Events

On the 11th of November 2022, our advisor Isaac Olatunde was invited by the department of Linguistics, African language and Asian Studies, the University of Lagos as a guest speaker to speak about the importance of studying language as a discipline and the economic value of studying an indigenous language.…

On the 29th of October 2022, we organized an event to mark Wikidata’s 10th Anniversary. Our activities included but were not limited to cake-cutting, training, and social event. Participants were trained on how to create Wikidata items, run a SPAQL, add Wikidata labels in the Yoruba language, and Databox. The…

On the 27th of May 2021, the Yoruba Academy invited the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group to their event tagged Ododo Eye to commensurate the Children’s Day on 27th May 2021. We have been asked to present about the Yoruba Wikipedia. It was a very important event for our community as…

The 1st of October 2022, marks Nigeria’s proclamation of independence from British rule on 1 October 1960. The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group organized an edit-a-thons in Lagos to commemorate Nigeria’s independence. The edit-a-thon focused on creating new politics of Nigeria-related content and improving existing articles on Yoruba Wikipedia. The event…

On the 15th of October 2022, the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture and Yoruba Wikimedians User Group launched a collaboration to promote free access to knowledge in the Yoruba language via Wikipedia and its sisters’ projects such as Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. The collaboration was launched on Saturday,…