Wikimedians of the Levant/Reports/2016/2017 Report

This is the second annual report for Wikimedians of the Levant user group. It covers the financial and project year from May 20, 2016 until May 19, 2017. During this period, Wikimedia Levant hosted various activities both online and offline, with a particular focus on the Wikipedia Education Program and on recruiting university students from around the region.

Activities

Palestine

Education Program in Palestine

For a further resource, check Mohammed Hijjawi's blog post.

Fall 2016

Class	Participating students	Pages created	Pages expanded	Words added	Uploaded files	Article views
Cell Biology, Birzeit University	32 students	18 articles	23 articles	72.7K words	6 (used within articles)	8.33K views
Microbiology, Birzeit University	52 students	4 articles	12 articles	66.3K words	-	67.3K views

Spring 2017

Class	Participating students	Pages created	Pages expanded	Words added	Article views
Graduate Forensic Chemistry, Birzeit University	20 students	1 article	5 articles	2.88K words	89.8K views
Surveying at An-Najah National University	23 students	-	one article	49.9K words	150 views/day

7amleh workshops

Group of Palestinian wikipedians at 7amleh center, Palestine. .

In collaboration with 7amleh, we held a series of Wikipedia workshops in Ramallah:

First meetup October 15, 2016
Second meetup November 5, 2016
Third meetup December 3, 2016
Fourth meetup January 14, 2017
Fifth meetup February 25, 2017

HerStory Palestine

Awards ceremony for Her story volunteers - Wikimedia Levant activities - Palestine, An-Najah National University.

Campaign	Participating students	Pages created or expanded	Words added	Article views	Further resources
HerStory campaign at Annajah National University in Nablus	16 students	16 articles	15K words	Over 7K views	Blog post by Mohammed Hijjawi

Jordan

Education Program in Jordan

Spring 2017

led by Mossab Banat (Wikipedia education program team leader at the hashemite university):

Advanced Cell Biology (second edition) (course page), Skin pharmacological preparations (course page), food sciences (course page; it leads to 1 featured article i.e Skin whitening which was the first article in ar.wiki to be featured with the new policy of colleagues review), communication skill for nursing (course page), clinical skills lab (course page), respiratory system anatomy (course page; it leads to 1 featured article i.e hydrochloric acid), bioinformatics (course page), energy resources (course page; it leads to 1 featured article i.e neuclear reactor), wireless networks (course page), computer networks (course page; students in the course contribute in improving Internet protocol suite to be featured by adding 29,958 byte to the article) chemical research methods (course page) and information technology systems (course page) at Hashemite University
12 professors
163 new articles created (query)
500 students
2 featured articles and contribution by 29,958 byte to Internet protocol suite article to be featured.
Over 4200k bytes added (query)

Universities

A group of Turkish language students successfully trained to translate the tourism in Jordan article from Arabic to Turkish.

Netherlands

Arabic Wikipedia Workshop in Zwolle, Netherlands.

In collaboration with Wikimedia Nederland, and Stichting Syrische Vrijwilligers Nederland (SYVNL), a group that helps integrate Syrian refugees into Dutch society, we held a workshop to introduce a group of 14 Syrian refugees to the Arabic Wikipedia on March 10, 2017 in Zwolle. (see here and here).

Online activities

Wikimedians of the Levant organized and coordinated an editing competition in February-March 2017, with prizes donated by Sumou Society. The competition was open to all Arabic Wikipedians, and the main theme was "Science".

Campaign	Articles created	Of which met the competition's criteria	Of which scientific articles	Articles by unqualified users	Featured and good articles
Sumou competition.	694 articles	472 articles	241 articles	134 articles	8 articles