Congratulations for this Rwandan new user group.
But, as a lover of my French language and a defender of Francophonie, I was a little sad to read "*that the group aim [...] to promote free and open access to knowledge locally in Kinyarwanda & English*" understanding in that sentence (I hope I'm wrong) that the government of Rwanda's policy of eradicating the French language has succeeded even within Wikimedian projects...
Thierry
Le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 à 09:44, Camelia Boban camelia.boban@gmail.com a écrit :
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] *Wikimedia Community User Group* *Rwanda *[2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally in Kinyarwanda & English. They also invest in projects that sensitize and train different communities in Rwanda about Wikipedia with much emphasis on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia*.*
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recogniti...
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda
Regards,
*Camelia Boban* *Chair*
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