Grants:Conference/Algeria Wikimedians User Group/WikiArabia 2021 Remote Conference/Report/in-depth report

Introduction

temporary logo before the start of registrations for the conference

WikiArabia 2021 Algeria is the fifth edition of the conference Wiki Arabia, organized from 15 to 17 October 2021 by Wikimedia Algeria user group, the conference was remote and for the first time in the Arab world under the title openness إنفتاح.

context

Immediately after the announcement of the organization of the Algerian version by the Wikimedia Algeria user group at the closing ceremony in Marrakech in October 2019, the core team began its first steps to organize the conference by starting to announce the date and ___location of the Algeria 2020 version, it was decided to hold it in Algiers, Algeria, in October 2020 but quickly cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic and the global lockdown, causing the team to postpone the organization to spring 2021 in April. But the health conditions remained the same, so in February 2021, the team had to bitterly announce the postponement of the conference and come back for community input.

We consulted the community on the postponement of the conference, which was to be organized, as indicated in the archive of February 2021, and opened the discussions to deepen the consultation until March and announced the opening of the participation for August 2020 after receiving the results of the survey and the adhesion of the sponsors to the conference.

Survey Analysis

A remote survey about the organization of wikiarabia was collected during the month of March, early April 2021 was distributed in social media and distributed to the 500 most active users of the Arabic Wikipedia and in the banner ads, where we received

126 answer in Arabic, 5 in English, 2 in French After sorting, we kept 131 answer, here are the results of the analysis as follows: I

Participant data demographics

home of participants
participant ___location map
participants by segments
gender of participants
Participations on Arabic Wikiconferences
Affiliate affiliations of participants

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Most of them are editors from Arab countries or posted in countries around the world. The segment between 18 and 35 years old is the dominating category in the survey, then decreases with the presence of a section that did not want to disclose the age, more than 80 percent of those who participated in the survey are males and a little less than 17 percent are females,

The survey participants, the majority of whom have not participated in any of the WikiArabia conferences, and more than 72% do not belong to any affiliated group,

The members of the affiliated groups participated. We mention that they belong to the Levant Group with a percentage of more than 13%, followed by Egypt with 3.8%, then Algeria and Tunisia with 2.3%.

Conference aspirations

Asking this question allowed to clarify the view: How do you want to give priority to the following tasks by participating in the conference?

There is little willingness to engage in discussions or participate in discussions Strategy 2030 for the movement where willingness is 43 percent, the lowest percentage for highest importance and largest for minimum importance.

With a great desire expressed by the respondents in the survey is to develop technical skills and meet new people in the Arab and international community.

(Development of editorial skills)
(technical skill development)
(General discussions)
(community expansion)
(Activity Expansion)
(internal knowledge development)
(Future aspirations of the movement)
(social media)
( Online tourism )

(14/34/51) (Development of editorial skills) Participation in distance learning workshops on editing in the Arabic Wikipedia
(10/27/62) (Technical Skills Development) Learn and develop new technical knowledge about Arabic Wikipedia projects
(13/38/47) (General Discussions) Participation in meetings, discussions, symposia on Arabic Wikipedia
(13/30/56) (Social Expansion) Weaving new relationships and partnerships with groups from the Arab community
(10/30/56) (Activity Expansion) Discover new projects in which you participate or to launch them in your direction
(16/35/48) (internal knowledge development) Learn about the global Wikimedia movement in general and its various projects
(18/38/43) (Future aspirations of the movement) Learn about the strategy of the Wikimedian movement 2030
(6/32/60) (social media) Getting to know new people from the Arab and international community
(10/38/53) ( Online tourism ) Getting to know the Algerian culture

Conference progress requests

Internet speed
Best timeline
About the duration of the conference
About translation available
Would you like to participate in the conference

Internet speed: The majority of participants do not have Internet problems, while 20% of them suffer from streaming speed problems
Best timeline: The participants expressed their support for the month of April with the majority
About the duration of the conference: Between 2 and three days
About the available translation: The Arab community expressed its need for translation regarding the interventions submitted in English
About the desire to participate in the conference: The majority who participated in the questionnaire were eager to attend the conference

Announcing the conference

The analysis carried out by the organizing committee of the responses issued by the community produced the following:

Conference Title

conference launch video

Openness: The openness of the Arab Wikimedia community to contributors, active communities inside and outside wiki projects, and new Wikimedia users, especially to international and Arabic content.

The conference problem: How can the Arab Wikimedia community, and in particular the Arab Wikipedia community, push forward a more dynamic openness?

