From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
The Wikimedia Community User-group Uganda has held annual planning meetings to prepare, grant applications, and make annual plans. The annual general meetings have been attended by the Core user-group volunteers first in 2019, and consequently inviting other active community members. The involvement of community members in the annual Planning meetings and discussion of the simple annual grant activities has happened on two occasions in 2020 , and 2021 .
In order to have more input and community involvement in developing future grant applications, the user-group is carrying out community engagement meetings/sessions to sensitize, and have community members prepare for a pro-active role in coming up with future annual plans. Below are the discussion points, and outcomes of the first community engagement meeting.
Name
Organisation
Expectations or Motivation
Signature
1
Geoffrey Kateregga
Wikimedia Uganda
The future of Wikimedia in Uganda
Kateregga1 (talk ) 07:01, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Drake Tamale
Uganda Christian University
Meet new volunteers in the community
Tamdra (talk ) 06:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Romeo Ronald Lomora
Platform Africa/ South Sudan Wikimedia Community
Network with different communities
Lomoraronald (Lomoraronald ) 06:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Micheal Kaluba
Wikimedia User Group Uganda
Getting to know new people and learn more about Wikimedia projects
Micheal Kaluba (talk ) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Harriet Nambooze
Kibuli SS
To learn more about wikipedia uganda
41.210.146.173 07:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Jaiksana Soro
Platform Africa
Exchanging ideas and co-creating the future plans that reflect our unique country, demographics and others.
jambujack (talk ) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Tonny Mpagi
Motivate Uganda
To learn more about wikipedia Uganda
Tonny Mpagi (talk ) 07:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Kenneth tumwine
epic uganda vacation
acquire new data editing skills on wikimedia
kenneth tumwine (talk ) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
Patricia Humura
Irise Institute East Africa
To know what is happening in the WikiUganda user group and to network
Patricia Humura (User talk: Patricia Humura) 5 March 2022
10
Sandra Aceng
Wikimedia Uganda
The future of Human Rights and gender digital divide in Uganda, network and be happy
11
Alice Kibombo
Wikimedia Uganda
Curious to meet with other volunteers and share experiences
12
13
14
15
16
17
Ssemmanda Will
New Vision
.Curious to know more about Wikimedia and its future plans.
. Meeting new productive people.
Ssemmanda will (talk ) 07:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
No
Topic
Duration
Notes
1
Arrival and introductions
30 minutes
Everyone
2
Objectives of the event
30 minutes
Erina and Douglas (Socialisation event, Active involvement, Community Health - Status of the WikiUganda community)
3
sAPG review (2022)
120 minutes
Project Leads (Education, GLAM, Diversity and content generation)
4
Feedback on the 2022 annual plan
120 minutes
Sandra (Clarifications, areas of Involvement)
5
Strategic, and annual plan for 2023
20 minutes
Douglas (Get community ideas, Prepare for the Strategic plan engagement)
6
Social activity
60 minutes
Alice (Completed and upcoming Usergroup activities)
No
Topic
Feedback
Wayforward
1
Community Engagement
Proposal was made to make the community engagement bi-annual, for utmost participation, rather than participating in pre-determined projects.
A suggestion was made for the Usergroup to showcase activities at public events, information days/sessions, and on social media.
Community members were advised to propose activities from Wikimedia events that they have attended, for example Wikimania or WikiIndaba.
The next community engagement meeting will be communicated by the Usergroup.
2
Education
South Sudan members expressed interest in collaboration on an Education Project.
There are secondary schools that needed such training opportunities that the User-group is providing.
Categories for Luganda Wikipedia are needed.
Project Lead and Administrator will follow up with this.
3
GLAM
Patience, mentorship, and collaboration can help volunteer editors become good at what they are doing.
More Usergroup training sessions will be organised.
4
Diversity and content generation
South Sudan members requested for support on campaigns' Jury members.
Partnerships were proposed with Photography companies.
There's a need to motivate editors whose content or articles have been rejected.
Project Lead and Administrator will follow up with this.
5
Strategic plan
The Strategic process will be used for continuous engagement of volunteers.
Usergroup volunteers will be informed and further engaged during the advanced stages of the Strategy process.
6
Social activity
There will be more online or similar community engagement of more Usergroup volunteers.
User-group members will participate in User-group activities with a better/informed point of view.
