Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Events/2024 Activities
The new year began with community members sharing their insights and thoughts through videos, which were then disseminated via various channels. Additionally, the community celebrated Wikipedia turning 23, receiving numerous goodwill messages shared across social media platforms. The user group also issued a call for the first annual micro grant, encouraging individuals, hubs, or fan clubs to initiate projects. Below is a summary of all the events.
ACTIVITIES edit
Campaigns and international events edit
Learning webinars edit
--will be updated soon
First half micro grant activities edit
Fixing reference errors on Igbo Wikipedia 3.0, 13/04/2024 edit
There are about 500+ articles in Igbo Wikipedia that have these error, and correcting these errors would help in improving the quality of Articles in Igbo Wikipedia thereby working towards the project 2030 movement to diversify the WIKIMEDIA platform by involving the underrepresented. It will also tend to improving the old editors skills and enlightening them more on how to remove *red links* mostly seen on translated articles. A mini contest was also organised for the new participants and three lucky winners got their gift vouchers. It was held on Satu, 13th April, 2024 at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State. At the end of the event, a total of 25 editors logged into the tracking dashboard with a total of 400+ edited articles and 800+total edits as at 16th April, 2024, 23:59 (WAT). see event dashboard] for more details
This event was coordinated by User:Senator Choko