Egypt Wikimedians User Group/Report/2018
Appearance
Activities
[edit]Meeting
[edit]We called every member of our user group for a monthly meeting to plan for events and activities.
Wikipedia education program conference
[edit]we managed a conference in Cairo University to celebrate the achievements of students in the 9th term on Wikipedia education program
WikiGap
[edit]Wikimedia Egypt participated in organizing an editathon with the Swedish Embassy in the public library in Cairo.
Wiki Love Monuments 2019
[edit]WMEG actively promoted the Wiki Loves Monuments Competition with the following :
- Advertising the competition through the ORMS mailing list ans social media which has a substantial number of photographers
- Contact and presentations with photographic societies / clubs to promote the competition
- A total of 831 photo have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Egypt , with total size 2223 MB
Lessons learned
[edit]- What worked well?
Many organizations were interested in hosting edit-a-thons with us,
We generally delivered what we promised and completed the contest successfully.
- Central notice appears to be the most efficient method for advertisement of this project.
- We have made good local partners for future collaboration/projects.