The move is part of the newly launched Kateb Maktub initiative, an ongoing campaign in which the foundation has teamed up with Google to increase the visibility of Arabic literary content online.
In announcing the project to celebrate Arabic Language Day on Friday, December 18, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature director Ahlam Bolooki outlined some of the challenges facing Arabic authors.
With only 1,500 Wikipedia pages dedicated to Arab authors, she says they lag far behind their English, German and French counterparts.
Kateb Maktoub aims to begin addressing that imbalance with a goal of publishing 15,000 Wikipedia pages dedicated to Arab authors in English and Arabic by December 2022.
ELF, Google to put Arab authors in the spotlight on the world stage December 16, 2020
The Emirates Literature Foundation (ELF), together with Google, has launched a new initiative that will vastly increase the presence and visibility of Arab authors online, ahead of World Arabic Language Day.
DUBAI The Emirates Literature Foundation (ELF), together with Google, has launched a new initiative that will vastly increase the presence and visibility of Arab authors online, ahead of World Arabic Language Day. Called ‘Kateb Maktub’, 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.
Dubai: Ahead of World Arabic Language Day on December 18, Dubai-based Emirates Literature Foundation, in association with Google, on Tuesday launched a new initiative to boost the visibility of Arab authors online.
Called ‘Kateb Maktub’ (the initiative), the initiative is designed to increase the number of Arab author pages on Wikipedia, one of the world’s most visited websites with more than one billion visitors per month. This was announced at a virtual roundtable on Tuesday. Arab authors currently have fewer than 1,500 pages on Wikipedia, lagging far behind author pages in languages such as English, German or French. The initiative aims to increase the number of Arab author pages ten-fold. It is expected that the goal of publishing 15,000 Wikipedia pages dedicated to Arab authors, in English and Arabic, will be reached by December 2022. The initiative has already managed to create 100 Arab author pages “internally” in two months, the virtual roundtable heard.
UAE foundation partners with Google
to put global focus on Arab authors December 15, 2020
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. WAM photo
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.
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