Grants:APG/Proposals/2017-2018 round 2/Wikimedia Indonesia/Proposal form/Education Program

Education Program

Wikimedia Indonesia has been active in education program since the organization has been established. Since 2016, Wikimedia Indonesia has WikiLatih project, a project that dedicated to educating the newcomers and public about Wikimedia projects, especially, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons. This program supports many aspects of Indonesian Wikimedian community, it serves as the community building for newcomers, capacity building for senior Wikimedian projects volunteers, and also engage the volunteers with Wikimedia Indonesia. This program was built from the scratch, we’ve changed and tested the program and plan to formulate it into a situation-based program, as we know, every place has their own different culture and value about how to get know better Wikimedia movements and projects.

This year, when we started to do the workshop in Cirebon, we chose the trainer who actively speaks Cirebonese (a dialects of Javanese, although by a lot of research it belongs in Javanese, some of the speakers regard it as different language), we chose local Cirebonese as we knew it’s good to have people who speak their own language to teach local people. It’s happened to Minangkabau community too, so when we would like to start the training in other location, we should make sure we can get in touch with Wikimedia projects volunteers or we know someone, who potentially can be a trainer after we meet them in our regular trainer, to train new user in their own language and own way, as we sometimes miss or lack of the pieces of knowledge of local cultures.

We will support two main projects in Education Program, WikiLatih (WikiTraining) and Wikipédia Menyang Sekolah (Wikipedia Goes to School).

WikiLatih (WikiTraining)

WikiLatih project consists of 3 different projects, Regular WikiLatih, WikiKopdar, and WikiPelatih.

Regular WikiLatih
In WikiLatih, we educate newcomers about Wikimedia projects, how the Wikimedia projects work, and also how to engage and contribute to Wikimedia projects. This project also serves as the crucial part for newcomers and senior Wikimedia projects insight about how important those Wikimedia projects are. We also hope we can get more volunteers for this projects.
WikiKopdar
WikiLatih Kopdar facilitates senior Wikimedian projects volunteers to engage with each other. In every Kopdar, we would ask them to make their own task for that day and let them contribute and giving time to socialize with each other, so they can building trust and support for each other.
WikiPelatih
WikiLatih Pelatih is a pilot project of training the trainers for Cirebon community. We start to engage Cirebon community since last year SAPG grants. It also serves as a way to build volunteers capacity so they know tips and tricks how to hold their own WikiLatih events.

Users and uses

The beneficiaries of the project outputs are mainly for the new Wikimedia project users (WikiLatih), Wikimedian volunteers, as well as for Wikimedia projects readers that they can read new or improved topics in local language-Wikimedia projects in Indonesia

Impact

Content improvements in Indonesian or local languages Wikimedia projects
New contents in Indonesian or local languages Wikimedia projects
Building awareness of collaborative work of Wikimedia projects
Capacity building for Wikimedian volunteers
Bonding culture of togetherness in Indonesian Wikimedian community
Increasing new user participation in Wikimedia projects

Target

50 WikiLatih in various cities in Indonesia with a total of 750 new users and 150 volunteer trainers
6 WikiKopdar with a total 30 participants
6 WikiPelatih with total 18 new trainers
1500 content improvements

Wikipédia Menyang Sekolah (Wikipedia Goes to School)

The Javanese language belongs to top 20 languages with the most native speakers. The number of native speakers is amazingly high according to some statistics by exceeding 90 million native speakers (2013). However, the figure does not reflect the literacy of the people in their own native language. Wikipedia is a result of literacy. Since 2004, there has been the Javanese Wikipedia. Despite that large number of speakers, the Javanese Wikipedia grows very slowly that it results in many questions. Does it have something to do with literacy? Is it because the Internet penetration in the Java Island is low? Why does Google scarcely show the Javanese Wikipedia articles on its search engine? Is the Javanese language too difficult to write? More questions go on. After nearly 14 years, the number of articles finally exceeds 50,000 articles, yet it is far behind the Basque Wikipedia with around 280,000 articles and spoken by 635,000 people. Several programs have been implemented to increase the growth of the Javanese Wikipedia. The earliest programs were two Papad Limpad I & II, writing competitions for university students centred in Semarang, Central Java. It saw the influx of edits during the competition but did not grow a community. As the competitions ended, editors were also gone. Over the course of 2016-18, other writing competitions were held, labelled Wiki Mrebawani I & II. This time, it was with the aim of building a Javanese Wikipedia community. The competition itself targeted public in general and the participants came from various background. Finally, in 2017 along with the Wiki Mrebawani II, the Javanese Wikipedia community was established with the current members now are around 20 people. They also set up Omah Wikipédia (English: Wikipedia House), a community space for those intending to learn writing Javanese on Wikipedia and for training new users. Establishing a community is proved effective in easing communication between users whenever they need help on Wikipedia, so they know who and where to consult. Moreover, the existence of a community makes it possible for the Javanese Wikipedia to manage several social media accounts that these days are necessary for outreaching. Announcing those competitions as a new means of preserving Javanese in online medium proved successful in attracting participants joining the competitions. During the Wiki Mrebawani II (2017-18), 94 people enrolled the competition and created over 2,169 articles. The figure is almost three times of the first Wiki Mrebawani with 34 participants and 778 articles. The goals of upcoming programs will not go far beyond growing the Javanese Wikipedia community and preserving the Javanese language.

Users and uses

The beneficiaries of the project outputs are high school students, university students, teachers, and lecturers. Wikipédia Menyang Sekolah is a pilot project working on the integration of Wikipedia with the school/university curricula. We would like to challenge education institutions on how to do the assignment with Wikipedia. The result of this project is going to be beneficial for a further project working with the same scheme.

Besides, this project is to challenge the Javanese language lesson in class that has been considered boring and technologically-not-advanced. At the end of the day, it is to rub out the stereotype that the Javanese language does not fit with the advancement of technology and to be supportive of the preservation of the language.

Impact

Improvement and creation of contents in the Javanese-language Wikipedia.
Improvement of students’ and teachers’ Javanese literacy on the Wikipedia medium.
Capacity building for Javanese-language Wikipedia volunteers.
Building awareness of collaborative work in building the Javanese Wikipedia.
Building awareness of Wikipedia usefulness for education institutions.
Increasing participation in the Javanese Wikipedia.
Taking part in the wider movement of preserving the Javanese language.

Target

60 participants
- 40 high-school participants
- 20 university participants
3 institutions
- 2 high schools around Yogyakarta Special Region
  - 1 class each school
- 20 pupils a class
1 university around the Java Island
- 20 students each university
10 meetings for each institution or 30 meetings during the program
200 content improvements