WikiIndaba conference 2021/Jadnapac/Report
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Participant
[edit ]Sessions attended
[edit ]Below are the sessions I submitted and attended as a Speaker during the Wikiindaba 2021.
[edit ]- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/East Africa Wiki Communities Collaboration Discussion
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wiki Heritage in Africa
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Swahili Wikipedia for SADC Countries
Below are other sessions I attended as a participant during the Wikiindaba 2021.
[edit ]- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Maryana Iskander's Listening Tour
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wiki Loves Africa 2022
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wiki For Refugees in Uganda
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Challenges for Quality Control in Small Wikipedias
- Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021/Programme/Submissions/CEE Meets African Wikimedians
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wikimedia and African Libraries: envisioning future pathways
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Leveraging on the Youth Factor for a Sustainability
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wikimedia activities and the Sustainable Development Goals
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Wiki Loves Women Focus Group Panel discussion
- WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/State of Wikimedia in Africa
Connections made
[edit ]| New contact made | Some topics we talked about |
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| Houcemeddine Turki |
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| Phephile |
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| Kelly |
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Learning points
[edit ]Below are some of the key things I gained through attending Wikiindaba 2021 and through participating as a volunteer for the Wikiindaba 2021 Programs team.
- I learnt how to organize different submitted sessions and arrangement of those sessions in a form of Birds of a feather flock together, a form that made easy similar programs/topics to be grouped together to easy the discussions and help Wikimedians of the similar interests to network easily.
- I learnt new skills from my wonderful team members on how to organize the programs on meta
- I learnt how myself and my fellow community members can organize Wikiindaba event in Tanzania
- I learnt how scholarship was effective to ensure online participation of Wikimedians on this conference
Outcome
[edit ]- Work with my other fellow Wikimedians on establishment of East Africa Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH).
- Work on Establishment of Wiki For Universities (Wiki4Uni) project to help Wiki communities in SADC countries learn to contribute to swwiki and other WMF projects.
- Continue to support communities that seeks to add effort on the documentation of African Heritatge Sites on Wikipedia and other WMF projects such as Wikidata
- I will use the experince gained during Wikiindaba 2021 to organize similar events back in my community, example Wikiindaba 2021 in Tanzania in future.
- Use the learning from the presentations and insights discussed during Wikiindaba to build a sustainable community in Tanzania, East Africa and globally.
- Looking forward to implement WikiFor Refugees in Tanzania after having some experience from Geoffrey Kateregga on about this similar project in Uganda
- I will continue to network with other Wikimedians to explore more common areas of interest towards promoting open knowledge.
Special thanks
[edit ]I sincerly thank the WMF for supporting me and my other community members to participate in this conference. I would like to congratulate all the team members who participated in organizing this first ever amazing conference and all other fellow Wikimedians for participating in this conference. I hope to get connect more in future as we move on!