Kurdish Wikimedians User Group/report/2020-21

This page is about annual Kurdish Wikimedians User Group activities during Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2021.

Workshops & Seminar

Recorded workshop for medical students, 2020.

• An online workshop for medical students from University of Kurdistan Hewler (3rd November, 2020) - Done
• A seminar about contributing Wikipedia for Salahaddin University-Erbil lecturers (25th April, 2021) - Done

Activities

A seminar for Salahaddin University lecturer. It was presented by Mohammed S. Noori with the help of user:Kurd2021

• To use Social Media to encourage people use, edit Kurdish Wikipedias (Kurmanji, Sorani and Zazaki) and other Wikimedia projects - Done.
• Mohammed S. Noori (user:kushared) attended a Rudaw Radio program for celebrating 20th Anniversary of Wikipedia (Link Facebook - Youtube)
• Opening technical workshops with help of Small wiki toolkits.
• Regular intragroup online meetings.

Contests

This year due to COVID situation we didn't plan to ask for grants and make contests. Instead of that, we encourage Kurdish editors to participate in global contests such as (Wiki Loves Folklore 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2020, WikiGap Challenge 2021, Wiki Loves Sport 2021 and WikiForHumanRights 2021) - Done

• user:Kushared won third position in Wikigap Challenge + Winner of Best Artcile
• User:Kurd2021 won first position in Wiki Loves Sport 2021

Projects

• One Featured Articles per a Month (11 participants/editors)
• Kurdish Visibility on Wikimedia Commons (project page coming soon)
• Video tutorials in Kurdish about using Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects (Project page coming soon)

Others

Translating Wikimedia related pages into Kurdish such as (Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections, Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Elections, Grants:MSIG/About and Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021)