Planning Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi

Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
	; Burundi
Location	Burundi
Country code	BDI
Approval date	In Process
Volunteers	30
Official language(s)	Kirundi, French, English
Other language(s)	Swahili, Kinyarwanda
Key people	Ferdinand IF99, Gilbert Ndihokubwayo
Twitter	Wikimedia Community User group BURUNDI @UserBurundi
Facebook	@WikiBurundi
Instagram	@WikiBurundi

Planning Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi is a Planning user group of Wikimedia projects contributors who have been meeting in Bujumbura since September 2019 serving to extend the reach of Wikimedia activities in the country.

The aim of this group is to create awareness for Wikimedia and its projects and thus bring new volunteers on board, and help them to understand the benefits of Wikimedia in our country. We will then edit and add contents to Wikimedia projects in Kirundi (national language), French and English.

Objectives

Represent the Wikimedia Foundation to the community of wikimedia Burundi contributors.
Promote wikimedia projects and free content in general, and encourage the use of wikimedia resources in education and in the promotion of Burundian culture in Kirundi, French and English.
Recruit and train people interested in joining and participating in wikimedia projects in Burundi.
Organize Conventions, Conferences, meetings, workshops and competitions in Bujumbura and other provinces of Burundi related to the collection and sharing of free knowledge.
Encourage the participation of women and train them in order to reduce the gap between men and women on the Internet, so that there is equal space for sharing free knowledge.
Strengthen the culture of writing and reading among Burundian youth and the community.

Primary contacts

Ferdinand IF99: ferdinandirankundaf@gmail.com
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo:gigi.kadi@gmail.com
Wikimedia Community user group Burundi : wikimediaburundi@gmail.com

Proposed Activities

2021

July

The WPWP Campaign

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Burundi is an annual campaign where Wikipedia editors across Burundi will utilize the collected/uploaded photos in the previous photo contest such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Earth etc, and use them on the Wikipedia pages that lack images.

Timeline: The WPWP Campaign is annual.

Start for entries: 15 th July 2021 00:01 (UTC)
Deadline for entries: 31st August 2021 23:59 (UTC)

Organizing workshops to train Burundians on how they can contribute to Wikimedia projects.

Creating partners to extend the course of Wikimedia in Burundi.

Recruiting volunteers mostly in lecturer clubs of some high schools.

Awareness and Edit-a-thon 2021

The aim of the this project is to create awareness of Wikimedia Projects to Burundi universities and lycee institutions, train them on how to contribute especially to Kirundi Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, to also bring volunteers together to help contribute to digitize /increase the number of Articles on the Kirundi Wikipedia Language Platform through translations and creation of Articles.

Timeline: The Awareness and Edit-a-thon.

Start for entries: 18th October 2021 00:01 (UTC)
Deadline for entries: 30st November 2021 23:59 (UTC)

2022 Activities & Projects

February until August 2022

Wiki Loves Africa 2022 in Burundi

In 2022, members of the Planning Wikimedia community in Burundi attended to the activities of the international contest Wiki Loves Africa during which photos relating to the theme of the year “Home and Habitat” were shared on Wikimedia Commons.

June 1st to July 30th 2022

Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Burundi

Burundi participated for the first time in the International photo contest Wiki Loves Earth 2022.

GUHUBURA 2022

GUHUBURA 2022is a name RUNDI which means in english "correction". Given that on the wikipedia we wrote information freely and that even those who do not really know the information of BURUNDI, this project was consist in seeing the information which is badly written, the information which is not up to date and the other fotes which are committed by those who do not know the KIRUNDI language and we will correct them.

History

The EA strategy summit held in Kampala in September 2019 gathered volunteers all over the EA community on based of Wikimedia movement vision 2030.

From that we get to know each other and work together as Burundians to make in place the movement of Wikimedia in Burundi and try to achieve the Wikimedia vision 2030.

Gallery Photos

c'était une photo prise dans un projet "GUHUBURA2022
c'était une photo prise dans un projet "GUHUBURA2022
c'était une photo prise dans un projet "GUHUBURA2022
c'était une photo prise dans un projet "GUHUBURA2022
c'est une photo prise lors d'un evenement wikifocus Africa dans le cadre de la creation du contenue sur le climat
Ferdinand Irankunda - WikiConvention Francophone 2023