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Wikimedia Morocco User Group - 2024 Annual Plan

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Overview

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2024 Goals at a Glance
Participants 500 total
New Content 3,000 Wikipedia articles
1,000 Commons files
1,000 Wikidata items
New Editors 30

The Wikimedia Morocco User Group plans to undertake various online and offline initiatives in 2024, focusing on content creation, technical development, and community engagement.

Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom

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Project Status
Status: Active
Start date: January 2024
End date: December 2024
Progress: 25%

Quick summary: Fourth edition of the educational program introducing Wikipedia to Moroccan classrooms.

Core Team

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Goals and Metrics

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  • Target number of participating teachers: 300
  • Target number of new articles: 500
  • Target number of improved articles: 1000

Progress Tracking

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Completed

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In Progress

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Planned

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Technical Project

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Project Status
Status: Active
Duration: 3 years (2024-2026)
Progress: 30%

Quick summary: Development and maintenance of technical tools supporting Wikimedia Morocco projects, focusing on local languages (ary, shi, zgh) and integration with various Wikimedia platforms.

Core Team

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Key Projects

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  • Darija Text-to-speech (Hachem)
  • Topic suggestion bot (Abdelilah Jalal)
  • DarijaBot and other bot tasks (Mounir Afifi)
  • Wikidata items and properties development
  • Wikifunctions implementation
  • Translatewiki integration

Progress Tracking

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Completed

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  • General Meeting 1 (11.02.2024)
  • Individual project assignments for 2024
  • General Meeting 2 (26.05.2024)
  • Coordinator recruitment and onboarding
  • General Meeting 3
  • Wikipedia bots presentation

In Progress

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  • Breaking down 3-year goals by year
  • Tool development and maintenance

Planned

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  • Meeting 4 (date TBD)
  • Translatewiki presentation
  • Workshop video production
  • Python workshop for Wikimedia data access

Achievements

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  • Team representation at Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
  • Team representation at AI Sauna
  • Two members attended Wikimania Hackathon

Documentation Project

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Project Status
Status: Active
Start date: January 2024
End date: December 2024
Progress: 15%

Quick summary: Initiative to document Moroccan culture, heritage, and activities through multimedia content on Wikimedia Commons.

Target Metrics

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Metric Target
New media files 1,000
Photos 700
Videos 300

Progress Tracking

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Completed

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In Progress

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  • Media collection from various events and locations
  • Categorization and metadata addition

Planned

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  • Organize photo expeditions
  • Create documentation guidelines
  • Train new contributors

Communication Project

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Project Status
Status: Active
Start date: January 2024
End date: December 2024
Progress: 50%

Quick summary: Outreach initiative to engage with the broader Wikimedia and Moroccan communities through social media, podcasts, and communication channels.

Core Team

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Goals

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  • 12 WikiPodcast Morocco episodes (monthly)
  • Active presence on social media platforms
  • Community engagement through multiple channels

Podcast Progress

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Podcast Episodes
# Date Title Guest(s) Video
1 January 2024 Arabic Wikipedia and the Palestinian Cause Farah Jack Mustaklem
Mervat Salman
2 February 2024 Wikimedia Morocco 2023 projects participant's experience Lhoussine Ait Tayfst
Moustapha Mellou
Fatima Yacine
Elhachem Biselsale
15 March 2024 Wikimedia UAE projects Serine Ben Brahim
16 April 2024 Content related to Moroccan heritage and history Mounir Afifi
17 May 2024 Wikimedia Commons Brahim Faraji
18 June 2024 Launch of the Standard Amazigh Wikipedia Project Lhoussine BENTAYFASTE
19 July 2024 Women's Participation in Arabic Wikimedia Projects Zayneb Takouti

Sandra Hanbo

20 August 2024 User Houssam Bihi's Experience Reaching 10,000 Mobile Edits Houssam Bihi
21 September 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Partnerships Farida El-Gueretly
22 October 2024 Wikimedia Sudan Activities During Crisis Ola Mahdi
23 November 2024 The Experience of Organizing WikiArabia 2024 in Oman Reda Kerbouche
24 December 2024 File:Wikipodcast Morocco - Episode 24.webm

Communication Channels

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  • Social Media
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
  • Video/Audio
    • YouTube
    • Spotify
  • Messaging
    • Telegram
    • WhatsApp

Editing Projects

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Editing Contests

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Project Status
Status: Active
Target Participants: 100
Progress: 20%

Quick summary: Series of content creation competitions to expand articles on specific themes across Arabic and Darija Wikipedias.

