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This page is the 2018 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2017 – 9 September 2018. This annual report is the first report submitted by the user group after its official formation and formal recognition on 10 September 2017. In general, this first year is the year of establishment and expansion on the identity of the user group.

Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia

Note: By default, all of the links written here are directed to Meta-Wiki pages. If not, then it will be directed to English Wikipedia pages, and some to Wikimedia Commons or third-party websites.

Background

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Previously before the formation of the user group, the Wikipedia community in Malaysia had several meetups just to get to know who are the editors in Malaysia. Several meetups were made, but not so many new editors appeared. Most of the time, only the same editors who came again and again. Although there are quite a number of active numbers of Wikipedians doing editing to Malaysia-related Wikipedia articles, apparently most of them are 'shy' to appear in public among us, the editors who like to make meetups. Many discussions were held with other active overseas Wikimedia user group/chapters/editors, or during any Wikimedia conference to keep learning on how to start and grow a user group.

Coming to the 2017-2018 of the user group first year in action, we decided to make more community outreach because the name of Wikipedia is still not there yet in Malaysia at that time. We targeted groups or involved in events, to get more of the masses coming together for our meetup events. We've been trying several times on how to fine tune the presentation about how to edit or write Wikipedia several times by listening to the inputs from the attendees. Some attendees come and go, but some other stay. After a while, we've had a sort of like a more standardize way of doing Wikipedia things in Malaysia. After kept doing this, we started to see the momentum picking up in Malaysia in which some parties kept asking for casual meetup, continuous meetings or follow ups. Along the way, we also started to see active Wikipedia editors in other Malaysian states (far away from any state in which we had any Wikipedia meetup before). Those active editors were willing to make meetups in their area. What we did was to standardize on how to do things and how to make the report of it (e.g. photo, number of attendees, minutes of meetings, any problem or inquiry etc).

Lately we've been going into a more high profile public outreach in which the user group presented at an international conference at the capital city of Malaysia. More related agency/institution people we met, and we hope we can create a collaboration with them and long-term engagement to benefit both sides. Now, there are more editors to help around with the social media or promotional-related matters for any of the user group events, including translation into other languages than English. Nevertheless, lack of manpower (number of active editors who want to volunteer) is still the biggest challenge for the user group in expanding further.

The main vision for the 1st year of the user group establishment was to create the Malaysia identity for the user group.

High committees

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Three active Wikipedia editors voluntarily formed the high committees to maintain the documentation works required for the user group. In day-to-day reality, everyone helped each other whenever who is available to run the user group with other editors who are not high committees.

Editors

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Note: All names are listed alphabetically. For 2019 annual report onward, only new editors will be listed in the annual report Meta-Wiki page.

Existing

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Prior to the start term of the 2018 annual report (before 10 September 2017), there has been several Wikipedia editors joined together to form the Wikipedia Malaysia community and had meetups.

New

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The following list is the existing editors who joined the user group (or any event organized/related to the user group) after its formation and new editors who joined because of the outreach events made by the user group after its official formation. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here. During some meetups, there were people who only became audience or passively participated in without having their hands on the computers.

Events

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Note: By default, all of the events are meetups, unless specified otherwise; or if they are more detailed than just meetups. All locations are in Malaysia, unless specified otherwise. All events were organized by the user group or the second party we were dealing directly with, unless specified "(participated)", in which we took part in a larger event organized by the third party.

