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How can we strengthen the internal & external bonds of the Wikimedia community

Abstract/description of your session

How can we strengthen the internal & external bonds of the Wikimedia community

How does it connect with the WCI 2023 theme/focus

• Sharing and acquiring key factors to strengthen the community.
• Aims to create discussions that help to strengthen the bonds of the Wikimedia community.
• As a VGLUG community, how we are contributing to the Wikimedia projects and how this is made possible.
• How did we overcome the challenges while building the community?

Speaker name/s or username/s

• Khaleel Jageer
• Hari Priya
• Praba
• Viji
• Karkee

Community/Organization

• VGLUG Foundation
• Tamil Wikimedians Community.

Contact details (optional)

• jskcse4@gmail.com

Language of the session

• Primarily in English. However, we can also interact in Tamil.

Session type

• Panel discussions (45 mins)

Session outcomes

• To discuss and share our knowledge as we work to improve the community.
• How we reach the rural students to contribute to the Wikimedia projects.
• Sharing the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 team effort to develop Wikimedia tech tools.
• How we approach newcomers from academic institutions and new developers to contribute for Wikimedia tech tool development
• Sharing our experience about how we collaborate with photography professionals to contribute to Wikimedia Commons.
• How we promote the importance of the Wikimedia license.
• A decade-long community experience of the VGLUG community

Useful links

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VGLUG_-_Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022_-_VGLUG
• https://vglug.org/2022/05/31/vglug-wikimedia-hackathon-2022/

Support required from organizers

• No

Consent for recording

• Yes