Sudanese Content on Wikimedia Project 2021

Introduction

This project has been applied to Wikimedia to enhance the the content about Sudan in Wikimedia projects Wikimedia common and Wikipedia (articles improvements of quality and quantity), it aims to

  * Help in uploading more content about Sudan and the People of Sudan in Wikimedia commons
  * Help enhance the quality of Wikipedia articles.
  * Development of Sudan Community to help to ensure sustainable growth of the Wikimedia projects

The project will involve training of new users and networking among community members (Librarians, new users ( editors for Wikipedia, photographers). Sudan Wikimedia community is a user group established in June 2020 and organized several activities to increase contribution to Wikimedia projects from Sudan. The group since early 2019 is voluntary working to establish a strong community in Sudan post the September Revolution the context of the country has very much changed.

this project contributes to solve the problem identified, we are planning to facilitate three main activities: 1-Training Librarians for 1Lib 1Ref 2- organizing of Wiki loves Sudan Contest.

 * Photographers training
 * Two events to lunch and closing of the contest.
 * Publications of contest theme and time frame, and three winners announcing

Project Goal

The main goal of the events and training is to create and establish a Sudan Wikimedia community of regular contributors to wiki commons and Wikipedia from Sudan, in both Arabic and English version

Expected Results

To activate Wikimedia Community in Sudan through training of Librarians and Photographers. 2. To increase the number of users adding content to wiki common with more understanding of copyrights and open-source ethics.

The Expected impacts

More users interested in Sudan Content will join Wikipedia and more photographers will upload photos about Sudan and People of Sudan target of are 400 Photos. The events organized within the project will help the community to get bigger and get supported by different content creators especially (audio and video). Wikipedia articles edited with references and content from wiki common 100 articles. New users join the Wikimedia community (about 60 users). Wikimedia Sudan Community will develop partnerships with GLAM potential institutional (University Libraries).

Specific Goals

To help upload more content about Sudan To improve articles on Wikipedia with visual content To help document the cultural, historical and indigenous activities of the Sudanese people To help increase Sudanese participation in content creation on Wikipedia (recruit members to Wikimedia Sudan Community)

these three metrics, and include any that are relevant to your project. Please set a numeric target against the metrics, if applicable. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question. numbers of photos uploaded in wiki common number of new users trained for wikipedia number of users register in events for Wikimedia Sudan community

Activities

Training for New Users

We organized two training targeted librarians, journalists individuals from universities, and students.

The training will continue to series of training we started in June 2021 and organized with the coordination of three university libraries and journalists.

The planned activities will support events planned in 2021 for Wiki Loves Sudan (October - November 2021) includes new users training for photographers and photo walks, upload sessions for wiki commons. [user Training]

Organizing Sudan first 1Lib 1Ref.

editing sessions (edit-a-thons) also will be organized Training Details:

Wiki Loves Sudan Contest

We are organizing two “one-day training” total of 3 days for photographers and journalists to prepare for Wiki Love Sudan contest, 2 training events will be organized in Khartoum and 1 South Darfur with 10 people in each.

The target is to train total of 30 photographers (10 people each training) from different age groups. We have already contacted the Sudanese Photographers group and we are planning few meetings with different groups to look at the Wiki Love Sudan we are proposed in the theme “Revolution”.

We are planning two “one day training” for photographers and journalist to prepare for Wiki Love Africa, three events will be organized in Khartoum and 1 South Darfur 10 people in each.

The photographers training will be organized in cooperation with the Sudanese Photographers Group, a National base collection of photographers.

New Users Training

To help the community Development plan six days of training for new users training will target new individuals this will cover the development of community capacity and also as preparation for the 1Lib 1Ref event.

This 6 days training will be done in coordination with three universities, 30 participates will be trained 10 each training in creating new articles editing adding content from wiki common.

Events Preparation meetings

Coordination meeting for planning the events to launch the contest and to enlarge the community of Wikimedia and Wiki-Common users.The events are planned to facilitate the process of linking between common users and Wikipedia articles creators, editors to help them collectively address the issue of filling the gap in the content about Sudan Cities, and to plan the future of cooperation with the Wikimedia Community.

The contest judging the Photos and winners announcement

Contest theme announcement and dates

Both Facebook pages(Wikimedia Sudan, Sudanese Photographers) Twitter, and Instagram will be used to announce the events and to brand the WikiLoveAfrica theme.

Different publications (banners, leftists) on streets posters in Cultural centers and universities, and public places covering Khartoum and a number of Cities in Sudan.

Contest Committee

A committee of three people will be selecting the winner two of them will be photography experts and the third is a Journalist. The completion will be one month long from October to 10 November 2021.

With winners announcement on 2021

The target is to train a total of 30 photographers from different age groups. We have already contacted the Sudanese Photographers group and we are planning few meetings with different groups to look at the WikiLoveSudan theme “Revelation”, and how we can plan the events to launch the contest and to create a community of Wikimedia and Wiki-Common users. The events will facilitate the process of linking between common users and Wikipedia articles creators, editors to help them collectively address the issue of filling the gap in the content about Sudan Cities, and to plan the future of cooperation with the Wikimedia Community.

1Lib1Ref Sudan

The Sudan Community will try to participate in the global campaign to add references to improve the quality of articles that exist about a topic relating to Sudan or Africa in general.

Objectives

An easy way to engage the community
Increase the quality of Sudanese content
Engage or recruit librarians⅜ or writers for the community
Recruit new members through the campaign’s easy to participate module An opportunity to reach out to more librarians through the campaigns massive online network

Budget

The project was granted a total budget of 10000 $, and funds will be delivered under 2 parts, 5000$ for each, the first part of the projected were finished

Community engagement

the community use both Facebook pages and other social media platforms to announce the events and to brand the WikiLoveAfrica theme.

Wikimedia Sudan Facebook page

Sudanese Photographers Facebook page

Twitter and Instagram profile pictures of participants

Also,billboards on Khartoum streets posters in Cultural centers and universities and public places covering Khartoum and a number of Cities in Sudan.

Participants

This project is organized by the Sudan User Group Community.

In 2018 the founding group were part of wiki Gap 2.0 Sudan.
In 2020 the community orgnized the Wiki Gap 2.0 in which 25 new users were trained and total of 100 Articles were Edited (created and edited) with support of the Swedish Embassy in khartoum.

For more details please refer to the community meta page.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sudan

In 2021 the group orgnized Wiki Gap 3.0. Total of 11 new users were trained 2 edit-a-thon sessions were organized

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