Egypt Wikimedians User Group/Report/July 2014/2015
Activities[edit]
Edit-a-thons[edit]
We made 2 edit-a-thons more than 120 one participated in working on developing and improving many articles and around 45 one of them continue working with Wikipedia by joining Wikipedia education program.
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]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Fifth_Celebration_Conference%2C_Egypt_-_87.jpg/325px-Fifth_Celebration_Conference%2C_Egypt_-_87.jpg)
we managed a conference in Cairo University to celebrate the achievements of students in the 5th term on Wikipedia education program
Equipment[edit]
Wiki Love Monuments 2014[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
- 2 photo hunts made in September
writing contest[edit]
we managed a to write articles about history in Arabic Wikipedia and 15 users joined it and its result was more than 110 new articles and upload 80 new image. there was 2 winners in this contest . first prize was $250 and second was $100 . and the judgement criteria was on both quantity and the quality .
Wiki Love Monuments 2015[edit]
A total of 3,928 photo have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Egypt , and 2 of them are in the top 20 of the international competition .
Lessons learned[edit]
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/GG_Egy_5th_1.jpg/300px-GG_Egy_5th_1.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/GG_Egy_5th_2.png/300px-GG_Egy_5th_2.png)
- 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.
- Compared to 2013, we have significantly larger number of uploaders.
Celebration Conference[edit]
we organized Celebration Conference om (19 November 2015) for giving awards for the winners on Wiki love monuments and in the education program , and here is photos from the Conference