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Fulfulde Wikimedia Community User Group

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Welcome to
Fulfulde Wikimedia Community User Group

The Fulfulde Wikimedia Community User Group is a community of Wikimedia volunteers who work around Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons etc. to expand free knowledge in Fulfulde language. The community helps various periodic activities to enrich Wikimedia projects and spread free knowledge such as outreach and advocacy campaigns, documentaries, edit-a-thons and training workshops, data-a-thons etc. The group is open for partnerships and membership to all individuals interested in advocating and spreading free knowledge.

Objectives

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  1. Organizing workshops and edit-a-thons to engage local Wikimedians
  2. Developing educational resources for Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde language
  3. Collaborating with local universities and libraries to promote Wikimedia content.

Activities

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  • Regular meetings (online and in person): the community of this user group will be organizing regular meet-ups for its members in order to share ideas and to find ways to support them to continue editing the Wikimedia projects in areas where they would need help. Such meetings will help the community to work in a more coordinated way and also help to quickly deal with any problems that may exist in the community. At these meetings, the community sets goals and plans various activities.
  • Editing contests and thematic weeks: the group will be organizing editing contests to encourage existing regular editors to keep editing Wikimedia projects and also encourage non-members/users to join.
  • Training Workshops/Editathons: to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to create, translate and improve content in all Wikimedia projects or work on and develop a certain topic which will in return promote the project.
  • Photowalk Trips and Contests: the group will also organize trips and contests to encourage users to upload and document files to commons which will be used in all Wikimedia projects.
  • Cooperation: as Fulfulde Wikimedia UG, it is part of our main goals to cooperate with various organizations (institutions, NGOs & etc.) and government structures in conducting joint projects. The Fulfulde UG thinks cooperating with everyone for the development of Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde is very important.
  • Lectures: at various educational institutes and organizations are an important part of our work, since such events give us the opportunity to familiarize the public with Wikimedia projects and its importance. At such events, we also talk about the importance of free knowledge and its promotion on a free platform under a free license.
  • WikiCamps: are educational camps, the main goal of which is the education of participants through Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Commons and other Wikimedia projects. During WikiCamps young people acquire skills in Wikimedia projects. The main goal of the camp, to attract more young people (and not only) to work in Wikimedia projects.
  • Conference: is annual forum dedicated to the development of Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde, as well as issues related to knowledge creation and dissemination.

Past and recent activities

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Selected Photos from Outreach Events and Campaigns

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Selected Photos from Wikimania 2022 In person Event

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Description of event Project Period Remarks
Wiki Loves Africa 2023:Climate and Weather in North Eastern Nigeria Commons 25 April 2023 Completed
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Capacity Building and Thematic Weeks Fulfulde Wikipedia 30 April 2023 Completed
Community Members Physical Meetup to Generate 2000 Fulfulde Recorded Words and Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata Wikidata, Commons 27 August 2022 Completed
Fulfulde Wikipedia Articles Cleanup and Edit-a-thon Fulfulde Wikipedia 13 July 2022 Completed
Building of Fulfulde Wikipedia Community and Awareness Campaign in Potiskum Fulfulde Wikipedia 3 March 2022 Completed

Upcoming activities

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Following are the activities we will carry out in the next few months:

Description of event Period
Thematic Weeks/Editathons January - February 2025
Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Photo Contest March - April 2025
Wikipedia Articles Cleanup Contests May - June 2025
Wiki Loves Folklore Contest July - August 2025

Members

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  1. Musaddam Idriss
  2. Ibrahim442
  3. Aisha Harande
  4. Ahmerd Adam
  5. Fa'izah Alhaji Isa
  6. Mamman AA
  7. Awwerl
  8. Isa Harande (talk)
  9. Zarerh
  10. Zaynab05
  11. Adamu ab
  12. MOIBARDE
  13. Sa'eedert
  14. Hajjare
  15. Adam644
  16. Ilya Discuss
  17. Zahraswaty
  18. Awwerl

Contact Information

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  • Use the Discussions page for any enquiry or email us @: fulfuldewikimediansusergroup@gmail.com

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Contact Persons

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