Wikimedia MA User Group/2024
 | This page outlines the projects and initiatives undertaken by the Wikimedia Morocco User Group in 2024. |
Overview
| 2024 Goals at a Glance | |
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| Participants | 500 total |
| New Content | 3,000 Wikipedia articles 1,000 Commons files 1,000 Wikidata items |
| New Editors | 30 |
The Wikimedia Morocco User Group plans to undertake various online and offline initiatives in 2024, focusing on content creation, technical development, and community engagement.
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
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| Status: |  Done
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| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 100% |
Quick summary: Fourth edition of the educational program introducing Wikipedia to Moroccan classrooms.
- Core Team
- Mounir Neddi - Program coordinator
- Abdelilah Jalal - Technical support
- Hanaa - Assistant (until May 2024)
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Technical Project
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| Status: | Done
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| Duration: | 3 years (2024-2026) |
| Progress: | 30% |
Quick summary: Development and maintenance of technical tools supporting Wikimedia Morocco projects, focusing on local languages (ary, shi, zgh) and integration with various Wikimedia platforms.
- Core Team
- Bilalelidrissi171 - Project Coordinator
- Amina Titich - Assistant Coordinator
- Ideophagous - Technical Lead
- AyourAchtouk - Developer
- bisel91 - Developer
- Bonnjalal00 - Developer
- Lhoussine AIT TAYFST - Developer
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Documentation Project
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| Status: | Done
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| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 100% |
Quick summary: Initiative to document Moroccan culture, heritage, and activities through multimedia content on Wikimedia Commons.
- Target Metrics
| Metric | Target |
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| New media files | 1,000 |
| Photos | 700 |
| Videos | 300 |
- 51 communes were documented.
- Micro-grants were allocated.
- Coverage of the final phase of an African women's football competition, the CAF Women's Champions League (which resulted in 157 photos, which were used to illustrate the players' articles and also relayed by the press as this example)
- A total of 2407 files were produced as part of this project (2399 pictures and 8 videos)
- These files were used in 651 articles, and reached 4565 views (statistics)
- 492 communes now featuring photos
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| Selection of documented areas and subjects |
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Communication Project
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| Status: | Done
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| Start date: | January 2024 |
| End date: | December 2024 |
| Progress: | 100% |
Quick summary: Outreach initiative to engage with the broader Wikimedia and Moroccan communities through social media, podcasts, and communication channels.
- Core Team
- Farah Ouazizou - Communication Lead
- Loubna - Team Member
- Goals
- 12 WikiPodcast Morocco episodes (monthly)
- Active presence on social media platforms
- Community engagement through multiple channels
- Podcast Progress
| # | Date | Title | Guest(s) | Video |
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| 1 | January 2024 | Arabic Wikipedia and the Palestinian Cause | Farah Jack Mustaklem Mervat Salman |
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| 2 | February 2024 | Wikimedia Morocco 2023 projects participant's experience | Lhoussine Ait Tayfst Moustapha Mellou Fatima Yacine Elhachem Biselsale |
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| 15 | March 2024 | Wikimedia UAE projects | Serine Ben Brahim | |
| 16 | April 2024 | Content related to Moroccan heritage and history | Mounir Afifi | |
| 17 | May 2024 | Wikimedia Commons | Brahim Faraji | |
| 18 | June 2024 | Launch of the Standard Amazigh Wikipedia Project | Lhoussine BENTAYFASTE | |
| 19 | July 2024 | Women's Participation in Arabic Wikimedia Projects | Zayneb Takouti | |
| 20 | August 2024 | User Houssam Bihi's Experience Reaching 10,000 Mobile Edits | Houssam Bihi | |
| 21 | September 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation Partnerships | Farida El-Gueretly | |
| 22 | October 2024 | Wikimedia Sudan Activities During Crisis | Ola Mahdi | |
| 23 | November 2024 | The Experience of Organizing WikiArabia 2024 in Oman | Reda Kerbouche | |
| 24 | December 2024 | The Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation | Michael Raish |
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Editing Projects
- Editing Contests
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| Status: | Done
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| Target Participants: | 100 |
| Progress: | 20% |
Quick summary: Series of content creation competitions to expand articles on specific themes across Arabic and Darija Wikipedias.
