Egypt Wikimedians User Group

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Egypt Wikimedians is a Wikimedian user group that has the goal of supporting Wikimedia projects in Egypt, supporting Egyptian Wikimedians, and becoming the recognized chapter in Egypt. Recognized by WMF affiliations committee in July 2014.

If you live in Egypt, then you can participate in our events in person, if you live in other countries you still can participate in any activity or project we have online. Feel free to add your name to the interested members list below and to ask any questions on the discussion page.

The user group hold and support the following activities:

• Edit-a-thons to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to enrich content about Egypt or work on and develop a certain topic.
• Meetings for the Wikimedians in Egypt to exchange ideas and to check what support do they need to continue editing Wikipedia.
• Editing contests to encourage existing users edit Wikipedia and to encourage non-users join.
• Photography trips and contests to encourage users upload photos to commons.

Egypt Wikimedians User Group
Egypt
Location	Egypt
Country code	EG
Approval date	July 27, 2014
Main office	(N/A)
Staff	(N/A)
Official language(s)	Arabic
Other language(s)	English and Spanish
Chief Coordinator	2
Budget	(N/A)
Affiliations	Wikimedia Foundation
Website	https://www.wikimedia-eg.org/
E-mail address	wm-egypt@wikimedia.org
Mailing list	Wikimedia Egypt
Facebook	Facebook page

Wikimedia Egypt UG has organised WikiArabia 2017, the third annual meeting of participants from the Arab region, in Golden Tulip Flamenco Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, from October 23-25, 2017 to expose, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and perspectives on Wikimedia projects in the Arab countries.

Wikipedia Egyptian Program (WEP) in Egyptian Universities has enriched Arabic Wikipedia with Featured & good articles.

• 96 Courses in 13 Egyptian universities.
• 1519 Participants.
• 7689 New articles.
• 68 Featured articles.
• 63 Good articles.
• 3 Featured portals.
• 4 Featured lists.
• 106.307.515 Bytes Added

• Links of blogs & newsletters of WEP in Outreach.

Wikimedians in Egypt have organized many photography trips and contests.

current board of trustees: (elected in Jan 2024)

• Walaa Abdel Manaem (chairperson)
• Ibrahim Elaidy (Executive Manager) (contact)
• Donia (chief communications officer) (contact)
• Mohamed Ouda (Treasurer)

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• staff: TBA

Starting February 1, 2024, all new members must register via the group administration form (link ).

The names on the following list are managed by the membership department's staff. Please do not add your name directly here and must follow the instructions above.

• Email: wm-egypt@wikimedia.org
• Facebook page
• Twitter/X
• Instagram account

• Egypt Wikimedians User Group - July 2014
• Renewals from 2015 WMCon Eligibility Renewal Sprint - December 2015

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Categories:

• Wikimedia User Groups
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• Annual affiliate report due July
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