2021:Submissions/Building a successful Wikimedia Community of African students

Building a successful Wikimedia Community of African students

Building 2 · Saturday August 14, 13:30 UTC

Session Notes (etherpad)

Speakers

Bolaji Alabi, Alaafiabami Oladipupo, Isaac Oloruntimilehin

Abstract

The success of the Wikimedia projects depend, to an extent, on retaining editors within the Wikimedia community. Using the Wikimedia Fan Club Unilorin as a case study, we will share how we we were able to build a community of African students with a retention rate of over 50%.

Session Outcomes

At the end of the session, listeners will have learnt; challenges faced by student Wikimedia communities ways to retain more editors within a student Wikimedia Community

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