User:Gayobah13
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My Wikimedia Roles
- Founder and coordinator of The Gambia Wikimedia Community
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Wikimedia & Libraries User Group (Starting September 2025)
- Participant in the Wikimedia Affiliates Leaders Training (July - August 2025)
Conferences
- WikiIndaba 2024 – Participant
- Wikimania 2025 – Speaker: Sustainable Partnerships: Exploring ways libraries and Wikimedia can collaborate on long-term initiatives to preserve cultural heritage
- GLAM Wiki 2025 – Scheduled presenter :Marginalised Languages and Knowledge Preservation
My Contributions
Wikipedia Articles Created
Wikidata Contributions
I edit Wikidata since mid-2023. My work includes:
- Creating new items (people, names) relevant to Gambian heritage.
- Adding and improving labels, aliases, and native language descriptions.
- Setting or refining claims such as writing system, family name, and place of birth for Gambian persons.
Wikisource Uploads
Wikipedia Fulfulde
Outreach and Community Work
- Organized two edit-a-thons in The Gambia (2024–2025): WikiGambia: The Gambia Stub Challenge, and Wikimedia Projects Awareness and Edit-a-thon in The Gambia
- Conducted onsite Wikimedia training sessions in The Gambia
- Established communication channels for Wikimedia User Group The Gambia:
- Meta Page
- Facebook page
- WhatsApp & Telegram groups for members and volunteers
Publications & Reflections
- Wikimedia User Group Gambia Embarks on Awareness Raising Campaign (Gambia Daily, July 31, 2025)
- Local language media coverage (YouTube) (Besel Media)
- Wikimedia Awareness Campaign Report (YouTube) ( Fulbe TV)
- My First Wikimania: Lessons, Inspiration, and a Renewed Mission (Diff)
- Putting The Gambia on the World’s Digital Knowledge Map: Reflections from Wikimania 2025 (Diff)
- Expanding Wikimedia Awareness in the Gambia(Diff)
Current Focus
- Supporting the growth of Wikimedia User Group the Gambia.
- Advancing Gambian languages projects on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Incubator.
- Building partnerships between libraries and Wikimedia for sustainable knowledge preservation.
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