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1)<br>Date: 04 Apr 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Saqer Almarri <<a href="mailto:saqer.almarri@gmail.com" target="_blank">saqer.almarri@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Subject:Wikipedia on 'spam'<br>

<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'd like to point out that the Arabic Wikipedia is often a great source for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">recent computing terminology, not only the Wikipedia articles but also the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MediaWiki interface which is available in Arabic.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Arabic Wikipedia article for "spam" is سخام:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="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)" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">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)</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Wikiproject that aims to report and get rid of spam from the Wikipedia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">has a page in Arabic too:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="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" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">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</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Arabeyes Technical Dictionary (freely downloadable btw) gives سخام for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">spam: </span><a href="http://wiki.arabeyes.org/techdict:Spam" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://wiki.arabeyes.org/techdict:Spam</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Might I also point that the term seems fantastic, although not immediately</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">intuitive ("spam" isn't either): the metaphor works well. Soot being an</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">unwanted substance, just like "bad/annoying email" is an unwanted email.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Saqer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>

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