Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
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Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group | |
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Location of Myanmar | |
Location | Myanmar |
Country code | MMR |
Legal status | voluntary and non-profit organization |
Approval date | 31 January 2020 |
Main office | Yangon |
Official language(s) | Burmese |
Other language(s) | English Kachin Kayah Karen Chin Mon Rakhine Shan |
Affiliations | ESEAP |
Mailing list | wikimedia-mm |
Myanmar Wikipedia | |
MWCUG Myanmar Wikipedia |
Chapters (38)
- CH Wikimedia CH
- GB Wikimedia UK
- KR 위키미디어 한국
- RU Викимедиа РУ
- US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
- CAT Amical Wikimedia
Wikimedia user groups (138)
- ESP-WE Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs
- H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
- MK-SK Shared Knowledge
- NGA-HA Hausa Wikimedians User Group
- NGA-IG Igbo Wikimedians User Group
- RU-Don Don Wikimedians User Group
- US-NE New England Wikimedians
- WJ WikiJournal
- WK? Whose Knowledge?
Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group (MMR) is a Wikimedia user group for people living in, interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to the neighboring countries and around the world.
Objectives[edit]
- Organize outreach program and workshop online or offline to promote Wikimedia projects in Myanmar
- Help people in Myanmar learn how to contribute to Wikimedia projects
- Help minority languages users in Myanmar to setup their own Wikimedia projects
- Gather more Myanmar related data to contribute to Wikimedia projects
Activities[edit]
Planned[edit]
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Shan Wikipedia at Taunggyi, Shan State in January 2020
- Planning to conduct seminar by Myanmar Wikipedia and Mon Wikipedia at Mawlamyaing, Mon State in February 2020
- Co-operate with Phandeeyar Accelerator (www.phandeeyar.org) to conduct monthly workshop in Yangon in 2020
- Co-operate with Ministry of Education to start off Wikipedia in Education initiative
- Co-operate with Ministry of Culture to start GLAM-initiative in Myanmar
History[edit]
- Organize Myanmar Wikipedia Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009
- Participate at NetMonday event organized by Telenor Myanmar as Main Contributor and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Dagon University, Yangon in 2014
- Participate at similar NetMonday event and talk about Wikipedia to more than 2,000 University students at Mandalay University, Mandalay in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Mandalay University, Computer Science Department in 2014
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Yangon, Myanmar on October 2018
- Organize Wikipedia Seminar in Mandalay, Myanmar on November 2019
- Organize Wikipedia Workshop in Taunggyi, Myanmar on March 2020.
- Organize Wikipedia Online Workshop via Zoom on November 2020.
Wikimedia Projects of Languages Spoken in Myanmar[edit]
Language | Projects | Articles | Pages | Edits | Admins | Users | Active Users |
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Burmese | Wikipedia | 104,156 | 222,912 | 774,839 | 4 | 107,665 | 124 |
Wiktionary | 124,323 | 128,642 | 931,754 | 2 | 8,476 | 15 | |
Shan | Wikipedia | 12,440 | 28,836 | 57,718 | 2 | 3,532 | 19 |
Wiktionary | 31,278 | 34,600 | 78,412 | 2 | 534 | 9 | |
Wikivoyage | 145 | 1,776 | 6,441 | 2 | 276 | 10 | |
Wikibooks | 422 | 2,579 | 7,270 | 2 | 79 | 16 | |
Mon | Wikipedia | 1,703 | 5,983 | 37,981 | 2 | 2,914 | 22 |
Wiktionary | 34,957 | 46,523 | 61,340 | 1 | 844 | 9 | |
Pa'O | Wikipedia | 2,149 | 4,834 | 23,875 | 2 | 566 | 17 |
Strategy 2021[edit]
Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.
Contact information[edit]