Grants:TPS/Ahmed Mohi El din/The 4th International conference for Arabic language/Report

Event name

The 4th International conference for Arabic language

Presentation

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Participant connections

I have met so many people and they were very interested about Wikimedia projects specially Wikipedia education program.

• Mrs/ Amal Ismail writer from UAE
• Dr/ Badr El din Alaly Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League
• Mr/ Samer Zaghlowl Public relation manger at Arab language center
• Dr/ Mofak Kanfash professor for Arabic language in Barcelona
• Dr/ Ammar Mohamed professor for Arabic language in Turkey

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

Add a link here to a blog post or newsletter you wrote about your participation afterwards, or to a meet-up you organized to share your experience with your local community.

Option 2: Learning Pattern: What is one useful learning pattern you can share with the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to a learning pattern - either a new pattern you created with insights from your participation, or an existing pattern to which you added your endorsement and some significant new "considerations" or “examples” from your experience.

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome of the event for the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to something new that was created as a result of your participation in this event (for example, you might link to a new tool that you and your co-participants made as a result of attending this event, or to a set of articles that the participants in your workshop created at the event).

One the most important thing is that a lot of People included professors did not know about Wikimedia projects and how it's work but I think I did good job to explain it to them and they were completely interested to explain it to their students, and I hope we can get good result in the near future.

• I working in a project about start Wikipedia education program in the whole Arab countries with the League of Arab States.
• I working to start workshops about "how to edit Wikipedia" for individual groups in UAE
• I working to start workshops about "how to edit Wikipedia" for individual groups about Arab history.

Challenges and lessons

One of my biggest challenges I faced that many professors know nothing about Wikimedia projects, they know Wikipedia, but they did not believe in this encyclopedia and they ask their students to stop using Wikipedia. I discussed with many of them and explained the wiki system to them, asked them to help us improve all the information on Wikipedia or correct the wrong information. I think we have to participate in all the events related to any of Wikimedia projects

Finances

• Registration for the conference $250
• Accommodation $1768.01
  • the reservation and the payment made by the foundation.
• Transportation inside $40.558
• Food & beverage $70.731
• Fine on the flight ticket $70.956
  • Because no one informed me that the flight hour changed to be at 13:00 not 14:00 and there was no contact information for me added to the flight booking.