Egypt Wikimedians User Group

The WikiAwareness Project, founded in 2019, aims to raise awareness about Wikimedia projects and encourage volunteering, Through lectures, designs, educational videos, and social media posts. (Read more » ) The User group's technical club was founded in 2024 and is dedicated to supporting development, programming, and technical activities in order to serve Wikimedia projects or free and open software. (Read more » )

An internal team founded in 2024, for photographers and photography activities, competitions, and supporting the concept of free images. (Read more » ) GLAM project in Egypt, founded in 2025, A project dedicated to User group's (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) activities in Egypt. (Read more » ).

Wikipedian Light of Knowledge (WLK) An initiative that was launched separately in 2019, but now it is part of EGWUG. The initiative aims to participate as an education program across universities, whether students or graduates, with the aim of making Wikipedia part of their academic activity and volunteering in it, as well as benefiting from different specializations in enriching Wikipedia. (Read more » )

January
Done

February
Done

March
Done

April
●くろまる Wikidata Workshop (World Book Day) - April 23
●くろまる Wiki loves Africa

May
●くろまる Edithon International Spanish Language Day

June
●くろまる Documenting Academic Biographies on Wikidata and Wikipedia June 2026
●くろまる Wikipedia Online sessions
●くろまる Wikiawarness sessions

July
●くろまる Edithon "21st Arabic Wikipedia Day" - July 11
●くろまる Wiki Automata Editathon July 2026
●くろまる "Yasser Quser" Edit Competition for Beginners
●くろまる Wikipedia Wants Photos Campaign

August
●くろまる Summer Camps July 2026 - August 2026

September
●くろまる Wiki Medicine Event (2 In-Person + 2 Online) September - November 2026

October
●くろまる Wikidata Birthday 2026 October 30
●くろまる Wikisource session

November
●くろまる They Said Campaign (Wikiquote)
●くろまる Wikiawarness sessions

December
●くろまる Edithon World Arabic Language Day December 18, 2026
●くろまる Wikimedia Egypt Conference 14th

Board of trustees: (elected in Feb 2026)

• Dr. Walaa Abdel Manaem (Chairperson)
• Ibrahim Elaidy (Executive Director)
• Donia (Liaison)
• Ahmed Nagi (Treasurer)
• Mohamed Ouda
• Summer Kamal (non-voter Member)
• Amr Fathy Nagy (non-voter Member)

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Staff:

• Amr Fathy Nagy: project manager (Paid role)
• Yasmin Sheha: Events planner (Paid role)

Organizers:

• Sohila Elshaaer: GLAM Team leader – Acting (Voluntary)
• Summer Kamal: Photography Contest Supervisor (Voluntary)
• Gerges Shamon: Tech Hub team Leader – Acting (Voluntary)
• Ahmed Faris: Wiki Awareness team leader (Voluntary)
• Ahmed Farrag: Web Technical Support (Voluntary)

• Resolution of the Affiliation Committee to recognize the User Group (July 2014)
• Renewals from 2015 WMCon Eligibility Renewal Sprint – December 2015