Digital Arabic Content Club in Jordan

Detail about the initiative (introduction)

A general introduction about the issue is addressed by the initiative : the initiative is taking responsibility for representation Arabic language on the internet and for completing the path of proviso initiatives shared it the omission, vision and goal and focus on the reality of Arabic on the web what is about content scarcity and information a little sketchy and information a little sketchy; it did not succumb and lean on to this reality, but it resolve to improve and create accurate Arab content to serve the Arab reader who have a passion for knowledge and science, that makes sense of responsibility about the status of Arabic language and represented that as it deserve in web from a saying of Wikipedia : " information like a flower, if it does not beautiful it will not make attention"

Under we watch the weakness of Arabic writing and slide to propaganda, claimed and in sometimes undocumented and anonymous ,so this initiative a moon light the darkness and it's captured in telling 'Better to light a candle than to curse main is swallowed once the darkness' of struggle a negative fact, in chilling the years of Arab retreated to post in mother tongue without any appeasement or capitulation to difficult; it has been established in the all participants a spirit alive from excitement and it employed information technology into refine the linguistic and computer skills of students at the time it is hard to get and Arab fail to be champions of their tongue and jewel of their speech.

However the initiative for be a unique creative incubators for the student writing their words and own expression being based on use authority on scientific research method with support every information in its source whatever is platitude in international encyclopedia that well known from different sciences and knowledge. Also, they achieve a high goal abbreviate right related to copyright and ascribe sources to whose authors, therefore, it give a partial and applaud solution for literal transference from web, professors benefit from it in improvement mechanism of accepting university's homework on speed computerized way cinch to professor that student read which is required from him to write and reword in his word, set a part and time, achieve the necessary knowledge involution to be Arab home's for experience that benefiting to all Arab institution.

Idea: The initiative's idea conclude abut give an idea or practical images for that is draining young's power and souls sometimes through achieve and use free electronic platform called Wikipedia program for education (Act and programs \board) of student at university which limits college violence in conjunction with promote the idea of voluntary work and community service. Therefore, all they will write in Wikipedia which millions readers Arabs will benefit whatever that is platitude, which 8000 readers browse in one second. In addition, promote a culture of electronic publishing and respect copyright because Wikipedia an free content encyclopedia doesn’t accept a copied texts from another sites or sources have copyright which make a student read the information and reword in his language and employ his understanding and writing skills in create unique Arab content, feel that the sense of accomplishment, he can benefit society and Arab reader in easy and eloquent language he understand and he can repost the content because it is free without copyright have able to development, sharing and use to all. Also, it guides paper consumption across post students' productizes online and do not let in professors' office.

Goal: Achieving the perfect benefit from free time, employing methods and homework in rise the level of Arab content on the internet and community service through share knowledge information and don't let it in professors' offices or in classroom so it will have a biggest benefit and include. Also, promote scientific research methods for him across add the source of articles and file it in scientific form because Wikipedia doesn't accept any addition have not any documented source in its article. The invitation aim to acquire language, technological and editorial skills to students which refine their skills and increase their ability for competition on the labor market. Moreover, long-term endeavor to Arabic language on the adequately represent on the internet while Wikipedia is eighteenth level between other language and this is unfortunately a sad order in compared with the number of Arabic speakers, Wikipedia have more articles in Japanese, Ukraine, Persian.

Target group: every one speaks Arabic have a joules on his language and dissatisfied on actually present for Arabic language on the internet and every student and professor or teacher have an emotional and passion to knowledge, voluntary work, enrich Arabic language and support mixed education idea which mix between rationally education and employ computer skills.

Initiator: Mosab BANAT, Jordanian doctor graduated from Hashemite university:

