Arabic-L:TRANS:Wikipedia on 'spam'

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Date: 04 Apr 2013
From:Saqer Almarri <saqer.almarri at gmail.com>
Subject:Wikipedia on 'spam'

I'd like to point out that the Arabic Wikipedia is often a great source for
recent computing terminology, not only the Wikipedia articles but also the
MediaWiki interface which is available in Arabic.

The Arabic Wikipedia article for "spam" is سخام:
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85_(%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA)

The Wikiproject that aims to report and get rid of spam from the Wikipedia
has a page in Arabic too:
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85

The Arabeyes Technical Dictionary (freely downloadable btw) gives سخام for
spam: http://wiki.arabeyes.org/techdict:Spam

Might I also point that the term seems fantastic, although not immediately
intuitive ("spam" isn't either): the metaphor works well. Soot being an
unwanted substance, just like "bad/annoying email" is an unwanted email.

Saqer

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