Wikimedia MA User Group/2024
Wikimedia Morocco User Group - 2024 Annual Plan
[edit] | This page outlines the projects and initiatives planned by the Wikimedia Morocco User Group for 2024. |
Contents
[edit]Overview
[edit]| 2024 Goals at a Glance | |
|---|---|
| Participants | 500 total |
| New Content | 3,000 Wikipedia articles 1,000 Commons files 1,000 Wikidata items |
| New Editors | 30 |
The Wikimedia Morocco User Group plans to undertake various online and offline initiatives in 2024, focusing on content creation, technical development, and community engagement.
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 25% |
Quick summary: Fourth edition of the educational program introducing Wikipedia to Moroccan classrooms.
Core Team
[edit]- Mounir Neddi - Program coordinator
- Abdelilah Jalal - Technical support
- Hanaa - Assistant (until May 2024)
Goals and Metrics
[edit]- Target number of participating teachers: 300
- Target number of new articles: 500
- Target number of improved articles: 1000
Progress Tracking
[edit]Technical Project
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Duration: | 3 years (2024-2026) |
| Progress: | 30% |
Quick summary: Development and maintenance of technical tools supporting Wikimedia Morocco projects, focusing on local languages (ary, shi, zgh) and integration with various Wikimedia platforms.
Core Team
[edit]- Bilalelidrissi171 - Project Coordinator
- Amina Titich - Assistant Coordinator
- Ideophagous - Technical Lead
- AyourAchtouk - Developer
- bisel91 - Developer
- Bonnjalal00 - Developer
- Lhoussine AIT TAYFST - Developer
Key Projects
[edit]- Darija Text-to-speech (Hachem)
- Topic suggestion bot (Abdelilah Jalal)
- DarijaBot and other bot tasks (Mounir Afifi)
- Wikidata items and properties development
- Wikifunctions implementation
- Translatewiki integration
Progress Tracking
[edit]Completed
[edit]- General Meeting 1 (11.02.2024)
- Individual project assignments for 2024
- General Meeting 2 (26.05.2024)
- Coordinator recruitment and onboarding
- General Meeting 3
- Wikipedia bots presentation
In Progress
[edit]- Breaking down 3-year goals by year
- Tool development and maintenance
Planned
[edit]- Meeting 4 (date TBD)
- Translatewiki presentation
- Workshop video production
- Python workshop for Wikimedia data access
Achievements
[edit]- Team representation at Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
- Team representation at AI Sauna
- Two members attended Wikimania Hackathon
Documentation Project
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 15% |
Quick summary: Initiative to document Moroccan culture, heritage, and activities through multimedia content on Wikimedia Commons.
Target Metrics
[edit]| Metric | Target |
|---|---|
| New media files | 1,000 |
| Photos | 700 |
| Videos | 300 |
Progress Tracking
[edit]Completed
[edit]In Progress
[edit]- Media collection from various events and locations
- Categorization and metadata addition
Planned
[edit]- Organize photo expeditions
- Create documentation guidelines
- Train new contributors
Communication Project
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 50% |
Quick summary: Outreach initiative to engage with the broader Wikimedia and Moroccan communities through social media, podcasts, and communication channels.
