Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group/arz

The Tamazight User group, is a group who works on projects and contents in Tamazight language and of the Amazigh culture.

Tamazight is a set of languages derived from Numidian language, also known as Old Libyan. They form a branch of the family of Chamito-Semitic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, or Afrasian) and cover a large geographical area: North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, via Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, as well as the Sahara and part of the West African Sahel, with many speakers in Mali and Niger.

Tamazight is written, from the middle of the first millennium BC, using the Tifinagh alphabet. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Tamazight has mostly been written using the Latin alphabet or Arabic alphabet, although Tuareg still use Tifinagh.

الاتصال

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Facebook: Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
Twitter: @WikiTamazight
Mailing list: wikimedia-tamazight lists.wikimedia.org
Office: 5180 Queen Mary, suite 409B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Objectives

Promote the use of Wikimedia projects by Tamazight speakers.
Help Tamazight speakers learn how to edit Wikimedia projects.
Organize gatherings of Tamazight speaking Wikipedians.
Create Tamazight Language Education Programs.
Put more data in Tamazight.
Make partnerships (photo or edit-a-thon contests, etc.) with the local chapters of the countries where Tamazight speakers exist, and with Tamazight or Amazigh associations.

Presentation since Yennayer
Workshop with private school
Workshop at Montreal

Activities

All meetings reports are published on the specified Meta page.

See Before: Code of Conduct

Keeping events safe

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Keeping events safe

Edit-a-thons for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and Wikidata.
Promote editing of Tamazight content on Wikimedia projects.
Trainings around Tamazight on how to edit Wikimedia projects.
Taken photos around the Amazigh culture and historical places and lifestyle.

History

2007, request & Creation of Wikipedia taqbailit
2007, Request for new Wiktionary Kabyle
2015, Request for new Wiktionary Tacawit
2016, Beginnings of creation of the Tacawit language in the French Wiktionary.
2016, Beginning of the translation of the Wikimedia interface in tacawit and tachelhit language.
2017/2018, November, Organization of a workshop on the Wiktionary in tacawit language in Batna, Algeria.
2017, July, workshop Wiktionary in tacawit language in Montréal (library Saint-Michel)
2017, July, workshop Wiktionary in tacawit language in Montréal (BAnQ)
2017, August, workshop Wiktionary in tacawit language in Montréal since Wikimania (BAnQ)
2017, August, workshop Wikidata /infobox, Kabyle language in Montréal since Wikimania
2018, March, workshop Wiktionary in tacawit language in Montréal since the month of contribution (francophonie).
2017/2018, Record pronunciation of tacawit language in the French Wiktionary.
2018, Requests for new languages/Wikidata Tacawit
2018, 1st, Statistics of French wiktionary on the tacawit language at the Wikiindaba Conference in Tunis.
2018, Wikimania Cape Town, presentation of The African's Wikipedia (Kabyle, Darija, and Tacawit Wiktionary) and the Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group by Emna Mizouni
2018, Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group, do presentation of the Tacawit projects. by Ahmed Houamel

Activities by year

26 july 2018: Internet Workshop (how to contribute in the Wiktionary).
30 july 2018: Wiktionaty workgroup.
1 august 2018: Weekly video meeting.
8 august 2018: Wiktionaty workgroup.
9 august 2018: Weekly video meeting.
16 august 2018: Wiktionary workgroup.
17 august 2018: Content Production in incubator and Wiktionary.
24 august 2018: Weekly video meeting.
30 august 2018: Weekly video meeting.
1 September 2018: Workshop in Montreal.
2 September 2018: Start the MOOC of the Tacawit Wiktionary.
Octobre presentation Reda Kerbouche at Wikiconvention Francophone 2018 at Grenoble in France

2019

17 august 2019: Panel Wikimania Stocholm Minority Languages in Africa ex:Tacawit language, Darija & other Tamazight languages (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ).
7 september 2019: WikiconFr Bruxelles, presentation Including minority languages in Wikimedia projects, a strategic approach to teach.
Wikiarabia, October 2019,Marrakesh, Morroco, Workshop learning Tifinagh, by Abdellah Bouzandag
8 november 2019 Workshop Wiktionary Kabyle language and Tatoeba Shawiya language in Montreal, by Muḥend Belqasem
15 november 2019 Workshop Wiktionary, Lingualibre Shawiya language in Montreal, by Ahmed Houamel.

