Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

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Gungbe Wikimedians User Group is a user-group dedicated to promoting Wikimedia projects in Gungbe (or Gun language). The Gun language is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Ogu people in Nigeria and Benin Republic. The group is open to membership by all interested individuals.

Objectives[edit]

Gungbe Wikipedia Promotion Video
  • To increase the visibility of Gungbe language on the internet.
  • To promote awareness of Wikimedia projects related to Gungbe language in Nigeria and Benin.
  • To establish the development of Wikimedia projects in Gungbe language via the Wikimedia Incubator, and nurture them to become full projects.
  • To promote editing of Wikimedia projects in Gungbe language by organizing events and activities, and recruiting new editors.
  • To promote the development of structured data among Gungbe language editors by utilizing Wikidata.
  • To equip editors of projects in Gungbe language with the skill and ability for the continuous development of Wikimedia projects.

Activities[edit]

This user group plans to hold and support the following activities:

  • Meetings: the user group will be organising meet-ups for its members in order to exchange ideas and to find ways to support them to continue editing the projects in areas where they would need help.
  • Trainings/Edit-a-thons: to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to create, translate and improve content in all Wikimedia projects or work on and develop a certain topic which will in return promote the project.
  • Editing contests: the group will be organizing editing contests to encourage existing regular editors to keep editing Wikimedia projects and also encourage non-members/users to join.
  • Photographic Contest and Trips: the group will also organise trips and contests to encourage users to upload and document files to commons which will be used in all Wikimedia projects.

Recent activities[edit]

Activity Description Timeline Type
WikiActivate Gungbe Meetup followed by Training/Edit-a-thon to Create and improve contents/articles on Gungbe Wikipedia in Incubator 20 Aug 2021 - 30 Sep 2021 Physical/Virtual


Ongoing planned activities[edit]

Activity Description Timeline Type
Meeting/Translate-a-thon Meetup followed by Translate-a-thon to Create and improve contents/articles on Gungbe Wikipedia in Incubator 1 Dec 2021 - 21 Dec 2021 Physical/Virtual
Gungbe on Translatewiki Meetup followed by editathon to translate 500 gungbe phrases on translatewiki.net 8 Jan 2022 - 12 Jan 2022 Physical/Virtual


Future activities[edit]

Activity Description Timeline Type
Gungbe lexeme on Wikidata Training/Edithaton on adding gungbe lexeme on Wikidata To be determined Physical/Virtual
Gungbe labels on Wikidata Training/Edithaton on adding gungbe labels on Wikidata To be determined Physical/Virtual

Approved projects[edit]

  1. Gungbe Wikinews (created on April 20, 2023)
  2. Gungbe Wikiquote (created on January 4, 2023)
  3. Gungbe Wiktionary (created on August 19, 2022)
  4. Gungbe Wikipedia (created on March 23, 2022)

Annual reports[edit]

Contact information[edit]

Primary Contact

Members[edit]

Simply typing four tildes (~), like this: ~~~~ below the numbered list, will automatically generate your signature and date stamp. You are encoraged to sign-up and be a member or send a quick mail to gungbewikimedians@gmail.com

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Affiliations Committee Resolutions[edit]

Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

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