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Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
Location of Myanmar
Location	Myanmar
Country code	MMR
Legal status	voluntary and non-profit organization
Approval date	31 January 2020
Main office	Yangon
Official language(s)	Burmese
Other language(s)	English Kachin Kayah Karen Chin Mon Rakhine Shan
Affiliations	ESEAP
Mailing list	wikimedia-mm
Twitter	Myanmar Wikipedia
Facebook	MWCUG Myanmar Wikipedia

Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group (MMR) is a Wikimedia user group for people living in, interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to the neighboring countries and around the world.

Objectives

• Organize outreach program and workshop online or offline to promote Wikimedia projects in Myanmar
• Help people in Myanmar learn how to contribute to Wikimedia projects
• Help minority languages users in Myanmar to setup their own Wikimedia projects
• Gather more Myanmar related data to contribute to Wikimedia projects

Activities

Planned

• Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Shan Wikipedia at Taunggyi, Shan State in January 2020
• Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Mon Wikipedia at Mawlamyaing, Mon State in February 2020
• Co-operate with Phandeeyar Accelerator (www.phandeeyar.org) to conduct monthly workshop in Yangon in 2020
• Co-operate with Ministry of Education to start off Wikipedia in Education initiative
• Co-operate with Ministry of Culture to start GLAM-initiative in Myanmar

History

• Organize Myanmar Wikipedia Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009
• Participate at NetMonday event organized by Telenor Myanmar as Main Contributor and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Dagon University, Yangon in 2014
• Participate at similar NetMonday event and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Mandalay University, Mandalay in 2014
• Organize Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Mandalay University, Computer Science Department in 2014
• Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Yangon, Myanmar on October 2018
• Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Mandalay, Myanmar on November 2019
• Organize Wikipedia Workshop in Taunggyi, Myanmar on March 2020.
• Organize Wikipedia Online Workshop via Zoom on November 2020.

Wikimedia Projects of Languages Spoken in Myanmar

Language	Projects	Articles	Pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users
Burmese	Wikipedia	107,251	236,546	814,824	4	116,323	140
	Wiktionary	125,020	130,150	935,890	2	9,253	15
Shan	Wikipedia	13,329	31,518	62,681	2	4,181	19
	Wiktionary	34,153	40,338	88,510	2	703	10
	Wikivoyage	171	1,987	7,323	2	426	8
	Wikibooks	133	4,010	9,953	2	267	5
Mon	Wikipedia	1,893	6,484	42,361	4	3,547	13
	Wiktionary	45,706	65,615	85,813	1	1,233	12
Pa'O	Wikipedia	2,611	6,678	28,462	1	1,294	15
	Wiktionary	2,190	2,963	9,949	1	201	4

Strategy 2021

Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.

Contact information

• User:Zawthet
• User:Ninjastrikers

Affiliations Committee Resolutions

• Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group