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Wiki Indaba 2014, Johannesburg 21 st June 2014 Wikimedia Tunisia Situation Situation & Perspectives & Perspectives by Habib M'henni Habib M'henni Wikimedia TN User Group [email protected] @habibmhenni

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Wiki Indaba 2014, Johannesburg 21st June 2014

Wikimedia Tunisia

SituationSituation& Perspectives& Perspectives

by Habib M'henniHabib M'henniWikimedia TN User [email protected]@habibmhenni

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Tunisia

✔ Northernmost country in Africa, ✔ 165,000 square kilometres,✔ +3,000 years of civilisation,✔ 10.8 million peoples,✔ In 2011, a revolution... We are ''FREE''

''When the people will to live,Destiny must surely respond.''

– Aboul­Qacem Echebbi

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The Internet in Tunisia

Before 2011: facebook*, YouTube, some blogs, Wikipedia articles...

 → Ammar404  

Now: NO Internet censorship in Tunisia 

404 “File Not Found”

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Wikip[m]edia

A quick history:✔ 2006, WikiProject Tunisia 

– 5,068 [w:fr], 25 participants– 3,305 [w:ar], 24 participants– 2,145 [w:en], 12 participants

✔ +174,917 Files uploaded in Commons

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Wikip[m]ediaOnline visibility:– 2012 A blog: wikipediatn.wordpress.tn– Switch to www.wikimedia.tn– In Social Media: fb group, twitter, lnEvents:– Meetings IRL, workshops...– SFDay 2012, 2013– WLM 2013, photos exhibitions

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Wikip[m]ediaProjects– ÉdupédiA TN, Education program in Tunisia– SayapediA– Mesh Networks withWikipedia Offline– BID Wikimania Monastir 2015– Digitized Arabic books (nearly 3000)Wikipedia articles (National Library of Tunisia 

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Wikip[m]ediaProjects– WikiTour Tunisia, a trip across the country to promote Wikipedia and its sister projects.– GLAM– audiovisual equipment– WikiArabia, conference (MENA region)– Wiki Loves ...

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Wikip[m]edia

Perspectives– Create an official User Group  

{{done}}– Represent WMF – Make grants...– Think about a chapter– Edit in Wikip[m]edia projects

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Keep in touch

Meta: [[Meta:Wikimedia_Tunisie]]­

Blog: www.wikimedia.tn­

Twitter: @WikimediaTN­

Mail: [email protected]

Thank You ­ Thank You ­ شكراشكرا