Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus

Wikimedia Community
User Group
Belarus
Wikimedia Community ; User Group ; Belarus
	; Belarus
Location	Belarus
Country code	BY
Approval date	July 15, 2015
Membership	29 (May 8, 2021)
Volunteers	3 (January 24, 2020)
Official language(s)	Belarusian
Other language(s)	Russian
Skype	biegSyakszxU
Website	wikimedia.by
Telegram	BrMxyQ665g8yuRwCH3KL3Q
Twitter	Wikipedyja
Facebook	1645396869043051

Other languages:

English · беларуская · беларуская (тарашкевіца)

Introduction

Belarusian-speaking users on CEE Meeting in Lviv, 2018

Vision

The need to take part in international Wikimedia life more actively has ripened now. Therefore it is necessary to be more organised and collaborative. User group can become the first step in Belarusian Wikimedia branch deployment.

Mission

User group unites active Wikimedians from all Belarusian Wikimedia projects and helps involving other Wikimedians in common deals, as well as developing their social impact through the creation and proliferation of free content, and keeping open principles in knowledge management and in self-government.

Aim

To make Belarusian Wikipedians' community life more vibrant through support and promotion of the local culture, the Belarusian language and free knowledge.

Objectives

Goals

To represent both Belarusian Wikipedias (classical and academic) in international relations.
To widen media presence and public awareness about Belarusian Wikipedia's community activities.
To make collaborative projects with other interest groups, social initiatives, NGOs and local communities in Belarus and abroad.
Last but not least, to support the the creation of a Wikimedia chapter in Belarus.

Strategical task

To organise and host the regional Eastern-Europe Wikimedia Conference.

Interested in external activities

To make mutual wikicamps with other user groups and chapters.
To build online bridges with Wikimedians from different affiliates.

Recent and Future Activities

Here is you can observe Wikimedia Community Belarus Activity from 2015 until now.

Wiki meetings

3 кастрычніка 2015, сустрэча, Беларусь – Wiki Meet-up, 3rd October 2015
19th of December 2015 – Reflection year activity
19th of March 2016 – Planning wiki expedition and Wiki Spring
21th of June 2016 – Second Annual meeting of User Group
10th of September, 2016 – Wiki-meet-up (planning and reports)
13th of December, 2016 – wiki meet-up: how to write bots.
21st of January, 2017 – Topic: Wikipedia and education
6th December, 2018 – report at be-tarask-wiki
10th of January, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-tarask-wiki
7th of February, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-tarask-wiki
11th of April, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-wiki
2nd of May, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-wiki
19th of September, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-wiki
28th of November, 2019 – Wiki-meet-up – link at be-wiki
2020: 27 February – 38th Wiki Meet-up (be-tarask), 24 September – 39th Wiki Meet-up (be-tarask).
2021: 15 January – 40th Wiki Meet-up (be-tarask, Wikipedia 20 celebration), 5 May – 41st Wiki Meet-up (be-tarask, Wikigap Challenge awards).
2023: 12 October – 42nd Wiki Meet-up (be-tarask).

Community

Founders and participants

Voluntary roles

Communicator (external relationships) - User:Mr._Zabej
Content manager (update meeting pages)
Event managers (regular meetups)
Translator (Interpreter) into English and Belarusian - User:W
Reporting - User:Da_voli

How to join us

You share our principles
Add your name and account name to the page in section "Founders and participants"
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