Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group

The Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group is a potential Wikimedia user group that is already dedicated to promoting the Wikimedia projects in Inari Saami and to increasing the visibility of Inari Saami in digital linguistic landscapes.

Objectives

Maintain and grow the Inari Saami Wikipedia via events and activities organized by the user group
Recruit new contributors by fostering an environment on the Inari Saami Wikipedia where speakers feel comfortable writing their language at their own skill level and to equip them with the skills necessary to continue contributing to the Wikimedia projects
Promote awareness of the Inari Saami language, and through it the other Saami languages, and also advocate for their speakers to be able to use these languages across the Wikimedia projects
Increase the visibility of Inari Saami in digital linguistic landscapes
Continue to develop the use of Inari Saami in structured data on the Wikimedia projects and advocate for it to start being used on non-Wikimedia projects that already use Northern Saami structured data (for example, General Finnish Ontology (Q27303896) and Yle topic tagging)
Provide support and assistance for other Saami languages and their communities in their Wikimedia journey should they request it

Activities

This user group plans to arrange and participate in the following activities:

Upcoming scheduled events

November 25 to December 1, 2024 – Weekly competition about children's and youth literature (together with the Norwegian Wikipedias and the Northern Saami Wikipedia)
November 25 to December 1, 2024 – Weekly competition about language (together with the Finnish, Northern Saami, and Livvi-Karelian Wikipedias)
December 1 to December 31, 2024 – Weekly competition about Christmas-related topics (together with the Norwegian Wikipedias and the Northern Saami Wikipedia)
December 2 to December 8, 2024 — Weekly competition about Finland
December 3, 2024 — Wikipedia workshop in Inari, Finland and online as part of the Inari Saami Language Seminar organized by Sámi Giellagáldu (Q76118554)

Types of events and activities

Hybrid edit-a-thons and workshops at least twice a year in Inari with the possibility of joining in online as well and/or participating via satellite events from the south of Finland. Participants will be able learn to edit, create, and improve content on the Wikimedia projects and to be supported one-on-one during the process if need be.
Meet-ups so that group members and anyone else who would like to join in can get to know each other and exchange ideas, with the aim of fostering a strong community spirit.
Joint editing contests with other Wikipedias:
- Weekly: the Finnish, Northern Saami, and the Livvi-Karelian Wikipedias
- Monthly: the Norwegian Wikipedias and the Northern Saami Wikipedia
- Special editing contests as arranged with the Wikipedias listed above such as the month-long Women in Red in April and Wiki Loves Monuments in the fall
Continued collaboration with the University of Oulu, Finland
- Written Use of Inari Saami II (5 credits) – One of the course assignments is to write a Wikipedia article.
- Written Use of Inari Saami III (10 credits) – One of the course assignments is to write a Wikipedia article.
Collaborations with other user groups and affiliates to increase the coverage and awareness of Inari Saami language and culture outside of Finland
Participation in relevant conferences
Translation of more of MediaWiki Core into Inari Saami. MediaWiki (most important messages) is completely translated and the Core is at 43% as of October 18, 2024.
Promotional activities

Past activities

Edit-a-thons and hackathons
- Edit-a-thon: September 7–8, 2024 in Inari, Finland and online
- Hackathon: September 4, 2024 at PaPaNa, Inari, Finland
- Edit-a-thon: January 27–28, 2024, Inari, Finland and online
- Edit-a-thon: September 23–24, 2023, Inari, Finland and online
- Edit-a-thon: 17–18 October 2022, Oulu, Finland and online

Presentations and conference participation
- Participation in and presentation at the Celtic Knot Conference 2024, September 25–27, 2024
- Participation in and presentation at the Arctic Knot Conference 2021, June 24–25, 2021

Presentations and conference participation during the incubator stage
- Participation in and presentation at WikidataCon 2019. Together with Susanna Ånäs.
- Participation in and presentation at Wikimania 2019. Together with Susanna Ånäs.

Weekly and monthly contests
- Weekly competitions together with the Norwegian Wikipedias and the Northern Saami Wikipedia
  - October 28 – November 3, 2024 Weekly competition about feelings
  - November 4–10, 2024 Weekly competition about USA politics
  - November 11–17, 2024 Weekly competition about insects
  - November 18–24, 2024 – Weekly competition about researchers and professors

History

The Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group builds upon the work started by Anarâškielâ servi (Q621246) (The Inari Saami Language Association), which is an organization founded on December 4, 1986, in Inari, Finland to promote and revitalize the then severely endangered Inari Saami language. The association and its members were instrumental in expanding the Inari Saami Wikipedia when it was still in the incubator stage, which resulted in the creation of the world's second Saami-language Wikipedia, the Inari Saami Wikipedia, on October 19, 2020. They continue to support the Inari Saami Wikipedia through various activities.

Contact information

You can use this wiki page's talk page to contact the user group. You can also contact us by using the contact information on the Anarâškielâ servi website.

Primary contacts for the Wikimedia user group

Muotâ
Yupik

Membership

If you would like to join our Wikimedia user group, please contact Muotâ or Yupik. Membership is not required to participate in our activities.

Current members

Anarâškielâ servi

If you would also like to become a member of Anarâškielâ servi (the Inari Saami Language Association), please send an email to the Membership Manager (please see our website for the contact details).