Wikimedia Tunisie/Report 2019
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This is the Wikimedia TN User Group report of the year 2019
Group meetings
Representing the Group
Wikimedia Summit
Wikimania
During Wikimania 2019, a record of six active members went to Stockholm to represent Wikimedia TN User Group: Habib M'henni, Emna Mizouni, Yamen Bousrih, Sami Mlouhi, Houcemeddine Turki and Zeineb Takouti. These members are implicated in a variety of projects ranging from Wikimedia Strategy and Legal issues to Wikidata Research. During this international conference, we participated to African Wikimedians Meeting and to WISCom meeting with strategy team to contribute to the drawing of a strategy for growing African Wikimedia Community from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. We also participated to Arab Wikimedians Meeting to establish an Arab Council for the coordination of projects between Arab Wikimedia User Groups and for the development of Arabic Wikipedia in a more efficient way. We also attended Strategy meetings to have an update of the works of interest groups and we discussed its parys with users from Armenia, India, Nigeria and Jordan as well as other countries.
Houcemeddine Turki has presented his works related to reference and language support for Wikimedia projects in Libraries and Languages Spaces. Effectively, he has shown an efficient model of offline collaboration between user groups and local libraries that was used to provide reference support to many projects of adding Tunisia-related knowledge to Wikipedia such as TunSci, MedinaPedia Sfax and WikiLingua Maghreb. Also, he discussed the matter of Wikimedia and Arabic Sociolinguistics from a linguistic point of view in Languages Space and proposed a Wikidata-based initiative to add support of Arabic languages to WMF wikis so that the interesting information of Arabic Wikipedia can be more intelligible to the broad Arab audience. Furthermore, Houcemeddine Turki presented his viewpoint about the usefulness of Wikidata in Medicine in Health Space and discussed the development of a research project about Medical Wikidata and of a Tunisian Wikimedia Research Unit in Research and Technology Spaces. Moreover, Sami Mlouhi presented the dilemma between free speech and hate speech on wikis from his experience as an AffCom member. We think that this dilemma should be further considered in building a strategy for Community Health in wikis in the next years.
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
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Finally, we were honoured to have Emna Mizouni as Wikimedia of the Year for 2019 for her work on adding support of Tunisian GLAMs to WMF wikis. This honor will absolutely push our user group forward to continue to contribute to this topic in a more inspiring way.
WikiConvention
Workshops
Projects
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