I am an administrative in Arab Wikipedia encyclopedia, editor and reviewer….and An Ambassador of Wikipedia's program to learning the student how editing the International encyclopedia at Hashemite university.
I have more than 13500 contribution in sit since I joined in the encyclopaedia in December 2013 as a form voluntary work that service Arabic language and creative Arabic content on the Internet, that service Arab reader was not competent. Also, to represent my country Jordan and my university Hashemite university on the Internet.
I am a highest Jordanian user in number of contribution at Wikipedia and forth user on Arabic world level. In addition, I get eighth level in highest contributors order in medical field between all world languages as a highest Arab contributor in medical field on my contribution all 2015 ,in the same way, I was a highest Arabe contribution in medical field in 2014 and 2016 so three consecutive years.
The official blog of the Wikipedia as lightning about my story with the encyclopaedia and my initiative, the encyclopaedia published on its official social media pages a summary of my contribution to Wikipedia in number:
I started to contribute in Arabic Wikipedia when I get an account in the encyclopaedia at beginning of my university studies and when I started to use the internet when that is my window for this world because I had a free browsing , I dismayed to see the weakness Arabic content so I decided to light the candle by myself instead curse the darkness and started contributing on the website until I reached a 100,00 contribution on the site.
Now I have more than 150,000 contribution on the site, in the time I realized the solo effort – although its magnitude- it is not enough to reduce the gap between Arabic content and the internet so I decide to transfer my individual experience in improve encyclopaedia to my collages at university and to be the contribution a collective achievement benefit all Arab communities.

In 2016

I started the initiatives in hard and difficult beginning with solo effort from initiator, I was giving a lecture introducing about Wikipedia for students at university but the idea didn’t get accurately to target audience of interested students, after many attempts to convince professors to encourage their students on contributing in Wikipedia encyclopedia, the first result was the article (Hydroquinone) that by student Lama Tareq Mansour from faculty of pharmacy into pharmacy in twice semester overseen by Dr.Saja Hamed (during between 1 February 2016 to 20 June 2016).

In the same time, it was another methods in same semester, Advanced cellular biology curriculum overseen by Dr.Rana Dejani, it was most successful and the amount of the added data reached 65700 bytes, and in total the number of the articles were created 18, the total number of modifications 21 and the amount of the added data reached 77200 bytes in twice semester 2016 with participate 19 students.

In 2017

After hard beginning and the achievements of student, I get an invention from university president to present a presentation abut the initiative to the Board of Deans, that meeting is successful so the Board of Deans circulated to all colleges in conjunction with Information technology center at university , this led to active 12 electronic methods on Wikipedia, 400 students from different colleges and disciplines overseen by 12 Professor. That was a great challenge to me because I should review all assays in different fields ,explain to thousands students and answer their questions, coordinate with participation professors and explain to them the working mechanism with the encyclopedia, therefore, demonstrate the feasibility of my initiative and balance between my activism and work in several voluntary projects and my study so there isn’t easy work.

It has been completed In 2017, the initiative had more than 206 articles, with a total number of additions (16,32620 bytes) , Approximately 4,1594 KB of additions to article content and achieved articles the type of good articles which are the second best item of Wikipedia articles that stand out with high quality documentation and are marked by silver star: Hashemite university article, nuclear reactor article and is marked by silver star, Hydrochloric acid article and is marked by silver star with skin whitening article and it was nominated according to the new system that it’s called a peer review system as per the policy of the article chosen, it passed its own peer review phase and succeeded.

The 12 curriculums:

Energy and its sources curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 24200 bytes.
Skin-moisturizing curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 89100 bytes and 39 articles were created.
Dietetics curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 14000 bytes , 32 articles were created and the total number of modifications was 99.
Advanced cellular biology curriculum, , the amount of the added data reached 104000 bytes and 14 articles were created and the total of modifications was 48.
Communication skills curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 221000 bytes , 11 articles were created and the total of modifications was 108.
Clinical laboratory skills curriculum, the amount of the data added reached 26100 bytes and the total number of modification was 26.
Respiratory anatomy curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 214000 bytes, articles were created and the total of modification 254.
Bioinformatics curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 57400 bytes, articles were created 23 and the total number of modification was 58.
Wireless networks curriculum, the amount of the added data reached about 388000 bytes and the total number of modifications was 226.
Computer network curriculum, the amount of the added data reached about 449000 bytes , 13 articles were created and the total number of modifications 254.
Chemical search methods curriculum, the amount of the added data reached about 39400 bytes, 5 articles were created and the total number of modifications 16.
Information technology curriculum ( the last curriculum was a simple experiment to provide students so the number of articles is low and the amount of the data reached 6420 bytes).

