Kurdish Wikimedians User Group

Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
Founding date	August 2, 2020
Official language(s)	Kurdish
Other language(s)	Northern Kurdish; Central Kurdish; Zaza; Southern Kurdish; Gurani;
Key people	Leaders Hüseyin; Mohammed Sardar;

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Chapters (40)

Thematic organizations (2)

CAT Amical Wikimedia
WPM Wikimedia Medicine

Wikimedia user groups (143)

A+F Art+Feminism User Group
ACD AfroCROWD User Group
ALB Wikimedia Community User Group Albania
ARE Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
AWUG Arabic Wikimedians User Group
AZ Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
BA-SRP Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska
BAQ Basque Wikimedians User Group
BDI Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
BEN Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
BFA Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group
BLT Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
BOL Wikimedistas de Bolivia
BWA Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
BY Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
CEE Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
CI Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
CMW Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
COD Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group
COG Wikimedians of Republic of Congo User Group
CPH Commons Photographers User Group
CYP Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus
DCW Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
DWU Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
DZ Algeria Wikimedians User Group
ECU Wikimedistas de Ecuador
EG Egypt Wikimedians User Group
ELiSo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
GDV Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
GH Wikimedia Ghana User Group
GIN Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry
GR Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
GUC Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group
GWU Gungbe Wikimedians User Group
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
IMD Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
INA Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group
IN-KL Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
IN-MR Marathi Wikimedians User Group
IN-TE Telugu Wikimedians User Group
IQ Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
IR Iranian Wikimedians User Group
JPN Wikimedians of Japan User Group
JWK Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
KAS Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
KAZ Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group
KVL Karavali Wikimedians User Group
KWU Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
LAG Wikimedians of Lagos User Group
LEV Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
LGBT Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
LSP Les sans pagEs User Group
LV Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
MA Wikimedia MA User Group
MAI Maithili Wikimedians User Group
MATH Wikimedia Community User Group Math
MDG Wikimedia Community User Group Madagascar
MKD Wikimedia MKD User Group
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
NAM Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia
NER Wikimedia Community User Group Niger
NG Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
NGA-YO Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
NP Wikimedians of Nepal
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
PER Wikimedians of Peru User Group
PH-ADV Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
PH-WC Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group
PWU Paiwan Wikimedians User Group
LK Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka
ODW Odia Wikimedians User Group
ROU-MDA Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
RWA Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda
SAT Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
SEN Wikimedia Community User Group Sénégal
SGP Wikimedians of Singapore User Group
SQ Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
SSA Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan
STE Wikimedia Stewards User Group
SUD Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
SVK Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group
SVN Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
TCD Wikimedians of Tchad User Group
TGO Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group
TJK Tajik Wikimedians User Group
TN Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
TR Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
TRK Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
TWG Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
TWU Tyap Wikimedians Proposed 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-GAP Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
US-IN Wikimedians of Indiana 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
WBG West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
WCK Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
WCS WikiClassics User Group
WDG WikiDonne User Group
WDU Wikimedistas de Uruguay
W&E Wikipedia & Education User Group
WGU Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
WIR Women in Religion Wikimedia User Group
WIS Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
WJ WikiJournal
WK? Whose Knowledge?
WPL Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
WNA WikiConference North America
WOW Wikimedians for offline wikis
WREN Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
WSC Wikisource Community User Group
WSD Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
WSP Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish User Group
WT Wikitongues User Group
WUL Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
WW WikiWomen's User Group
WWH Wiki World Heritage User Group
ZMB Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia

Kurdish Wikimedians User Group is a group dedicated to promoting Kurdish culture and language across the world. Active contributors of Kurdish Wikimedia projects form it. It aims to increase the number of quality content in Kurdish.

Objectives

Help the world to get to know more about the Kurds;
Promote and encourage use of Kurdish on all Wikimedia projects;
Enable all Kurdish languages and dialects on Wikimedia projects to help them preserve and flourish;
Increase in number and quality of articles;
Spread and promote the idea of being a Wikian among the Kurdish people through online activities and physical outreach in schools, universities, institutes, libraries, and more;
Organize and facilitate collaboration among the members of the Kurdish Wikimedia projects, such as Wiktionary and Wikipedias of Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zazaki;
To promote peace and harmony.

Activities

Regular meetings (online and in person);
Workshops;
Contests;
Edithatons;
GLAM projects.

Current & Upcoming events

GLAM project with Zheen Center (see: Zheen Glam Project)

Planned events & activities

An online workshop for medical students from University of Kurdistan Hewler (November 3, 2020) - Done
To use Social Media to encourage people to use, edit Kurdish Wikipedias (Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zazaki) and other Wikimedia projects - Done.
Attended a Rudaw Radio program for celebrating 20th Anniversary of Wikipedia (Facebook and Youtube links)
A seminar about contributing Wikipedia for Salahaddin University-Erbil lecturers (April 25, 2021) - Done
One Featured Articles per a Month - (Continuous)
Kurdish Visibility on Wikimedia (project page coming soon)
Video tutorials in Kurdish about using Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects (Project page coming soon)
Translating Wikimedia related pages into Kurdish such as (Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections, Movement Charter Drafting Committee Elections and WPWP21)
Encourage Kurdish editors to participate in global contests such as (Wiki Loves Folklore 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2020, WikiGap Challenge 2021, Wiki Loves Sport 2021, and WikiForHumanRights 2021) - Done

Reports

Join Us!

Any contributor to one of the Kurdish Wikimedia projects can become a member. If you want to join us and become a member, please get in touch with us via email. You can find contact info in the section right below. Or click the "Joins us" button below.

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Contact information

You can connect with us in the talk page of this page, or by email to the sysops at kurdishwikimediansgroupgmailcom. We are also active on the Twitter and Instagram groups and pages.