His love for the Arabic language permeated him from a young age, and increased his attachment to it in his studies of human medicine. The absence of an Arabic equivalent for some of these terms.

The vast amount of information, research and medical scientific articles on Wikipedia in English and other languages ​​corresponds to a weakness in the Arabic content, then he took upon himself the responsibility of representing the Arabic language on the Internet, and creating accurate and deep knowledge content that serves the Jordanian and Arab student and reader searching for the thrill of science and knowledge.

During his 7 years of university studies in the field of human medicine, the student at the Hashemite University of Jordan, Musab Banat, sought to promote Arabic content in the World Wikipedia Encyclopedia, and to develop scientific Arabic content on the Internet, by forming a team of digital Arabic content ambassadors to start editing scientific articles On the encyclopedia.

The year of the launch

Musab, who was born in the city of Rusaifa, east of the capital Amman, in 1995, began his project to promote Arabic content on the Wikipedia encyclopedia with scientific and medical research in his first year at the university in 2013, and during his tenure he achieved the highest Arab editor on the encyclopedia during the years from 2014 to 2016, and the administration of the Hashemite University adopted Student Musab project and established the Arabic Content Club in 2017.

The Hashemite University administration adopted the student Musab Banat project and established the Arabic Content Club in 2017 (Al-Jazeera)

Musab identifies himself as “a human doctor, editor and administrator of the Arab Wikipedia. I achieved the highest Jordanian score in the number of contributions to the encyclopedia, and the fifth in the Arab world. I am also an assistant editor in the Wikijournal of Medicine magazine and a board member of the Wiki Medicine project. Worldwide (Wiki Project Med foundation).

Musab says to Al-Jazeera Net, "By entering the world of the Internet in the first year, I was dismayed by the weakness of the Arabic content on the network, especially the scientific and medical content. Then I decided to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, so I started working until I reached more than 165 thousand contributions on the site, and because the individual effort in Enriching the encyclopedia will not suffice to reduce the gap between the Arabic language and the rest of the languages ​​on the network. I decided to move from individual experience to transferring my experience and my experience to my fellow students, so that the contribution would be a collective achievement that benefits the Arab community as a whole.

Musab in the language of numbers

Musab was able to supplement the encyclopedia with more than 1100 articles and scientific research in the Arabic language, and he introduced about 168 thousand amendments, edits and documentation of information on Wikipedia in the medical field in particular, so that it is available to students and researchers in the medical and scientific fields in Arabic.

As for the education program team at the Hashemite University, which emanated from the Digital Arabic Content Club, it was able to convert 52 academic courses that were locked in the university's professors' rooms into an electronic course, the products of which are circulated through Wikipedia.

More than 5.46 million words were added to Wikipedia articles, and the views of the articles added by the club reached more than 20 million views, double the number of Jordan's population, indicating the high readability and size of impact, as well as the creation of 3,730 articles from scratch, and 8760 existing articles were developed and modified. In advance, according to Musab.

Musab Banat was able to supplement the encyclopedia with more than 1100 articles and scientific research in the Arabic language (Al-Jazeera)

University's president

The President of the Hashemite University, Dr. Fawaz Al-Zaboon, expressed his pride in Mosab and his initiative, appreciating his students' sense of responsibility for the state of the Arabic language and its representation in the way it deserves on the Internet, and stressed that the initiative has become a beacon and incubator for a unique creativity that lines students on the pages of the World Encyclopedia.

He told Al-Jazeera Net that the students' work is based on the methodology of scientific research in support of every piece of information in its source, and they provided a practical, practical solution to the problem of verbatim copying from the Internet, from which university professors benefited from improving the mechanism for delivering university assignments in a fast computerized manner, ensuring that the student read what he was assigned to write and reformulate it With its linguistic stock, saving that time and effort.

After university

With his graduation from the university at the end of last year, Musab worked on establishing the Arabic Digital Content Association, and this year 2021 will expand the scope of work to include all Jordanian universities and other educational institutions in the kingdom's governorates, within a broader official framework affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, according to Musab.

It was honored by the King of Jordan, Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, and he won many awards, and memoranda of understanding were signed with the Crown Prince Foundation, the Arabic Language Academy and the Hashemite University in order to attract university students and those interested in developing Arabic content on the Arab Wikipedia Encyclopedia, either by translating or publishing articles, or Writing original articles and publishing novels, books and documents that fall into the public domain.