In 2018

In order to complete the 2017 courses, we started in 2018 new courses with new ideas, including on

For example, publishing the novels written by students and converting the general translation course at the university into an online course

Through it, students' translations are circulated on the Wikipedia encyclopaedia, as well as start preparing audio articles from And the total number of bytes added was (12418800 bytes) equivalent to 12419 KB ,the total number of articles is 1,482 articles and one of the selected articles has been completed, which is considered the best category

Articles on Wikipedia with high documentation and quality, with a gold star, are displayed on the page The main encyclopaedia and this article is the Changes disease article which successfully underwent a peer review stage then

It succeeded in voting (and here is her nomination page), and the number of decisions this year reached 10 in different courses the university's colleges are:

Drugs without prescription curriculum, the amount of the added data reached about 1,68 million bytes, 209 articles were created and through this curriculum most articles of WHO EML ( World Health Organization's list of essential medicines) are translated that medicines are more important and use in the health care.
Communication skills( 2th copied), the amount of the added data reached about 1,13 million bytes, 169 articles were created.
Translation curriculum, the amount of the added data reached about 14000 bytes,25 articles were created.
Child –rearing curriculum , the amount of the added data reached about 640000 bytes, 33 articles were created and the total number of modifications was 54.
Translation curriculum( 2th copied) , the amount of the added data reached about 1,62 million bytes, 168 articles were created, and the total number of modification was 735.
Cellular biology curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 96900 bytes and 21 articles were created and the total of modifications was 33.
Bioinformatics curriculum (2th copied ), the amount of the added data reached 258000 bytes and 44 articles were created and the total of modifications was 160.
Universal Children's Day curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 152000 bytes and 21 articles were created and the total of modifications was 25.
Serious literature curriculum, the amount of the added data reached 478000 bytes, and a novel it is updated that include 50 part, written by Lara AHWET a graduate of Hashemite University, and the novel " Garden in my Hart" written by student Shatha AL-ROWSAN a graduate of Hashemite University and she have a short story and novella that are updated too through this curriculum.
Wireless network (2th copied), the amount of the added data reached 235000 bytes and the total number of modifications was 740.

In 2019:

The third version of Communication and connection skills' curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 564000 bytes, 59 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 254.
The third version of biotechnology curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 62600 bytes, 16 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 37.
The third version of biology curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 138000 bytes, 25 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 43.
The general translation curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 590000 bytes, 85 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 365.
The third version of translation curriculum 1 (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 341000 bytes, 105 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 609.
The digital image processing curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 23300 bytes, 6 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 26.
The medical imaging curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 17200 bytes, 5 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 19.
The cultural collaborations curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 1.23 million bytes, 183 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 2090.

In 2020:

The fourth version of translation curriculum 1 (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 255000 bytes, 38 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 125.
The second version of general translation curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 127000 bytes, 12 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 121.
The fourth version of Communication and connection skills' curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 1.03 million bytes, 61 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 188.
The science curriculum in cooperation with Al-Omariya schools (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 29000 bytes, and 10 articles were created.
The legal courses curriculum, the first curriculum in law department in the university (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 560000 bytes, 108 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 292.
The third version of Food science curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 660000 bytes, 122 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 230.
The special education curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 19900 bytes, 4 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 43.
The awareness articles curriculum about coronavirus (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 4.84 million bytes, 255 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 1610.
The initiative "Dade" curriculum for articles' translation about Jordan (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 516000 bytes, 156 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 1500.
The health education and first aid curriculum, the first and the largest optional curriculum at the University level, (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 3.83 million bytes, 391 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 3730.
The second version of medical imaging curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 17700 bytes, 4 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 10.
The English-Arabic translation curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 255000 bytes, 38 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 125.
The initiative "Dade" curriculum about agricultural articles (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 258000 bytes, 57 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 1150.
The second version of health education and first aid curriculum (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 499000 bytes, 41 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 219.
The initiative "Dade" curriculum about cultural articles (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 369000 bytes, 57 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 106.
The initiative "Dade" curriculum about educational articles (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : the amount of the added data reached about 397000 bytes, 66 articles were created, and the total number of modifications was 194.
The initiative "Dade" curriculum for wiki-month about technology (see the page of the curriculum and its statistics) : it hasn't finished yet

Media about the initiative:

Images from honoring ceremony, version 2016 of the initiative (follow the link)
Images from honoring ceremony, version 2017 of the initiative (follow the link)
Video showing the articles during the honoring ceremony, version 2017 of the initiative (follow the link)
The page of the initiative on Facebook
Details and images of the initiative's honors on Wikipedia-Arabia
Jordan TV covered part of the initiative's activities in its early days, as well as the official blog of the Foundation

Wikipedia, the Education Program newspaper, the Arab media inside and outside the Arab world, and the curricula
Attached as blue hyperlinks illustrate the idea.