User:Inosham/Reports/CEE Meeting 2024
I had the prevelege of attending the CEE Meeting 2024 in Istanbul as a delegate representing the Wikimedia Turkic User group. Although I was a newbie among different user groups and Wikimedia communities from the CEE region, it gave a new enthusiasm to gain a lot of experience, exchange ideas and take impressions for myself together with the Karakalpak community. For this reason, I prefer to record my first CEE meeting experiences in Karakalpak at kaa.wikipedia.org so as to explain clearly how valuable and useful to feel like we have an important place to take part in such large conferences, especially it would be a great honor to participate on behalf of our Wikimedia user group in the future:)
In this report I tried to summarise the sessions, workshops and discussions I attended as well as connections with people I know and wanted to know.
Notable learnings and insights
[edit]During the meeting, I attended sessions focused on community engagement and technical tools. I found "CEE Youth Group: one year on" particularly relevant, and I believe implementing similar strategies could strengthen our community's activities. I also participated in discussions about attracting newcomers to Wikipedia, where I shared the current situation of Karakalpak Wikipedia, and I have taken considerable advice on the importance of capacity-building and attractive ways to engage volunteers.