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A month-long competition to increase the number of Arab author pages on Wikipedia is starting on June 1.

The initiative by Emirates Literature Foundation's Kateb Maktub, in collaboration with Google, calls on the public to write more articles about Arab authors in the Arabic language.

Ahead of its launch, the foundation is offering free webinars on Sunday, May 30, on how to create author pages on Wikipedia, so people with no prior experience can also take part.

The person with the most articles will be awarded $500, with runners-up getting $400 and $300 for second and third place, respectively.

A second round of the competition will start on August 1, when the person with the most articles across both cycles will get the Grand Slam Prize, which is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai in 2022. Runners-up will receive subscriptions to Abjjad, a social network for readers, authors and bloggers in the Middle East, which gives access to more than 30,000 Arabic books.

Participants will be split into two categories: one for experts and one for novices. Each article would need to be between 300 to 500 words and structured according to Wikipedia guidelines, including an introduction to the author, notable works, awards, biography and references to reliable sources.

The foundation has a list of 6,000 authors participants can choose from. Once they've picked a name, they'll have 48 hours to upload the article to ensure there are no duplicates.

Many of these Arab authors have no trace online. We want to see their body of work and their biographies, but the information is often lacking or of poor quality

Ahlam Bolooki, director of Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

It will be judged by a committee of experts, certified editors and administrators from the Arab Wikipedia community.

The Kateb Maktub initiative is an important step in the right direction for bringing Arab literature to a wider audience and shining a light on Arab authors," said festival director Ahlam Bolooki. "The Grand Slam prize is a unique chance for literature lovers to meet some of the greatest authors at our festival, and I am sure we will see fierce competition.

The project first launched in December 2020, when the foundation announced its bid to promote the work of Arab authors within and outside the region by building an army of Wikipedia editor volunteers to share the region's literary culture with the world.

Between September 2019 and September 2020, the number of Arab author pages on Wikipedia grew by 100, but within four months of the initiative launching, the number of pages increased by 4,800, according to the foundation.

The goal of Kateb Maktub is to publish 15,000 Wikipedia pages dedicated to Arab authors in English and Arabic by December 2022.

We always want to invite new talent and future stars of Arabic literature and, each year, we face the same problem, Bolooki said when the initiative first launched.

Many of these Arab authors have no trace online. We want to see their body of work and their biographies, but the information is often lacking or of poor quality. Sometimes it is even questionable if the information is related to the right person.

Bolooki said such a situation warrants alarm.

If a literature foundation in the heart of the Arab world is having difficulties finding Arab authors, can you imagine how difficult it would be for regular readers to find them?

If you havent heard of a book or author, you will simply not read them.

More information is at katebmaktub.org

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The female rapper known as Boog the Bandit from Ohio got a shot on Thursday night during a robbery attempt. The news is getting viral in Columbus. She was a famous rapper and her real name is Courtney Bruce,She was seen in the hospital around 6:10 p with her wounds of a gunshot. She entered the hospital alone for her treatment, sated Ohios police.

While Bruce was inside his car when he got shooted multiple times and he wasnt alone, he is with one of his friends who is 26 years old, this is confirmed by Columbus Dispatch. This man was drop Bruce at the hospital and that man who droves the car was fine and not injured,Bruce recently released one of her new albums titled Heart Away the album received lots of views and highly appreciated by the people. While other two videos Hot Topic: and Risky of her also getting viral and received views in millions.

Bruce was the model for urban clothing brands including Rob Kardashians Arthur George Socks and Blck Pyramid Clothing of R&B singers. She was a model for clothing before she became a fan as a rapper and a singer.

Here some precious words from Boog, I dont have to reach any destination in my life neither I have been there, I just want happiness, hence Im feeling so frank, open and familiar, Im all want to pursue the real happiness..

She also added, you never go anywhere without Gid as he is the one who already destined your life and you must follow that path.

Lacey Crisp, tweeted, My heart is devastated when I get to know about Boog The Bandit this is the most disheartening news of my life. Boog was shoot during a robbery act last night. Boogs mother told me that she was tensed about the mothers who lost their childrens in the Columbus city.

Courtney Bruce was so hardworking and she follows her passion which provides her success and made her famous. She was one of the finest and well-known rappers of Columbus. She was shot in numerous albums.

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As part of a new series, TechRadar Pro has asked designers from freelance platform Fiverr to give the branding of a selection of well-known companies a makeover.

The idea isn't to return to the drawing board completely, only to imagine what famous branding might look like with a few tweaks here and there.

Last time round, a design expert reworked the Twitter logo and UI. This time, UK-based designer Kevinsdesign gave Wikipedia the same treatement, and also talked us through his decision-making process. Here's what he came up with:

Overall goal"To reinvision the digital product of Wikipedia focusing on a way to enhance the user experience for a particular user group or flow."

Research"This project was largely based on my personal insights and thoughts on best practice, however I was keen to do a small micro research project - this took the form of 4 timeline interviews. These interviews encouraged the user to talk about past experiences with Wikipedia, their goals and frictions points."

