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Activities

WikiTuesday Meetings

Since December 2019 WMTR has been organizing biweekly meetings on Tuesday nights. That’s where information on the activities of the group is shared, and discussed, the new ones are suggested and sometimes planned. Those meetings are mostly attended by active contributors of Wikimedia projects in Türkiye but are open to anyone who would like to meet wikimedians and ask questions about Wikimedia projects. WikiTuesday meetings are mostly held online, but some meetings are held face-to-face in Istanbul mostly.

Detailed meeting notes of every meeting are shared with all community here: Notes

Wikipedia Education Program

WMTR carries out many activities at educational institutions of different levels in Türkiye, mostly at universities. In total, the program is organized at approximately 15-20 partner institutions in different cities during each school year. The type of activities include but are not limited to below.

Wikipedia Assignments

The most common activity is visiting a graduate or undergraduate course in any department ranging from architecture to law, tourism management to political relations, and making a presentation about the basic principles of Wikipedia editing and different ways of contributing. Students are then given assignments to contribute to Wikipedia.

After visiting the class, group members follow the contributions of the students until the end of the school term; answer their questions; and sometimes make a second or third visit to the course or make online Q&A sessions.

Volunteering Courses

In recent years, many universities in Türkiye included “volunteering courses” in their curriculum and WMTR has been making presentations about digital volunteering and Wikimedia projects for all students taking th

ose courses offered by its education partners. Experienced Wikipedians help those students who would like to develop a volunteering project based on their Wikimedia contributions to discover the different aspects of Wikimedia projects better.

General Presentations

Upon the demand of the education partners, 1-hour in-person or online training about Wikimedia projects for the students of the partner; or a presentation given to faculty/department teachers/instructors about Wikimedia projects and how to use them in education are given.

Extracurricular activities

The group members meet with the students of particular high school and secondary schools to answer their questions when they make small contributions to Wikimedia projects under the guidance of their teachers as an extracurricular activity.