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Mus'ab Banat
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Bioinformatics
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Theory and Formal Methods
World Wide Web and Web Science

Mus'ab Banat

PeerJ Author

Summary

Dr. Mus'ab Banat is a Jordanian physician who graduated from the Hashemite University and they are now working as research assistant at their university. They are active on both Arabic and English Wikipedia as well as the founder and team leader of a Wikipedia education program at their university. They are one of the most prolific medical editors: 8th in 2015, 40th in 2016, 10th in 2017 and 16th in 2018. They were the most prolific Arabic medical editor in all three consecutive years (2014-2015-2016) and the second highest Arabic medical editor in 2017 and 2018. They are also an admin on Arabic Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource. He is the Wikipedia education program team leader and directed the translating of the WHO list of essential medicines. He also participated developing the offline medical app in Arabic. At WMCON 2018 he was a representative of Wikimedians of Levant and organized many collaborations including on medical topics: examples include Punjabi Arabic Ealaqat, Arabic–Bengali Cultural Exchange Program, Armenian-Jordanian cooperation and Arabic- Serbian collaboration. He has been involved in bringing over translations of Osmosis medical videos from YouTube to Commons. They founded a Wikipedia student club under the name of digital Arabic content club and served as the chairman since 2017. He is a member at his University council and also was a member of the student's union and the Committee on Foreign Relations at the student's union. in the faculty of medicine he used to be a member of the financial and human resources committee. In relation to medicine he serves as an associate editor at the WikiJournal of Medicine. He Founded Jordanian Digital Arabic content Association (JDACA) and he serves as the president since March 2021. He have an interest in Wikipedia and education and works to spread the wiki awareness in this regard. One of their major activities was initiating the MOU between the Wikimedia Foundation and Hashemite University. This includes having presented Wikipedia to King Abdullah II at the university.

Bioinformatics Data Science Databases Theory & Formal Methods World Wide Web & Web Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Hashemite University

Work details

Teaching and Research assistant

Hashemite University
September 2020
Basic medical science

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
September 29, 2022
Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
Houcemeddine Turki, Dariusz Jemielniak, Mohamed A. Hadj Taieb, Jose E. Labra Gayo, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Mus’ab Banat, Thomas Shafee, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Tiago Lubiana, Diptanshu Das, Daniel Mietchen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1085