Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey/Reports/2019
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Summary
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2019 was another year that Turkish internet users did not have access to Wikipedia. Still, the user group continued to organize editing contests with remaining active users, there were a number of education activities, some representation in global conferences and events and most importantly wikipedians in Istanbul started weekly meet-ups at the end of the year. We kept our hopes high that Wikipedia will be accessible soon and continued our work.
Trainings[edit]
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- Wikipedians gave training at Galatasaray University Faculty of Communications, Istanbul to help students to create Wikipedia articles on their Jou 404- Content and Resource Management in Digital Media course.
- Wikipedians gave training for the Computer Science students of TOBB Unviersity, Ankara to support them in translating Wikipedia articles for their BIL 448- Internet Security Protocols course assignment.
Editing contests[edit]
- Organized the local competition for Vikibahar 2019 Wikimedia CEE Spring between March 23 - May 31 2019.
- Organized the local competition for Bridges across Cultures contest between December 1 - 31.
Global Wikimedia meetings and conferences[edit]
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- March 29 - 31 - A user group members participated in WMCON in Berlin. Participant notes are here: Elmacenderesi
- August 5 - 9 Two members represented the user group at Wikimania, Stockholm. - Please find the notes here: HakanIST,
- October 11 - 13 - Two members represented the user group at the Wikimedia CEE meeting in Belgrade. Please find the notes here: Basak, Sakhalinio
Tuesday Meetups[edit]
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Begining from November 5th, our user group started to make regular weekly meetings on Tuesday nights at Istanbul. Since then every month, three of the meetings are being organized at a coffee-house and one meeting is being held in Uskudar University so that members from other cities may also participate remotely. 5-15 participants are coming together in the meetings.