Yoruba Wikimedians User Group/2021 Report

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The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group was recognized as a Wikimedia user group on the 3rd of August 2019. This report outlines the accomplishments and activities supported by the group between 2nd of July , 2020 and 2nd of August , 2021.

Key Programs and Activities[edit]

Wikipedia 20th Birthday[edit]

Wikipedia 20th Anniversary. Wikipedia turned 20 on 15 January 2021. On this day, the Yoruba Wikimedia Community celebrated the anniversary with a workshop on capacity building, cake-cutting and video production to promote Yoruba language Wikipedia among both the Yoruba new and existing users and speakers. We used this opportunity of the anniversary to promote and create awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia as lack of awareness is one of the major challenges facing the Yoruba language Wikipedia and other African language Wikipedia.

see the report here:[1]

Advocacy[edit]

The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has been involved in some advocacy programs to promote the Yoruba Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria. This advocacy programs have not only improved the readership of the Yoruba Wikipedia but has led to an increase in the number of contributors to the Yoruba Wikipedia and other sister's project such as Wikimedia Commons.

Yoruba Wikipedia Radio Program. The scope of this Yoruba Wikipedia Radio Program was to create better awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia to the all Yoruba speakers at home and in diaspora, as lack of awareness is one of the major challenges facing the Yoruba language Wikipedia and other African language Wikipedia. This event kicked off on April 10th 2021 on Bond FM 92.9 Hmz which is one of the national radio in Nigeria. The event lasted for 10 weeks with experienced editors who were moderating the show. After the awareness broadcast for Yoruba Wikipedia, our team followed up with the exited audiences' that later contacted us on how they can become new editors to Yoruba Wikipedia, our team followed them up on WhatsApp group chat and also organised an online training for them to learn about how to use and contribute to encyclopedia, thereby more than 20 new editors were recruited. The Yoruba radio awareness program campaign were able to reach more than 2 million people.

Yoruba Wikipedia Radio Show Banner Yorùbá Wikipedia radio program promo banner

see the report here:[2]

Yoruba Wikipedia video campaign was a video awareness campaign that was made for Yoruba Wikipedia by User:T Cells on 20th February 2021 to promote Yoruba Wikipedia on several online social medias. The (2-5 mins) short documentary video was made by a professional documentary filmmaker how the Yoruba Wikipedia community is building an encyclopedia in a local language, how to join the community and whom to contact for help etc.

Yoruba Wikipedia promotion video shorter version
Yoruba Wikipedia promotion video shorter version

. The two versions were made for both Facebook and Twitter. However, the video reached 218.28K people on both Facebook and Twitter and also increased Yoruba Wikipedia page view by 1,544,124. This is done using - Toolforge and google form were used to collate brief information of the video viewers whom wanted to learn how to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia, and our team followed up with them on WhatsApp group chat. see the report here: [3]

Promotion of Yoruba Wikipedia at Yoruba Academy Event The [Academy] invited the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group to their event tagged Ododo Eye to commensurate the Children's Day on 27th May 2021. We were asked to present about the Yoruba Wikipedia. This event also promoted Yoruba Wikipedia and our community as many Yoruba language Scholars, Teachers, students and Yoruba language enthusiasts were in attendance. The Oyo state Ministry of Education also participated in the event. This platform also gabe us the opportunity to recruit new editors for the list Yoruba language native speakers, scholars, teachers and students that were present. The Yoruba Wikimedians also distributed some customized swags such as exercise books, pen, jotter, and T-shirts to participants as we believe that swags are important in outreach efforts and a useful tools for promotions. Some of the our experienced editors that were present at the event were User:Agbalagba President Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, User: Macdanpets Vice president Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, User: T Cells Sysop Yoruba Wikipedia. More than 15 new editors showed interest including the staff and students of the Yoruba Academy but there was no time for training at the event but we plan to organize a special training at the Yoruba Academy in Ibadan.

Here is the video of Yoruba Wikimedians User Group presentation:

Capacity building[edit]

Training for viewers of Yoruba Wikipedia Promotion Video. On May 4th 2021 - August 6th 2021 Yoruba Wikimedians User Group organised 3 online training on different dates for the Yoruba promotional video viewers to become a profesional Yoruba Wikipedia editors. see report here:[4]

Editathons[edit]

The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group organised an online two days editathon to commemorate Nigeria's independent day at 61st for Yoruba Wikimedians to improve articles related to Nigerian independent and history in general. The event took place at October 1st - 3rd 2021 where over 100 articles were improve on Yoruba Wikipedia.

Nigeria at 61st

Meeting with Maryana Iskander[edit]

Yoruba Wikimedians joined their various colleagues accross Nigeria under Wikimedia Nigeria Incorporation to welcome the new C.E.O of Wikimedia Foundation in person of Mrs. Marayana Iskander during the Niaja Office Hour that came up on November 6th 2021. During the meeting, the Yoruba Wikimedians Coordinator in person of Mikaeel Sodiq Adesina discussed extensively about our past events and projects, we also unravel our new projects we have been planning for the next couple of months to come. We also discussed about our challenges and how we are taking steps to find a lasting solution to them. Naija Office Hour