Core Team
[edit]- Farah Ouazizou - Communication Lead
- Loubna - Team Member
Goals
[edit]- 12 WikiPodcast Morocco episodes (monthly)
- Active presence on social media platforms
- Community engagement through multiple channels
Podcast Progress
[edit]| # | Date | Title | Guest(s) | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 2024 | Arabic Wikipedia and the Palestinian Cause | Farah Jack Mustaklem Mervat Salman |
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| 2 | February 2024 | Wikimedia Morocco 2023 projects participant's experience | Lhoussine Ait Tayfst Moustapha Mellou Fatima Yacine Elhachem Biselsale |
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| 15 | March 2024 | Wikimedia UAE projects | Serine Ben Brahim | |
| 16 | April 2024 | Content related to Moroccan heritage and history | Mounir Afifi | |
| 17 | May 2024 | Wikimedia Commons | Brahim Faraji | |
| 18 | June 2024 | Launch of the Standard Amazigh Wikipedia Project | Lhoussine BENTAYFASTE | |
| 19 | July 2024 | Women's Participation in Arabic Wikimedia Projects | Zayneb Takouti | |
| 20 | August 2024 | User Houssam Bihi's Experience Reaching 10,000 Mobile Edits | Houssam Bihi | |
| 21 | September 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation Partnerships | Farida El-Gueretly | |
| 22 | October 2024 | Wikimedia Sudan Activities During Crisis | Ola Mahdi | |
| 23 | November 2024 | The Experience of Organizing WikiArabia 2024 in Oman | Reda Kerbouche | |
| 24 | December 2024 | ' | File:Wikipodcast Morocco - Episode 24.webm |
Communication Channels
[edit]- Social Media
- Video/Audio
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Messaging
- Telegram
Editing Projects
[edit]Editing Contests
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Target Participants: | 100 |
| Progress: | 20% |
Quick summary: Series of content creation competitions to expand articles on specific themes across Arabic and Darija Wikipedias.
Progress Tracking
[edit]Completed
[edit]In Progress
[edit]- Topic list preparation for upcoming contests
- Participant recruitment
Planned
[edit]- Contest announcements and guidelines
- Prize structure development
Edit-a-thons
[edit]| Project Status | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Target Participants: | 80 |
| Current Participants: | 11 |
| Progress: | 35% |
Quick summary: Collaborative editing events focusing on specific topics or partnerships with other Wikimedia communities.
Current Progress
[edit]| Event | Status | Participants |
|---|---|---|
| Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 1 |  Done |
6 |
| Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 2 | In Progress | 5 |
| Basque and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon | Planned | - |
| Japanese and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon | Planned | - |
Goals and Metrics
[edit]- Total planned edit-a-thons: 4
- Target participants per event: 20
- Focus areas:
- Cultural exchange
- Language development
- Local heritage
Partner Communities
[edit]- Wikimedia Malta
- Basque Wikimedians
- Japanese Wikimedians
Results Tracking
[edit]Current Statistics
[edit]- Total edit-a-thons completed: 1
- Total edit-a-thons in progress: 1
- Total edit-a-thons planned: 2
- Current participant count: 11/80
- Articles created/improved:
Edits-a-thons
[edit]Goals
[edit]- Number of edit-a-thons: ?
- Number of participants: 80
Members
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Finished
[edit]Ongoing
[edit]Planned
[edit]Results
[edit]- Number of edit-a-thons: 1 (+ 1 ongoing, + 2 planned)
- Number of participants: 11/80
Wikicamp Morocco 2024
[edit]Goals
[edit]Members
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Finished
[edit]- Contact potential sponsors
Planned
[edit]Results
[edit]Participation at Wikimedia events
[edit]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 and AI Sauna
- Wikimania 2024
- WikiArabia 2024
- WikiConvention Francophone 2024
- WikiCon 2024
- WikiIndaba 2024
This project will follow these participations, learnings, and reports by participating members.
