Wikipedia:Bayt Alhikma 2.0

Bayt Alhikma 2.0 is a project aimed at enriching Arabic Wikipedia and the Arabic content online. The project was launched by Ideas Beyond Borders situated in New York in collaboration with I Believe in Science at the end of 2018.

The project employs paid part-time translators to translate articles from all fields from English Wikipedia to Arabic Wikipedia with special focus on scientific and philosophical articles. The founder of the project is Faisal Saeed Al Mutar who is an American-Iraqi social entrepreneur and he is also the founder of Ideas Beyond Borders.

Bayt Alhikma project is a collaboration between Ideas Beyond Borders and I Believe in Science as the first provides the finances while the later chooses and employs the translators and supervises the quality of the translation. At the beginning of 2020, the number of the articles the project worked on reached over 10000 articles.

There is collaboration between the project and Wikimedia Levant which provides volunteering services like recommending articles and giving certificates without any interference in any logistic or financial aspects.

The source of the articles is English Wikipedia. The project translates 1800 to 3000 articles a month. The project aims at translating/enriching more than 100 thousand articles in 3 to 5 years. More than 95% of the project activities is online, although the project organized 3 workshops on translating into Arabic. The project also participated in "The First Competition of Translating and Enriching Engineering Articles – An-Najah National University" where the project provided finances for the competitors and organized the ceremony and added the articles (50 articles) to Arabic Wikipedia after ensuring their quality.

There has been a collaboration recently between the project and ten Iraqi universities (such as Tikrit, Mosul and Kufa Universities) where a team of ten students from Languages and Translation Department from each university translates 30 articles a month for a financial reward for each student. Afterwards, the project ensures the quality of the translation and publishes the articles on Arabic Wikipedia. The collaboration between the project and the Iraqi universities produces 200 to 300 articles a month.