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WikiFranca

The association of French-speaking (francophone) groups of the Wikimedia Movement

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In 2012, a first francophone chapters meeting was held at Wikimania Washington to present projects and exchange new ideas. Among the countries represented at this meeting were Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland and Tunisia. It was during this meeting that a collaboration between french speaking affiliates became evident.

At Wikimania Hong Kong in 2013, french speaking affiliates and wikimedians had a second meeting, where WikiFranca was formalized into existence and a coordinator was elected. The first global project was organized in October 2013, called Mois international de la contribution francophone (International Francophone Contribution Month) where 26 workshops took place in 21 cities around the world. The event had a worldwide media coverage and as the years went on, new affiliates or informal groups of editors joined WikiFranca, participated in the francophone month of contribution and added to the event. In 2019 70 workshops and presentations (in French) were registered on the campaign, gathering about 1200 people in 17 different countries.

The WikiConvention Francophone was first organized in 2016 as a response to the need for french speaking wikimedians to meet at an event where English wasn't required, and for people setting up new wikimedian communities to learn from their peers and get a motivation and confidence boost. The event has proved quite efficient in both aspects, and we recently added learning days to it in order to strengthen capacity building. It is also during the wikiconvention that the most important decisions about structuring WikiFranca usually take place.

The decision to become a usergroup was voted during the 2019 WikiConvention francophone in Brussels.

Founding Members & Designated Contacts for Wikimedia Foundation

For Wikimédia France, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin - 1st Contact
For the Groupe d'utilisateurs wikimédiens de la Guinée), Aboubacarkhoraa - 2nd Contact
For Wikimedia Belgium, .Anja. (talk) 09:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire Yasield (talk) 10:00, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Representing Wikimedia TN User Group (Tunisia), Sami Mlouhi --Dyolf77 (talk) 16:22, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For Wikimédia Sénégal --Mouha.ibs (talk) 16:29, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For Algeria Wikimedians User Group, Bachounda
Representing Wikimedia Canada, Benoit Rochon
Representing Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group, Geugeor
For Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group, Mahuton
For Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group, VALENTIN NVJ
Representing Wikimedia MA User Group, Soukaina Abelhad
For Wikimedia CH, Mourad Ben Abdallah
For Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad, Abdallahbigboy
For Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti, Rency Inson Michel
For Wikimedia Community User Group Mali, KAG1LP2MDIAKITE
For Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group, Reda Kerbouche, Ahmed Houamel

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Reda Kerbouche (talk) 09:13, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Opsylac (talk) 09:36, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hatonjan (talk) 09:36, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dyolf77 (talk) 15:34, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
.Anja. (talk) 18:09, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mahuton (talk)
Geugeor (talk) 10:51, 15 Mai 2020 (UTC)
Aboubacarkhoraa (talk) 11:26, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
JP Béland (WMCA) (talk) 15:33, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Papischou (UG CI) --Papischou (talk) 16:54, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
BamLifa (WMDRC - UG) --BamLifa (talk) 07:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yasield (talk) 08:34, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Rémy Gerbet WMFr (talk) 13:04, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
--Mouha.ibs (talk) 00:53, 20 May 2020 (UTC)--Mouha.ibs (talk) 00:53, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
KAG1LP2MDIAKITE (talk) 00:25, 23 Mai 2020 (UTC)
Adoscam (talk).--Adoscam (talk) 17:57, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Abdallahbigboy (talk)
Yasmine Djibril Ahmat (talk)
Modjou (talk) 21:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
CapitainAfrika (talk)
Michael David MILLER : BiblioQC (talk) 20:30, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Great11 (talk) 00:52, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
--Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 14:09, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ha-Loan Phan (talk) 01:31, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kitanago (talk) 02:39, 26 january 2021 (UTC)
Kani Beat (talk) 22:59, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]