Progress Tracking

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Completed

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In Progress

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  • Topic list preparation for upcoming contests
  • Participant recruitment

Planned

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  • Contest announcements and guidelines
  • Prize structure development

Edit-a-thons

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Project Status
Status: Active
Target Participants: 80
Current Participants: 11
Progress: 35%

Quick summary: Collaborative editing events focusing on specific topics or partnerships with other Wikimedia communities.

Current Progress

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Event Status Participants
Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 1   Done 6
Malta-Morocco Edit-a-thon 2 In Progress 5
Basque and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon Planned -
Japanese and Moroccan Darija edit-a-thon Planned -

Goals and Metrics

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  • Total planned edit-a-thons: 4
  • Target participants per event: 20
  • Focus areas:
    • Cultural exchange
    • Language development
    • Local heritage

Partner Communities

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  • Wikimedia Malta
  • Basque Wikimedians
  • Japanese Wikimedians

Results Tracking

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Current Statistics

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  • Total edit-a-thons completed: 1
  • Total edit-a-thons in progress: 1
  • Total edit-a-thons planned: 2
  • Current participant count: 11/80
  • Articles created/improved:

Edits-a-thons

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Goals

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  • Number of edit-a-thons: ?
  • Number of participants: 80

Members

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Tasks

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Finished

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Ongoing

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Planned

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Results

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  • Number of edit-a-thons: 1 (+ 1 ongoing, + 2 planned)
  • Number of participants: 11/80

Wikicamp Morocco 2024

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Goals

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Members

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Tasks

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Finished

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  • Contact potential sponsors

Planned

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Results

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Participation at Wikimedia events

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Several members of Wikimedia Morocco User Group have applied for, and/or plan to participate in regional and international Wikimedia events, such as:

This project will follow these participations, learnings, and reports by participating members.

Wikimedia Hackathon 2024

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Members

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Goals

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  • Develop and maintain some technical tools used by Wikimedia Morocco projects and members
  • Learn about other projects that could be useful to the Moroccan Wikimedia community
  • Connect with the larger technical community within Wikimedia

See also: Ideophagous presenting two specific goals at the opening ceremony (min 52:15):

  • DarijaBot on Toolforge
  • Feedback on automating categories and articles

Tasks and Results

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  • Put DarijaBot on Toolforge  Y
    • Task T7.1 for updating editor ranking on the main page of arywiki is now run from Toolforge on an hourly basis (shoutout to Urbanecm for his valuable help).
 
Last run of DarijaBot T7.1 on Toolforge when the screenhot was taken
 
First page editor ranking on arywiki
  • Presented a session and received feedback about automating categories and articles on small Wikis  Y
  • Project showcase by Ideophagous at 35:00
  • Received feedback on the issue with the drop in human views on arywiki in Q1 of 2024  Y
  • Learned from more tech-savvy Wikimedians  Y
  • Collaborated and supported other Wikimedians when possible  Y
  • Sought collaborations with various Wikimedia chapters and User Groups  Y
  • Deployed a task to distribute navigational boxes usng TohaomgBot on arywiki with the help of Tohaomg (project showcase by Tohaomg at 30:40)  Y

