Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
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.svg) Location of Myanmar | |
| Location | Myanmar  |
| Country code | MMR |
| Legal status | voluntary and non-profit organization |
| Approval date | January 23, 2020 |
| Main office | Yangon |
| Official language(s) | Burmese |
| Other language(s) | English Kachin Kayah Karen Chin Mon Rakhine Shan |
| Affiliations | ESEAP |
| Mailing list | wikimedia-mm |
| Myanmar Wikipedia | |
| MWCUG Myanmar Wikipedia | |
Chapters (38)
- CH Wikimedia CH
- GB Wikimedia UK
- KR 위키미디어 한국
- RU Викимедиа РУ
- US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
- CAT Amical Wikimedia
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- H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
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- NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
- NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
- RU-Don Don Wikimedians User Group
- US-NE New England Wikimedians
- WJ WikiJournal
- WK? Whose Knowledge?
Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group (MMR) is a Wikimedia user group for people living in, interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to the neighboring countries and around the world.
Objectives
- Organize outreach program and workshop online or offline to promote Wikimedia projects in Myanmar
- Help people in Myanmar learn how to contribute to Wikimedia projects
- Help minority languages users in Myanmar to setup their own Wikimedia projects
- Gather more Myanmar related data to contribute to Wikimedia projects
Activities
Planned
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Shan Wikipedia at Taunggyi, Shan State in January 2020
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Mon Wikipedia at Mawlamyaing, Mon State in February 2020
- Co-operate with Phandeeyar Accelerator (www.phandeeyar.org) to conduct monthly workshop in Yangon in 2020
- Co-operate with Ministry of Education to start off Wikipedia in Education initiative
- Co-operate with Ministry of Culture to start GLAM-initiative in Myanmar
History
- Organize Myanmar Wikipedia Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009
- Participate at NetMonday event organized by Telenor Myanmar as Main Contributor and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Dagon University, Yangon in 2014
- Participate at similar NetMonday event and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Mandalay University, Mandalay in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Mandalay University, Computer Science Department in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Yangon, Myanmar on October 2018
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Mandalay, Myanmar on November 2019
- Organize Wikipedia Workshop in Taunggyi, Myanmar on March 2020.
- Organize Wikipedia Online Workshop via Zoom on November 2020.
Wikimedia Projects of Languages Spoken in Myanmar
| Language | Projects | Articles | Pages | Edits | Admins | Users | Active Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burmese | Wikipedia | 107,514 | 240,420 | 826,406 | 4 | 119,067 | 137 |
| Wiktionary | 125,054 | 130,302 | 936,413 | 2 | 9,439 | 13 | |
| Shan | Wikipedia | 13,483 | 31,804 | 63,349 | 2 | 4,412 | 15 |
| Wiktionary | 36,351 | 43,079 | 94,409 | 2 | 760 | 12 | |
| Wikivoyage | 175 | 2,000 | 7,546 | 2 | 477 | 8 | |
| Wikibooks | 141 | 4,354 | 10,451 | 2 | 317 | 9 | |
| Mon | Wikipedia | 1,906 | 6,533 | 43,285 | 3 | 3,779 | 12 |
| Wiktionary | 47,596 | 69,370 | 91,110 | 1 | 1,367 | 14 | |
| Pa'O | Wikipedia | 2,640 | 6,975 | 29,134 | 1 | 1,518 | 15 |
| Wiktionary | 2,436 | 3,258 | 10,576 | 1 | 266 | 6 |
Strategy 2021
Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.