Event:Hyam Wikipedia Outreach
The Hyam Wikipedia Outreach is an in-person event being organized by the Tyap Wikimedians User Group to recruit a new Hyam-speaking wiki community to champion the translation of articles in the Wikimedia Incubator and Translatewiki. This is aimed towards creating the Hyam language Wikipedia edition. This event is aimed at occurring between 26 and 28 September 2025.
Event Details
[edit]- DAY 1:
- Date: Friday, 26 September 2025.
- Venue:
- In-person @ ECWA DCC, along Palace Road, Kwain (Kwoi), Kaduna State, NG; and
- Online
JITSI MEET: Click to join call
Live via our handle: Click here to watch, here, and here
- Status:
Done
- DAY 2:
- Date: Saturday, 27 September 2025.
- Venue:
- In-person @ ECWA DCC, along Palace Road, Kwain (Kwoi), Kaduna State, NG; and
- Online
- JITSI MEET: Click to join call
- Live via our handle: Click here to watch, here
- Status: Done
- DAY 3:
- Date: Sunday, 28 September 2025.
- Venue:
- In-person @ ECWA DCC, along Palace Road, Kwain (Kwoi), Kaduna State, NG; and
- Online
- JITSI MEET: Click to join call
- Live via our handle: Click here to watch and here
- Status: Done
How to participate
[edit]- Log in or Create a New Account.
- Register yourself for this event. Go to the top of this page and click "Register for event" to register yourself after confirming that you've logged in already.
- Attend the event in person or stream Live on YouTube on Friday, 26, Saturday, 27 & and Sunday, 28 September 2024.
- Please join our Telegram group to get live updates and discussions.
Event activities
[edit]Here is what we aim to achieve:
- Friday, 26 September 2025:
- Create new accounts for those without.
- Add or improve content in the Hyam Wikipedia Incubator.
- Activate the Hyam Wikimedia User Community on Meta-Wiki.
- Saturday 27 September 2025:
- Add or improve content in the Hyam Wikipedia Incubator.
- Add or improve Hyam language content (Most MediaWiki important messages) in the Translatewiki, click here.
- Sunday 28 September 2025:
- Add or improve content in the Hyam Wikipedia Incubator.
- Create awareness on the Akai script for Nenzit languages.
Creation of pages
[edit]Please be sure to follow the HYAM WIKIPEDIA OUTREACH manual as a guide.
- Create or edit an article in the Hyam Wikipedia Incubator
- To create by translating from existing articles in the English Wikipedia, please click here.
- To create a new article in the Hyam Wikipedia that does not exist in the English Wikipedia, please click here.
- Upload media on Wikimedia Commons
- Please see the essentials about uploading and using content in Wikimedia Commons by clicking here!.
- Click here to upload an audio file or an image.
List of contributions made
[edit]This should be obtained from the following tools: Outreach Dashboard, XTools, and Toolforge.
Gallery
[edit]Please find more images and files about this project here.
You can also watch our event interviews on .svg){kind=small}
here.
Feedback
[edit]Please tell us about your experiences during the event via our discussion page. You may as well do so via our Telegram group handle: Hyam Wikimedians Community - TWU. Thank you! Hye kpek!