Iraqi Wikimedians

Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
	; Iraq
Location	Iraq
Country code	IQ
Approval date	15 October, 2015
Official language(s)	Arabic
Other language(s)	Kurdish (Sorani

Chapters (39)

Thematic organizations (2)

CAT Amical Wikimedia
WPM Wikimedia Medicine

Wikimedia user groups (133)

ACD AfroCROWD User Group
A+F Art+Feminism User Group
ALB Wikimedia Community User Group Albania
ARE Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
AZ Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
BA-SRP Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska
BAK Wikimedians of Bashkortostan User Group
BAQ Basque Wikimedians User Group
BEN Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
BLT Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
BOL Wikimedistas de Bolivia
BY Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
CEE Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
CHI Wikimedians of Chicago User Group
CMW Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
CI Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
COD Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group
CPH Commons Photographers User Group
DZ Algeria Wikimedians User Group
EC Wikimedians of Ecuador
EG Egypt Wikimedians User Group
ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
ELiSo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
EZY Wikimedians of Erzya language User Group
GB-CYM Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru
GDV Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
GE Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia
GH Wikimedia Ghana User Group
GIN Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry
GMG GLAM Macedonia User Group
GR Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
HDW Hindi Wikimedians User Group
H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
HKG Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong
HTI Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti
IE Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group
IQ Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
IR Iranian Wikimedians User Group
IMD Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
IN-GOA Wikipedians of Goa User Group
IN-KL Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
IN-MR Marathi Wikimedians User Group
IN-Tech Wikimedians of India technical user group
IN-UR Dehalvi Wikimedia Community User Group
JWK Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
KAZ Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group
KWU Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
KVL Karavali Wikimedians User Group
LGBT Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
LEV Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
LSP Les sans pagEs User Group
LV Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
WPL Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
MA Wikimedia MA User Group
MAI Maithili Wikimedians User Group
MAP Wikimaps User Group
MATH Wikimedia Community User Group Math
MK-SK Shared Knowledge
MLA Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia
MLI Wikimedians of Mali User Group
MLT Wikimedia Community User Group Malta
MMR Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
MW-SG MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
MYS Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
NP Wikimedians of Nepal
NG Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
NGA-YO Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
NWR-Hist North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
NZL Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
OFWA Open Foundation West Africa
PAN Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
PARA Para-Wikimedians Community User Group
PER Wikimedians of Peru User Group
PH-WC Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group
LK Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka
ODW Odia Wikimedians User Group
ROU-MDA Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
RU-Don Don Wikimedians User Group
RU-NC Wikipedians of North Caucasus User Group
RU-SPB Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group
SAT Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
STE Wikimedia Stewards User Group
SQ Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
SUD Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
SVK Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group
SVN Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
TAT Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group
TCD Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad
TN Wikimedia TN User Group
TR Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
TRK Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
TWG Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
TZA Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
TZM Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
UGA Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
US-CAS Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
US-CO Wikimedians of Colorado User Group
US-GAP Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
US-LA Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group
US-MN Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group
US-NCT North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group
US-NE New England Wikimedians
US-OH Ohio Wikimedians User Group
US-SAN San Diego Wikimedians User Group
VNM Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
WAL Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group
WAM Wikipedia Asian Month User Group
WB Wikibase Community User Group
WBL WikiBlind User Group
WBG West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
WC Wiki Cemeteries User Group
WCS WikiClassics User Group
WDG WikiDonne User Group
W&E Wikipedia & Education User Group
WGR Wikigrannies User Group
WGU Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
WIS Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
WJ WikiJournal
WK? Whose Knowledge?
WREN Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
WMB Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil
WNA WikiConference North America
WNAIL Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group
WOW Wikimedians for offline wikis
WSC Wikisource Community User Group
WSD Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
WT Wikitongues User Group
WTL WikiToLearn User Group
WW WikiWomen's User Group
WWH Wiki World Heritage User Group
WUL Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
WDU Wikimedistas de Uruguay
DWU Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
AWUG Arabic Wikimedians User Group

Iraqi Wikimedians is a Wikimedian user group that has the goal of supporting Wikimedia projects in Iraq, supporting Iraqi Wikimedians, and becoming the recognized user group in Iraq in October 2015.^[1]

Objectives[edit]

To have a recognized entity in Iraq to lead the projects in a proper way.
To have a proper place to gather all Wikipedians in Iraq.
To have a base that can control the upcoming Wikipedia Education Program in Iraq.

Activities[edit]

Launching the Wikipedia Education Program for the first time in Iraq.
Supervising the Wiki Loves Monuments contest in Iraq.
Monthly and quarterly meetings in order to increase the Wiki culture in Iraq.
Editathons and workshops to teach people how to edit Wikipedia.
Contacting Libraries and Museums in order to make an effective contribution in GLAM.

History[edit]

Successfully finished 3 workshops in Erbil to teach people about Wikipedia and how to edit it.
ِAbout to distribute flyers regarding Wikipedia and how important it is in both languages Arabic and Kurdish.
Started already the process of beginning the first WEP in Iraq.

Contact information[edit]

Sarmad Yaseen (Erbil).
Mahmood Al-Rawi (Baghdad).
Omar Alyahya (Basrah).

Interested in participating[edit]

Resolutions[edit]

Recognition Iraqi Wikimedians User Group - October 2015

Link shttps:lists.wikimedia.org mailman listinfo wikimedia-iq mailing list.

↑ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/642438

[1] ttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/642438

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