Wikigrannies User Group/ Report2020
2020 events edit
March 17 edit
En: Bashkortostan National TV channel BST has broadcasted an interview with Wikipedia volunteers about 15th anniversary of the Bashkir Wikipedia, where Wikigrannies also performed [1]. They told a story of the emergence of the Bashkir Wikimedia movement and of a user group "Wikigrannies-Wikioleseyther", which has begun to perform its first steps in 2015. The idea to organize a Wikigrannies group was born at the Wiki-Ural seminar held in Izhevsk in 2016. In 2020, the user group expanded and became International. On the International Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019, held on October 11-13 in Belgrade, Guzal Sitdykova (Guram52) made a report on the activities of Bashkir wikigrannies movement. As a result, there was a proposal to unite all elder Wikimedians all over the world. On 26th of October, at the meeting of Wikimedians of Bashkortostan, it was decided to create a "Wikigrannies User Group". The initiative was supported by Violetova, Camelia.boban,Başak, Yupik. The Wikimedia Foundation has recognized the group of Wikigrannies for a year with extension prospects, starting from February 02, 2020. Later on, Narine Muradyan has joined the group. Bashkir Wikimedians attract to their activities volunteers from rural remote areas or older people. The Bashkir Wikipedia has more than 52 thousand articles and ranks 31st among other Wikis.--Il-Gil (talk) 09:42, 21 May 2020 (UTC) Users Guzel Sitdikova, Zaituna Nigamatzyanov, Zufar Salikhov, Minsylu Abdullina took part in the talk show "TV Center" of the Bashkir satellite TV channel. There was a presentation of a new user group. There was also a conversation about the history and current state of the Bashkir Wikipedia.
March 18 edit
The head of the burzyansky wiki club Kuncilu Kutlubaeva held a presentation of Wikipedia in the village Alikovo. The presentation was attended by Gadamshin Ramazan, Ishbulatova Fayruza, Abubakirova Roza, Gadamshina Raisa, Baymukhametova Aigul, Zaripova Alsyu . And Yulmukhametova Zuhra from Old Subkhankulova checked Wikipedia and got the first lessons.
March 20 edit
Kimberli Mäkäräinen har gjort over 54 317 bidrag på Wikimedia-prosjektene. Men enda mer viktig enn antall bidrag, er innsatsen hun gjør for nordsamisk Wikipedia og arbeidet for tilgang på samisk innhold på nett generelt. Hun er byråkrat på nordsamisk Wikipedia og har lagt ned ett imponerende arbeid for denne wikien. Kimberli har vært helt sentral i arbeidet til Wikimedia Norge for mer samisk kunnskap på nett, og vi gleder oss til fortsatt masse gøy samarbeid. Gratulerer, Kimberli![2]
COVID-19 - Our activities edit
April 14 edit
Başak: I am busy with Wikipedia more than ever. Every week I write min. 3-4 articles for Turkish Wikipedia. I take part at international contest and edit-a-thons such as Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 and International Roma Day Edit-a-thon. Me and my colleagues keep organising trainings for university students. We talk to university professors and ask them give Wikipedia assignments to their students. They happily agree, because now they have to make distant education and they would like to new online activities for engaging their students. Then we make video-conference to make presentations in their class-hours. Nowadays, i also work for organising an edit-a-thon at April 30th, international Jazz Day. We were planing to meet at Istanbul for the event but now the plans have changed. It will be an online event. We'll have a zoom session to help new users for creating articles on Turkish jazz musicians. Now, i also have time to teach myself how to run sparql queries at wikidata. I feel very lucky for having Wikipedia and Wikidata to keep myself busy all the time i stay at home.
Guzal Sitdykowa:I have been staying at home for 13 years, so the isolation conditions are familiar to me. And even the speech can not be about a walk in the city and participation in any activities.All communications are made via phone and social media. Only bread I bake myself at home and I give home-made bread to children as a gift.Self-isolation is the most favorable time for those who write in Wikipedia. We have a group on Facebook, there are also posts from foreign participants.