2020

Covid context

29 August 2020, Workshop live about Wikasegzawal Tacawit and Edit-a-thon online, Zinou will presenting Workshop about Wikipedia, online to. Three Wikimedians Reda Kerbouche, Zinou Yahaoui and Ahmed Houamel will be online.
25-31 2020 Contact and Discussion (online and phone) about strategy 2030 Ahmed, Zinou, Fahed, Anass, Idhurar, Reda) last octobre.
31 October 2020, participate to liveStreaming about strategy 2030, organizer by Wikifranca
November, ..., WikiKsour Zinou Yahaoui, photos on commons, project
29 november meeting SWAN Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network
1 December, meeting Strategy with WikiFranca
6 December, meeting about strategy Global Conversation Ahmed Houaumel will be present
7 December, presentation by Ahmed Houamel, Importance of digital, case of Wiktionary and Lingualibre, Wiktionary chaoui, online event Rêvons la Casbah, organized by Association Arts et Patrimoine d’Alger, Event online.

2021

January : Celebration Wikipédia 20 years, Reda Kerbouche lunch video
At this event, we have done a presentation about our project WikiMOOC in Tacawit, also about the history of the user group. In the last minutes of the first hour, we have shown a video from our community wishing happy birthday to Wikipedia.
March and April Pictures from Minoterie narbonne Hussein Dey, Algiers by Selma Kasbadji, These files are a donation sent by its author to the Wikimdia project, via the Citizen Heritage Inventory platforms, during an event organized by this for-profit company, which works in the field of safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Organizer: Reda Kerbouche
March 2021, Editahon since Mois de la contribution francophone, subject: Tamazight (culture) and Francophonie (culture) at Montreal east. Event Online
June 2021 ContribuLing presentation by Reda Kerbouche
Wikimania 2021 présentation by Ahmed Yahaoui and Reda Kerbouche. many members was online
WikiArabia Algeria, online, since October, two presentations WikiKsour and Wiktionary
WikiConvention fr, online, November 2021, potage lingualibre Bot and tacawit Wiktionary
WikiIndaba online, presentation, Bot lingualibre on Wiktionary Tacawit.

2022

Discussions and reorganization the group, election of board members, and The Office will be relocated in Canada because of the logistics is better from this country.
Wikimania 2022
Wikimedia Summit
WikiArabia Dubai, presentation by members.
WikiConvention francophone: only one presentation by Ahmed Houamel, Wiktionary.
March and April project Wikimedia Commons Pictures from Timgad since 2022, organizer by Ahmed Yahaoui
Wikidata birthday 2022

2023

Activity Training online Wikipedia

See Before: Code of Conduct

Training Formation Wikipedia
29 January 2023 meeting on messenger (Ahmed Houamel, Aziz Chetara and Ahmed Yahoui) about activity agreement to develop author's articles Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other projects Wikimedia with les sans pagEs.
Mois de la Francophonie-Tamazight 2023, Autrices tamazight
GLAM Tamazight projects
Start project Save languages and words and cultures Tamazight in danger of extinction
WikiForHumanRight2023 Campaign Tamazight
Participate at Campaing WikiMaghrebEnvironment: Tachlehit, Shawiya, Kabyle, Derja, etc.
Wikimania 2023 Singapore Presentation Tamazight on Wikimedia projects, Ahmed Houamel.

2024

Since April 21 at The Wikimedia Summit 2024: we participated

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