Members
[edit]Goals
[edit]- Develop and maintain some technical tools used by Wikimedia Morocco projects and members
- Learn about other projects that could be useful to the Moroccan Wikimedia community
- Connect with the larger technical community within Wikimedia
See also: Ideophagous presenting two specific goals at the opening ceremony (min 52:15):
- DarijaBot on Toolforge
- Feedback on automating categories and articles
Tasks and Results
[edit]- Put DarijaBot on Toolforge
- Presented a session and received feedback about automating categories and articles on small Wikis
- Etherpad (includes the transcript of the talk and discussion)
- Phabricator task
- Suggestion 1: Develop a UI with Codex to build a dynamic form that allows non-technical users to generate automated texts and categories
- Suggestion 2: update ArticlePlaceholder Extension to use text templates filled with data from Wikidata
- Project showcase by Ideophagous at 35:00
- Received feedback on the issue with the drop in human views on arywiki in Q1 of 2024
- Learned from more tech-savvy Wikimedians
- Collaborated and supported other Wikimedians when possible
- Sought collaborations with various Wikimedia chapters and User Groups
- Deployed a task to distribute navigational boxes usng TohaomgBot on arywiki with the help of Tohaomg (project showcase by Tohaomg at 30:40)
Future plans
[edit]- Create a simple tutorial to put a bot task on Toolforge for Wikimedia Morocco Technical Project (Techma)
- Do a workshop for members of Techma or any other Moroccan Wikimedians who want to put a tool on Toolforge
- Add other recurrent unsupervised tasks on Toolforge, such as DarijaBot tasks T2.1, T2.2, T3.1, T4 and T16
- Create a UI with Codex to generate simple articles where information is filled from Wikidata or an external source (POC)
- Translate messages for Wikiscore app on Translatewiki, to Standard Arabic and Moroccan Darija
- Request to join Wikimedia CEE Spring contest in 2025
- Make a list of websites used on arywiki for scraping
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Tohaomg and Ideophagous at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 -
Group photo 1 -
Group photo 2 -
Ideophagous at the closing ceremony
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The AI Sauna is a side event that took place in Helsinki, Finland, right after the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, where some participants in the later also joined, in addition to other actors in the Artificial Intelligence arena, or those who seek collaborations involving AI applications, such as in preserving archives and libraries.
The event was held at the National Archives of Finland over two days, 5-6 May 2024.
Members
[edit]Project idea
[edit]- Use fine-tuning and RAG techniques to generate texts in Moroccan Darija
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Ideophagous at the AI Sauna in Finland
Research project
[edit]
Goals
[edit]- One publication
Doing... - Attending one conference
Done
Members
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Finished
[edit]- 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)
- Meeting 6 (10.03.2024)
- Complete preparing the panel about Darija Wiktionary
- Participate at the conference at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (24-26 April)
Planned
[edit]- Complete writing paper (State of the art of Moroccan Darija Wikipedia)
Results
[edit]In the period of 25-26 April, three members of the user group participated in the 8th Internation Congress of Moroccan Arabic, an academic conference organized at the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain. Both Anass Sedrati and Mounir Afifi participated in person, while Reda Benkhadra joined through Zoom in both days.
In this conference, the focus was about Moroccan Darija in the digital era, with a considerable highlight over the Wikimedia project. In that sense, our group participated with two main contributions:
- A communication about our research paper entitled "Standardizing Darija: Collaborative Approaches in the Moroccan Darija Wikipedia", detailing the state of the art of the Darija Wikipedia, from its inception until today (with over 10 000 articles); and
- A round a table about "Darija Wiktionary: Building a Collaborative Moroccan Darija Dictionary", where we took the opportunity to explain the work done by the team in the Darija Wiktionary, that is currently in the Incubator, and the next steps related to it.
An important aspect of the conference was the participants of researchers from different universities and countries (Poland, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Morocco), who were all researching on Darija, and directly interacting with the material produced in the Wikimedia projects. Sitting in the same room as these notable researchers was a very valuable moment for our team members, who could both advocate the importance of free knowledge in helping under resourced languages, and get several inspirational ideas for collaborations and future ways of working.
Finally, the conference was also an occasion for our group members to enrich the Wikimedia projects, with pictures of notable participants who have a Wikipedia page, but were missing pictures, such as Farouk El Marrakchi, Marcin Michalski, and Mena Lafkioui, who all have now good images in their profiles in different languages, thanks to their participation in the conference.
Pictures of the event uploaded to Commons can be found in this category.
Goals
[edit]- Complete edit-a-thon 1
- Find other venues for collaboration
Members (Wikimedia Morocco)
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Finished
[edit]- Meeting 1 (15.02.2024)
- Meeting 2 (date 14.05.2024)
- Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 1 list
Planned
[edit]- Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 2 list
Arywiki survey
[edit]Goals
[edit]- Conduct a survey to assess readers' backrgound and opinions on arywiki and Darija in general
- Adjust our strategies to develop the project
Members
[edit]Tasks
[edit]- Create a list of questions
- Get feedback from contact person at Wikimedia
