ESEAP Conference 2024/Report/Ardzun

ESEAP Conference 2024 is the first regional conference agenda that I attended. As a Wikimedian who speaks in Minangkabau and Indonesian, and also active as a contributor on Wikipedia and Wiktionary, as well as the Jakarta Wikimedia Community, this activity provides many activity ideas for my community.

Things learned at the conference

• Conservation of trivia: There are many activities that can be carried out in a Wikimedia project, even activities that focus on preserving things that are considered trivial but have an element of knowledge. As I learned during Indonesian Vulgarities in Wiktionary

• Grants: WMF through the Regional Grant Committee provides funding for various activities in the ESEAP region. However, the large number of applicants makes the committee more selective, so creativity, urgency and collaboration in planning programs need to be considered in applications. Apart from that, this makes me want to collaborate and learn further with other communities in the ESEAP region outside Indonesia.

• Tools: There are many tools provided by Wikimedia, so after the conference I need to learn further to support performance when contributing or carrying out duties as a sysop and project manager.

• Copyright laws: So far, I was still confused about what Freedom of Panorama was, but when I attended the conference I understood this and learned more about how to overcome this issue.

Things the participant contributed or participated in the conference

• As Organizer:
  • The committee asked for help as a medical team to help overcome participants' medical problems
• As Host:
  • The first time I hosted in English, I hosted the Equity session.
• As Speaker:
  • Speaker at Harmonizing Voices with WikiTutur: Wiktionary and Lingua Libre Collaboration for Language Preservation session together with Diahasy. We explained about our program running in Indonesia and trained the participants to contribute on Wiktionary. The participants were active to discussed about our program and also active to practice on how to contribute on Wiktionary. Unfortunately, we couldn’t demonstrated to contribute by using Lingua Libre because it was crashing.
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• As Participant, sessions that I attended:
  • Thursday, 9 May 2024
  • Friday, 10 May 2024
    • Opening Ceremony
    • Seeding an ecosystem of partners - funding and beyond
    • Regional Grants Committee (ESEAP Region)
    • WikiNaskah: Digitization of Manuscripts as a Massive Effort to Provide Resources for the Development of the Sundanese Wikisource (Wikipabukon)
    • Wikimedia Australia’s partnership with Alice Springs Public Library, adding an image collection to Wikimedia Commons
    • Lisa's Wikipedia Bookclub and other initiatives from Aotearoa New Zealand

• • • *** Trip Activities - Mari Mari Cultural Village
  • Saturday, 11 May 2024
    • ESEAP Hub (2) – Meetup
    • Indonesian Vulgarities in Wiktionary
    • Women@Work: More than just a Wikimedia contribution
    • How to Encourage Women in Mainland China to Actively Participate in the Wikimedia Global Movement
    • Collaboration Between Wikimedia ESEAP and Sweden
    • UNESCO-WMID on the Training in Ethnic (Indigenous) Languages on Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech in the Context of Election 2024
    • Data Partnerships: 2024 and Beyond
    • Group Photo
    • Optimizing the Role of Social Media as a Learning and Collaboration Platform
    • Burn out ! - Experience of Taiwan GLAM Program
    • Wiki Dunong: An Eduwiki Initiative in the Philippines
    • Beyond Borders, Beyond Images: The Impact of the Commons Photography User Group's activities and Partnerships on Global Knowledge Sharing
    • Creating a wiki club in a university & encouraging students' engagement on wikimedia projects
    • Live Band, Karaoke Party, and Dinner Buffet
  • Sunday, 12 May 2024
    • WikiRenjana: Perpetuating Sundanese Culinary on Wikibooks Indonesia to Maintain Cultural Heritage
    • Automoderator: Make fighting vandalism more easier for administrators and patrollers
    • Facing the heritage language crisis, we provide promotion and teaching through Wikipedia
    • Uniting networks for free knowledge
    • Free the Freedom of Panorama in ESEAP
    • Awareness of copyright issue in South Korea
    • VideoCutTool: Streamlining Video Campaigns on Wikimedia Commons
    • ESEAP Hub (3) – Future Plan
    • ESEAP Hub (4) – The Plan

Plans after the conference (from what was learned or contributed in the conference)

• Introducing regional level collaboration to my local community. There are many programs from the others that can be applied by my community.
• The obstacles in the WikiTutur workshop that I carried out made me want to be more proactive in looking for new alternatives and maintain the issue.
• Improving my program and making new innovations in language preservation
• Routinely participate in online or offline activities within the regional scope
• Learn more about tools that can be used in my activities as a sysop on Minangkabau Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Comments/suggestions about the conference

• As the first timer on holding a conference, Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia, the preparations were quiet good. You need to study further with other user groups or other affiliates who have experience holding conferences in dealing with and preparing technical matters.
• The committee needs to be stricter regarding time allocation.
• It is interesting that this conference facilitates the agenda for getting to know the history and culture of the host (Sabah, Malaysia).