At the height of the era of globalization, and its effects on cultures and minorities in the world, the Arab region and the Arab Wikimedians community in particular, needs to raise the pace of openness to everything that is global knowledge content, in order to deliver this information in Arabic through the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Encyclopedic work on Wikipedia with openness, will create quick ways for us to spread knowledge and contents in Arabic to all knowledge of the world in a timely manner without delay.

We need in Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects to provide good knowledge content and increase the number of contributors to it. In order to be the first source of reliable Arab information in an Arabic language and look that allows the reader to access information in a timely manner. By motivating new contributors to edit, there will be an enrichment of the content in the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects with more new articles, and by working to raise the quality of this Arabic content, the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects will turn into a high-quality and reliable source and its articles will be translated into other languages.

The challenge lies in the ability of the Arab Wikimedia community and its supportive user groups in the Arab world to attract and train new contributors.

In the long run, we need to find ways to get new contributors to add content to Wikipedia on a regular basis.

User groups have a great ability to launch activities directed to new users and involve them in voluntary work to enrich Arabic content, and to reach users in unrepresented countries, the creation of new user groups must be supported, by increasing cooperation between Arab user groups.

I suggest four main points that need interventions during the conference:

How can we achieve this openness?
How do we increase the quantity and quality of content in the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects?
What are the strategies that should be adopted to publish outstanding content in the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects?
How do we maintain the pace of enriching good and new content in the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects?

Preparations for the conference

About Human Support Organizing Team

A core team was formed immediately after the announcement of the organization in Marrakech in October 2019, but the pandemic curbed the work and the actual re-launch began during February 2021 in weekly meetings.

The team consists of:

Leadership and Organization Committee: The committee meets weekly and consists of three individuals, all of whom are volunteers, whose mission is to facilitate and direct matters for other committees.

The Programming Committee: is responsible for programming the conference’s interventions, from start to finish, and it consists of one employee and volunteers

The Logistics Committee: is responsible for providing all the positive things to the organizers and participants and the good work of all teams, and it consists of one employee and volunteers

The Communication Committee: is responsible for communicating with the participants and the community through the various available channels, and it consists of one employee and volunteers

Organizing team during the conference

Clarification: Regarding the organizational structure on the image: it lists all the committees and teams that were formed throughout the conference, We explain the important developments in the organization At the beginning of the conference, the organizing committee was formed and then we formed a design team whose task was only to design the conference to be dissolved after submitting its report. When we received the grant, the financial officer was appointed and he is a volunteer. Immediately after getting the sponsors, one of our sponsors appointed a technical team whose task is to ensure the installation of applications for the development and programming of the platform. When the title of the conference was announced and the design task was completed, we evolved into three main committees under the direction of the organizing committee, and a few weeks before the start of the conference, we established an animation team under the direction of the logistics committee. It is made up of animators and translators who, during the conference, activate the interventions and translate them into Arabic, all motivated by simple compensation to say less.

About the financial and logistical grant donors

The first support was undoubtedly the community that supported the idea, the role of the Wikimedia Foundation came, which provided the financial aspect in a budget that was considered one of the lowest budget during 2021

الداعمون : مؤسسة ويكيميديا، إيلوسيس، جنة العارف واليوم العالمي للتعايش السلمي، فاي أجنسي، تنسيقيات البهجاوية وويكي ديزاد.

حول الدعم التكنولوجي المنصة والبرمجيات

قمنا باقتناء نطاق خاص بالمؤتمر ونصبنا عليه منصة خاصة تعتمد على أودو وهي حزمة أدوات برمجية لإدارة الأعمال الحرة المفتوحة المصدر والآمنة بفضل دعم شركة إيلوسيس وهي من فئة المؤسسات الناشئة الجزائرية. تكفلت بجميع الأمور التقنية والتكنولوجية، منصة اللقاءات اعتمدت على برمجية مفتوحة تدعى بيج بلو بوتن، تمكن المهندسون التابعون للشركة من التحكم في ظرف وجيز على جميع المشاكل التقنية وإدراجه بطريقة ممتازة مربوطة مع تدفق مباشر نحو يوتوب في ثلاث قنوات مباشرة متتالية.

Technological equipment

وفرت لنا المؤسسة الدعم التكنولوجي الكامل خلال الثلاثة أيام استضافتنا المؤسسة إيلوسيس في مقرها وسمحت لنا باستخدام مقرها وحواسيبها لإطلاق المؤتمر كاملا.

اضطررنا فقط لطلب زيادة في الميزانية لاقتناء كاميرات وسماعات رأس وإضاءة، ستُوضع للاستعارة بعد المؤتمر بفتح صفحة خاصة في مجموعة الجزائر لمن يحتاج العتاد.

