Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project

The Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project (also known as DYCP) is a collaborative project between the Deoband Community Wikimedia and the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group. The project aims to bridge knowledge gaps related to global Muslim academia, history, culture, heritage and scholarship on the Yoruba language Wikipedia, and document "Yoruba-related" content on Urdu Wikipedia. The project was initiated on 25 June 2022, and its first iteration was organized in July 2022.

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Welcome to the landing page for Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project!

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Announcements

The third drive of the project is scheduled to run from 20 September to 30 September 2024.

Project objectives

The primary objective of the DYCP is to help document knowledge related and envisioned by the themes associated with DCW on Yoruba language Wikipedia, and in return, help document Yoruba-related knowledge on Indic-languages Wikipedias such as the Urdu Wikipedia.

Milestones

Dorcas Omolade training newbies on how to contribute to the July 2022 Drive of the project.

July 2022 Drive (Successfully completed on 29 July 2022)