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Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
Location of Myanmar
Location	Myanmar
Country code	MMR
Legal status	voluntary and non-profit organization
Approval date	January 23, 2020
Main office	Yangon
Official language(s)	Burmese
Other language(s)	English Kachin Kayah Karen Chin Mon Rakhine Shan
Affiliations	ESEAP
Mailing list	wikimedia-mm
Twitter	Myanmar Wikipedia
Facebook	MWCUG Myanmar Wikipedia

Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group (MMR) is a Wikimedia user group for people living in, interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to the neighboring countries and around the world.

Objectives

• Organize outreach program and workshop online or offline to promote Wikimedia projects in Myanmar
• Help people in Myanmar learn how to contribute to Wikimedia projects
• Help minority languages users in Myanmar to setup their own Wikimedia projects
• Gather more Myanmar related data to contribute to Wikimedia projects

Activities

Planned

• Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Shan Wikipedia at Taunggyi, Shan State in January 2020
• Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Mon Wikipedia at Mawlamyaing, Mon State in February 2020
• Co-operate with Phandeeyar Accelerator (www.phandeeyar.org) to conduct monthly workshop in Yangon in 2020
• Co-operate with Ministry of Education to start off Wikipedia in Education initiative
• Co-operate with Ministry of Culture to start GLAM-initiative in Myanmar

History

• Organize Myanmar Wikipedia Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009
• Participate at NetMonday event organized by Telenor Myanmar as Main Contributor and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Dagon University, Yangon in 2014
• Participate at similar NetMonday event and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Mandalay University, Mandalay in 2014
• Organize Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Mandalay University, Computer Science Department in 2014
• Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Yangon, Myanmar on October 2018
• Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Mandalay, Myanmar on November 2019
• Organize Wikipedia Workshop in Taunggyi, Myanmar on March 2020.
• Organize Wikipedia Online Workshop via Zoom on November 2020.

Wikimedia Projects of Languages Spoken in Myanmar

Language	Projects	Articles	Pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users
Burmese	Wikipedia	107,777	242,406	833,333	4	120,734	114
	Wiktionary	125,041	130,385	936,695	2	9,563	8
Shan	Wikipedia	13,600	32,014	63,957	2	4,577	19
	Wiktionary	37,010	43,940	96,597	2	794	8
	Wikivoyage	176	2,003	7,665	2	499	3
	Wikibooks	148	4,372	10,526	2	341	3
Mon	Wikipedia	1,921	6,564	43,699	3	3,897	16
	Wiktionary	49,204	72,273	95,408	1	1,449	15
Pa'O	Wikipedia	2,646	7,123	29,471	1	1,650	12
	Wiktionary	2,480	3,356	10,763	1	297	6

Strategy 2021

Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.

Contact information

• User:Zawthet
• User:Ninjastrikers

Affiliations Committee Resolutions

• Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group