Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group/Reports/2021 Annual Report/en
This report covers the period from May 1st 2020 to April 30 2021.
Introduction
This year 2020, had been a special year for all of us with the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted our activities of course but had also been the year the community shows its resiliency adapting itself to new ways to contribute to the sum of all knowledge in all forms: Editing Wikipedia, Contributng to Commons, LinguaLibre, Wikifon projects and many others.
Activities
Since our official recognition by the wikimedia movement, we've done many activities and projects to make the open knowledge accessible to all in the country. Among them, we have:
| Activity | Date | Where | Results |
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| Wikipédia:Mois de la contribution 2021/Cotonou | March 20, 2021 | Blolab, Cotonou. | Introduction and discovery of the Wikipedia environment, creation of user page by all participants, articles have been improved: Mylène Flicka, Christine Ouinsavi, Océanne Mylène Ganiero. Dashboard link here and there |
| Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Benin | June 15 to July 31, 2020 | Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19 | * Total number of participants 32 (160%)
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| Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Lancement de la communauté le 12-12-2020 | December 12, 2020 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Introduction to gender bias and Wikipedia with account creation and user pages. Details in the Dashboard here |
| Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier du 19-12-2020 | December 19, 2020 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Discovery of the Wikipedia interface and its different tabs;
First contribution through improvements to articles including the Cotonou International Women's Film Festival, Reckya Madougou, creating a draft and how to work on it. Modification of a visual editor or Wikicode article and the comparison between its two menus (visual and Wikicode); le lien ici |
| Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Edit-a-thon du 26-12-2020 | December 26, 2020 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Improvements on articles, infobox writing, Addition of portal, internal links section and sub-sections, work in a draft addition of sources etc. Dashboard ici |
| Projet:Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session du January 2nd, 2021 | January 02, 2021 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Introduction to gender bias and Wikipedia with account creation and user pages, and article improvements |
| 5 ème Atelier du groupe les sans pagEs Bénin du January 09th, 2021 | January 09, 2021 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Introduction to Wikipedia, Registration of users on the page without pages + project charter, Introduction to gender bias, the ins and outs and the need to adhere to it.
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| Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 16th, 2021 | January 16th, 2021 | Blolab Cotonou | Three (03) Improved Articles: Marie-Élise Gbèdo, Rosine Vieyra Soglo, Christine Ouinsavi discovery of Wikicommons and uploading of photos by participants. Illustration of the infobox of the article Marie-Élise Gbèdo by inserting the images. |
| Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 23rd, 2021 | January 23rd, 2021 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Introduction to Wikipedia, Criteria for article eligibility, Wikipedia:Founding principles, finding Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources, how to search for them and how to put them in an article. |
| Les sans pagEs/Bénin/Cotonou/Atelier Edit-a-thon Session of January 30th, 2021 | January 30th,2021 | Campus numérique francophone of Cotonou, University of Abomey-Calavi | Learning about wikicommons, Introduction to wikidata: Uploading of the workshop photos by a new contributor and all the others: Contributors each put a photo on commons as a practice and on Wikidata. |
Wikipédia:Wikiconcours/mars 2021 (avec trois (03) équipes)
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From March 20 to May 02,2021 | Online by discussion groups ici, là et là | the article on Restitution of the cultural heritage of Benin by France was chosen by the jury in the framework of the contest
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| Commons:Wiki loves folklore | February 1st – February 28th, 2021 | Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19. | * Total number of participants 45 (210%)
more details in the report grant [1] |
| Wiki 21 jours palmarès | March 1st – April 1st, 2021 | Online | * Total number of participants: 06
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| Wikipédia:WPWP 2020 | Start date: July 1, 2020 at 12:00 am-Competition closes: August 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm | Webinar on Zoom due to COVID 19 | Promote the use of photos collected during various photo contests, organized by Wikimedia communities, in Wikipedia articles. |
| Wikipedia Fon contribution workshop | March 27th, 2021 | Participants register pronounciation of some Fon words on the Wiktionary using the LinguaLibre tool | 2 new Fon Wikipedia articles created + fon words pronounciation registered. Upload on Commons and on Wiktionary on the way. |
Projects
Project:Les sans pagEs/Benin: launched in December 2020 for regular workshops for women and by women to bridge the gap and the critical gender bias on Wikipedia with regard to Africa in general and Benin in particular. The results of the first cohort are here
Events & Conferences
Wikimedianss from Bénin had been honored to celebrate with our friends Wikimedians from Guinea-Conakry the 20th wikipedia birthday. From January 11th to January 18th, Fawaz, one of our members represented all the wikimedia community of Benin at the celebrations.
Legal status
Since July 2020, The user group is legally recognized as a non-profit organisation in Bénin under the name Wikimedia Bénin.
Board composition
- President: Mahuton POSSOUPE
- General Secretary: Mermoze ADODO
- General Treasurer: Fawaz TAIROU
Partnerships
During this year we consolidate our relationship with our partners:
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikimedia France
- Wikimedia Guinée
- Les Sans Pages
- Campus Numérique Francophone of Cotonou
- BloLab FabLab
- Iroko FabLab
We have also set new partnership with SOS BIODIVERSITY, a local association defending the biodiversity.