WikiIndaba conference 2019/Questions & Needs

This page is meant for listing inputs, ideas, questions and recommendations in order to understand needs and expectations participants of WikiIndaba 2019 in Abuja, FCT, Nigeria. This will help us to shape the meeting's agenda and (or) talks to ensure each participant fully contributes to the planning process and maximizes the opportunity of the Training at the Conference. Each Community is required to state

WIKI INDABA 2019	Program	Attend	Location	Fringe Events	Logistics	Contact	Documentation
	Submissions Program Questions & Needs	Registration Information Scholarships Participants' List Friendly Space Policy	Conference Venue and Hotel	Social Events Meetups	Travel Information and Visa Assistance Conference Guide	WikiIndaba 2019 team	Documentation Report

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings: present an overview of what you can do or you want to share with others.
• Strengths: Your program's (or user group’s) strengths or what you are doing well. You can list here current, ongoing, and planned projects, or areas where your group or project has been successful.
• Weaknesses: Your program's (or user group’s) weaknesses or what you could use help with. List challenges you have faced on projects or as a user group. How would you like to improve in that area?
• Interested in attending?

• Questions if you have any?

As a way of collaborating after Indaba each scholarship seeking participant will be required to host an event to share their experience and new things they learnt at the Conference upon their return

In addition, also complete the Community Engagement Survey. This is to help the organizers know your views, preferences and expectations of the conference.

Nigeria

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ...Heurist (talk) 07:14, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Gambia

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ...

• Questions if you have any?

Ghana

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:

1. Presentation on the animation test project on Wikimedia projects.
2. Presentation on Wiki Loves Festivals
3. How other communities can tap from Ghana's experience in organizing multifarious projects in their respective countries.
4. What other communities can learn from Ghana's approach to partnership.

• Strengths:

1. Vibrant community with appreciable number of experienced editors.
2. Strong inclusion and presence of female contributors in most of projects.

• Weaknesses:

1. Retention of new volunteers.
2. Volunteer burnout.
3. Low activity on local language Wikipedias.

• Interested in attending?

1. —M@sssly^✉ 16:09, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Rberchie (talk) 17:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Guinea

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:

  improve its methods of contribution

  Facilitating African integration through synergy of actions in Guinea

• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Aboubacar keita
2. Mamadou Saliou Diallo
3. Fatoumata Lamarana Diallo

• Questions if you have any?

I would like to know how to import photos and create articles without them being deleted being your own work with your national sources? would not it be questioned that Wikiindaba pleads with Wikipedia to revisit this universal source coast for articles being given that we have sites venerates and people famous at the national level than has the international ones in Africa.

South Africa

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• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ...

• Questions if you have any?

Egypt

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• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ...

• Questions if you have any?

Morocco

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Anass Sedrati (talk) 21:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Algeria

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
  1. Presentation of the MOOC-Test projects for indigenous languages (Withe Wikimedia Tamazight) --Reda Kerbouche (talk) 08:31, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
• Strengths:
  1. We can share our experience of creating MOOC's in different projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikitests.. ex)
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Reda Kerbouche (talk) 17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Fayçal Rezkallah (talk) 08:30, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?
  1. As a representative of two African group and member of Wiki Indaba Steering Committee, I would like to participate with the Wikiindaba 2019 organizing group, to gain experience for me and my groups.--Reda Kerbouche (talk) 08:31, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Ivory Coast

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ...

• Questions if you have any?

Cameroon

Inputs for the conference: - Could help anyone around technical stuff related to MediaWiki and Wikimedia related tools.
- Taking down of notes for some sessions in the conference.
- Answer questions around Wikimedia affiliations or a small session.
- Coordination of sessions to make sure everything goes smoothly and session participants follow up.

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:

- A handful of developers that can help folks answer technical questions around Wikimedia projects.
- Event organisation and follow up support.

• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

Eugene233 (talk) 21:51, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Alangi Derick (talk) 17:19, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
Rosalie r054l13 (talk) 06:54, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

AminouT (talk) 14:13, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Charlotte Pelagie (talk) 23:50, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Uganda

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• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Erina Mukuta
2. Alice Kibombo

• Questions if you have any?

Tanzania

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Antoni Mtavangu (talk) 19:24, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
2. Iddy John (talk) 12:30, 25 August 2018 (EAT)

• Questions if you have any?

Namibia

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• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Dumbassman (talk) 18:08, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Botswana

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• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. ... Setsile (talk) 11:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Tunisia

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:

Tunisia's approach in organizing conferences and events

Implementing new projects consistenly

• Strengths:

Dynamic user group

A noticeable female presence among the users

• Weaknesses:

Attraction of new users

Less content in Arabic comparing to French or English

• Interested in attending?

1. Sami Mlouhi (talk) 11:31, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Youssef Ben Haj Yahia (talk) 21:51, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
3. Mounir Touzri (talk) 12:23, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Chad

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Abdallahbigboy (talk)
2. Abakar B (talk)

• Questions if you have any?

Zambia

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths:
• Weaknesses:
• Interested in attending?

1. Isaac Kanguya (talk)

• Questions if you have any?

Greece

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:

- Extensive experience in Wikimedia Education projects, lately using the innovative sandbox tool (secondary, i.e. Middle and High School).

- Linking of a Wikimedia school project with app development on MIT's CC-licensed AppInventor.

- Getting mentally ill patients actively involved in Wikimedia Education Projects, and taking it a step farther with Wikitherapy

• Strengths: Wikitherapy - i.e., Bringing the Wikimedia projects into therapy settings with patients adding value - has been piloted in Greece and replicated in Argentina. Interest has been expressed from Germany, Spain and India to apply the concept in their communities: see here for details.
• Weaknesses: Recruiting editors to help develop the offline medical Wikipedia app in Greek. Currently medical content on Greek Wikipedia is lagging far behind other languages and I would like to explore ideas on how to improve the situation (e.g. how to attract health professionals to become Wikipedia editors, or about using IIAB in healthcare settings to demonstrate medical Wikipedia's value to a target recruitment audience: has it been done in Africa, and with what success?)
• Interested in attending?

1. --Saintfevrier (talk) 08:54, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any?

Germany

Inputs for the conference

• Valuable learnings:
• Strengths: How to collaborate with cultural institutions (I got certified by the German Commission for UNESCO on 9 September 2018).
• Weaknesses: How to retain new users. I have some success in that but have no solution that really works.
• Interested in attending?

1. Gereon K. (talk) 14:52, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

• Questions if you have any? What steps are taken from the organizers to guarantee security in Abuja?

Others interested in attending

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