The Igbo Wikimedians community started the 2025 Fiscal year with a General Meet-up for 2025. Other 2025 activities are summarized below.

ACTIVITIES

Igbo Wikimedia User Group General Meeting 2025 - 25/01/2025

The Igbo Wikimedia User Group General Meeting 2025 took place on January 25, 2025, with the primary goal of planning the way forward for the community in the year 2025. Event page

Meeting Details

Saturday 25th January 2025
Venue: Online
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm (WAT)

IWUG WEBINARS

Igbo Wikimedians User Group and CapX Tool Outreach

The Igbo Wikimedians User Group in partnership with the CapX Community is organizing an online outreach session focused on the CapX Tool, a platform developed by and for the Wikimedia Movement. This session aims to educate community members on how to effectively utilize the CapX Tool to connect with peers, share skills, and collaborate on Wikimedia-related projects.

Meeting Details:

Date: Wednesday 26, March 2025
Time: 6pm WAT
Recordings Watch here
Resources: Presentation slide

IG Conference Experience Sharing Session - 28/02/2025

The IG Conference Experience Sharing Session engaged IG community members to share insights, experiences, and lessons learned from attending both local and international Wikimedia conferences, fostering knowledge exchange and community growth.

Meeting Details

Friday 28th February 2025
Venue: Online
Time: 5pm - 7:00pm (WAT)

72 Hours Virtual Marathon Edit-a-thon - 11-14/04/2025

This project from April 11 - April 14, 2025 was strictly focused on clearing the backlog of articles with reference issues, broken links, and also strengthened localization efforts on translatewiki. Nearly 800 articles with reference errors were fixed, over 400 articles with broken or dead links were repaired, and significant progress was made on translatewiki. See event page, dashboard and diff blog post for more details.

IG Capacity Building and Training- 01/05/2025

The IG capacity building and training session was organized to support community members seeking to learn or improve in event organizing, project management, language tools and translation ethics.

Meeting Details:

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM WAT
Recordings: Watch here
Resources: Presentation slide

Wikifunctions Deployment on Igbo Wiktionary - 22/05/2025

The Igbo Wikimedians User Group had a call with a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikifunctions team to discuss and carry out a demo for the deployment of the Wikifunction to the Igbo Wiktionary.

Meeting Details:

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM WAT
Recordings: Watch here
Resources: Presentation slide

IWUG 2025 1ST QUARTER MICRO-GRANT REPORT

To Grantees: Submit your report below.

Increasing visibility of Nigerian secondary schools on wikidata - 25/04/2025

This project seeks to enhance the online presence of Nigerian secondary schools by adding structured and verifiable data about them to Wikidata. By documenting key information, such as school names, locations, and founding dates, the project aims to improve data accessibility, support educational research, and promote digital visibility for schools across Nigeria. It encourages community participation and fosters a sustainable approach to maintaining accurate school-related data online. We had an online training on 25th of April 2025. many participants joined during the training section. they were exposed more on how to search for already existing items on wikidata, how to create items,how to update and improve already existing items on wikidata. Data reimbursement were given to 20 participants after the online training. We had 7 days edit-a thon section from 25th-2nd May 2025. At the end of the project 4 participants were selected as the winners all the gifts vouchers were sent out to their respective locations.The project significantly improved public access to information, with over 253 wikidata items across Nigerian secondary schools being created and updated with geo-location on Wikidata. The initiative fostered active community participation, with more than 39 editors contributing updates and improving to the data. The project's purpose and objectives were fully achieved.

Event facilitator: User:Rose ugwoke
Event Co-facilitator: User:Accuratecy051

Below are the links to Event page and dashboard

Event page
And the Dashboard

Wiki for Catholic Youths - 27/04/2025

Being a project in collaboration with Catholic youths in Awka, this event happened physically in Awka, Anambra state on the 27th of April 2025. It continued with an Edit-a-thon that ran through the week and ended on the 4th of May 2025. It recorded tremendous achievements with a total of 28 registered participant, 20 of them being new youth volunteers. A total of of 82 new article was created on the Igbo Wikipedia, with 124 resources edited. below are resources for your kind perusal;

Ig Wiki Club FGBC

Igbo Wikiquote Clean Up - 04/05/2025

The Igbo Wikiquote Cleanup Project was organized to enhance the quality of Igbo Wikiquote pages by introducing structure and consistency to existing entries. The initiative began with awareness campaigns across multiple Wikimedia WhatsApp groups, followed by an onboarding and training session on 4 May 2025, which I coordinated, with User:Bridget2023 serving as the lead trainer.

As part of the project, we conducted a week-long cleanup contest, prioritizing pages related to living people and women. The project was a success, surpassing expectations with 160 total edits and 131 pages improved. below are resources for your kind perusal;

Nigerian Legislators Translation Project - 10-24/05/2025

The Nigerian Legislators Translation Project was a collaboration between the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Imo State University and the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Alvan. It was aimed at improving the availability of information on Nigerian lawmakers by translating their biography articles from English to Igbo language. The project ran from May 10 – May 24, 2025. For more details, see event page and dashboard.

Enhancing Oral Health Information Accessibility in Nigeria through Wikidata Expansion and Igbo Language Localization - 20/05/2025

Oral health is an essential component of overall well-being that is often overlooked, This project aims to leverage World Oral Health Day to significantly expand the representation of Nigerian dental professionals and facilities on Wikidata. Through a focused edit-a-thon, we will create new Wikidata items, enriching existing data, and translate item descriptions into the Igbo language. This initiative directly addresses the critical need for improved access to health information in Nigeria while simultaneously supporting the Wikimedia 2030 strategic direction of knowledge equity and language diversity. In Addition, World Oral Health Day 2025 is observed on 20 March. Event Highlights

✅ Over 20 passionate participants in attendance ✅ More than 900 meaningful edits made to Wikidata items related to oral health ✅ Health lecture on the importance of oral hygiene

The event successfully advanced our goal of making oral health information more accessible to the public in Nigeria — especially in the Igbo language. This is a step forward in bridging health knowledge gaps through open access platforms like Wikidata and Wikipedia. For more details visit... event page & dashboard