Habib M'henni presented on the situation and perspectives of Wikimedia in Tunisia. He provided background on Tunisia and discussed how Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia grew after the country's 2011 revolution removed internet censorship. Wikimedia Tunisia now has an active user group organizing events like workshops and photo exhibitions to promote Wikimedia projects in Tunisia. They are working on education programs, digitizing materials in libraries, and collaborating on projects like Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikimania 2015 in Tunisia. Their goal is to continue growing contributions to Wikimedia projects from Tunisia.

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Wikimedia Tunisia
SituationSituation
& Perspectives& Perspectives
by Habib M'henniHabib M'henni
Wikimedia TN User Group
habib.mhenni@wikimedia.tn
@habibmhenni

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Tunisia
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Northernmost country in Africa,
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165,000 square kilometres,
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+3,000 years of civilisation,
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10.8 million peoples,
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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
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Wikip[m]edia
A quick history:
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2006, WikiProject Tunisia
– 5,068 [w:fr], 25 participants
– 3,305 [w:ar], 24 participants
– 2,145 [w:en], 12 participants
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+174,917 Files uploaded in Commons

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

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

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Wikip[m]edia
Projects
– 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
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– 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: contact@wikimedia.tn
Thank You ­ Thank You ­ ‫شكرا‬‫شكرا‬