Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania/Annual Report 2020/2021

INTRODUCTION

Wikimedia Tanzania community has been growing for the year 2020/2021 interms of number of its members and the level of interaction with the Wikimedia community around the globe. The year 2020/2021 has been a great year, despite of challenging moments associated with COVID-19, Wikimedia Tanzania members did their best do actively participate in Wikimedia movemnet activities. We deeply thank the Wikimedia Foundation for their incredible support and considerations during the pandemic season as it worked hard to come up with timely decisions, instructions as well as innovative ways of engaging Wikimedians in Wikimedia movement while at the same trying its best to keep its volunteers safe from the pandemic, thats much appreciated. Therefore, this report highlights the key activities that happened within the community and by which the community members had some level of involvement.

ACTIVITIES DONE BY WIKIMEDIA TANZANIA FOR THE YEAR 2020/2021

Duration	Activity/Project	What was about	Link(s)	Team/Facilitator
Feb-Sept 2021	UNIVERSAL CODE OF CONDUCT (UCoC)	Our community participated actively in a community consultation program which focused on providing their opinions on how UCoC should be like. Moreover, one of the community members (user:Jadnapac) worked with WMF as a contractor (user:AMtavangu (WMF)facilitating the UCoC discussions for the Swahili community and facilitating community consultations to small Wikis.	UCoC Report	Jadnapac
1 June - 5 July 2020	Visibility Project- East Africa	The Visibility Project for East Africa is one of our drives to improve the visibility of African Women and increase the number of female contributors on Wikipedia. The project focused on a month-long Wikipedia training for women journalists in East Africa. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visibility_Project/East_Africa	Visibility Project- East Africa	Olaniyan Olushola & Jadnapac (Antoni Mtavangu — Mentor)
August 2020	Wikipedia pages Wanting Photos Tanzania (#WPWPTZ)	This was part of the WPWP global campaign that helped to improve Swahili and English articles that lacked photos by adding photos to articles that hadno photos. Many Wikipedia pages in both Wikipedia ya Kiswahili and English Wikipedia lack the corresponding photos.The photos were either taken from Wikimedia commons, or directly uploaded by the volunteers themselves in case where the particular photo weren’t available on Wikimedia commons. The volunteers were urhed to use #WPWP and #WPWPTZ hashtags to the edit summary sections before they published their changes.
02nd-29th December 2020	AfroCuration December 2020	This was a 5-day editing competition between 7th and 18th December 2020 with a training event for participants on the Saturday of the weekend before the official editathon commencement. Participants were allowed to choose articles. The prize categories are best quality article and most number of edits. Winners received recognition of a dedicated post on Moleskine Foundation pages displaying a short story about them and their achievement across Moleskine Foundation social media channels as part of the global campaign.	AfroCuration December 2020	Facilitators: Shahadusadik, Papa Baiden Jadnapac, Dumbassman, Masssly
November (21/22) and December (5/6) 2020	Global Conversations	Our community members actively participated in both locally and  into Movement global discussions in which together with the  Wikimedia communities on a global level were interacted to prioritize initiatives from the movement strategy recommendations for the upcoming 18 months. Wikimedia had atleast two local discussions one was held before the Global discussions to prioritize the recommendations and initiatives, as well atleast one main event was organized with the support of WMF to do a follow up discussions towards implementation of the strategic priorities (locally and globally). During the global conversayions, one of our community member (user:Jadnapac) was invited to facilitate one of the global discussions session (CLUSTER F)	Global Conversations , CLUSTER F summary	Antoni Mtavangu
March 01st  to April 15th 2021	Feminism and Folklore 2021 in Tanzania	Feminism and Folklore 2021 in Tanzania was part of an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to document folk cultures and women in folklore in different regions of the world on Swahili Wikipedia. This project contest had local prizes and ran for a one month long period from 1st March to 15th April 2021.	Feminism and Folklore 2021 in Tanzania	Facilitators: Jadnapac, Paelmand, Pellagia Njau, Czeus25 Masele
March01st to April15th 2021	Told Cities 2021 Project in Tanzania	Told Cities 2021 in Tanzania project was both an online and in person program that aims to create,edit and improve content about the Tanzanian heritage buildings and museums that are recognized by UNESCO on Swahili Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Wikidata. This project is subdivided into two parts, the article writing contest and a Photo contest. In both cases the main theme is about documenting the Tanzanian old buildings that are recognized by UNESCO as world heritage buildings. Many of these buildings are found in Zanzibar and few in other parts of Tanzania. The targeted impact of this project is to increase the heritage related topics in Swahili Wikipedia so that Swahili community may benefit from reading the Wikipedia content in their native language.	Told Cities 2021 Project in Tanzania	Jadnapac, Eid John
March 21-22, 2021	Wikipedia Editing at Alfagems Secondary School	This is the editathon that was focused on teaching Alfagems Secondary School Students on how to edit Wikipedia by creating stub articles on Tanzanian wards that aren't on Swahili Wikipedia	Wikipedia Editing at Alfagems Secondary School	Jadnapac & Kipala
April 12th to May 31st 2021	WikiAfrica Education-Bursary Students-Wikipedia Training	WikiAfrica Education was an itiative that aimed at inspiring a new generation of African creative thinkers and doers by increasing production, access, and awareness of contextually and linguistically relevant knowledge resources from Africa.The Fondazione, in partnership with Moleskine Foundation, manages the common project WikiAfrica Education for bursary students with the aim of engaging African language speakers present in higher education (and other interested participants) to increase production of knowledge about Africa on Wikipedia.Both Moleskine Foundation and Fondazione Aurora works in partnership with Wikimedia Tanzania as its Trainer and Facilitator for this program.	WikiAfrica Education-Bursary Students-Wikipedia Training	Jadnapac

PARTICIPATION AT EAST AFRICA REGION LEVEL

• Wikimedia Tanzania has been actively participating in collaborating with its fellow community members from east Africa and Neighboring countries to bring unity interms of working together to implement WMF related projects. One of the key success is that we have helped in establishing a good relationship an communication between the communites in the region. In July 2021 we organized Wikimania pre conference that was expected to happen in Tanzania (under Wikimania Scholarship-it didn't happen), however we were advised by the Conferences team to apply similar projects in future under the Conference grants. Hence we are looking forward to collaborate with our nearby affiliates to bring the sense of Regional hub collaboration.
• Currently we were allowed to still apply for our fellow community members who want to attend Wikimania 2021 virtually, we have already applied for the scholarship after the interested communities within East Africa region and neighboring countries sent us their budgets.
• Moreover, we have been working closely to support other communities (who seeked)/seeking our support in different ways such as capacity building. Also Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda has been taking a lead to propel the discussions around East Africa priorities and Regional hub discussions.

CONCLUSIONː

• Wikimedia Tanzania is still working to expand more the level of its participation on Wikimedia Foundation projects, one of the ongoing plan is shifting from raoid grants to Annual pla grants so that more activities can be organized and the level of peoples participation can increase.
• We sincerly that the Wikimedia Foundation altogether with its staff members for being such supportive and helpful towards bringing the achievements indicated above.
• Wikimedia Tanzania thanks all other Wiki communities and Individuals who worked closely and actively to ensure the Wikimedia Movent thrives forward. Hence we use this chance to invite more communities to collaborate with us in other activities that are coming in future.