Aprel 15 edit
Armineaghayan:During this period of isolation I am working and curating Art+Feminism campaign that runs in hy wiki from March 16 - May 1, 2020. I planned to have 3 edit-a-thons during this period but COVID-19 stopped it so all these meetings with art talks and artist-wikipedias meetups will be held when the emergency situation is over. In the scope of the campaign wikicommons got some photos of artists and activists.
But meanwhile the Armenian editors are working hard on several wiki projectsː CEE Spring 2020, Art+Feminism 2020, Voyage to Nakhchivan, Music project etc.
З. ӘЙЛЕ I don 't think life has changed dramatically because of caronavirus.Free time has become more, we communicate with children by phone.I am busy searching for new materials for Wikipedia. I like to write about culture and history.
it: Camelia.boban
In smart working (lavoro da casa). Appena finito l'edit-a-thon per la Giornata internazionale dei rom. Camelia (talk) 21:20, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Апрель 15 edit
Рәшиҙә Ғизәтуллина
The height of village everyday life, not before the virus. It is necessary to improve the site. While granddaughter Arina does not go to kindergarten, also in self-isolation, they began to study Lilia Musina's alifba (primer) with her. A very handy guide! The child does not fumble over letters and words, but thanks to the wisely selected text, she can read one fairy tale every day! Today we read the fairy tale "The Fox and the Crane". “Оlasey (grandmother), why did they visit? Why are they without masks? And we have a quarantine, right? Why don't they have quarantine? " - asking aloud questions, the granddaughter was able to read a rather big text!
Көнһылыу Ҡотлобаева My job is to write an article for Wikipedia. Before quarantine, I wrote articles at home, too. When the quarantine was announced, I wrote articles from List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded. Three articles I wrote myself, one article translated from Russian wikipedia.
I improved two articles from the list List of articles every Wikipedia should have. Constantly writing participants three from our area. Search for new members is currently suspended due to quarantine. --Һәҙиә (talk) 17:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
April 18 edit
Violetova
Several off line projects are already cancelled because of coronavirus outbreak. But we still have on-line things to do. I took part in the International Roma Day Edit-a-thon 2020 from 7-12 April 2020. I am helping on-line to Wikipedian in Residence, who managed to get materials out of the Museum of Natural History of North Macedonia, and shared them with several active Wikipedians to work on. From 15 April - 15 May there is an editing contest for High School students on mk.wiki. My job was to share the project page with the GLAM Macedonia's EDU coordinators and other teachers we collaborate with. I am Project and Events Grants committee member, and this days we started to scoring the grants proposals. I have a lot to do while living at the mountain house during the quarantine. - Violetova (talk) 17:20, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
May 18 - International Museum Day edit
Narine Muradyan
I would like to tell you a little bit about Alaverdi's Wikiclub. Alaverdi is one of the most beautiful places in Armenia. So, in our club, in addition to writing articles and developing the Armenian content of Wikipedia, we implement various projects. In particular, we organize discussions on various topics, invite different specialists, who share their experience with club members, and actively participate in the community's life.
In this period of self-isolation, we work online, implementing various interesting projects. I would like to tell you about one of them. It is customary in our club to organize workshops on different holidays or special days, during which we write an article about that event. We divide the article into parts, each of the editors translates his part, and at the end, with everyone's consent, we dedicate it to one of our club members. I should mention that the club members participate in creating joint articles with great enthusiasm and responsibility. Lately, during one of these joint editions, we created an article about the Вики-өләсәйҙәр. --Նարինե Մուրադյան (talk) 16:32, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
3 July edit
Turkic Marathon 2020 ended, in which Bashkir Wikigrannies took an active part, as well as members of the international user group Wikigrannies User Group - Basak, and although she does not share the Turkic heritage of Wikipedia, a member of the user group Italian Camelia (Italian) submitted articles to the marathon.
September 30 edit
From August 7 to September 30, 2020, Bashkir Wikigrannies took part in the competition Encyclopedia Core and wrote articles not only for the Bashkir, but also for the Tatar encyclopedias. The largest number of articles in the Tatar language was written by Guram52. Our Italian colleague Camelia.boban actively takes part in the activities of the "Wikibabushki" group on Facebook, she also has her own group on this site.