The Citizens Against Terror website is built on innovative distributed-translation technology. No single language is dominant, instead articles can be originated and edited in any combination of languages supported by the site. An article may start out in Arabic, be translated into English, then edited in English and translated back into Arabic. The technology ensures that people visiting the site see coordinated content regardless of the language they speak.

The Citizens Against Terror website builds on multilingual collaborative wiki technology. Any user may submit changes to existing pages, translation of existing content or new articles. A group of editors vet these changes before they are made visible. If a collaborator consistently submits useful material they can be made into an editor and contribute towards the running of the site. This loosely-distributed network of collaboration will help the site to grow rapidly without being overwhelmed by unhelpful or biased information.

The Arabic version of this site is due to be launched in the near future, with further languages to follow.

How to get involved

Sign up for an account to start with, then you can use the Submit new article link on the navigation sidebar to send in your contributions.

If you would like to be involved in editing the site please get in touch through the Contact us link.

If you could provide translations then please get in touch through the Contact us link. If you are fluent in a language that Citizens Against Terror is not currently provided in then please take a look at the site translation page

If you have skills with Ruby or CSS then and would like to make this site even better please get in touch through the Contact us link.

Credits

The Citizens Against Terror website is built using Ruby on Rails and runs on a FreeBSD environment.

Hosting is provided by John Companies

The Citizens Against Terror Logo was created by Steve Baker

Photography was provided by Luís Gustavo

Icons were provided by Mark James

The moblog was created by Alfie Dennen

Consultancy services were provided by Bill Thompson

The site was designed and developed by Codev