كَيفَ تُساهِم
Three things are needed, in this order. The first one matters more than the other two put together.
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١ مُراجَعَةُ النَّصِّ العَرَبِيّ
Native Arabic review — this is the one. The weakest point of the whole project is vocalisation. A wrong mark teaches a wrong pronunciation, and a learner has no way to detect it; they trust us. Language models get tashkīl wrong with complete confidence, and the texts here have not yet been read by a native speaker.
If you read Arabic comfortably, the most valuable thing you can send is a list of errors: the word, which article, and the correction. You do not need to be a teacher and you do not need to know how any of this is built. Even one paragraph checked is useful.
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٢ شُروحٌ بِلُغاتٍ أُخرى
Glosses in more languages. Every glossed word currently carries English and Portuguese. Portuguese is there because it is the maintainer's language, not because that is where the readers are. Spanish, French, Indonesian, Turkish, Urdu and Hausa would between them cover most people learning Arabic — whether through heritage, religion or work.
Translating one article's glosses is a small, self-contained job that needs no code.
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٣ أَنتَ، وأنتَ تَتَعَلَّم
If you are learning Arabic: tell us where you got stuck. A text marked level ١ that you, a level ١ learner, could not follow is our defect, not yours. Which sentence stopped you, and what you thought it meant.
This is what calibrates the levels for real. Everything else is a hypothesis until learners report back.
How to send it
By email, to contact@tuturama.com, with Mahl in the subject.
Plainly: the code repository is private for now, so there is no public issue tracker to open a ticket in. Email is the real channel, not a fallback — it reaches a person. If the repository opens later, this page will say so.
If you want to write a story
Get in touch first. Writing for Mahl means writing the same fact three times, from scratch, at three levels, each obeying a written measure — length, sentence length, which structures are permitted, how many new words. It also means full and correct vocalisation, MSA throughout, no dialect in the body, and no invented quotes attributed to real people.
Two rules are worth knowing before you offer: a glossed word carries the form the sentence requires, not the dictionary form — that single mistake accounted for thirteen of the sixteen errors found in the first review pass. And the root must be right: a wrong root is worse than no root, because it teaches a false relationship between words.
What we will not do
Publish anything as reported news while we have no reporting. Use photographs or photorealistic images. Accept a text whose vocalisation nobody has checked, once there is anyone to check it. Hide how the texts are made — see About.