Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group/Reports/2021 Annual Report

This report covers the period from May 1st 2020 to April 30 2021.

Introduction

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This year 2020, had been a special year for all of us with the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted our activities of course but had also been the year the community shows its resiliency adapting itself to new ways to contribute to the sum of all knowledge in all forms: Editing Wikipedia, Contributng to Commons, LinguaLibre, Wikifon projects and many others.

Activities

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Since our official recognition by the wikimedia movement, we've done many activities and projects to make the open knowledge accessible to all in the country. Among them, we have:

Activity Date Where Results
Wikipédia:Mois de la contribution 2021/Cotonou March 20, 2021 Blolab, Cotonou. Introduction and discovery of the Wikipedia environment, creation of user page by all participants, articles have been improved: Mylène Flicka, Christine Ouinsavi, Océanne Mylène Ganiero. Dashboard link here and there
Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Benin June 15 to July 31, 2020 Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19 * Total number of participants 32 (160%)
  • Number of new entrants 22 (146%)
  • Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 411
  • Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects 29 (58%)
  • Number of competition quality images 20 (5%). More details in the report grant here
Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Lancement de la communauté le 12-12-2020 December 12, 2020 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Introduction to gender bias and Wikipedia with account creation and user pages. Details in the Dashboard here
Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier du 19-12-2020 December 19, 2020 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Discovery of the Wikipedia interface and its different tabs;

First contribution through improvements to articles including the Cotonou International Women's Film Festival, Reckya Madougou, creating a draft and how to work on it. Modification of a visual editor or Wikicode article and the comparison between its two menus (visual and Wikicode); le lien ici

Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Edit-a-thon du 26-12-2020 December 26, 2020 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Improvements on articles, infobox writing, Addition of portal, internal links section and sub-sections, work in a draft addition of sources etc. Dashboard ici
Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session du January 2nd, 2021 January 02, 2021 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Introduction to gender bias and Wikipedia with account creation and user pages, and article improvements
5 ème Atelier du groupe les sans pagEs Bénin du January 09th, 2021 January 09, 2021 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Introduction to Wikipedia, Registration of users on the page without pages + project charter, Introduction to gender bias, the ins and outs and the need to adhere to it.
Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 16th, 2021 January 16th, 2021 Blolab Cotonou Three (03) Improved Articles: Marie-Élise Gbèdo, Rosine Vieyra Soglo, Christine Ouinsavi discovery of Wikicommons and uploading of photos by participants. Illustration of the infobox of the article Marie-Élise Gbèdo by inserting the images.
Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 23rd, 2021 January 23rd, 2021 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Introduction to Wikipedia, Criteria for article eligibility, Wikipedia:Founding principles, finding Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources, how to search for them and how to put them in an article.
Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 30th, 2021 January 30th,2021 Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi Learning about wikicommons, Introduction to wikidata: Uploading of the workshop photos by a new contributor and all the others: Contributors each put a photo on commons as a practice and on Wikidata.
Wikipédia:Wikiconcours/mars 2021 (avec trois (03) équipes)
  • équipes dont Wikipédia:Wikiconcours/mars 2021/Équipes/Équipe 15
  • Wikipédia:Wikiconcours/mars 2021/Équipes/Équipe 27
  • Wikipédia:Wikiconcours/mars 2021/Équipes/Équipe 28
From March 20 to May 02,2021 Online by discussion groups ici, et the article on Restitution of the cultural heritage of Benin by France was chosen by the jury in the framework of the contest
  • More than 13 articles created: Restitution des biens culturels du Bénin par la France, Royaume d'Allada,Royaume de Hogbonou, Musée Da-Silva, Musée des Masques d'Adjarra, Sida au Bénin, Lèpre au Bénin, Incendies au marché Dantokpa, Société de gestion des marchés autonomes, Inondations 2010 au Bénin, Polygamie au Bénin,Thérèse Waounwa, Bertille Marcos Guèdègbé,
  • Improved Articles: Marché Dantokpa,
  • The link for the Dashboard here
Commons:Wiki loves folklore February 1st – February 28th, 2021 Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19. * Total number of participants 45 (210%)
  • Number of new entrants 34 (146%)
  • Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 1.64K
  • Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects 88 (58%)
  • Number of competition quality images 752 (54,8%)

more details in the report grant [1]

Wiki 21 jours palmarès March 1st – April 1st, 2021 Online * Total number of participants: 06
Wikipédia:WPWP 2020 Start date: July 1, 2020 at 12:00 am-Competition closes: August 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19 Promote the use of photos collected during various photo contests, organized by Wikimedia communities, in Wikipedia articles.

pages want 2020 photos in Benin

Wikipedia Fon contribution workshop March 27th, 2021 Participants register pronounciation of some Fon words on the Wiktionary using the LinguaLibre tool 2 new Fon Wikipedia articles created + fon words pronounciation registered. Upload on Commons and on Wiktionary on the way.

Projects

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Project:Les sans pagEs/Benin: launched in December 2020 for regular workshops for women and by women to bridge the gap and the critical gender bias on Wikipedia with regard to Africa in general and Benin in particular. The results of the first cohort are here

Events & Conferences

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Wikimedianss from Bénin had been honored to celebrate with our friends Wikimedians from Guinea-Conakry the 20th wikipedia birthday. From January 11th to January 18th, Fawaz, one of our members represented all the wikimedia community of Benin at the celebrations.

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Since July 2020, The user group is legally recognized as a non-profit organisation in Bénin under the name Wikimedia Bénin.

Board composition

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Partnerships

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During this year we consolidate our relationship with our partners:

We have also set new partnership with SOS BIODIVERSITY, a local association defending the biodiversity.