We voted in Arabic Wikipedia for the exclusive use of Western Arabic numerals (WAN) (0, 1, 2 ) instead of allowing the use of Eastern Arabic numerals (EAN) (٠ - ١ - ٢) when editing.
21 for / none against
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA/10/2015
And the related policy have been updated
https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%3A%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A8&type=revision&diff=17231844&oldid=16952006
What we need now can be made with 3 tasks
First task : make a change from the roots
Each time we see a new project in Arabic or a major update, we face the same problem : Eastern Arabic numerals are used automaticcaly (see for example the date in the page in Arabic wikipedia https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B9%D9%84_%28%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%29&action=history). So we ask for a change manually. It was the case, for example, in Wikiversity (T31796) and it seems that we are facing the same problem in Wikidata (see the Arabic version of the project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9). Please try to fix the problem from the source and for the existent and future Arabic projects.
Second task :script to help readers using Eastern Arabic numerals
In the discussion of the vote, someone said that it is possible to automatically change E to W numerals when saving the edits. Can you really add this feature to Arabic projects ? Some editors (specially those editing from cellphones) still use the EAN. If not, we are going to use a bot to periodically change numerals and make some exceptions (articles about the Indian numbering system, .. ).
third task : redirect in the search box
Actually, if someone make a search about an article that contains numerals and words but uses EAN, the article in WAN will not apparear.
As an example : when we make a search for an indian movie called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_2050 in Arabic wikipedia with EAN, and may be the problem is in other sister projects, the article doesn't appear in the search results.
https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D8%AD%D8%A8+%D9%A2%D9%A0%D9%A5%D9%A0+%28%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85+%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%29&title=%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%3A%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB&go=%D8%A7%D8%B0%D9%87%D8%A8
Even in the article about the movie really exist but with WAN.
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A9_%D8%AD%D8%A8_2050_%28%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%29
Thank you a lot. We hope that this time the problem with numbers in Arabic projects will be definitively closed.
