Event:Wiki for Minorities 2024 in Wikimedia Gombe

The Wiki for Minorities (WfMin) "is an initiative that arises in the line of collaborative work for the protection of cultural rights, the preservation and dissemination of expressions of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of cultural minorities subdivided into three large minority groups: national or ethnic, religious and sexual minorities (LGBT), people with disabilities, etc."

As part of efforts to ensure adequate documentation of minority groups in Gombe State and Nigeria at large, the Wikimedia Gombe Network is organizing an awareness drive, capacity building, and editathon in her community in collaboration with the Gombe State People with Disability community to foster inclusivity and representation of the minority community.

Focus area

• Spirituali-Ties (for minority religions and underrepresented spiritualities):take photos of church buildings, church services and activities, traditional worshippers and shrines etc.
• Minori-Ties (work with migrant minorities [diasporas] and linguistic minorities especially): take photos of minority ethnic people in our community, update or create articles about ethnic people in Nigeria, etc.
• Disabili-Ties (for working with people with any type of disability)

Planned Activities

• Commemorating the Internal Day of People with Disabilities 2023 (IDPD); Date: December 6th, 2023
• Photo walk and Training and Editathon (1st - 31st January 2024)

Organizing Team

Ismail Atiba

Merit Ibekeme

Ishaku Adamu

Hussayn A