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Greetings, I work on the Catalyst Projects at Wikimedia.

Background

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(See bio on Foundation website)

Sara is a member of the Global Development team where she serves as a Catalyst Project Associate supporting work relating to Brazil and the Middle East/North Africa. This includes grant-writing support, geographic-specific research for the Global Education Program, aiding an upcoming Arabic Wikipedia Convening, and planning editing and outreach events with the Arabic and Portuguese WP communities.

Current projects

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Project Detail Current activity
Project Catalyst Global University Program MENA Catalyst Project

Tasks

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  • Write grant proposal for support of Global Education Program work in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Aid in the planning and execution of an Arabic Wikipedia Convening
  • Aid in the development of a high quality offline Portuguese Wikipedia by supporting local efforts to create an editing competition and encourage participation
  • Help to communicate activities from Catalyst Projects across broader movement (e.g., blogging, email, on wiki)
  • Begin to develop and implement a system for capturing and sharing lessons learned and the results of global development programs in the Global South, for example with grants, event planning, and educational outreach.

Goals

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  • Toolkits/Develop
  • Increase knowledge about MENA/Brasil regions through interviews and research
  • Enrich statistics on these areas for Wikimedia
  • Increase social features for WP
  • Arabic Wikipedia increase by 50% in terms of submissions
  • Study more Arabic and Portuguese
  • Support local chapters and convening across the Global South/elsewhere
  • Coordinate a meetup in MENA with Mozilla, CC and Wikimedia (Winter 2012/Spring 2012)
  • Complete semester on collaborative project with Columbia University New Media course and Wikimedia Foundation (started: 9/2011)

Bookmarks

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Catalyst Project for Middle East and North Africa
Lists for Wiki Related Projects
Egyptian Arabic Course
Middle East and North Africa Strategy Page
Social Features
meta:Offline Projects
Listing of US Education Program Courses
Orientation/HR Materials

Press/PR/Marketing

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Article in Gulf Times, 10/23/2011
S Yap's Blog
Wikimedia to Launch Arabic Catalyst

Nifty Work Tools

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Copy and Paste Excel Text onto a Wiki
Convert HTML onto a Wiki

Helpful Presentations on WP or Relating to WP

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How Wikipedia Works and How You Can Help

Wikipedia Videos

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Wikipedia background video
Another video in Arabic on how to edit Wikipedia
Arabic Video explains how to add a new article in Wikipedia

Statistics...Love Them

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Mobile Stats
Summary of Arabic Stats
Arabic Tables
Charts on Wikipedia
AR:WP Statistics, Jessie W.
Strategy for Middle East and North Africa
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database and Mobile Telephony
General Quant Stats (document)
More detailed stats by country and with charts (AR:WP only; spreadsheet)
Mobile/Executive Summary/Trends/Strategies
Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown

Strategy

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Wikimedia Market Analysis
Arabic
Task Force for Arabic

Culture

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Middle East/North Africa

MENA Organizations based in the Bay Area