Egypt Wikimedians User Group

Egypt Wikimedians
User Group
Egypt Wikimedians ; User Group
	; Egypt
Location	Egypt
Country code	EG
Approval date	July 27, 2014
Main office	(N/A)
Staff	(N/A)
Official language(s)	Arabic
Other language(s)	English and Spanish
Chief Coordinator	2
Budget	(N/A)
Affiliations	Wikimedia Foundation
Website	https://www.wikimedia-eg.org/
E-mail address	wm-egypt@wikimedia.org
Mailing list	Wikimedia Egypt
Facebook	Facebook page

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Egypt Wikimedians is a Wikimedian user group that has the goal of supporting Wikimedia projects in Egypt, supporting Egyptian Wikimedians, and becoming the recognized chapter in Egypt. Recognized by WMF affiliations committee in July 2014.

Who can join?

If you live in Egypt, then you can participate in our events in person, if you live in other countries you still can participate in any activity or project we have online. Feel free to add your name to the interested members list below and to ask any questions on the discussion page.

Projects and activities

The user group hold and support the following activities:

Edit-a-thons to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to enrich content about Egypt or work on and develop a certain topic.
Meetings for the Wikimedians in Egypt to exchange ideas and to check what support do they need to continue editing Wikipedia.
Editing contests to encourage existing users edit Wikipedia and to encourage non-users join.
Photography trips and contests to encourage users upload photos to commons.

WikiArabia Egypt 2017

Wikimedia Egypt UG has organised WikiArabia 2017, the third annual meeting of participants from the Arab region, in Golden Tulip Flamenco Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, from October 23-25, 2017 to expose, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and perspectives on Wikimedia projects in the Arab countries.

Education (Spring 2012- Spring 2019)

Wikipedia Egyptian Program (WEP) in Egyptian Universities has enriched Arabic Wikipedia with Featured & good articles.

Results

96 Courses in 13 Egyptian universities.
1519 Participants.
7689 New articles.
68 Featured articles.
63 Good articles.
3 Featured portals.
4 Featured lists.
106.307.515 Bytes Added

WEP Links in Outreach

Links of blogs & newsletters of WEP in Outreach.

Female content & Gender Gap

Wikiwomen

Art+Feminism

WikiGap

Inter WikiWomen Collaboration

Editing contests

Edit-a-thons

Photography

Wikimedians in Egypt have organized many photography trips and contests.

Wiki Loves Monuments

2014.
2015.
2016.
2017.
2018.
2020.
2022.
2023.
2024.

Wiki Loves Africa

2014.
2015.
2016.
2017.
2019.
2020.
2021.
2022.
2023.
2024.
2025.

Wiki Loves Earth

Wiki Science Competition

2017.
2018.

Board and Staff

Board of trustees: (elected in Jan 2024)

Walaa Abdel Manaem (chairperson)
Ibrahim Elaidy (Executive Manager) (contact)
Donia (chief communications officer) (contact)
Mohamed Ouda (Treasurer)

Staff:

Amr Fathy Nagy: Administrative Assistant (Paid role)
Omnia Ahmed: Events Manger (Paid role)
Ghada Maher: Social Media Coordinator (Paid role)
Summer Kamal: Photography Contest Supervisor (Voluntary)
Ahmed Farrag: Web Technical Support (Voluntary)
Gerges Shamon: Tech Hub team Leader – Acting (Voluntary)
Ahmed Faris: Wiki Awareness team leader (Voluntary)

Members

Starting February 1, 2024, all new members must register via the group administration form (link).

The names on the following list are managed by the membership department's staff. Please do not add your name directly here and must follow the instructions above.