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Wikimaps User Group

The Wikimaps User Group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged with a variety of activities with geographic information, from across the movement. As long as you work with anything regarding maps, such as creating maps for Wikimedia Commons, or working on geographical data, such as adding coordinates to Wikipedia articles or creating WDQS query map views in Wikidata, you are very welcome to join us!

Chapters (37)

Thematic organizations (2)

CAT Amical Wikimedia
WPM Wikimedia Medicine

Wikimedia user groups (153)

ACD AfroCROWD User Group
A+F Art+Feminism User Group
ALB Wikimedia Community User Group Albania
ARE Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
AWUG Arabic Wikimedians User Group
AZ Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
BA-SRP Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska
BAK Wikimedians of Bashkortostan User Group
BAQ Basque Wikimedians User Group
BEN Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
BLT Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
BOL Wikimedistas de Bolivia
BY Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus
CEE Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
CMW Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
CI Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
COD Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group
CPH Commons Photographers User Group
DWU Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
DCW Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
DZ Algeria Wikimedians User Group
EG Egypt Wikimedians User Group
ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
ELiSo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
EZY Wikimedians of Erzya language User Group
GDV Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
GE Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia
GH Wikimedia Ghana User Group
GIN Wikimedia Community User Group Guinea Conakry
GMG GLAM Macedonia User Group
GR Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
GWU Gungbe Wikimedians User Group
HDW Hindi Wikimedians User Group
H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
HKG Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong
HTI Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti
IE Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group
IQ Iraqi Wikimedians User Group
IR Iranian Wikimedians User Group
IMD Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
IN-KL Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
IN-MR Marathi Wikimedians User Group
IN-Tech Wikimedians of India technical user group
JWK Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili
KAZ Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group
KWU Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
KVL Karavali Wikimedians User Group
LGBT Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
LEV Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
LSP Les sans pagEs User Group
LV Wikimedians of Latvia User Group
WPL Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
MA Wikimedia MA User Group
MAI Maithili Wikimedians User Group
MAP Wikimaps User Group
MATH Wikimedia Community User Group Math
MK-SK Shared Knowledge
MLA Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia
MLI Wikimedians of Mali User Group
MLT Wikimedia Community User Group Malta
MMR Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
MW-SG MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
MYS Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
NP Wikimedians of Nepal
NG Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
NGA-YO Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
NWR-Hist North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
NZL Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
OFWA Open Foundation West Africa
PAN Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
PER Wikimedians of Peru User Group
PH-WC Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group
PWU Paiwan Wikimedians User Group
LK Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka
ODW Odia Wikimedians User Group
ROU-MDA Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
RU-Don Don Wikimedians User Group
RU-NC Wikipedians of North Caucasus User Group
RU-SPB Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group
SAT Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
SPU Wikimedia Community of Saint Petersburg User Group
SQ Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
STE Wikimedia Stewards User Group
SUD Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
SVK Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group
SVN Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group
TAT Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group
TN Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
TR Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
TRK Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
TWG Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
TZA Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
TZM Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group
UGA Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
US-CAS Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
US-GAP Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
US-LA Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group
US-MN Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group
US-NCT North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group
US-NE New England Wikimedians
US-OH Ohio Wikimedians User Group
US-SAN San Diego Wikimedians User Group
VNM Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
WAL Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group
WAM Wikipedia Asian Month User Group
WB Wikibase Community User Group
WBG West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
WC Wiki Cemeteries User Group
WCS WikiClassics User Group
WDG WikiDonne User Group
WDU Wikimedistas de Uruguay
W&E Wikipedia & Education User Group
WGR Wikigrannies User Group
WGU Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
WIS Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
WJ WikiJournal
WK? Whose Knowledge?
WREN Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
WMB Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil
WNA WikiConference North America
WOW Wikimedians for offline wikis
WSC Wikisource Community User Group
WSD Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
WSP Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish User Group
WT Wikitongues User Group
WW WikiWomen's User Group
WWH Wiki World Heritage User Group
WUL Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
RWA Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda
WIR Women in Religion Wikimedia User Group
WIR Tyap Wikimedians Proposed User Group
SWU Saudi Wikimedia User Group
WCK Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
LAG Wikimedians of Lagos User Group
KAS Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
PH-ADV Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
TJK Tajik Wikimedians User Group
US-IN Wikimedians of Indiana User Group
JPN Wikimedians of Japan User Group
BFA Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group
ECU Wikimedistas de Ecuador
TCD Wikimedians of Tchad User Group
ZMB Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia
CYP Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus
BWA Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
NER Wikimedia Community User Group Niger
IN-TE Telugu Wikimedians User Group
MDG Wikimedia Community User Group Madagascar
SEN Wikimedia Community User Group Sénégal
COG Wikimedians of Republic of Congo User Group
NAM Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia

NAM Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group
NAM Wikimedians of Singapore User Group
NAM Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group

Project scope

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Wikimaps represents the international mapping community in the Wikimedia projects. The members of the group work with Wikimedia & geography related projects in many different ways. The user group is a lightweight non-organization. It serves the geographically spread community by providing a place for discussion to mature ideas together and bringing them forward in the Wikimedia community.

Activities

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The Telegram group is the main form of activity for the group.

Two contact persons are elected for the next year before the end of each year in an election on these pages. At the same occasion the group elects a person to represent the group in the Wikimedia Conference.

Reporting of projects takes place collaboratively on the Reports subpage.

Membership

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Anyone is welcome to join the group and the discussion.

Contacts

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Updated for 2021

Goals

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Wikimaps activities focused previously on historical mapping, but the user group is made for all mapping related activities. The goal is that people with many different ideas for using the geographic component in their projects can come together, share their expertise and help each other forward. Bringing the interests and expertise together will help in showing the importance of geographic data in Wikimedia projects.

Plans for the future

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These topics are discussed on a subpage. Join the discussion!

Currently, the group has decided to remain lightweight with minimum governance. In the future this may change if the group finds interest in arranging activities requiring a heavier governance model.

Wiki Loves Maps Helsinki was an event hosted in Helsinki in 2015. A similar event took place in Norway at #Hack4NO. Wiki Loves Maps might become a yearly event as a meeting and a creative hack event between the OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia and other open geodata communities, such as humanitarian mapping, governmental open geodata, data journalism or digital humanities groups.