Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group/Reports/2022 Annual Report

. This report covers the period from May 1st 2021 to April 30 2022.

Introduction

edit

During the year 2021 and 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a fall which allowed the easing of the restrictive measures. This improvement allows more activity within the community: Wikipedia editing, contribution to Commons, Wikidat, LinguaLibre, Wikifon projects and many others.

Community growth & perspectives

edit

Despite the global Covid pandemic, the community keeps active doing projects and recruiting new members. We hope, to diversify the community by recruiting more women and having them take on more responsibilities in the community. To make our work visible and increase our notoriety, we launch our own website to share with the community our activities and projects and to create more awareness.

Activities

edit
Activities Project page Dates/période Lead Where Results Nouveaux contributeurs Anciens Total
wiki Loves Africa 2022 Benin 56
WikiForHumanRights Bénin 2022 Page projet: Ici et Ici 10 mars au 1er mai 2022 Saliousoft Bénin Dashboard 4 20
Wiki Loves Folklore Bénin 2022 Page projet: ici 1er Février – 28 Février 2022 Azogbonon Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi

25 participants

+544 photos uploaded

23 editors

31 created articles + 83 modified articles

25
Wiki Loves Africa Bénin 2021 Fawaz.tairou 27
Wiki Loves Earth Bénin 2021 Page projet: ici 15 mai au 30 juin 2021 Adoscam Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi

927 photos were uploaded by 28 participants (with 15 New Uploaders)

3 training and upload sessions were held in Abomey-Calavi

2 photo walk outgoing were held.

More details here

15 13 28
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 au Bénin Page projet: ici 1er Juillet 2021-31 Août 2021 Azogbonon Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi, Parakou, Kandi, Malanville, Djougou
29 registered
1108 images added, 29 users, 347 pages to improve on the Benin portal, and 166 articles created
fr Wikipedia and Fon Wikipedia incubator are improved. Ici
20 09 29
Wiki Loves Monuments Bénin 2021 27
Mois international de la contribution francophone Mois de la contribution 2022 au Bénin 1er mars 2022 au 31 mars 2022 Adoscam Cotonou,Porto-Novo-Parakou 50 participants including 20 newly registered

10 women in total registered

20 wikidata entries

20 articles created/improved on wikipedia

50 pictures on common

20 30 50
Weekend Wiki au Bénin novembre 2021 au 15 février 2022 Adoscam Cotonou,Porto-Novo 50 participants including 20 newly registered

10 women in total registered

20 wikidata entries

20 articles created/improved on wikipedia

20 30 50
Edit a thon du rendez-vous régulier au Bénin Adoscam Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi-Porto-Novo + 42 participants created / improved + 42 articles with 06 online sessions and 07 face-to-face workshops. details here 40 42
Wiki Loves Folklore Bénin 2021 Page projet: ici 1er Février – 28 Février 2021 Azogbonon Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi, Parakou, Kandi, Malanville, Djougou
42 participants
858 uploaded photos
33 participants in editing
67 articles created or improved. Ici
42
2000WikiBjChallenge A campaign that reached the 2000 symbolic articles on the portal of Benin 2000WikiBjChallenge du 25 novembre 2021 au 31 décembre 2021 Adoscam Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi-Porto-Novo
Atelier de contribution Wikipedia Fon Fon Wikipedia once in two weeks Mah3110 Abomey-Calavi More than 300 articles created in the Fon incubator + 80% of the interface translated in Fon. 10

Projects

edit
  • Projet Communes Sans Images: this project that allows to better illustrate the localities of Benin to make them more visible on Wikicommons, Wikipedia and its other sister projects.
  • 2000WikiBjChallenge A campaign that reached the 2000 symbolic articles on the portal of Benin before December 31, 2021.
  • Depuis le premier trimestre 2022, l'association est dotée désormais d'un site web pour la visibilité des activités du User group

Partnerships

edit

We consolidated our existing partnerships and build new ones. We work with organization in Benin in outside to build a better free knowledge ecosystem in Bénin and to advance our wiki projects. Below a list of some of those organizations:

  • Conseil des Activités Educatives du BENIN (CAEB): a training, education and development education NGO that provides scholarships to deserving students to give them a chance to grow.
  • LABIS Porto Novo: Center for Innovation, Capacity Building and Youth Action on Employability and Civic Engagement
  • L'envol: A coworking space, a support structure for entrepreneurship and support for social and solidarity economy structures.
  • Internet Society Chapitre du Bénin : Which works to ensure an Open, Secure and Accessible Internet to all in Benin and especially with Women & Internet. Their objectives is to promote women and their involvement in the Internet Ecosystem of Benin.

Our activities in the media

edit
edit