheless, as an Arab, who worked very hard to learn to write Arabic and English with a comfortable degree of fluency, I too was upset with the setting up of a Masri Wikipedia.

The reason given for initiating Masri Wikipedia was that there is much written material in Egypt in the local dialect. There are many novels, and theatre productions written in Cockney but there is no Cockney Wikipedia. Arabic is an incredibly rich language, so if Egyptians are such great contributors to Wikipedia, then all the more reason for them to be concerned with the disproprtionate number of articles in Arabic, considering the number of speakers worldwide. The 300 articles on the 'Masri Wikipedia' could have been 300 more on the Arabic Wikipedia.

In anycase, could somebody please tell me which page I can raise these concerns on, as I understand this is a talk page for the article, and not the topic. Jaw101ie (talk) 15:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Being an Egyptian myself I suspect that an Egyptian started this. And as ridiculous as this is I really shouldn't be surprises. This will probably not deter anyone from continuing to support this farce, but I really would like to encourage the development of the Regular Arabic Wikipedia. codectified 17:37, 29 January 2009 (UTC)