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Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana
Location
Global Online Community-based
Country code
BJ
BFA
GH
Main office
Tamale
Staff
11
Volunteers
300
Official language(s)
Dagbani
Other language(s)
Birifor
Dagaare
Frafra
Hanga
Kamara
Kantosi
Kusaal
Mampruli
Mòoré
Nabit
Nanugli
Nootre
Safaliba
Talni
Wali
Mr.
Sadik Shahadu
Key people
Abdul-Rasheed Yussif
Khadijah Iddrisu
Musah Fuseini
Fuseini Mohammed Kamal-Deen
Fuseini Mugisu Suhuyini
Alhassan Abdul-Wadudu
Abdul-Rafiu Fuseini
Hamidu Rukaya
Reports
Annual Reports
Affiliations
Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub
Phone number
+233 (0)244666136
Mobile number
+233 (0)207792629
Website
E-mail address
dagbani.wikimedians
gmail.com
Mailing list
dagbani@list.wikimedia.org
WhatsApp
Dagbani Wikimedians
@dagbaniwiki
@dagbaniwikimedians
@dagbaniwikimedians
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Mailing address
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group P.O.Box 294 Education Ridge,Tamale Ghana
Motto
Promoting Wikimedia projects in Dagbani and sister Mole-Dagbani languages
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Wikimedia Belgium
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Wikimedia Chile
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Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group
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Basque Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedistas de Bolivia
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Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
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Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedistas de Ecuador
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Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
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Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group
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Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
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MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
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Hausa Wikimedians User Group
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Igbo Wikimedians User Group
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Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
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North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
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Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Open Foundation West Africa
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Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
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Odia Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
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Wikimedians of Singapore User Group
SQ
Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
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Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group
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Tajik Wikimedians User Group
TN
Wikimedia Tunisia User Group
TR
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
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Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
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Tremendous Wiktionary User Group
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Tyap Wikimedians Proposed User Group
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Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
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Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
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Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
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Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group
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Ohio Wikimedians User Group
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San Diego Wikimedians User Group
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Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group
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Wikipedia Asian Month User Group
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Wikibase Community User Group
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West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
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Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
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WikiClassics User Group
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WikiDonne User Group
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Wikimedistas de Uruguay
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Wikipedia & Education User Group
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Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias
WIR
Women in Religion Wikimedia User Group
WIS
Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
WJ
WikiJournal
WK?
Whose Knowledge?
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Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
WNA
WikiConference North America
WOW
Wikimedians for offline wikis
WREN
Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group
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Wikisource Community User Group
WSD
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
WSP
Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish User Group
WT
Wikitongues User Group
WUL
Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group
WW
WikiWomen's User Group
WWH
Wiki World Heritage User Group
ZMB
Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia
Amaaraba na Dagbani Wikimedians User Group!
ʒingama laɣingu din su fukumsi zaŋ ti Dagbani Wikipiidia Baŋsim bayana kundi sokam ni tooi tɔhisabi
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group is a user group dedicated to promoting Wikimedia projects in Dagbani as well as supporting
nearby sister languages
in the region.
The Gur/Mabia languages are a large group of near mutually intelligible dialects spoken across countries in West Africa. The largest of these languages are Mòoré; spoken by more than 5 million people in
Burkina Faso
, and Dagbani, a lingua franca in the northern half of
Ghana
spoken by some 3 million people, including 2 million indigenous speakers. Among the smaller languages in this family tree is Notre, mainly spoken in
Benin
The group is open to membership by all interested individuals.
Mission
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To incubate all the 16 Gur/Mabia languages spoken in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana on Wikipedia, develop structured data for these languages by leveraging the power of Wikidata to increase the visibility of all the languages on Wikimedia, and provide general support for individuals and organizations interested in contributing to Wikipedia in these languages.
Vision
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The overall vision of the user group is to incubate all the 16 Gur/Mabia languages spoken in Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana on Wikipedia, develop structured data for these languages by leveraging the power of Wikidata to increase the visibility of all the languages on Wikimedia, and provide general support for individuals and organizations interested in contributing to Wikipedia in these languages.
Objectives
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To promote awareness of Wikimedia projects related to Mole-Dagbani languages in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana.
To establish the development of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary for all 16 dialects of the Mole-Dagbani language group via the Wikimedia incubator, and nurture them to become full projects.
To promote editing of Wikimedia projects in these languages by organizing events and activities, and recruiting new editors.
To promote the development of structured data for the 16 Mole-Dagbani languages, utilizing Wikidata, so that these languages can become more digitally usable and visible on the internet.
To equip editors of projects in Mole-Dagbani languages with the skill and ability for the continues development of Wikimedia projects.
Activities
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This user group plans to hold and support the following activities:
Meetings
the user group will be organising meet-ups for its members in order to exchange ideas and find ways to support them to continue editing the projects in areas where they would need help.
Edit-a-thons
to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to create, translate and improve the content in all Wikimedia projects ,or wto ork on and develop a certain topic that will in rurn promote the project.
Editing contests
the group will be organizing editing contests to encourage existing regular editors to keep editing Wikimedia projects and also encourage non-members/users to join.
Photographic Contests and trips
The group will also organise trips and contests to encourage users to upload and document files to Commons, which will be used in all Wikimedia projects.
Sister Communities
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Gurene Wikimedia Community
Dagaare Wikimedia Community
Kusaal Wikimedia Community
Wali Wikimedians Community
Wikipedia Community Hubs and Clubs
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TACE Wiki Hub
BACE Wiki Hub
KNUST Wiki Club
HTU Wiki Club
Affiliations Committee
Resolutions
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Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
(Promoting Wikimedia projects in Dagbani and sister Mole-Dagbani languages)
Contact:
www.dagbaniwikimedians.org
dagbani.wikimedians@gmail.com
+233 (0)207792629
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