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WikiIndaba Conference 2018/Abdallah Azibert/Report

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Event Name

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WikiIndaba Conference 2018

My Input

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I participated by contributing in the following ways;

Participant Connections

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I met with people from Tanzania User group, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Tunisia, Mali, Nigeria and so many others among them

  • Cornelius Kibelka Who has written 1 article on Wikipedia every day for 100 days. Great!
  • Helmi Hamdi with whom I spoke about Wikidata
  • Yamen Bousrih and Emna Mizouni On planning and setting up a User Group in Chad
  • DIAKITE with who I share experiences about our projects and on the implication of French-speaking countries on Wikimedia projects

Outcome

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As a first time participant to WikiIndaba, it was a big opportunity to connect to others wikimedians and to learn from them

  • I learned more about Wikidata that serves as a central repository for structured data for Wikimedia projects,
  • I learnt more about the process of setting up a user group: requirements...

Wikindaba 2018 is just great! it was effective for networking and sharing experiences.