A Timeline of the Arabic Language Controversy on Wikipedia
Category: Other
Updated: 6 Sep 2019
An Abridged History
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Created bythemadprogramer
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Events
First Arabic Language Page Created on English Wikipedia
by AstroNomer
Oldest known page to distinguish between
MSA and Classical ArabicArabic Language Page Created on Arabic Wikipedia
by l3lan.org
Makes no MSA/Classical distinction whatsoever
Describes what would be considered as ClassicalArabic Language Page (English) expands to include dialects
by Mustafaa, various IP'sPages for MSA, Classical which previously
functioned as redirects are given their own pages
and are cross-linked to the other Arabic pages
by BenwingA new page called Fusha is established at some point.
An Edit is made to change the redirect
from MSA to Arabic
to
from MSA to FushaFusha, renamed Literary Arabic at some point
is merged into MSA
by Aervanath, see MSA talk page for approvers
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