Egypt Wikimedians User Group
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Egypt Wikimedians is a Wikimedian user group that has the goal of supporting Wikimedia projects in Egypt, supporting Egyptian Wikimedians, and becoming the recognized chapter in Egypt. Recognized by WMF affiliations committee in July 2014.
Who can join?
[edit]If you live in Egypt, then you can participate in our events in person, if you live in other countries you still can participate in any activity or project we have online. Feel free to add your name to the interested members list below and to ask any questions on the discussion page.
Projects and activities
[edit]The user group hold and support the following activities:
- Edit-a-thons to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to enrich content about Egypt or work on and develop a certain topic.
- Meetings for the Wikimedians in Egypt to exchange ideas and to check what support do they need to continue editing Wikipedia.
- Editing contests to encourage existing users edit Wikipedia and to encourage non-users join.
- Photography trips and contests to encourage users upload photos to commons.
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Location | ![]() |
Country code | EG |
Approval date | July 27, 2014 |
Main office | (N/A) |
Staff | (N/A) |
Official language(s) | Arabic |
Other language(s) | English and Spanish |
Chief Coordinator | 2 |
Budget | (N/A) |
Affiliations | Wikimedia Foundation |
Website | https://www.wikimedia-eg.org/ |
E-mail address | [email protected] |
Mailing list | Wikimedia Egypt |
Facebook page |
WikiArabia Egypt 2017
[edit]Wikimedia Egypt UG has organised WikiArabia 2017, the third annual meeting of participants from the Arab region, in Golden Tulip Flamenco Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, from October 23-25, 2017 to expose, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and perspectives on Wikimedia projects in the Arab countries.
Education (Spring 2012- Spring 2019)
[edit]Wikipedia Egyptian Program (WEP) in Egyptian Universities has enriched Arabic Wikipedia with Featured & good articles.
Results
[edit]- 96 Courses in 13 Egyptian universities.
- 1519 Participants.
- 7689 New articles.
- 68 Featured articles.
- 63 Good articles.
- 3 Featured portals.
- 4 Featured lists.
- 106.307.515 Bytes Added
WEP Links in Outreach
[edit]Female content & Gender Gap
[edit]Wikiwomen
[edit]Art+Feminism
[edit]WikiGap
[edit]Inter WikiWomen Collaboration
[edit]Editing contests
[edit]Edit-a-thons
[edit]Photography
[edit]Wikimedians in Egypt have organized many photography trips and contests.
Wiki Loves Monuments
[edit]Wiki Loves Africa
[edit]Wiki Loves Earth
[edit]Wiki Science Competition
[edit]Board and Staff
[edit]current board of trustees:
- Walaa Abdel Manaem (chairperson)
- Ibrahim Elaidy (Executive Manager) (contact)
- Donia (chief communications officer) (contact)
- Mohamed Ouda (Treasurer)
- staff: TBA
Members
[edit]Starting February 1, 2024, all new members must register via the group administration form (link).
The names on the following list are managed by the membership department's staff. Please do not add your name directly here and must follow the instructions above.
- New Zeus
- Ahmed Mohi
- Mohamed Ouda
- Ibrahim Elaidy
- Meno25
- May Hachem93
- Helanafola
- أحمد الياباني
- محمد أحمد عبد الفتاح
- ashashyou
- محمد صلاح حلمي
- ولاء
- MidooDj
- TOUMOU
- Abbas
- محمد عصام
- Masssly
- Frank Schulenburg
- nan deko
- RolandUnger
- Merik Egy
- ِAhmed yousri elmamlouk
- Emad Hamed
- Hager Alaa ElDin
- Reem Al-Kashif
- ⴰⵔⵉⴼⵉ ⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ
- Fitzcarmalan
- فارس التوحيد
- Eman Khodier
- Kamal Osama
- عبدالرحمن احمد محروس
- muhammad_elhossary
- aserougui
- صلاح سلامة
- Ahmed M Farrag
- Marwa Ibraheem
- Haytham abulela
- Sara Nabih
- Mahmoud Ashraf
- Mohamed R. Elsharouny
- رولا نديم عبد الشافى
- Islam90
- Ahmed el shimi
- ircpresident
- Faris El-Gwely
- دنيا
- Dr-Taher
- Summer Kamal
- لوقا
- إسراء الطويل
- كريم رائد
- جرجس شمعون
- Mohamed Kamal
- أحمد ناجي
- Amr Nagy
Keep in touch
[edit]Resolutions
[edit]- Egypt Wikimedians User Group - July 2014
- Renewals from 2015 WMCon Eligibility Renewal Sprint - December 2015