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- Edit-a-thons
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| Status: | Done
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| Target Participants: | 80 |
| Current Participants: | 11 |
| Progress: | 35% |
Quick summary: Collaborative editing events focusing on specific topics or partnerships with other Wikimedia communities.
- Current Progress
| Event | Status | Participants |
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| Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 1 | Done |
6 |
| Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 2 | In Progress | 5 |
| Basque and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon | Planned | - |
| Japanese and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon | Planned | - |
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Edits-a-thons
- Goals
- Number of edit-a-thons: ?
- Number of participants: 80
- Members
- Tasks
- Finished
- Ongoing
- Planned
- Results
- Number of edit-a-thons: 1 (+ 1 ongoing, + 2 planned)
- Number of participants: 11/80
Wikicamp Morocco 2024
- Goals
- Members
- Tasks
- Finished
- Contact potential sponsors
- Planned
- Results
Participation at Wikimedia events
Several members of Wikimedia Morocco User Group have applied for, and/or plan to participate in regional and international Wikimedia events, such as:
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 and AI Sauna
- Wikimania 2024
- WikiArabia 2024
- WikiConvention Francophone 2024
- WikiCon 2024
- WikiIndaba 2024
This project will follow these participations, learnings, and reports by participating members.
| Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 |
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See also: Ideophagous presenting two specific goals at the opening ceremony (min 52:15):
 
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| AI Sauna |
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The AI Sauna is a side event that took place in Helsinki, Finland, right after the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, where some participants in the later also joined, in addition to other actors in the Artificial Intelligence arena, or those who seek collaborations involving AI applications, such as in preserving archives and libraries. The event was held at the National Archives of Finland over two days, 5-6 May 2024.
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Research project
- Goals
- One publication
Doing... - Attending one conference
Done
- Members
- Tasks
- Finished
- Meeting 1 (21.01.2024)
- Meeting 2 (04.02.2024)
- Meeting 3 (11.02.2024)
- Meeting 4 (18.02.2024)
- Meeting 5 (25.02.2024)
- Meeting 6 (10.03.2024)
- Complete preparing the panel about Darija Wiktionary
- Participate at the conference at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (24-26 April)
- Planned
- Complete writing paper (State of the art of Moroccan Darija Wikipedia)
- Results
In the period of 25-26 April, three members of the user group participated in the 8th Internation Congress of Moroccan Arabic, an academic conference organized at the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain. Both Anass Sedrati and Mounir Afifi participated in person, while Reda Benkhadra joined through Zoom in both days.
In this conference, the focus was about Moroccan Darija in the digital era, with a considerable highlight over the Wikimedia project. In that sense, our group participated with two main contributions:
- A communication about our research paper entitled "Standardizing Darija: Collaborative Approaches in the Moroccan Darija Wikipedia", detailing the state of the art of the Darija Wikipedia, from its inception until today (with over 10 000 articles); and
- A round a table about "Darija Wiktionary: Building a Collaborative Moroccan Darija Dictionary", where we took the opportunity to explain the work done by the team in the Darija Wiktionary, that is currently in the Incubator, and the next steps related to it.
An important aspect of the conference was the participants of researchers from different universities and countries (Poland, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Morocco), who were all researching on Darija, and directly interacting with the material produced in the Wikimedia projects. Sitting in the same room as these notable researchers was a very valuable moment for our team members, who could both advocate the importance of free knowledge in helping under resourced languages, and get several inspirational ideas for collaborations and future ways of working.
Finally, the conference was also an occasion for our group members to enrich the Wikimedia projects, with pictures of notable participants who have a Wikipedia page, but were missing pictures, such as Farouk El Marrakchi, Marcin Michalski, and Mena Lafkioui, who all have now good images in their profiles in different languages, thanks to their participation in the conference.
Pictures of the event uploaded to Commons can be found in this category.
Goals
[edit]- Complete edit-a-thon 1
- Find other venues for collaboration
Achievements
[edit]- Articles created: 26 (14 on arywiki, 10 on mtwiki, 2 on arwiki)
- Number of Participants: 14 (10 from Wikimedia Morocco and 4 from Wikimedia Malta)
Members (Wikimedia Morocco)
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Finished
[edit]- Meeting 1 (15.02.2024)
- Meeting 2 (date 14.05.2024)
- Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 1 list
Not completed
[edit]- edit-a-thon 2 (only 4 articles were created)
