Group name: WikiLinguila [Congolese Bantu languages]
Group description:
The initiative started in 2021, talks started when we noticed that we are feeding large wikis almost every day in terms of the number of articles and contributors assigned, which have over a million articles and over 10 thousand active contributors while the small wikis, including ours, are becoming more and more empty. Our mission is to develop free content in the national languages of the Central African region which are in the minority on the net and in particular on Wikipedia, to in fact, bridge this gap, reduce this gap in contributions between large and small wikis. We also want to make the month of February within the Wikimedia movement, the international month of contribution to the mother tongue, from 2025 supported by UNESCO, with a view to increasing contributions in our Wikipedias corresponding to our languages for promote and give visibility to these languages and also involve members of our community, more details can be found on our Meta page.
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