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Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group

Location of Myanmar
LocationMyanmar
Country codeMMR
Legal statusvoluntary and non-profit organization
Approval date23. januar 2020
Main officeYangon
Official language(s)Burmese
Other language(s)English
Kachin
Kayah
Karen
Chin
Mon
Rakhine
Shan
AffiliationsESEAP
Mailing listwikimedia-mm
TwitterMyanmar Wikipedia
FacebookMWCUG
Myanmar Wikipedia




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

  • 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

Planned

  • 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

  • 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

Sprog Projekter Artikler Sider Redigeringer Administratorer Brugere Aktive brugere
Burmese Wikipedia 107,946 243,351 837,369 4 121,444 124
Wiktionary 125,041 130,388 936,736 2 9,616 14
Shan Wikipedia 13,625 32,055 64,272 2 4,651 14
Wiktionary 37,171 44,190 97,195 2 807 5
Wikivoyage 176 2,004 7,730 2 512 4
Wikibooks 148 4,373 10,533 2 350 2
Mon Wikipedia 1,923 6,569 43,812 3 3,953 7
Wiktionary 51,645 75,282 98,804 1 1,477 21
Pa'O Wikipedia 2,811 7,352 29,832 1 1,713 12
Wiktionary 2,503 3,381 10,821 1 313 4

Strategy 2021

Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.

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