WikiIndaba Conference 2018/Abdallah Azibert/Report

Event Name

WikiIndaba Conference 2018

My Input

I participated by contributing in the following ways;

• Wiki Loves Africa, now and beyond
• User Group Application Process - Before and After

Participant Connections

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

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.