Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
| Main page | Members | Activities | Reports | Talk |
| Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group | |
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.svg) Location of Myanmar | |
| Location | Myanmar  |
| Country code | MMR |
| Legal status | voluntary and non-profit organization |
| Approval date | January 23, 2020 |
| Main office | Yangon |
| Official language(s) | Burmese |
| Other language(s) | English Kachin Kayah Karen Chin Mon Rakhine Shan |
| Affiliations | ESEAP |
| Mailing list | wikimedia-mm |
| Myanmar Wikipedia | |
| MWCUG Myanmar Wikipedia | |
Chapters (37)
- CH Wikimedia CH
- GB Wikimedia UK
- KR 위키미디어 한국
- RU Викимедиа РУ
- US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
- CAT Amical Wikimedia
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- ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
- H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
- MK-SK Shared Knowledge
- NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
- NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
- RU-Don Don Wikimedians User Group
- US-NE New England Wikimedians
- WJ WikiJournal
- WK? Whose Knowledge?
Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group (MMR) is a Wikimedia user group for people living in, interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to the neighboring countries and around the world.
Objectives[edit]
- Organize outreach program and workshop online or offline to promote Wikimedia projects in Myanmar
- Help people in Myanmar learn how to contribute to Wikimedia projects
- Help minority languages users in Myanmar to setup their own Wikimedia projects
- Gather more Myanmar related data to contribute to Wikimedia projects
Activities[edit]
Planned[edit]
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Shan Wikipedia at Taunggyi, Shan State in January 2020
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Mon Wikipedia at Mawlamyaing, Mon State in February 2020
- Co-operate with Phandeeyar Accelerator (www.phandeeyar.org) to conduct monthly workshop in Yangon in 2020
- Co-operate with Ministry of Education to start off Wikipedia in Education initiative
- Co-operate with Ministry of Culture to start GLAM-initiative in Myanmar
History[edit]
- Organize Myanmar Wikipedia Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009
- Participate at NetMonday event organized by Telenor Myanmar as Main Contributor and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Dagon University, Yangon in 2014
- Participate at similar NetMonday event and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Mandalay University, Mandalay in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Mandalay University, Computer Science Department in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Yangon, Myanmar on October 2018
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Mandalay, Myanmar on November 2019
- Organize Wikipedia Workshop in Taunggyi, Myanmar on March 2020.
- Organize Wikipedia Online Workshop via Zoom on November 2020.
Wikimedia Projects of Languages Spoken in Myanmar[edit]
| Language | Projects | Articles | Pages | Edits | Admins | Users | Active Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burmese | Wikipedia | 107,748 | 242,373 | 832,818 | 4 | 120,599 | 107 |
| Wiktionary | 125,041 | 130,385 | 936,688 | 2 | 9,553 | 13 | |
| Shan | Wikipedia | 13,600 | 32,014 | 63,943 | 2 | 4,563 | 20 |
| Wiktionary | 36,901 | 43,871 | 96,290 | 2 | 791 | 9 | |
| Wikivoyage | 176 | 2,003 | 7,634 | 2 | 499 | 5 | |
| Wikibooks | 148 | 4,372 | 10,526 | 2 | 339 | 3 | |
| Mon | Wikipedia | 1,920 | 6,561 | 43,668 | 3 | 3,887 | 12 |
| Wiktionary | 49,184 | 72,234 | 95,333 | 1 | 1,443 | 15 | |
| Pa'O | Wikipedia | 2,645 | 7,106 | 29,441 | 1 | 1,634 | 12 |
| Wiktionary | 2,471 | 3,297 | 10,689 | 1 | 295 | 4 |
Strategy 2021[edit]
Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.