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Proposal: Edit toolbar icons for Arabic Wikipedia VisualEditor
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Currently, the VisualEditor toolbar in the Arabic Wikipedia uses Latin letters for text styling icons (e.g., "B" for Bold, "I" for Italic, or "A" for text size). This is inconsistent with the Arabic script and can be counter-intuitive for users who edit primarily in Arabic.

I have designed Arabic script versions of{F74721157} these icons (e.g., using "ب" for Bold/عريض) to improve the user experience for the Arabic-speaking community.

The proposed icons can be viewed here: [ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arabic_Wikipedia_OOUI_icons ]. I have also attached a screenshot for further clarification, along with a CSS snippet in my account for testing purposes. [ https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85:RiadS99/common.css ]

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Nemoralis subscribed.

I previosly did this for Azerbaijani icons (T371140), I can claim this task if you want

@Nemoralis, You can proceed with it, and thank you. If any assistance is needed, please feel free to ping me in the channel #wikimedia-operations on IRC (my nick is _Gerges).

The arabic icons for bold and italic are already there, if you search "arab" on both design/codex and oojs/ui repos, you will see them.

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I can add the others.

As you can see, the letters م and ع don’t match typographically. If you make any changes, please use all the icons I listed in Commons without exception to keep the visuals uniform.