WikiUganda Community Engagement Meeting

Background

• The Wikimedia Community User-group Uganda has held annual planning meetings to prepare, grant applications, and make annual plans. The annual general meetings have been attended by the Core user-group volunteers first in 2019, and consequently inviting other active community members. The involvement of community members in the annual Planning meetings and discussion of the simple annual grant activities has happened on two occasions in 2020, and 2021.
• In order to have more input and community involvement in developing future grant applications, the user-group is carrying out community engagement meetings/sessions to sensitize, and have community members prepare for a pro-active role in coming up with future annual plans. Below are the discussion points, and outcomes of the first community engagement meeting.

Participants

No	Name	Organisation	Expectations or Motivation	Signature
1	Geoffrey Kateregga	Wikimedia Uganda	The future of Wikimedia in Uganda	Kateregga1 (talk) 07:01, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
2	Drake Tamale	Uganda Christian University	Meet new volunteers in the community	Tamdra (talk) 06:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
3	Romeo Ronald Lomora	Platform Africa/ South Sudan Wikimedia Community	Network with different communities	Lomoraronald (Lomoraronald) 06:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
4	Micheal Kaluba	Wikimedia User Group Uganda	Getting to know new people and learn more about Wikimedia projects	Micheal Kaluba (talk) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
5	Harriet Nambooze	Kibuli SS	To learn more about wikipedia uganda	41.210.146.173 07:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
6	Jaiksana Soro	Platform Africa	Exchanging ideas and co-creating the future plans that reflect our unique country, demographics and others.	jambujack (talk) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
7	Tonny Mpagi	Motivate Uganda	To learn more about wikipedia Uganda	Tonny Mpagi (talk) 07:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
8	Kenneth tumwine	epic uganda vacation	acquire new data editing skills on wikimedia	kenneth tumwine (talk) 07:05, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
9	Patricia Humura	Irise Institute East Africa	To know what is happening in the WikiUganda user group and to network	Patricia Humura (User talk: Patricia Humura) 5 March 2022
10	Sandra Aceng	Wikimedia Uganda	The future of Human Rights and gender digital divide in Uganda, network and be happy
11	Alice Kibombo	Wikimedia Uganda	Curious to meet with other volunteers and share experiences
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17	Ssemmanda Will	New Vision	.Curious to know more about Wikimedia and its future plans. . Meeting new productive people.	Ssemmanda will (talk) 07:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
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Program

No	Topic	Duration	Notes
1	Arrival and introductions	30 minutes	Everyone
2	Objectives of the event	30 minutes	Erina and Douglas (Socialisation event, Active involvement, Community Health - Status of the WikiUganda community)
3	sAPG review (2022)	120 minutes	Project Leads (Education, GLAM, Diversity and content generation)
4	Feedback on the 2022 annual plan	120 minutes	Sandra (Clarifications, areas of Involvement)
5	Strategic, and annual plan for 2023	20 minutes	Douglas (Get community ideas, Prepare for the Strategic plan engagement)
6	Social activity	60 minutes	Alice (Completed and upcoming Usergroup activities)

Outcomes

No	Topic	Feedback	Wayforward
1	Community Engagement	Proposal was made to make the community engagement bi-annual, for utmost participation, rather than participating in pre-determined projects. A suggestion was made for the Usergroup to showcase activities at public events, information days/sessions, and on social media. Community members were advised to propose activities from Wikimedia events that they have attended, for example Wikimania or WikiIndaba.	The next community engagement meeting will be communicated by the Usergroup.
2	Education	South Sudan members expressed interest in collaboration on an Education Project. There are secondary schools that needed such training opportunities that the User-group is providing. Categories for Luganda Wikipedia are needed.	Project Lead and Administrator will follow up with this.
3	GLAM	Patience, mentorship, and collaboration can help volunteer editors become good at what they are doing.	More Usergroup training sessions will be organised.
4	Diversity and content generation	South Sudan members requested for support on campaigns' Jury members. Partnerships were proposed with Photography companies. There's a need to motivate editors whose content or articles have been rejected.	Project Lead and Administrator will follow up with this.
5	Strategic plan	The Strategic process will be used for continuous engagement of volunteers.	Usergroup volunteers will be informed and further engaged during the advanced stages of the Strategy process.
6	Social activity	There will be more online or similar community engagement of more Usergroup volunteers.	User-group members will participate in User-group activities with a better/informed point of view.