School of Foreign Languages - The University of Jordan - Head of the Department of Asian Languages Meets One of Founders of Wikipedia

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  • 15 - Dec
  • 2016

Head of the Department of Asian Languages Meets One of Founders of Wikipedia

Head of the Department of Asian Languages, Dr. Bagdagol Mussa met Dr. Rami Tarawneh one of the founders of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to discuss strategies to enrich the Turkish and Arabic content available on the encyclopedia. Tarawneh gave a brief explanation of the content and purpose of the project and  the student, Abbad Dirnyyah explained how to use the encyclopedia and to upload articles. The meeting was also attended by Miss Naima Qaradag (Istanbul Turkish Cultural Center Foundation), the Turkish team,  and students of the Turkish Language Section namely Nour Othman, Huda Yaghmour,  Lana Khalil and Rawan Hammad.