Wikimedia MA User Group/2024

This page details the diverse array of projects and initiatives planned by the Wikimedia Morocco User Group in 2024. The group aims to participate in several endeavors both online and offline, such as projects involving editing and writing, technical advancements, conference participation, and thorough documentation using photographs, audio recordings, and videos.

General goals

• Number of all participants: 500
  • 300 professors online
  • 20 conference participants
  • 80 edit-a-thon participants
  • 100 contest participants
• Number of all editors in Wiki MA activities: 150
  • Number of new editors: 30
  • Number of retained editors: 10
• Number of all organizers of Wikimedia activities: 15
  • Number of new organizers: 5
• Content creation through Wiki MA activities:
  • Wikipedia articles: 3000 articles
    • New: 1000
    • Improved: 2000
• Wikimedia Commons: 1000 new media
• Wikidata: 1000 new items
• Wikimedia Incubator: 500 new entries

Reading Wikipedia in the classroom (4th edition)

Members

• Mounir Neddi :Contact person, local coordinator, and trainer.
• Abdelilah Jalal: Technical support and program implementation.
• Hanaa: assistant

Technical project

Goals

The goals for the next 3 years have been decided, but still need to be broken down by year.

Scope

• Wikipedia: local languages (ary, shi, zgh), and potentially (ar, fr, en)
• Wikidata
• Wikimedia Hackathon
• Tooforge

Members

• Mounir Afifi (Contact person)
• Zakaria
• Hachem
• Abdelilah Jalal
• Lhoussine AIT TAYFST

Subprojects

• Darija Text-to-speech (Hachem)
• Topic suggestion bot (Abdelilah Jalal)
• DarijaBot and other bot tasks (Mounir Afifi)
• Adding new items to Wikidata
• Presentations and events

Tasks

Finished

• Meeting 1 (11.02.2024)
• Decide on individual projects for present members

Planned

• Meeting 2 (TBD)
• Break down 3-year goals by year
• Presentation: how to get pages from Wikimedia projects, different approaches with python (TBD)

Documentation project

Goals

• 1000 new media (photos or videos) on Commons

Communication project

Goals

• Reach out to the larger community of Wikimedians and Moroccans
• Create 12 podcasts (1 per month) as part of WikiPodcast Morocco

Scope

• Social media: Facebook, Instagram
• Video/Audio Publishing platforms: YouTube, Spotify
• Communication apps: Telegram, WhatsApp

Members

• Farah (contact person)
• Loubna

Editing contests

Goals

• Number of contests: ?
• Number of participants: 100

Tasks

Planned

• Prepare lists of topics for potential edit-a-thons

Edits-a-thons

Goals

• Number of edit-a-thons: ?
• Number of participants: 80

Wikicamp Morocco 2024

Members

• Anass Sedrati
• Rachidourkia

Tasks

Finished

• Contact potential sponsors

Participation at Wikimedia events

Several members of Wikimedia Morocco User Group have applied for, and/or plan to participate in regional and international Wikimedia events, such as:

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
• Wikimania 2024
• WikiArabia 2024
• WikiConvention Francophone 2024
• WikiCon 2024
• WikiIndaba 2024

This project will follow these participations, learnings, and reports by participating members.

Research project

Goals

• One publication
• Attending one conference

Members

• Anass Sedrati
• Reda benkhadra
• Mounir Afifi

Tasks

Finished

• Meeting 1 (21.01.2024)
• Meeting 2 (04.02.2024)
• Meeting 3 (11.02.2024)
• Meeting 4 (18.02.2024)
• Meeting 5 (25.02.2024)

Planned

• Meeting 6 (10.03.2024)
• Complete writing paper (State of the art of Moroccan Darija Wikipedia)
• Complete preparing the panel about Darija Wiktionary
• Participate at the conference at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (24-26 April)

Malta-Morocco collaboration

Goals

• Complete edit-a-thon 1
• Find other venues for collaboration

Members (Wikimedia Morocco)

• Anass Sedrati
• Reda benkhadra
• Mounir Afifi
• Yosh cvd
• Rachid
• El Hachem

Tasks

Finished

• Meeting 1 (15.02.2024)

Planned

• Meeting 2 (date TBD)
• Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 1 list

Arywiki survey

Goals

• Conduct a survey to assess readers' backrgound and opinions on arywiki and Darija in general
• Adjust our strategies to develop the project

Members

• Anass Sedrati
• Reda benkhadra
• Mounir Afifi

Tasks

• Create a list of questions
• Get feedback from contact person at Wikimedia