UAE foundation partners with Google to put global focus on Arab authors
- Date: 15-Dec-2020
- Source: Saudi Gazette
- Sector:Technology
- Country:UAE
UAE foundation partners with Google to put global focus on Arab authors
DUBAI — The Emirates Literature Foundation, together with Google, has launched "Kateb Maktub", an initiative that will vastly increase the presence and visibility of Arab authors online, ahead of World Arabic Language Day.
The initiative is designed to boost the number of Arab author pages on Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites with more than 1 billion visitors per month.
Arab authors currently have fewer than 1,500 pages on Wikipedia, lagging far behind author pages in languages such as English, German, or French. This puts writers from the region at a disadvantage, since they are not as easily discovered as their international peers. The initiative aims to increase the number of Arab author pages tenfold.
The Emirates Literature Foundation is now looking to recruit an army of volunteers to join the movement and become Wikipedia data editors, gathering and sharing content about Arab authors and books so they can be known worldwide. It is working closely with the UAE User Group of Wikipedia to gather
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