WikiIslam:Sandbox/وكي اسلام

وكي اسلام هو موقع انترنت يركز على انتقاد الاسلام، مع المحافظة على حق الاسلاميين بالرد والكتابة في مقالات منفصلة. وكي اسلام يعمل على نفس البرنامج الذي يستخدمه وكيبيديا وغيرها من مواقع الانترنت المشابهة.

عن وكي اسلام

هدف وكي اسلام هو ان يصبح المصدر الادق والاشمل عن الاسلام. مصدر المعلومات هو القرآن الكريم، والحديث الشريف، وعلماء المسلمين. يتناول وكي اسلام المواضيع بطريقة عقلانية، ويركز بشكل كبير على الدعايات والجلبة الاعلامية، الصادق منها والكاذب، كما يركز على الاسلام والعلم، والاسلام وشبه العلم.

يهدف الموقع على ان يكون محايدا تجاه الاديان الاخرى، افكار العالم، والمواضيع السياسية، مثل الهجرة، وتنوع الحضارات، والصراع الفلسطيني الاسرائيلي، والبعد عن التطرف، والبعد عن العواطف والنظر الى الحقائق فقط.

على خلاف ما يدعي البعض،^[1] يحفز الموقع المحررين على نشر مواضيع غير مثيرة للجدل. المقالات المنشورة تركز بشكل كبير على معلومات منشورة في مصادر الاسلام الاولية والثانوية، مثل تراجم معتمدة للقرآن والسنة، وسيرة الرسل، ومقالات وفتاوى من اهم المواقع الاسلامية على الانترنت واكثرها شيوعا.

وكي اسلام موقع عالمي ومحرريه وكتابه من جميع انحاء العالم، والانظمة والمحتويات تدل على ذلك. على سبيل المثال، ننصح المحررين بشكل دوري على ان لا يختصوا منطقة من العالم على حساب الاخرى، وان التطورات التي لها علاقة بالاسلام في اسيا وافريقيا، هي باهمية تلك التي تحدث في اوروبا والامريكيتين.

تاريخنا

WikiIslam was created on October 27, 2005, in collaboration with various individuals from Faith Freedom International who provided the site with server space, technical help and exposure. The site remained in a testing phase for about a year and on September 4, 2006, it was opened to the public.

In September 2007, the server that hosted the site was hacked, and due to other server problems, editing was disabled at WikiIslam for almost a year.

In August 2008, the site was moved to a new server and since then it has been operating independently, remaining unaffiliated with or owned by any organization. Contrary to persistent claims propagated by apologists,^[2] WikiIslam is not owned by Ali Sina, FFI, Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch or any other organization.^[3]

Reception

Non-Muslims

In December 2006, Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden. At that point in time, the site was barely out of its infancy, only having been open to the public for three months, and Larsson was very critical. Today, with its new policies, new guidelines, thousands of more pages and the inclusion of pro-Islamic content aimed at presenting a positive image of Islam, WikiIslam remains the same only in name. But even back then in its primitive form, Larsson admitted that he could not label all the site "Islamophobic" in nature.^[4]

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed,^[1] WikiIslam has not received any attention from news agencies such as the Associated Press (AP); however, its non-partisan approach to criticism has led to the site being linked to or referenced by various notable sites such as RichardDawkins.net^[5] and GreenProphet.com.^[6] It has also been cited by Prof. Dr. G. Hussein Rassool in his book, Cultural Competence in Caring for Muslim Patients,^[7] Dr. Heather Deegan in her book, Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security,^[8] Prof. Carlos Brebbia in his book, Disaster Management and Human Health Risk III: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes,^[9] and Dr. Stefan Kirchner in his paper published in the Baltic Journal of Law & Politics.^[10]

Muslims

Due to the focus of the site, the most noticeable reactions from Muslims has been negative.^[1] Some have called for the site to be taken offline through illegal means such as hacking,^[11][12][13] and it had previously been banned in Saudi Arabia on the country's pornography blacklist, even though the site contains nothing of a pornographic nature.^[14]

Constant vandalism, death-threats, and non-compliance with guidelines by Muslim editors has lead to WikiIslam, like the German Wikipedia, implementing “pending-changes protection”, meaning that editing still remains open to all, including IP users, but changes have to be approved before becoming visible to readers.

However, due to WikiIslam's extensive use of authoritative primary and secondary pro-Islamic sources, the site has also received praise from Muslims, e.g. for its Sex Segregation in Islam^[15] and List of Killings Ordered or Supported by Muhammad^[16] articles, and pages such as List of Fabricated Hadith^[17][18] and Chronological Order of the Qur'an^[19] have been used by Muslims as a resource.

Audience

WikiIslam hosts 977 articles. On average, it currently receives over 250,000 visitors a month generating about 500,000 page views. As of September 2014, Alexa.com places it within the top 70,000 most visited websites.^[20]

Unlike many other sites critical of Islam, WikiIslam's audience is not "Eurocentric". A large percentage of its readers are from Eastern or Muslim-majority nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Singapore.^[21] Likewise, many of the site's administrators and editors are from a Muslim background or are skeptics from Muslim majority nations.

The site is currently looking for editors to translate some of their English articles into Indonesian, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic. There are translations from English already available at the site in several languages, including Azerbaijani, French, Turkish and Uzbek. A Russian sub-domain was started in early 2013 and they also host many press articles and fatwas from the Islamic world translated into English from the original Arabic.

Wikipedia

WikiIslam's primary focus is on the religion of Islam while Wikipedia is a compendium of general knowledge. These differing goals have led to different policies and guidelines.

Wikipedia discourages the use of primary and what they term as "non-notable/reliable" sources. WikiIslam, on the other hand, encourages the use of authentic primary religious text and the rulings of authoritative Muslim scholars who may not be notable to people outside of the Muslim world but who are giants from within.

Wikipedia focuses on "verifiability, not truth".^[22] In regards to Islam, it has meant they accept what "notable/reliable" western commentators say about its religious text and Muslims over what the religious text and Muslims actually say themselves. Conversely, WikiIslam accepts what the religious text and Muslims say over the opinions and interpretations of third-party western commentators.

See Also

• Frequently Asked Questions
• What People Say About WikiIslam

Contact Information

To contact WikiIslam with general ideas and suggestions, a message can be left on the relevant forum page. For copyright issues, click here. And for other important issues, click here.

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