Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan

Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan
	; Sudan
Location	Sudan
Country code	SUD
Approval date	June 24, 2020
Official language(s)	Sudanese Arabic, English,
Other language(s)	Standard Arabic
Affiliations	WikiArabia , WikiAfrica

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Welcome To

Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan

Who are we?

Wikimedia Sudan User Group is a group of Sudanese living in Sudan and in the diaspora working to help bridge the content gaps about Sudan (and broadly Africa) on the web through the largest online Encyclopedia, Wikipedia and its sister projects as well as other open projects that allow sharing and accessibility of free knowledge.

The group is leading global campaigns to help increase contents about Sudan and to change the current narrative of Sudanese being just consumers of knowledge to a new generation of knowledge/content producers.

Activities

The community will represent and extend projects of the Wikimedia Foundation through awareness drives, global campaigns, training others to contribute to the wikis and creating opportunities and networking with partners to curate Sudanese content. We emphasize on global initiatives because the basic concept behind Wikipedia is global access and the issues of Sudan are relevant not just for people in Sudan holding Sudanese nationality but for everyone who cares about global issues particularly in this era where the world is globally connected.

Objectives

Lead the creation and curation of content about Sudan
Creation of partnership with GLAM institutions to ensure maximum coverage of information from Sudan
Train and recruit volunteers for the agenda of contributing to Wikimedia Projects
Acting in the best interest of the Wikimedia movement in local initiatives and projects
Educating the masses on the need for storytelling and content creation by our people
Building the capacity of the youth on information and digital literacy skills.

Who can join?

All who feel welcomed to the agenda of Sudan and the reduction of the content gap that exist about the country. Sudanese living in Sudan, in the diaspora and anyone who feels connected to the agenda. All are welcome to Wikimedia Sudan, a place where Sudanese content is created and curated by Sudanese people!

To Be able to join the community Please fill the form Wikimedia Sudan Membership form

Current Members

Members active mainly in Wiki Commons

2023 Projects

2022 Projects

Sudan Community is continuing to build the capacity of Community members and contributes to enhancing content about Sudan on different Wiki Projects you can follow diffrent project that we are working on in 2022 through the list below:

2021 Events and Projects

Wiki Gap 2021 Sudan

Wiki Gap 2021 Challenge

Community Plan for 2021

Even though the community is just being established we think that the opportunity is there to help the community reach out to many partners who have common ground of improving rejection of Sudan Image and make more information about the country available. For 2021 the Wikimedia Sudan community will represent and extend projects of the Wikimedia Foundation through awareness drives, global campaigns, training others to contribute to the wikis and creating opportunities and networking with partners to curate Sudanese content.

We emphasize global initiatives because the basic concept behind Wikipedia is global access and the issues of Sudan are relevant not just for people in Sudan holding Sudanese nationality but for everyone who cares about global issues particularly in this era where the world is globally connected. For the coming 8 months we will be focusing on three main pillars but this does not mean that those will be the sole focus of the community as these projects are interlinked. Another cross cutting issue will be the issue of:

Access to the internet
Open source concepts,
Digitization and freedom of panorama in Sudan.

We will be working also on

Networking and Wikimedia Sudan Community building
Capacity Building for (users and focal points)
Content Improving mainly (Wikipedia both Arabic and English, Wiki commons, Wiki data).

2021 Projects

For the support of our goals we are applying for grants from WF please review details as below

Sudan Content Project, WMF Project Grant
SheSaid Sudan - Individual Rapid Grant SheSaid proposal

2020 Projects

Wikimedia Sudan Projects in 2020

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Wikimedia Sudan Community Structure For the purpose of organizing the community and ensuring a structured way of getting things done. We will be employing a flat organisational structure with role allotments to ensure responsibility for each aspect of the work that has to be done towards organizing. We will also employ a flat hierarchy to ensure that decisions are made in a participatory manner.

Community Manager/Program Officer - Maram Ali
Resource and Finance Officer - Esam Idres
Events Officer - Fatima Mohammed
Communication Officer - Ola Mahadi
Partnership and Networking Officer - Esam Idres

2023 Projects

Organizing of WLA photo contest 2023

2024 Projects

Updates on Sudan Commuity statues after 2023 conflict in Sudan

New projects for Sudan Community

Online New user Training

2025 Projects

The Community is rebuilding the members capacity and we are revisiting projects hat we already have experience with starting with applying for Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Photography Contest.

The project activities have been discussed with the community through whatapp group. New Users Training online