Wikimedia MA User Group/2023
This page lists the projects and plans of Wikimedia Morocco User Group in 2023. The projects include online and offline activities of different types such as editing and writing, bots and technical development and maintenance, conferences, documentation with photos, audio recordings and videos, etc.
Coordinator: Rachid
General goals:
- Strategic partnerships / Concluded cooperation agreements or memoranda of understanding: ? / 2
- Edits-a-thon participants: ? / 50
- Participants in contests - Editors: 225 / 100
- Contributors in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons: ? / 175 editors
- Organizers, Wikimedia MA user group members organizing events and leading projects: ? / 10
Reading Wikipedia in the classroom (3rd edition)[edit]
- Scope: Educational institutions in Morocco
Members[edit]
- Mounir Neddi (contact person)
Goals[edit]
Concrete goal achievement[edit]
- Trained teachers: ? / 300
- in-person: ? / 80
- online: ? / 220
- Certified teachers: 150
- online: ? / 100
- in-person: ? / 50
- New Certified trainers: ? / 2
- Number of teachers who used Wikimedia projects in their course plan: ? / 70
- Number of new volunteers remaining active after in-person events: ? / 10 (active meaning have at least 10 edits per month or become offline organizers)
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
Planned[edit]
Technical project[edit]
- Scope: Wikipedia (arywiki, shiwiki), Wikidata, Incubator for ary Wiktionary, Toolforge
Members[edit]
- Mounir Afifi (contact person)
- Zakaria
- Hachem
- Abdelilah
Goals[edit]
Improve technical aspects of Morocco-related Wiki projects so as to:
- Improve quality of content
- Increase the quantity, especially the number of articles/items on arywiki, shiwiki, and Wikidata, in such a way as to provide the greatest value to readers
- Assist editors on Wikipedia, and free them to focus on meaningful tasks
- Improve code quality and efficiency
Concrete Goal completion[edit]
- Bot tasks / Developed on Wikipedia in Darija and Tachelhit: 35 (16 to improve and 19 to be added)
- Darija: 12 improved, 14 added
- Tashelhit: 2 improved, 5 added
- Total: 14/16 improved, 19/19 added
- Bot / Developed on Wikipedia in Darija +2/+1 (4 in total)
- AmgharBot, developed and opearting
- Sa7bot, in development
- Bot / Developed on Wikipedia in Tachelhit +2/+1 (2 in total)
- Amazigh Bot, developed and opearting
- Botfunast, developed and opearting
- Percentage of quality articles in Darija Wikipedia (>3000 Kb, with picture, at least 1 reference): Goal 30%; goal tracking with a special category distributed with a bot task
- Last check: 30%
- 1000 automated articles in Wikipedia Darija
- 2555/1000
- 1000 items in Wikidata
- ?/1000
- 500 entries in Wiktionary/Wikimedia Incubator [Bonus: Darija Wiktionary goes live]
- ?/500
- 3 people trained to develop their own bots or bot tasks on a variety of projects (arywiki, shiwiki, zghwiki, Wikidata, and Wiktionary)
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- First meeting of the team (8 meetings completed so far)
- Sending relevant links to tools and tutorials to members
- Setting up a Kanban board on Jira for the team
- Choosing the time frame when the main activities will take place => August + September
- Complete first task of AmgharBot
- Fix Task 2 of DarijaBot which adds/removes maintenance tags and references. Splitting into three tasks:
- Task 2.1: article headers
- Task 2.2: articles footers
- Complete first adminbot task of AmgharBot
- And more...
Planned or in progress[edit]
- Fix Task 2 of DarijaBot which adds/removes maintenance tags and references. Splitting into three tasks:
- Task 26: maintenance of stub tags
- Task 2.1: fix and improve
- Task 2.2: fix and improve
- Deploy tasks on Toolforge (underway)
- Moroccan villages:
- Add/update all Moroccan villages (32000+) to Wikidata
- Add automatic articles for each on arywiki and shiwiki
- And more ...
Documentation project[edit]
- Scope: Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikipedia
Members[edit]
Goals[edit]
- Organize a photographic contest
- Document Morocco's communes lacking photos on Commons
Concrete goal achievement[edit]
- Uploaded photos, including the photo contest and the documentation project: ? / 700
- Picture views in commons (number of views of the new pictures): ? /10000
- Articles enriched with photos from the ones uploaded earlier: ? / 1000 (articles can be in several languages)
- Enriching Moroccan communes with photos (currently 1551 items in Wikidata, 329 with photos, and 74 duplicates or suspected duplicates): Goal 0 duplicates, 600 communes with photos.
