Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group/Report 2020 - 2021

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First meeting 28/03/2020[edit]

First meeting 28/03/2020
Content
  • Partnership with Emirates Literature Foundation
  • Planing meetings with ELF teams
  • strategy to increase the number of contributors to Emirates
  • Find and fix the monuments for the Wiki loves monument in UAE

  • Workshop for newcommers about editing Wikipedia
  • Cooperation with other affiliations do finalize the arabic MOOC 2
  • creation of a list of bioreservs and natural sites for the Wiki Loves Earth
  • Education programme for the university

Meeting 26/04/2020[edit]

Meeting 26/04/2020
Content
  • Partnership with Emirates Literature Foundation
  • Development of a strategy to deal with the difficulties caused by covid 19.
  • The fist list of bioreserv in ready to use for the WLE
  • Idea of writing contest in the Arab world

Meeting with FLE 09/09/2020[edit]

Meeting with FLE 09/09/2020
Content
  • Reda to send through a presentation to help with guidelines for our contest
  • Ahlam to work on MOOC between the Emirates Literature Foundation and the Wikipedia User Group in the UAE, outlining a 2 year partnership.
  • Reda to share most updated information on author stats on Wikipedia, as a current version of the report Reda Benkhadra sent last year.
  • Reda can help to setup accurate mechanism and data gathering for Emirates Literature Foundation’s reports on the Arab Authors project.
  • Reda mentioned that once competition is launched, the UAE user group will promote this within the Arab Community group through Telegram, FB Group and all other communications platforms.
  • The Emirates Literature Foundation to partner with Wikimedia User Group to great the first joint video in Arabic. Hani Yakan from the Emirates Literature Foundation can speak in the video with will include the Emirates Literature Foundation logo. Reda/Zackaria to share the details of the filming location, date/time and share the script.
  • Reda to share the first Arabic video guide to creating a Wikipedia page, as well as the text guide, to be included in our website. If you have this in English, that would be great too.
  • Yasmina to share details of what we would like to cover in our first training session, and Reda will organize for the right people to conduct the training.

Arabic Mooc 01/10/2020[edit]

Arabic Mooc 01/10/2021
photo of Hani Yakan speaking to the camera
photo of Hani Yakan speaking to the camera
Content

Hani Yakan The members of the Emirates Literature Foundation to agree to join us to make mooc videos as a speaker. In to shoot 5 video of the mooc in 2 hours. we also talked about our future partnership.

WLE 2021 Lists[edit]

Map of UAE for the WLE
  • For research on biosphere and natural parks in UAE, we have contacted the United Arab Emirates Ministry of climate change and Environment for the listes that they have www.moccae.gov.ae.
  • We have found all Ramzar wetland zone in the officiel site of this organisation
  • We have also used the WDPA as a referance of our lists
  • we have planed to support the WLE 2021

Meeting with FLE 14/01/2021[edit]

Meeting with FLE 14/01/2021
Content
  • Statistic of the Arab author pages on Wikipedia.
  • Regarding the competition, we agreed to wait till after مشروع المعرفة is over to initiate our own كاتب مكتوب competition, sometime in early April. However, for the competition to be effective and have a large number of participants from the Wikipedia community, we need to know some lessons learnt in مشروع المعرفة and their competition structure which will help us set up our own and make it a success.
  • We discussed partnering for the training, A training certificate that holds Wikipedia’s name is much more appealing to volunteers. Serine will do link of the training she is running for Kateb Maktub project.
  • Getting us in touch with the Education team at University of Chlef to discuss further cooperation regarding training and Wikimedia Education program.
  • Creating a page on meta.wikimedia for our project maybe under a different name where we can put the names of authors who don’t have pages in red…
  • Also as we discussed to launch website www.katebmaktub.org

WLE 2021 lunched[edit]

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons), and this is the Emirati version. Everybody can participate! There are a lot of natural heritage sites in United Arab Emirates, and the goal of Wiki Loves Earth is to encourage people to take pictures of those natural sites, and to put them under a free license so that others may access them through the Internet.

Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in United Arab Emirates is the 1st edition of Wiki Loves Earth in United Arab Emirates. The contest will take place from 1 May 2021 to 15 June 2021.

In May and June, you may upload as many pictures as you want of natural sites that you have visited. The pictures don't have to be taken in May, but must be uploaded during that month to be considered. Provide your photo with {{Wiki Loves Earth 2021|AE}} template. At the end of the month, the contest jury will begin evaluating the photographs and will choose the best 10 pictures of the natural sites in United Arab Emirates, and ultimately in the world.

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