Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus

Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
Belarus
Location	Belarus
Country code	BY
Approval date	18 July 2015
Membership	23 (24 April 2019)
Volunteers	3 (24 April 2019)
Official language(s)	Belarusian
Other language(s)	Russian
Key people	Mikhail Volchak, Ruslan Raviaka
Skype	biegSyakszxU
Website	wikimedia.by
Telegram	BrMxyQ665g8yuRwCH3KL3Q
Twitter	https://twitter.com/Wikipedyja
Facebook	1645396869043051

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Chapters (38) AM Wikimedia Armenia AR Wikimedia Argentina AT Wikimedia Österreich AU Wikimedia Australia BD Wikimedia Bangladesh BE Wikimedia Belgium CA Wikimedia Canada CH Wikimedia CH CL Wikimedia Chile CZ Wikimedia Česká republika DE Wikimedia Deutschland DK Wikimedia Danmark EE Wikimedia Eesti ES Wikimedia España FI Wikimedia Suomi FR Wikimédia France GB Wikimedia UK HU Wikimédia Magyarország ID Wikimedia Indonesia IL Wikimedia Israel IN Wikimedia India IT Wikimedia Italia KR Wikimedia Korea MO Wikimedia Macau MX Wikimedia México NL Wikimedia Nederland NO Wikimedia Norge PL Wikimedia Polska PT Wikimedia Portugal RS Викимедија Србије RU Викимедиа РУ SE Wikimedia Sverige TW Wikimedia Taiwan UA Вікімедіа Україна US-DC Wikimedia District of Columbia US-NYC Wikimedia New York City UY Wikimedia Uruguay VE Wikimedia Venezuela ZA Wikimedia South Africa

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Introduction

Vision

The need to take part in international Wikimedia life more actively has ripened now. Therefore it is necessary to be more organised and collaborative. User group can become the first step in Belarusian Wikimedia branch deployment.

Mission

User group unites active Wikimedians from all Belarusian Wikimedia projects and helps involving other Wikimedians in common deals, as well as developing their social impact through the creation and proliferation of free content, and keeping open principles in knowledge management and in self-government.

Aim

To make Belarusian Wikipedians' community life more vibrant through support and promotion of the local culture, the Belarusian language and free knowledge.

Objectives

Goals

• To represent both Belarusian Wikipedias (classical and academic) in international relations.
• To widen media presence and public awareness about Belarusian Wikipedia's community activities.
• To make collaborative projects with other interest groups, social initiatives, NGOs and local communities in Belarus and abroad.
• Last but not least, to support the the creation of a Wikimedia chapter in Belarus.

Strategical task

• To organise and host the regional Eastern-Europe Wikimedia Conference in 2016 (or 2017).

Interested in external activities

• To make mutual wikicamps with other user groups and chapters.
• To build online bridges with Wikimedians from different affiliates.

Recent and Future Activities

Here is you can observe Wikimedia Community Belarus Activity from 2015 until now.

Wiki meetings

• 3 кастрычніка 2015, сустрэча, Беларусь - Wiki Meet-up, 3rd October 2015
• 19th of December 2015 - Reflection year activity
• 19th of March 2016 - Planning wiki expedition and Wiki Spring
• 21th of June 2016 - Second Annual meeting of User Group
• 10th of September, 2016 - Wiki-meet-up (planning and reports)
• 13th of December, 2016 - wiki meet-up: how to write bots.
• 21 of January, 2017 - Topic: Wikipedia and education
• 6th December, 2018 - report at be-tarask-wiki
• 10th of January, 2019 - Wiki-meet-up ([1])
• 7th of February, 2019 - Wiki-meet-up ([2])
• 11th of April, 2019 - Wiki-meet-up ([3])

Community

Founders and participants

• Vasil Kisliak (Da voli), Minsk
• Mikhail Volchak (Mr._Zabej), Мinsk — contact person
• Maksim Lepushenka (Maksim L.), Minsk — contact person
• Raman Patapchuk (Renessaince), Minsk
• Aliaksei Dvaretski (Alaksiej), Minsk
• Volha Sitnik (Хомелка), Minsk
• Sviatlana Yermakovich (Svetit), Minsk
• Tomasz Bladyniec (Bladyniec), Warsaw
• Hanna Baradzina (Hannabaradzina), Hrodna
• Anatolii Kalinin (Artificial123), Minsk
• Ihar Ciareszczanka (Belarus2578), Minsk
• Maksim Liashko (Liashko), Minsk
• Dziana Ivanova (Lady Di~bewiki), Minsk
• Ruslan Raviaka (Raviaka Ruslan), Baranavichy — contact person
• Mark Bernshtein, Minsk
• Kiryl Viarenich (Jarash), Minsk
• Ihar Daronin (Ihar Dorinel), Minsk
• Uladzimir Rusakovich (User:W), Minsk
• Dzianis Kurhan (User:KarlKori), Minsk
• Valiery Blotski (User:Ліцьвін), Minsk
• Andrei Yakauleu (User:DobryBrat), Minsk
• Siarhiey Snapkouski (User:Temra), Minsk
• Vital Stasievich (User:Vit Koz), Hrodna

Voluntary roles

• Communicator (external relationships) - User:Mr._Zabej
• Content manager (update meeting pages)
• Event managers (regular meetups)
• Translator (Interpreter) into English and Belarusian - User:W
• Reporting - User:Da_voli

How to join us

1. You share our principles
2. Add your name and account name to the page in section "Founders and participants"
3. Join us in FB

See also

• Wikimedia Belarus
• It is our incubator page
• There is a page with our activities during 2015 as known as wikification
• Pictures from user group meetup during 2015
• Community area, Belarus