Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group

Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group (Turkish: Wikimedia Topluluğu Türk Dilleri Kullanıcı Grubu) – is a Wikimedia User Group created by active members of Wikimedia contributors who contribute and develop Wikimedia projects in Turkic languages. It aims to promote and participate in the projects offered by the Wikimedia Foundation and to organize the Turkic community. One of its core missions is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or other licenses that allows everyone to freely use the knowledge, and to distribute and modify said content for free. Also, our main goal is to develop Wikimedia projects in Turkic languages, as well as to help and encourage Turkic-speaking users and communities.

Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
Turkic World
Location	Worldwide
Country code	TRK
Legal status	WMF User Group
Founding date	16 October 2019
Approval date	31 January 2020
Main office	Istanbul
Official language(s)	Turkish & Turkic
Other language(s)	Azerbaijani Gagauz Crimean Tatar Karachay-Balkar Kazakh Kyrgyz Bashkir Tatar Uzbek Turkmen Uyghur Siberian Tatar Karakalpak Nogai Chuvash Tuvan Sakha Altai Chulym Khakas Shor Tofa Dolgan Kumyk
Key people	Leaders Mehman Ibragimov HakanIST
Budget	Depends on Grants
E-mail address	wmtrcuggmail.com
Facebook	@turkic.wm

History

The decision to create a Turkic Languages User Group was made by users of Wikimedia projects speaking Turkic languages at a meeting in Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm. The main goal of this user group is by creating a common platform for Wikimedia users to develop Wikimedia projects in Turkic languages.

Goals

• Promote awareness of the Turkic Wikimedia projects;
• Support and develop Turkic communities;
• Engage the community and gain new contributors for the User Group and Wikimedia projects;
• Cooperate with other institutions with similar missions and visions to promote free knowledge movement in Turkic countries;
• Legalization of FoP in Turkic countries;
• Increase content about Turkic people in Commons.

Activities

• Regular meetings of members of the Wikimedia TRC User Group (via Video Call and etc.)
• Trainings;
• Cooperation with various organizations;
• Lectures;
• Workshops;
• Editathons;
• Wikipicnics.
• Regular recognition of users, actively contributing towards the growth of Wikimedia projects in Turkic languages.

Events

1. Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012
2. Turkic Meeting of participants of Turkic languages Wikimedia projects in Esino Lario, Italy, during Wikimania 2016
3. Turkic languages meetup during WMCON 2017, Berlin
4. Meeting of participants of Turkic languages Wikimedia projects in Stockholm, during Wikimania 2019.

• Participants: Mehman Ibragimov, HakanIST, Wertuose, Eldarado, A.Aida88, Frhdkazan, Mardetanha, Basak, Тимерхан.

Upcoming Events

• Turkic Marathon – expected to be held in 2020.
• Wikimania 2020 – meeting of representatives of the User Group in Bangkok.
• Wikidata Trainings For Turkic Wikimedians and Wikipedians - will be held from October 29 to November 1, 2020, in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Conducting thematic competitions (both bilateral and multilateral) throughout the year.
• Monthly meetings.

Members / Interested in participating

1. Mehman 97 22:46, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
2. HakanIST (talk) 07:07, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
3. Sakhalinio (talk) 07:16, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
4. / --Frhdkazan (talk) 07:47, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
5. eldarado ^✉ 07:58, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
6. Basak (talk) 10:16, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
7. Superyetkin (talk) 12:18, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
8. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 14:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
9. --Emin • message 14:49, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
10. --Turkmen ^talk 15:08, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
11. A.Aida88 (talk) 19:43, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
12. --Samral (talk) 16:28, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
13. --Araz Yaquboglu (talk) 17:57, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
14. --NMW03 (talk) 22:32, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
15. YALIN BALTA (talk) 11:49, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
16. --Wertuose (talk) 13:30, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
17. / --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 16:00, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
18. --Visem (talk) 12:39, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
19. / --HalanTul (talk) 10:59, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
20. / --З. ӘЙЛЕ (talk) 11:04, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
21. Mardetanha ^talk 10:07, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
22. / --Sortilegus (talk) 21:22, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
23. --Ruhubelent (talk) 18:15, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
24. / --ZUFAr (talk) 16:43, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
25. / --Ryanag (talk) 17:13, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
26. Ibra~28 (talk) 08:35, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
27. / -- Borovi4ok (talk) 10:36, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
28. --Maor X (talk) 20:02, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
29. --Reda Kerbouche (talk) 15:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
30. --e.c. 21:02, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
31. —Baran (talk—Fandom talk page) 10:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
32. / -- Nachyn Kongaa 19:02, 13 March 2020 (UTC) (Çevrimiçi katılmaya çalışacağım & Онлайн киржилгеге киржиирин кызыдар мен.)
33. Nataev ^talk 12:33, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
34. -- Magurale (talk) 20:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
35. --ToprakM ^✉ 20:40, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
36. / --Baskervill (talk) 08:46, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
37. --Cavadxan1804 (talk) 07:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
38. --Kaiyr (talk) 15:21, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
39. --Batyrbek.kz (talk) 16:30, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
40. --Asadbek Botirqulov (talk) 10:56, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
41. --Qolcomaq (talk) 05:47, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
42. / -- Agilight --Agilight (talk) 10:44, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
43. / -- Karak-Kyzyl --Karak-Kyzyl (talk)

Contact information

E-mail: wmtrcuggmail.com

Contact Persons

• Mehman Ibragimov (mehmanwikimedia.ge)
• HakanIST

Affiliations Committee Resolutions

• Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group

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