Grants:TPS/African Hope/Wikimania/2018/Report

Participant

African Hope

Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire (WCUG-CI)

Outcome

A panel with fellow African Wikimedians and Katherine Maher

Shared Experience

GLAM

• Joint panel with GLAM-Wiki volunteers from Bulgaria and Ghana
• Facilitator during Wikipedia 101 for librarians, co-led an edit-a-thon with ~30 local librarians

Education

• Joint presentation with fellow compatriots from Côte d'Ivoire (Colette Yao and Dominique Eliane)
• Lighting talk along with Florence and Isla at Activating the next generation : Wikipedia in Schools

Others

• Speaker during "Wikimedia and the spirit of Ubuntu: The power of unity in action" panel
• I served as the handler for @OpenGlam's Twitter accountt during the Wikimania 2018 period
• Together with Eugene Eugbor (Cameroon), Rachel Farrand and Shristi (WMF), a meeting about the Africa Wikimedian Developers (AMWD) project was held

New Creation

• During the conference, I learned valuables inputs through the discussions with GLAM-Wiki activists. Since August, a collaboration in view of a piloting a digitization project was started in Côte d'Ivoire with the Parliament's archives.
• Following the discussion with the developers relations team from WMF, Shristi suggested to expand awmd-stats tool for use by other event organizers in the Wikimedia movement. The tool was imported to Phabricator as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202233 and is now available at gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/labs/tools/awmd-stats

Connections

• Wikimedia Argentina, Venezuela, Canada, Bulgaria, Armenia