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Wikimedia UG Georgia
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Georgia
Location Georgia
Country codeGE
Legal statusNon-Entrepreneurial (Non-Commercial) Legal Entity
Founding dateFebruary 16, 2015
Approval dateFebruary 22, 2015
ExtinctionSeptember 5, 2025 (became a chapter)
Official language(s)Georgian
Other language(s)
ReportsReports page
Affiliations
Websitewikimedia.ge
ge.wikimedia.org
E-mail addressinfo(_AT_)wikimedia.ge
Mailing listwiki(_AT_)wikimedia.ge
Twitter@wikimedia_ge
@georgianwiki
Facebook@wikimedia.ge
@georgianwikipedia
Instagram@georgianwiki
YouTube@wikimedia_ge
Chapters (40)
Thematic organizations (2)
Wikimedia user groups (143)

Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia (Georgian: ვიკიმედიის მომხმარებელთა საქართველოს ჯგუფი), also UG-GE or Wikimedia UG Georgia, was an officially registered non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity that represented the Wikimedia Foundation User Group between 2015 and 2025. It was created by active Wikimedia contributors living in Georgia, who were interested in organizing and participating in outreach activities at a national level. The group aimed to promote and engage in projects initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as to organize the local Wikimedia community in Georgia. One of its core missions was to aid and encourage individuals in collecting, developing, and disseminating knowledge—as well as other educational, cultural, and historical content—in the public domain or under licenses that permitted free use, distribution, and modification by anyone.

Goals

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To set up a physical body as an official User Group of Wikimedians living in Georgia with the following objectives:

  • Promote awareness of the Georgian Wikimedia projects;
  • Engage the community and gain new contributors for the User Group and Wikimedia projects;
  • Cooperate with other institutions with similar missions and visions to promote free knowledge movement in Georgia;
  • Legalization of FoP in Georgia;
  • Work on the formation of Wikimedia Georgia chapter;
  • Increase content about Georgia in Commons.

Activities

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Wikimedia UG Georgia conducts various activities to popularize the Wikimedia movement in Georgia, as well as to develop Wikimedia projects in Georgian language. Some of the activities are:

  1. Regular meetings of members of the Wikimedia UG Georgia, members of the Wikimedia UG Georgia Board and editors of the Georgian Wikipedia. Such meetings help the community to work in a more coordinated way. Also, such meetings help to quickly deal with any problems that exist in the community. At these meetings, the community sets goals and plans various activities.
  2. Training on Wiki technology and work on Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata and etc.). Trainings are held for different people and organizations, for teachers, lecturers, students, interested persons, for representatives of different organizations (non-governmental and government institutions). The trainings are conducted by the representatives of the Wikimedia UG Georgia and the editors of the Georgian Wikipedia.
  3. Cooperation with various organizations (NGO & etc.) and government structures are our main goals. We are trying to cooperate with all the structures, conducting joint projects. It is very important for us to cooperate with everyone for the development of Wikimedia projects in Georgia.
  4. Lectures at various educational institutes and organizations are an important part of our work, since such events give us the opportunity to familiarize the public with Wikimedia projects and its importance. At such events, we also talk about the importance of free knowledge and its promotion on a free platform under a free license.
  5. Workshops is a brief intensive course of education for a small group, aimed at teaching newcomers the basics of editing Wikimedia projects. These workshops are also designed for experienced editors who can take on new skills during these sessions. Wikimedia UG Georgia organizes such workshops for everyone.
  6. Editathons and the open competition proved to be one of the best ways to lessen content gaps that are identified, bring new content on specific topic and new editors into Wikimedia projects.
  7. WikiCamps are educational camps, the main goal of which is the education of participants through Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Commons and other Wikimedia projects. During WikiCamps young people, to acquire skills in Wikimedia projects. Young people will study the wiki-technology and then under the supervision of experienced WikiMedians will independently create and translate articles in Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. The main goal of the camp, to attract more young people (and not only) to work in Wikimedia projects.
  8. Conference is annual forum dedicated to the development of Wikimedia projects in Georgia, as well as issues related to knowledge creation and dissemination.

Join Us

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If you want to join us and together with us, on a volunteer basis, develop and improve Wikimedia projects, please click below on the joining button, sign and become a volunteer of our User Group.

On this page you can find a complete list of our volunteers.

Click here and JOIN US

Membership

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Wikimedia UG Georgia is an open membership Organization, so anyone who meets the requirements of UG can become a member of our Organization. To become a member of UG click here.

Annual reports

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Wikimedia UG Georgia, as a responsible organization and part of the Wikimedia movement, annually presents a report (Activity and Financial) with its activities to community. The reports are given by years and are available both on the Meta-Wiki and on the official administrative site of Wikimedia UG Georgia. Please check out our reports on the Meta-Wiki or on the Wikimedia GE site.

Participation in regional and global Wikimedia events

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  • Wikimedia Summit
    Wikimedia Summit
  • Wikimedia CEE Meeting
    Wikimedia CEE Meeting
  • Wikimania
    Wikimania

Projects

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  • Georgian WikiConference 2018 in Tbilisi
    Georgian WikiConference 2018 in Tbilisi
  • WikiCamps
    WikiCamps
  • Wiki Loves Monuments in Georgia (since 2016)
    Wiki Loves Monuments in Georgia (since 2016)
  • Wiki Loves Earth in Georgia (since 2017)
    Wiki Loves Earth in Georgia (since 2017)
  • Wikipedia Asian Month (since 2016)
    Wikipedia Asian Month (since 2016)
  • CEE Spring (since 2015)
    CEE Spring (since 2015)
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