Saudi female students promote Arabic, Islamic content for online encyclopedia

Saudi female students promote Arabic, Islamic content for online encyclopedia

Hundreds of female students from a Saudi university have been using their language skills to promote Arab and Islamic content in a global online encyclopedia.

Almost 400 articles have been translated from English into Arabic by 365 students from King Khalid University's department of languages and translation for use on the Wikipedia platform.

The initiative has formed part

of the Wiki Dawwin project adopted by the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives' (Darah) publishing house, represented by its center for digital content.

The work was supervised by faculty members via remote courses offered by the center to female students and translated articles were published after being edited and approved for Wikipedia use.

Dr. Zuhair Al-Shehri, dean of the college of social sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University and adviser and director of the Wiki Dawwin project, told Arab News that one of the main aims of the program was to enrich the Arabic content on Wikipedia.

He said this had been done by creating articles and developing and translating