حول قنوات التواصل الاجتماعي

جهز فريق الاتصال خطة محكمة بالانطلاق من مخطط الاتصال، الشعار، الفيديوهات، الفواصل الموسيقية، إدارة قنوات التواصل الاجتماعي وحيث ركز على فيسبوك، تلغرام وتويتر التواصل كان يتبع الخطة بالتدقيق ويتكفل بها الفريق حسب توجيهات لجنة القيادة.

إطلاق المؤتمر

الدكتور كمال صلاي خلال تنشيط مداخلات المؤتمر

مع انطلاق المؤتمر كان برنامج ويكي عربية الجزائر منشور في صفحة المؤتمر في الميتا، أكثر من 120 مشاركًا مسجلًا في المنصة وأكثر من ذلك في باقي المواقع، تلقينا اقتراح لسبعين (70) مداخلة قبلنا منها 50 مداخلة في شتى المواضيع، صنّفناها وبرمجناها على عدة أقسام : المداخلات السريعة، موائد مستديرة، مداخلات، نقاشات، قراءات. كانت المداخلات عالمية من جميع القارات باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية، ووفرنا ترجمة للعربية لجميع المداخلات، والعكس كذلك. وفرنا دعما كاملا للمتدخلين حيث أنشأنا صفحة خاصة للأسئلة الشائعة، أنشأنا ملف بصري (فيديو) يشرح كيفية استعمال المنصة، وتواصلنا مع المسجلين والمتدخلين قبل وأثناء وبعد المؤتمر، فتحنا ورشات تدريبية للمسجلين ثلاثة (3) أسابيع قبل بداية المؤتمر لتجريب المنصة.

ما كان صعبًا هو إطلاق الورشات التدريبية التي اضطررنا لإلغائها، وركزنا على قبول الحد الأقصى للمداخلات وكانت ناجحة في فتح وإعطاء الكلمة لمتدخلين جدد غير معروفين من بلدان لا نعرف عنها نشاط معروف مثل عُمان وقطر والسودان، أعطينا الكلمة لمتدخل قام بتعديلين إثنين وخلال مداخلته سرد للمشاركين تجربته في التعديل في المشاريع اللغوية الأخرى وكيف حذفت واحدة من تعديلاته، شاركنا متدخل بمداخلة يعبر فيها عن رفضه لموضوع الانفتاح وصعوبته.

قسمنا فعاليات المؤتمر على ثلاثة قاعات وهي قاعة الونشريس، قاعة جرجرة، وقاعة الهقار وهي أسماء لسلاسل جبلية معروفة في الجزائر.

حاولنا أن نعوض قدر الإمكان حالة التنظيم عن بعد وأشركنا مقطوعات موسيقية جزائرية بين المداخلات بصور عن الجزائر وهذا ما جاء في طلبات المجتمع بالسماح بزيارة الجزائر ولو عن بعد.

المسابقة كانت بهدف التحفيز على المشاركة فكان أن عدد المشاركين لم يسقط تحت العشرين في كلتا القاعتين الأساسيتين، اخترنا أيام العطل الأسبوعية للمؤتمر مع توقيت ما بعد الثانية عشرة ما يسمح للمقيمين في المشرق بالمشاركة والمقيمين في الأمريكتين بالمشاركة أيضا ويدوم 6 ساعات يوميا على طول المؤتمر.

مواضيع حظيت باهتمام وفضول الحضور أو نشرت على المباشر في قناة اليوتيوب المخصصة لذلك الغرض، لأول مرة قناة مخصصة فقط لكامل مؤتمرات ويكي عربية منذ انطلاقها في 2014 تجميعية لجميع المداخلات في قناة واحدة.

بالإضافة لذلك خصصت يوميا عشر (10) هدايا رمزية عبارة عن دروس لغة في منصة بابيل المعروفة، خلال كامل مدة المؤتمر، ضيوف مميزين شاركوا في المؤتمر وسجلنا حضور لأول مرة للمديرة التنفيذية للمؤسسة.

واجهنا مشكل تقني خلال الساعات الأولى في المؤتمر حيث فقدنا للأسف تسجيل القاعة الثانية الجرجرة.