Homepage"Ill be honest the homepage of Wikipedia is a page I have never visited until now, not a single person brought it up in the interviews, so to be perfectly honest I saw this as a nice opportunity to make some UI porn. I took what was there and visually reinvisioned it, I wanted to create a design that gave a feel or knowledge and respectability but also fun and modern."

"In terms of function I did add in a few new things like language selection being brought to the forefront and a more prominent search bar."

Article page"Aside from just a general restyle of the article page and just making it look a little cooler, a few ideas came out of the research:

Accessibility"This is where I spent the most time. Wikipedia is accessed by billions worldwide with the common goal of consuming written articles, however reading isnt a given for everyone, between 5-10% of the population are dyslexic (myself included), even more have visual impairments and so on. Things like colour contrast, font size, and even black text on white backgrounds can make content very hard to consume."

"I asked the question could I bake in accessibility options to the new design that would break down these barriers and make Wikipedia more accessible to people. The new accessibility option in the menu allows user to customize the setting to their needs, be it making the font size bigger, making the content seizure safe, changing the font to child friendly and even adding a color overlay to the article which for many dyslexics massively helps them read."

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These are interesting times in Northern Ireland. Yesterday, Arlene Foster announced she'll be standing down as Northern Ireland's First Minister. While it may seem remarkable to those of us down here, Foster was seen by many in her own party as 'too moderate' and her decision to abstain on a vote on gay conversion therapy is seen as playing a major role in the heave against her by the grassroots of the DUP.

The bookies favourite to be next First Minister is Edwin Poots. Interestingly, Poots has reportedly said he'd only take the role if he'd also be DUP leader. The Lisburn MLA is currently Northern Ireland's agriculture minister, and Poots will be manna for heaven for the hardliners in the DUP if his wikipedia page is anything to go by.

Like a lot of people on this island, we paid Poots' wikipedia page a visit this morning and were surprised to see some of the quotes correctly attributed to the man in the 'Personal Views' section

Poots is a proud creationist. He told the BBC:"My view on the earth is that it's a young earth. My view is 4,000 BC".

In that same interview, he explained his suspicion of the Big Bang Theory:

You're telling me that cosmic balls of dust gathered and there was an explosion. We've had lots of explosions in Northern Ireland and I've never seen anything come out of that that was good. And you look at this earth and you tell me that there was a big bang and all of a sudden all that is good about this earth came out of it?

In 2012, Poots banned blood donations from gay people. He explained the reasoning behind the ban to the BBC. However, he wanted to extend the ban.

"I think that people who engage in high-risk sexual behaviour in general should be excluded from giving blood... And so someone who has sex with somebody in Africa or sex with prostitutes, I am very reluctant about those people being able to give blood."

On the occasion of Arlene Foster becoming First Minister in 2016, Poots also said that Foster's most important job is as a 'wife, mother and daughter'. He explained that 'when I was Health Minister, I used to say that it was my second most important job, the most important one being a husband, father and son.'

In the same interview, he confirmed that his nickname is Pootsy.

Again, all of these quotes are real and are there to be found on the internet. A lot of this was said between 2006 and 2012 and there's a chance Pootsy - who's had both covid and cancer in the past year - has mellowed with age. We hope his views have *ahem* evolved with time.

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It was definitely divisive. And the legal wrangling was intense. But Hasbrouck Heights, under pressure to raise the pride flag for Gay Pride Month alongside the United States flag, the New Jersey state flag, and the prisoners of war flag, voted the motion down, 4-2.

For the uninitiated, June is recognized as Gay Pride Month. The pride flag is a rainbow flag that represents the LGBTQ community.

I feel for people who felt they needed to fight this fight. I feel for people who want to have their communities respected and recognized. The problem is, flying the pride flag opens up a can of worms. It means that every protected group in the state might feel slighted that their flag representing their group isnt flown, too.

And if you do a little research, youll find that there are thousands of groups with thousands of flags in New Jersey and country wide. There are more groups than youd think who have a flag thats important to them: Political flags, religious flags, cultural and ethnic flags.

Just a few I can name here are the thin blue line flag, the Black Lives Matter flag, Antifa and QAnon flags.

The American legion and Vietnam veterans both have a flag. So does the 4H club. Theres a Masonic flag. And the Boy Scouts of America have a flag. Who knew?

Plenty of upstanding and deserving American citizens belong to groups that deserve to be celebrated.

Do a quick Wikipedia search of ethnic flags and youll see there arent enough flagpoles in New Jersey to fly them all. Hasbrouck Heights had to do what it had to do and so this doesnt turn into the war of the flags, lets hope that other towns in New Jersey dont get pressured by any protected groups to fly their flags.

The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Judi Franco. Any opinions expressed are Judi's own.

Average scores for the 2019-2020 school year are listed by county, from highest to lowest.

Many of the actresses in this story not only made a name for themselves through their collection of iconic performances, but also through the selfless, philanthropic nature with which many of them approached their stardom. In an age of flipping the script on societal norms, many of these actresses are using their voices and platforms to be advocates for those who are otherwise unheard.

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