To put it plainly: Guide Omra's text is drafted with the help of an AI tool. Whether the guide deserves your trust depends on what happens before and after that drafting. Here is the whole chain, weak points included.
Where does the text come from?
From a register of facts. Each entry holds a short statement, the exact values it allows (a date, an amount, an age), the address of the source, the kind of source (official or press), how certain it is, when it was consulted and when it is due for review.
The register was built from desk research on published sources. Its entries were marked approved at the end of that research, but a person on the team still has to re-confirm them one by one. That is why our pages say "Sources consulted on …" with the date of consultation, and never credit a check to a named person.
What does the AI tool do, and what can it not do?
It receives a topic and the register entries that belong to it, then drafts a page in that topic's language. It cannot add a fact: every number has to match an entry. A second pass reads the draft and maps every checkable claim to an entry; a single claim that maps to nothing fails the whole page.
Topics about the rites are kept out of automated drafting. Pages that describe the stages of Umrah and Hajj are prepared separately, outside the automated chain, with no religious text.
Which checks does every page pass?
The sequence
- Any sentence with a number or a rule cites a register entry, and its numbers appear in that entry.
- An uncertain entry can only be used with its caution wording, in the same sentence.
- Rules on entering Saudi Arabia, on health and on the Hajj procedure need an official source among the references.
- No religious text can appear unless it comes from a base approved by a named person; that base is empty today.
- A page too close to another page in the network is stopped, and so are promises, invented urgency and superlatives.
- Links to the agency's own site are capped, labelled and always preceded by a disclosure box.
Does a human read articles before they go live?
No. The publisher chose automatic publishing: an article that passes every check goes live without a prior human read. The team reviews a weekly report of what was published, and the publishing pace slows down by itself when that report goes unreviewed.
The Arabic pages are not yet read by a native Arabic reviewer before publication. We have recommended it, and a reviewer's name will only appear under a title once that person has read the whole page.
Who signs the pages?
The organisation, Wiki Tours International. Nobody is presented as an author or reviewer unless they actually wrote or read the page.
What happens when a fact changes?
An "updated" date appears under the title only when the substance of the page changes. When an entry passes its review date without a new check, the pages that cite it show a notice; if it is still not re-checked two weeks later, those pages leave search engines until they are updated.
Status changes for the dates we follow are logged on the official calendar. To report an error, use the contact page.