نتائج المؤتمر

أنشأنا قناة خاصة في يوتيوب ونشرنا فيها فيديوها المؤتمر لمن يرغب في متابعتها في قناة ويكي عربية المخصصة للمؤتمر، المحتوى المكون من 60 فيديو من شتى المجالات والمواضيع الممتازة والجديدة الموجودة جلها في القناة على اليوتيوب وكومنز بعضها في أسفل التقرير، تقريبا من أكبر المخرجات للمؤتمر. مع هذا وزعنا استبيانا في آخر المؤتمر،

الإعلان عن المجموعة أو البلد المنظم أردناه أن يكون تقليديا كل سنة عند نهاية المؤتمر، ومثلما كانت مراكش وموضوع اللغات واللهجات في العالم العربي كان موضوع الانفتاح نحو التوسع المعرفي تسريع استيعاب المعرفة بالحرف العربي، مواضيع حساسة أنتجت الكثير من الحروف الرقمية لكنها ضرورية،

Closing ceremony :

قراءة في المخرجات والإعلان عن المجموعة المنظمة ل2022 وتمرير الشعلة لها وهم مجموعة الإمارات الجديدة

يسار

جاء في نصه : كأول مؤتمر عربي عن بعد نظرا للجائحة وهذا المؤتمر الذي جاء تحت عنوان الانفتاح على المعرفة الحرة واستنادا إلى إشكالية المؤتمر التي طرحت ما مفاده كيف يمكن للمجتمع الويكيميدي العربي الدفع لأكثر دينامية للانفتاح، ما الانفتاح وكيف يمكننا ملامسته من خلال الرفع من جودة المحتوى في ويكيبيديا العربية ومشاريعها الشقيقة بأي إستراتيجية ونحو أي آفاق مستقبلية، شارك في المؤتمر كافة مجموعات المستخدمين من تونس المغرب مصر الأردن السعودية، عمان، قطر، سوريا، السودان والإمارات، والمجتمع الويكيميدي القاري من آسيا إفريقيا.

ليكون نافذة انفتاح على كل أقطار وبقاع العالم...

من خلال هذا المؤتمر نأتي على المخرجات التي هي :

تراكم العبارات المعرفية التي كانت منذ أول مؤتمر عربي في تونس، جميع المداخلات صبت حول نقاش الانفتاح

نقاش مهم دار حول دورية المؤتمر وحول تكوين مجلس عربي للبت في تعيين على الأقل أسماء فريقين للسنتين القادمتين، في اقتراح لكي تعبر المجموعات عن رغبتها ل2022 فكان هذا النقاش [2].

Final questionnaire

18 users participated in it, including 75 speakers and 20 % of the participants

[Intervention Programme]: 81% is great

[Featured Topics]: 87% are awesome

[presenters Quality]: 66 % awesome

[Organization in General ]: 76 % awesome

[sharing the event via social media]: 87% awesome

[Social Event]: 80 % awesome

[Lecture hall idea]: 76 % Fantastic

Presentations that caught our attention

Day One

Round of discussions with the executive director of the Wikimedia organization.
Opening Ceremony
Roundtable discussion with Farah Mutakallim
Mariana Iskandar spokesperson
Presentation by Hani Yakan from the Emirates
Meeting with the CEO of the Foundation
Anass sedratti and Reda benKhadra, entitled "Volunteering in the Wikimedia movement".
Presentation of the idea of volunteering within the encyclopedia
Measuring the health of the Arabic community at Wikipedia: Are we "open" to community growth and renewal?

Building partnerships / Measuring the health of the Arabic Wikipedia community: Are we "open" to community growth and renewal?

Building together with partners

Day two

Qatar National Library Wikipedia Past and Present Projects
Speaker Kamal Salai: Arab ideas between the challenges of rationalization and the challenges of humanization
Show the transition of Wikipedia activity from randomness to organization
Submitting posts and examples
Proofreading of the Wikipedia service by Taha Zerrougui
Experience of the Palestinian Translators Project
Building together with partners
A round table for UG in the Arab world

The last day

Speaker Abbad Deranieh: A review of the status of Arabic wiki projects
The closing ceremony was very nice
Written writer for the Emirates UGroup
Presentation of Muhammad Hijjawi Beit el hikma
User group between the past, present and future
The experience of Syrian wikis
Introducing growth benefits to retain newcomers in Wikipedia

Participants' feedbacks

A question about what did you benefit from the conference?

Since I am a new user, I have enriched my information about the encyclopedia, their experiences were inspiring.}}
Various topics of interest to the Arab community, getting to know some colleagues and contributors to the community, exchanging views on many issues affecting the Arab community.}}
The conference opened the opportunity for discussion between many parties from the Arab community, and to learn about the challenges and solutions facing the work of the Arabic wiki, and I discovered a number of sister projects to Wikipedia.}}
I gained new qualitative relationships, gained new relationships with Arab Wikipedians, got an opportunity to talk about my work and present it to the Arab community., especially fruitful discussions about the future of the movement and local affiliates.}}
A variety of topics, a third meeting room to meet the community and participants, in addition to the presence of simultaneous translation of the presentation in foreign languages.}}

What did you like the most about the conference overall?