Future plans

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  • Create a simple tutorial to put a bot task on Toolforge for Wikimedia Morocco Technical Project (Techma)
  • Do a workshop for members of Techma or any other Moroccan Wikimedians who want to put a tool on Toolforge
  • Add other recurrent unsupervised tasks on Toolforge, such as DarijaBot tasks T2.1, T2.2, T3.1, T4 and T16
  • Create a UI with Codex to generate simple articles where information is filled from Wikidata or an external source (POC)
  • Translate messages for Wikiscore app on Translatewiki, to Standard Arabic and Moroccan Darija
  • Request to join Wikimedia CEE Spring contest in 2025
  • Make a list of websites used on arywiki for scraping
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    Tohaomg and Ideophagous at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
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    Group photo 1
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    Group photo 2
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    Ideophagous at the closing ceremony

AI Sauna

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The AI Sauna is a side event that took place in Helsinki, Finland, right after the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, where some participants in the later also joined, in addition to other actors in the Artificial Intelligence arena, or those who seek collaborations involving AI applications, such as in preserving archives and libraries.

The event was held at the National Archives of Finland over two days, 5-6 May 2024.

Members

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Project idea

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  • Use fine-tuning and RAG techniques to generate texts in Moroccan Darija
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    Ideophagous at the AI Sauna in Finland

Research project

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Our group members presenting Darija Wiktionary at University of Navarra.
 
Attendees at day 1 of 8th Congress of Moroccan Arabic
 
Poster of 8th Congress of Moroccan Arabic at the conference room door.

Goals

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  • One publication   Doing...
  • Attending one conference   Done

Members

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Tasks

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Finished

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  • Meeting 1 (21.01.2024)
  • Meeting 2 (04.02.2024)
  • Meeting 3 (11.02.2024)
  • Meeting 4 (18.02.2024)
  • Meeting 5 (25.02.2024)
  • Meeting 6 (10.03.2024)
  • Complete preparing the panel about Darija Wiktionary
  • Participate at the conference at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (24-26 April)

Planned

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  • Complete writing paper (State of the art of Moroccan Darija Wikipedia)

Results

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In the period of 25-26 April, three members of the user group participated in the 8th Internation Congress of Moroccan Arabic, an academic conference organized at the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain. Both Anass Sedrati and Mounir Afifi participated in person, while Reda Benkhadra joined through Zoom in both days.

In this conference, the focus was about Moroccan Darija in the digital era, with a considerable highlight over the Wikimedia project. In that sense, our group participated with two main contributions:

  1. A communication about our research paper entitled "Standardizing Darija: Collaborative Approaches in the Moroccan Darija Wikipedia", detailing the state of the art of the Darija Wikipedia, from its inception until today (with over 10 000 articles); and
  2. A round a table about "Darija Wiktionary: Building a Collaborative Moroccan Darija Dictionary", where we took the opportunity to explain the work done by the team in the Darija Wiktionary, that is currently in the Incubator, and the next steps related to it.

An important aspect of the conference was the participants of researchers from different universities and countries (Poland, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Morocco), who were all researching on Darija, and directly interacting with the material produced in the Wikimedia projects. Sitting in the same room as these notable researchers was a very valuable moment for our team members, who could both advocate the importance of free knowledge in helping under resourced languages, and get several inspirational ideas for collaborations and future ways of working.

Finally, the conference was also an occasion for our group members to enrich the Wikimedia projects, with pictures of notable participants who have a Wikipedia page, but were missing pictures, such as Farouk El Marrakchi, Marcin Michalski, and Mena Lafkioui, who all have now good images in their profiles in different languages, thanks to their participation in the conference.

Pictures of the event uploaded to Commons can be found in this category.

Malta-Morocco collaboration

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Goals

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  • Complete edit-a-thon 1
  • Find other venues for collaboration

Members (Wikimedia Morocco)

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Tasks

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Finished

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  • Meeting 1 (15.02.2024)
  • Meeting 2 (date 14.05.2024)
  • Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 1 list

Planned

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  • Complete all articles in edit-a-thon 2 list

Arywiki survey

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Goals

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  • Conduct a survey to assess readers' backrgound and opinions on arywiki and Darija in general
  • Adjust our strategies to develop the project

Members

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Tasks

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  • Create a list of questions
  • Get feedback from contact person at Wikimedia

Finished

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Planned

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