Wikimedians of Persian User Group

The Wikimedians of Persian User Group (WPUG) is a community of volunteers serves to expand the Wikimedia Movement into the university ecosystem in Iran, with the goal of improving free knowledge in Persian Wikimedia projects. There are hundreds of universities in Iran comprised of tens of thousands of students. However, the ecosystem of these Iranian universities (students, professors, etc.) has very little awareness of the Wikimedia movement, its projects and goals. Thus, there exists a huge neglected capacity in this landscape. This volunteer group aims to enable and fulfill that untouched potential.

Wikimedians of Persian User Group
Iran
Location	Iran
Country code	IR
Founding date	2023
Official language(s)	Persian
Other language(s)	English
Key people	Arash ImanFakhri Borandokht

Focus, goals

We are going to focus on the academic ecosystem of Iran and enable its neglected potential for initiating active contributions, in order to expand the Wikimedia Movement's goals.

• Encouraging students to improve content related to their major on Wikipedia
• Integrating the Wikipedia Education Program in universities curriculums
• Encouraging teachers for reading Wikipedia in the classrooms
• Providing online and in person training courses in order to grow the academic Wikimedia community
• Activating interdisciplinary collaborations among students of different majors on Wikimedia projects
• Organizing museum tours for students to hold upload-a-thons in order to train them and make Commons better
• Organizing edit-a-thons for students to upload old free books on Wikisource
• Collaborating with student associations of various disciplines to participate them in Wikimedia projects
• Facilitating inter-university collaborations to hold Wikimedia activities
• Creating friendship and collaborative projects between user-students studying foreign languages with wiki communities and affiliates of the same languages

Planned Activities

• Celebrating one million Persian Wikipedia articles
• Organizing a Wikipedia Education Program for German language students at Shahid Beheshti University: Including several Meet ups & Workshops.
• Organizing a Wikipedia Education Program for French language students at Shahid Beheshti University: Including several Meet ups & Workshops.
• Organizing a Wikipedia Education Program for Spanish students at Tehran University: Including several Meet ups & Workshops.
• Keeping up Education Program for History department at Shahid Beheshti University for several courses like seven years ago.
• Organizing museum tours for students and upload-a-thons, and teach them how to upload images to Commons (GLAM)
• Organizing a Wikisource workshop: Digitization of historical sources (GLAM)

History

Since 2016, outreach activities were founded at a large university in Iran. The activities focused on spreading Education Program. After seven years of continuous activity, now an independent and creative community has been formed that expands the activities related to the Wikimedia movement in the Iranian academia.

Contact information

• Name: Arash
• Email: arashasewikigmail.com
• Name: ImanFakhri
• Email: imanfakhrihotmail.com

Members

1. Arashツ 23:13, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
2. Borandokht (talk) 23:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
3. ImanFakhri (talk) 23:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
4. Mr MohammadJavad M (talk) 23:26, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
5. Niyumard (talk) 19:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
6. Ariobarzan (talk) 22:03, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
7. Amir Eftekhari Milani (talk) 08:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
8. Freshman404^Talk 20:40, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
9. Sormeh goodarzi (talk)
10. ‍‍‍‍Fatemi ♪
11. Amin khozaymeh (talk)
12. Amir (talk) 18:12, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
13. In fact 19:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
14. Taranet (talk) 01:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)