Wikimedians of arab User Group

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Wikimedians of arab User Group
مجموعة مستخدمي ويكيميديا العربية

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The Wikimedians of arab User Group is a proposed regional User Group of the Wikimedia Foundation. Its mission is to promote the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects in Arab World.

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 under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content without the payment of royalties.

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A Twitter account and a Facebook page and group are active to promote Wikimedia projects and spread information among the Wikimedia community in Arabic World.

Mission

Promote the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects in the Arab World.

Roles the User Group plays

To represent the Wikimedia Foundation to the in the arab world.
To promote Wikimedia projects and free content in general and to encourage the use of Wikimedia resources in education (primary, secondary and tertiary levels).
To recruit technically and non-technically minded people to participate to Wikimedia projects. This may involve some education on the use of Mediawiki software.
Organisation of conventions, conferences, meetings, workshops, contests, etc.
With a local group, research should be easier. The group works together to gather information on a range of topics not currently covered.

Possible projects

organizing a meeting every two months, to discussing the activities of the users group
Organize Wikipedia arabe Day
Coordinate Wiki Loves contests in Arabic countries, and organize this contests in new countries
WikiArabia Bootcamp
Online and offline workshops abouts wikipedia projects

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Kindly send your emails to Wikiar-llists.wikimedia.org and you will be contacted as soon as possible by a member.

You can subscribe to our mailing list Wikiar-llists.wikimedia.org, here.

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