Tight organization despite the difficulty of organizing virtual conferences
Organizing, and technical assistance prior to the conference, as the organizers were constantly present for technical experience
Multiple themes
The organization was very professional, very excellent, and the platform was good. I enjoyed the experience, attending and contributing to the conference, and I was satisfied with everything.
For an online version, I think a lot has been done

About question, what do you think can be improved or done in another way during future editions?

Organizers voice and conversations can undoubtedly reduce echo by sitting in a small confined space or by soundproofing the speaker.

Internet speed
Can last more days
Improving the quality of audio technologies for speakers, we want to hear them well first and then see them clearly
Not broadcasting the interventions at the same time. Each hall opens its lectures at a different time, as you find us moving from one hall to another, so the benefit is lost.
Downloading the entries on YouTube was modest
Involve the encyclopedia community more with the event and convince it, the list of times is in UTC, not in the local time of Algeria. creates confusion. It was also difficult to use the technical platform and practice it on the speakers

A free word for you about the Wiki Arabic Conference Algeria 2021

Thank you very much, my friends, and may God bless you for the wonderful effort
straight ahead
great experience
Thank you very much, the conference was wonderfully organized, before its launch, we saw cooperation from the technical staff, and during it there was a continuity and after that, the organization and publication of all participations and all respect and appreciation to you and your efforts
Kamal Salai is my favorite presenter
God bless the efforts
I congratulate the Arab community in general and the Algeria group freely for the success of the first virtual Arab conference despite all the difficulties and challenges

May God bless you and your work always towards brilliance and sophistication

Frankly, I liked the conference, its organization and program, and I corrected many concepts that were not clear to me about the encyclopedia, the technical team was wonderful
thank you
Big thanks to the Algerian organizing team and volunteers who made it possible to have a new version of WikiArabia despite the global pandemic

Conference media

WikiArabia album

فريق التنظيم
خلال حفل الاختتام
الدكتور كمال صلاي خلال تنشيط مداخلات المؤتمر
ويكي عربية 2021 عبر المؤسسة العمومية للتلفزيون الجزائري
فريق التنظيم

PDF Entries

Measuring Arabic Wikipedia Community Health presentation in Wikiarabia
Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia
WikiArabia 2021 - WikiProject COVID-19
عرض ويكي عربية (التطوع)
واقع وآفاق المراكز الإقليمية
ويكي عربية مراجعة لحال ويكيبيديا

Conference Videos

Olushola Olaniyan - The endangered African languages Role of Wikimedians
Abbad Deranieh - A review of the status of Arabic wiki projects (Ar)
عماد العطار - تعديل شروط (ملحوظية) المقالة
فرح مستكلم - مجموعة المستخدمين العرب
كيت ليفان - حملات التضليل على ويكيبيديا (مع حصة الأسئلة والأجوبة)
هارديانسا - لماذا نحتاج غلاما مفتوحا بأندونيسيا (مترجمة بالعربية)
Florence Devouard & Isla Haddow-Flood - Wiki Loves Africa
Measuring Arabic Wikipedia Community Health video presentation in Wikiarabia
Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
أحمد الحبشي - المحتوى العربي على ويكيبيديا آليات التحفيز وإمكانيات التجويد
أحمد هوامل - ويكي قاموس بالعربية والفرنسية
أناس السدراتي و رضا بن خضرة التطوع في حركة ويكيميديا بين التحديات وآفاق الإستدامة
ابراهيم فراجي - سكينة أبلهاض - قراءة ويكيبيديا في القسم
الحبيب مهني - تقديم لمزايا النموّ لاستبقاء الوافدين الجدد في ويكيبيديا
جمال الطائي استحالة الانفتاح
ريم بنت نايف المطيري - المحتوى الرقمي والمجتمع السعودي من خلال رؤية 2030
زهيرة كرماط - كيف تحفز الكاتب على الكتابة المفيدة بشكل مستمر
طه زروقي - التدقيق اللغوي في خدمة ويكيبيديا
طه زروقي - التدقيق اللغوي في خدمة ويكيبيديا
عائشة سماحي ثقافة السلام في قلب المعرفة
عرض المراكز الإقليمية - أناس
محمد حجاوي - مشروع مسابقة طالب الجامعة المترجم للشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
محمود الراوي - ماذا ينقصنا من مقالات في ويكيبيديا العربية؟