The Wikimedian Society of Tokyo

The Wikimedian Society of Tokyo (東京ウィキメディアン会, http://tokyo.wikimedia.jp/) is an informally existing user group focused onto supporting Wikimedians in Greater Tokyo Area. Its members have been organizing meetups and outreach-focused events in different locations around Tokyo since 2012.

Goals

• Support Wikimedians around Tokyo and in Japan at large
• Support collaboration between local organizations and people in Tokyo and in Japan at large, and Wikimedia projects
• Encourage and support people to contribute to Wikimedia projects

Activities

2014-02

• Members gathered at Yokohama, Kanagawa to talk about planned Wikipedia Town editathons in various parts of Japan in the last part of the month.

2013-08

• Some of the members gathered at Hong Kong (Wikimania 2013) and participated a Wikimedia Asia Project meeting, discussing possible content collaborations.

2013-07

• Members gathered at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo to talk about Wikipedia town editathons in Yokohama and other places in Japan. (Meetup/Tokyo/39)

2013-02

• Organized Wikimedia Conference Japan 2013 at the University of Tokyo in conjunction to Meetup/Tokyo/38.

2012-11

• Members gathered at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo to talk about possible participation in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. (Meetup/Tokyo/37) Unfortunately, our WLM2013 participation didn't happen in 2013.

2012-09

• Members gathered at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo to talk about recollection of their participation in Open Source Conference Japan Tokyo 2012 Fall and other issues around Japanese Wikipedia. (Meetup/Tokyo/36)

2012-07

• Members gathered at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo to talk about Wikimania 2012 and participation to Open Source Conference Japan. (Meetup/Tokyo/35)

2012-05

• Members gathered at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo to talk about the recent movement news and plans on the user group. (Tokyo)

2012-01

• Supporters gathered at Chiyoda and the group was founded (informally) by Akaniji, Ks aka 98 and Whym. (Meetup/Tokyo/33)

See The Wikimedian Society of Tokyo/Activities/Archive for older entries.

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Members

• Akaniji (talk) 13:39, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
• whym (talk) 04:35, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
• Ks aka 98 (talk) 08:40, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
• Asturio Cantabrio (talk) 08:20, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
• Alex Shih (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
• Syohei.A (talk) 05:07, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

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External links

• http://tokyo.wikimedia.jp/