Completed

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Reports or Minutes
Johor 2 School activity Larkin 2 National School Johor Bahru, Johor Primary school 8 October 2017 Malay Johor 2
Johor 3 City festival (participated) Big Bites Café Johor Bahru, Johor Cafe 22 October 2017 English Johor 3
Johor 4 Workshop Crescendo International College Johor Bahru, Johor College 9 December 2017 English Johor 4
Johor 5 Workshop Sunway College Johor Bahru Johor Bahru, Johor College 20 January 2018 English Johor 5
Johor 6 Meetup Q House Restaurant Johor Bahru, Johor Restaurant 24 February 2018 English Johor 6
Johor 7 Presentation Handicapped and Mentally Disabled Children Association Saleng, Johor Disabled home 14 April 2018 English Johor 7
Sabah 1 Presentation Sandakan District Education Office Sandakan, Sabah Government office 17 May 2018 Malay, English, Dusun Sabah 1
Kuala Lumpur 3 Technology event (participated) AIA Cap Square Tower Kuala Lumpur Commercial office 30 June 2018 English Kuala Lumpur 3
Johor 8 Workshop Crescendo International College Johor Bahru, Johor College 14 July 2018 English Johor 8
Kelantan 1 Presentation Kamil National High School Pasir Puteh, Kelantan High school 6 August 2018 Malay Kelantan 1
Kuala Lumpur 4 Conference (participated) Kuala Lumpur Convention Center Kuala Lumpur Convention center 26 August 2018 English Kuala Lumpur 4

Overseas

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Reports or Minutes
WMCON 2018 Conference (participated) Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof Airport Berlin, Germany Hotel 20-22 April 2018 English WMCON18
Malaysia-Taiwan 1 Meetup Leaf Cafe Taipei, Taiwan Cafe 28 April 2018 English, Chinese Malaysia-Taiwan 1
ESEAP 2018 Conference (participated) Swiss-Belresort Watu Jimbar Bali, Indonesia Resort 5-6 May 2018 English ESEAP2018

Upcoming

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 5 Presentation Malaysia Design Archive Kuala Lumpur Art organization 15 September 2018 English Kuala Lumpur 5

Note:

  • Meetup is a general meeting between editors face-to-face discussing Wikipedia without really focusing on Wikipedia in the Internet
  • Presentation is a one-way explanation about Wikipedia to audience in which the audience do not really engaged in editing Wikipedia
  • Workshop is an event where there is presentation and also the engagement from the audience in learning or editing Wikipedia in their computer

Cancelled/postponed

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Original Planned Date Language Meetup Page
Kedah 1 Meetup Rumah AOR Alor Setar, Kedah Restaurant 21 April 2018 English Kedah 1

Planned

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The following planned meetups are the meetups in which the user group had already an initial discussion within this first year of user group (10 September 2017 to 9 September 2018) with the institution/venue to make a Wikipedia meetup in the future, but has not yet been confirmed regarding the scope, date and time. Therefore the listing is without any specific order of immediate occurrence.

Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language
Johor 9 Lecture Consulate-General of Indonesia Johor Bahru Johor Bahru, Johor Diplomatic mission TBA Indonesian
Johor 10 Technical presentation Institution of Engineers Malaysia (Southern Branch) Johor Bahru, Johor Engineering association TBA English
Johor 11 Workshop Johor Society for the Performing Arts Johor Bahru, Johor Art institution TBA English
Johor 12 Presentation TBA Johor Non-governmental organization TBA English, Malay
Johor 13 Workshop Sunway College Johor Bahru Johor Bahru, Johor College TBA English
Johor 14 Workshop University of Reading Malaysia Iskandar Puteri, Johor University TBA English
Johor 15 Workshop Malaysia University of Technology Iskandar Puteri, Johor University TBA English, Chinese
Johor 16 Workshop University of Southampton Malaysia Campus Iskandar Puteri, Johor University TBA English
Kedah 1 Presentation Northern University of Malaysia Sintok, Kedah University TBA English, Malay
Melaka 1 Workshop Multimedia University Bukit Beruang, Melaka University TBA English
Terengganu 1 Presentation TBA Besut, Terengganu Resort TBA Malay

Articles created

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Glulam Gallery @ Johor Meetup 3
 
Crescendo International College @ Johor Meetup 4
 
Sunway College Residence @ Johor Meetup 5

While most of the time during any event, many of the new editors learn how to edit Wikipedia articles only, but there were also other occasion where we learned how to make articles from scratch. The following list are the articles created during or because of any of the meetup held by the user group. On the right side are the photos uploaded during Wikipedia meetup events organized by the user group.