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
Planned[edit]
Communication project[edit]
- Scope: social media
Members[edit]
- Loubna (contact person)
- Anass Sedrati
- Reda benkhadra
Goals[edit]
- Reach out to the larger community of Wikimedians and Moroccans
- Create 12 podcasts (1 per month) as part of WikiPodcast Morocco
| # | Date | Title | Guest(s) | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 28, 2023 | Introduction to Wikimedia Morocco User group | Anass Sedrati Rachid Ourkia Reda Benkhadra |
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| 2 | February 26, 2023 | The Wikimedia Projects | Bachounda Mounir Afifi |
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| 3 | March 30, 2023 | Arabization of Mathematics on Wikipedia | Mohamed Mokhtari | |
| 4 | April 23, 2023 | Wikipedia and the Moroccan plastic arts | Hayat Ahlamine Omar Belghiti Alaoui |
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| 5 | May 28, 2023 | I volunteer and introduce my country | Rachida Roky | |
| 6 | June 2023 | Wikipedia Moroccan Arabic (Darija) Project | Mounir Afifi | |
| 7 | July 2023 | Wikipedia in Tachelhit Project | Lhoussine Bentayfaste Brahim Essaidi |
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| 8 | August 2023 | Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom | Mounir Neddi Hayat Ahlamine |
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| 9 | September 2023 | Arabic Wikipedia Policies and Adminship | Fatima Zahra | |
| 10 | October 2023 | Wiktionary and experiences in Arabic Wikipedia Adminship | Adel Nehaoua | |
| 11 | November 2023 | Wikipedia in the University project in Egypt | Walaa Abdel Manaem | |
| 12 | December 2023 |
Concrete goal achievement[edit]
- 12 published podcasts: 11/12
- 10.000 followers in facebook: 5.527 / 10.000
- Number of views of produced videos (500*12 - 6000 total views): ? / 6000
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- Choosing 12 topics for the podcast
- Publishing schedule and posts for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
- 11 first episodes of the podcast (recorded and published)
Planned[edit]
- 12th episode of the podcast (writing script)
I volunteer and introduce my country[edit]
- Scope: Educational institutions in Morocco (universities)
Members[edit]
- Pr. Rachida (contact person)
Goals[edit]
- Introducing Wikipedia editing as part of the school and university curriculum
- Writing and editing Morocco-related topics by students (workshops), in several languages
- Photography and uploading pictures to Wikimedia Commons
- Areas: culture, arts, science, geography, environment, education, technology, health, literature, history, libraries, museums, cuisine, cities and villages, wild life.
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- Registration form (reach out to contact person to get the form)
Planned[edit]
Editing contests[edit]
First Editing contest[edit]
- Topic: Morocco-related topics (lists were prepared and provided)
- Scope: Wikipedia (arwiki, shiwiki, arywiki), social media
Members[edit]
- Mounir Neddi
- Fatima (contact person for arwiki)
- Mounir Afifi (contact person for arywiki)
- Zakaria (contact person for shiwiki)
Goals[edit]
- Organizing editing and writing contests on arwiki, shiwiki and arywiki
Concrete goal achievement[edit]
- Articles created / Outcome of the editing contest and the edit-a-thons: ? / 150
- Pageviews of the created articles (to measure their impact): ? / 50000
- Participants in contests - Editors: 225 / 100
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- Meetings 1, 2, 3
- Creating list of tasks
- Choosing time frame => (25 April to 10 June)
- Contest pages, including details and rules
- Creating list of topics for ar, shi and ary
- Zoom meeting to answer the questions of contributors
- Developing a bot to manage reservations of articles and the assessment of contributions
- Managing contest
Second Editing contest[edit]
- Topic: Moroccan books or books by Moroccan authors
- Scope: Wikipedia (arwiki), social media (WhatsApp)
Members[edit]
Organizers[edit]
- Mounir Neddi (contact person)
- Pr. Rachida
Jury[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- Total Contributions: 115
- Accepted contributions: 62
- Participants with accepted contributions: 13
- Expert Wikimedians: 3
- New articles: 48
Research project[edit]
Members[edit]
Goals[edit]
- Performing and publishing research that could be benificial to the Moroccan User Group, and to the Wikimedia movement in general
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- First meeting with Leila and Emily to discuss how the Foundation can us support in this activity
- Sending summary of ideas, suggested research partners, and excerpts about the participants to Leila and Emily.
- Choosing an idea: we decided to apply for the Moroccan Darija conference held in Spain next year (2024), and applied with the abstract of a State of the art paper, and a panel about the Moroccan Darija Wiktionary
- Choosing/contacting research partners/mentors
- Participating in relevant Wikimedia workshops: the application for this year's Wikimedia research workshop had been rejected
Planned[edit]
- Develop the full text of the research paper
Wikicamp Morocco[edit]
Members[edit]
Goals[edit]
- 20 conference participants
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- Conference took place between 10 and 13 March 2023.
- 23 conference participants
Planned[edit]
Moroccan Darija Whitepaper[edit]
This project was merged with the research project
Members[edit]
Goals[edit]
- Write a paper detailing observations, guidelines and rules for writing Moroccan Darija
Activities and tasks[edit]
Finished[edit]
- Write a first outline of the paper with the main points, and share it with the team
- Meeting to develop the first draft: the project was merged with the research project
Planned[edit]
Wiki Indaba 2023[edit]
Even if not planned initially as an activity for 2023, the Wikimedia Morocco user group stepped up to organize the Wiki Indaba 2023 conference after being contacted by the Wiki Indaba Steering Committee for that matter. Full information about this conference can be found at its Meta page, where all details are provided in the different tabs and categories.