He concluded his activities with an ambitious project experience

Emirates Airline Festival of Literature: We meet you in 2022

Serene stressed the need to provide content that meets the aspirations of the information searcher on virtual networks.

Photography: Patrick Castillo

With the experiences of ambitious projects aimed at preserving the treasures of knowledge, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature closed, the day before yesterday, the curtain on the activities of the end of its third and last week in the "Alserkal Avenue" in Dubai, promising its fans a new session bearing many creative initiatives in 2022. The 2021 activities were concluded Through an introductory session open to the public, the festival dedicated to the "Written Writer" project, which was launched by the Emirates Literature Foundation earlier in cooperation with the global company "Google", to enhance the presence of Arab literature and writers on virtual networks, and to double interest in Arabic content compared to English content on the Wikipedia pages Global, to be 10 times what it is now by August 2022.

The “Written Writer” course followed a wide spectrum of festival fans and volunteers interested in the experience of creating new pages that enrich Arabic content on “Wikipedia”, while the research employee and content writer at the Emirates Literature Foundation, Sirin Bin Ibrahim, reviewed some of the conditions and standards for editing and activating content, paused at the most important The basic instructions related to the project on the encyclopedia, the steps for creating and editing articles for Arab authors, writers and creators on them, the most important of which are the five "Wikipedia" pillars, the policies and guidelines for the process of creating and editing articles introducing Arab writers, and methods for creating "approved" digital content.

Task privacy

Sirin bin Ibrahim addressed the specificity of this task and its details, as well as its phases in a practical manner, supporting him with realistic examples selected from the pages of the encyclopedia, highlighting the most important skills of writing and editing personal biographies and the mechanisms for their correct activation, most notably the need for the new article to contain important information about the literary personality being addressed, to be written My encyclopedia does not include any events or statements, and the importance of avoiding the method of gluttony or boasting in writing the introductory article on the writer's personal pages on the encyclopedia, or listing any information that is not documented with sources that are identified and integrated in detail.

Serene stressed the importance of adhering to morals and general laws in editing articles, and a number of conditions directly related to other details.

Quality standards

On the value of presenting "ideal articles" that respond to the requirements, Sirin explained to the audience the importance of paying attention not only to supporting the volume of Arabic digital content on the Internet, but also to providing content that meets the aspirations of the information seeker on virtual networks, and the conditions for creating Arab writers pages on the encyclopedia, the most important of which is the quality of information. Included in the article and its compliance with the criteria for credibility, transparency, clarity, brevity, and verification of the reliable links that are incorporated into the page, and all the details related to that, noting that the encyclopedia includes a number of specialized committees composed of editors interested in verifying information and evaluating the content and decisions whether or not it is approved. Matching decisions.

In response to the attendees' inquiries, the moderator referred to the ambitions of the "Written Written" project and the channels it adopted to spread the culture of volunteering, with the aim of supporting and enhancing the presence of Arabic content globally, stressing: “We have ambitious plans to spread awareness of the value and importance of this project in supplementing the reality and history of literature. Al-Arabi, and highlighting the presence of its pioneers on the Arab and international arena, as we aspire to, within the next two years, to edit at least 15,000 pages on them in Arabic and English, instead of the current 1,500 pages.

On the names of the book, she added, “At this stage we are still searching and collecting the names of writers absent from the pages of the encyclopedia, in cooperation with either the writers themselves, Arab publishing houses, responsible cultural institutions and even public libraries. Today we have 2,500 names that will be incorporated very soon in Wikipedia. ) ».

As for the channels chosen by the Emirates Literature Foundation to introduce the initiative to the Arab world and to attract more volunteers, they crystallized - according to Serene - in a variety of strategies, most notably communicating with the universities in which the Foundation launched from the UAE, with the aim of raising awareness and attracting student expertise specialized in translation to help translate content from and into English We also aspire in the future to extend bridges of cooperation to reach Arab universities, academic institutions and even individuals, and we will remain committed to our goals in supporting and succeeding the initiative of a written writer through the project of creating a new competition for (Wikipedia), through which we aim to encourage the culture of supporting Arabic content on the encyclopedia and publishing it. On a global scale ».

«Written writer»

The "Kateb Maktoub" project is designed to raise awareness not only of writers and books, but of the importance of high-quality information.

The Emirates Literature Foundation set itself an ambitious goal, which is part of doubling the number of pages of Arabic literature in Arabic on Wikipedia by more than 10 times what is currently available.

It is noteworthy that the specialized pages in Arabic about Arab writers in the encyclopedia do not exceed 1500 pages, compared to about 20 thousand and 700 pages for German-language writers, and in the English language, there is information about more than 19 thousand writers.

Institutions and platforms have joined the initiative to be partners with Arab digital publishing platforms, such as Abjad.

Other parties will join the initiative, including the “Writ of Words” platform, the “Beginner and News” platform, and other bodies supporting the “Written Written” project.

• The initiative seeks during this stage to collect the names of those absent from the pages of the encyclopedia.

• 15 thousand pages in both Arabic and English, which the project seeks to access on the encyclopedia.

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