English Wikipedia

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Malay Wikipedia

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Blogs

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GLAM Newsletter - World Library and Information Congress 2018
5 September 2018
for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 4

Other activities

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Social media

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We've been trying to be active in promoting the user group existence and events in social media. Not only about meetup events related, but also about introduction of Wikimedia Foundation projects, tips and tricks in editing/using Wikipedia, special/unique features found in Wikimedia Foundation projects, what's going on in real life in which is of great interest for Wikimedia Foundation projects, any latest update with the user group, technical paper publications about Wikipedia, Wikipedia-related news found in Internet by third party website hosts (e.g. online news) etc.

Some of the following social media were created from new, some of them we took over from the person who previously created it but didn't run it often.

Name Type Platform Date of creation or takeover Language Link
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Facebook Group (closed group) Facebook 10 December 2017 English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
Malay Wikipedia Instagram Account Instagram 23 April 2018 Malay ms.wikipedia
Wikimedia Malaysia Facebook Group (public) Facebook 8 May 2018 (taken over by MYS) English Wikimedia Malaysia
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Instagram Account Instagram 18 August 2018 English, Malay wikimedia.my

Aside from those 4 web addresses, we have also been active in promoting or reporting on our events at the Wikimedia Asia-Oceania Forum Facebook group.

Websites

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Note: Archiving these website might be necessary to be done soon because the information contained in it might easily be changed in the future by the website host.

In the News
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Promotion and Publications by Third Parties
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Branding

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Previously, we've had the Wikipedia t-shirts and Wikipedia Malaysia meetup banner. This 2018 annual report year, we've created the user group logo and name card in four major languages in Malaysia (English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil).

Type Date of creation Language Link
User group logo 25 September 2017 English Community User Group Malaysia logo.svg Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Logo
User group logo 1 November 2017 Malay Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Logo dalam Bahasa Melayu
User group logo 3 February 2018 Chinese Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Logo 與中國劇本
User group name card 5 March 2018 English, Malay, Chinese
User group logo 15 July 2018 Tamil Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Logo தமிழ் மொழி
User group name card 10 August 2018 Tamil

Planned activities

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  • Expansion on the Chinese and Tamil-language articles of Malaysia
  • The establishment of new languages in Wikipedia from Malaysia indigenous languages (e.g. Iban, Kadazan, etc)
  • The establishment of Jawi script Wikipedia
  • Make first Wikipedia meetup in every state or federal territory (left with Kedah, Labuan, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Putrajaya, Sawarak, Terengganu)
  • Get editors based in every state or federal territory
  • Create Wikipedia student club in universities or colleges
  • Make Wikipedia outreach to the disabled community and make it more accessible to them
  • Make Wikipedia meetups on animation or multimedia-related works or workshops
  • The creation of Malaysia version of Wikipe-tan (this is the most important one! lol ~ :P)

Acknowledgements

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Wikimedia Foundation

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We would like to express our utmost gratitude to Wikimedia Foundation for the full support and sponsorship of:

Before 2018 MYS user group annual report period:

During 2018 MYS user group annual report period:

Wikimedia Users

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We would also like to express our special thanks to the following user for all of the help, advice, support and everything that it needs to start and run the user group, especially at its early stage.

Events and Activities Reports

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Photos

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    Johor Meetup 2
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    Johor Meetup 3
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    Johor Meetup 4
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    Johor Meetup 5
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    Johor Meetup 6
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    Johor Meetup 7
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    Sabah Meetup 1
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 3
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    Johor Meetup 8
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    Kelantan Meetup 1
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 4
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    Wikimedia Conference 2018
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    Malaysia-Taiwan Meetup 1
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    ESEAP Conference 2018

See also

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