Egypt: Egyptian Dialect Wikipedia · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Wikimedia has agreed to create a new section – a Wikipedia in the Egyptian Dialect. This decision was the catalysis for a discussion across the Egyptian blogosphere. Is it a good or a bad move, and is Egyptian and standalone language, or just a dialect of Arabic?
Iknaton2, from  A Whisper, wrote here:
Ahmad Gharbeia then commented on Iknaton2‘s post saying:
Lasto Adri reacted to Ikhnaton2's post as follows:
Gharbeia then replied:
Then Bella added:
Also Zeinobia wrote a separate post about the same issue:
I am totally against the new Egyptian dialect Wikipedia , now we got our localized version of Wikipedia , we got our own Egyptian dialect Wikipedia and I am sorry to say that it sucks.
Seriously it is ridiculous , I read in it some entries and I was shocked.
Look I do not know why people do not contribute more to the Original Arabic Wikipedia if they can spend hours contributing to the Egyptian dialect Wikipedia.!!??
May be they hate the Arabic grammar rules !!??
Well then I have a nice suggestion , I do not know if it is available or not but we can add spell and grammar checker to Arabic Wikipedia.
I do not know what the next will be ; a PortSaidi or Upper Egyptian dialect Wikipedia !!??
Such debate wasn't limited to the blogosphere only, but it spread out to Jaiku.
Tarek (Myself) wrote:
Then Alaa (Manalaa) replied:
Lasto Adri responded:
Alaa reacted:
And Moftasa had a different point of view there:
Tarek then asked another question:
Lasto Adri replied:
And Alaa added:
And finally, Tarek wrote: