Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
| Main page | Members | Activities | Reports | Talk |
| Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group | |
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.svg) Location of Myanmar | |
| Location | Myanmar  |
| Country code | MMR |
| Legal status | voluntary and non-profit organization |
| Approval date | January 23, 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 (37)
- CH Wikimedia CH
- GB Wikimedia UK
- KR 위키미디어 한국
- RU Викимедиа РУ
- US-NYC Wikimedia New York City
- CAT Amical Wikimedia
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- H-GAPS H-GAPS User Group
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burmese | Wikipedia | 107,670 | 241,960 | 831,070 | 4 | 120,290 | 102 |
| Wiktionary | 125,040 | 130,384 | 936,666 | 2 | 9,526 | 15 | |
| Shan | Wikipedia | 13,574 | 31,981 | 63,794 | 2 | 4,528 | 17 |
| Wiktionary | 36,808 | 43,646 | 95,762 | 2 | 786 | 6 | |
| Wikivoyage | 176 | 2,002 | 7,610 | 2 | 496 | 7 | |
| Wikibooks | 148 | 4,367 | 10,519 | 2 | 335 | 2 | |
| Mon | Wikipedia | 1,919 | 6,560 | 43,610 | 3 | 3,863 | 11 |
| Wiktionary | 48,665 | 71,390 | 94,171 | 1 | 1,420 | 10 | |
| Pa'O | Wikipedia | 2,644 | 7,087 | 29,409 | 1 | 1,618 | 12 |
| Wiktionary | 2,461 | 3,287 | 10,671 | 1 | 287 | 6 |
Strategy 2021[edit]
Please find the following link for Wikimedia Community User Group Strategy 2021 written in Myanmar Language.