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Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2019

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This page is the 2019 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2018 – 9 September 2019. This annual report is the second report submitted by the user group after its official formation and formal recognition on 10 September 2017.

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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In this second year of the user group establishment, we could see that there has been a growth in the number of editors with high enthusiasts that have helped the user group growth and activities. These editors are also located in various geographical region in Malaysia (e.g. Sabah, Penang, Kelantan), in which it really helped in terms of reaching out to the new geographical places in introducing Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation projects to the Malaysian society. At the same time, routine Wikipedia meetups are always being held from time to time and participation in global and regional Wikimedia-related conferences were being done continuously.

We realize that in order to maintain the existence of this user group, continuity and sustainability is the key factor. This user group can never continue long in the future if it is run as a 1 or 2-person show. We had to create a community and society in which everyone can always take turn to run this group. Introduction to students in schools and universities are continuously being held in the hope that we can create Wikipedia Student Club in each of those educational institution.

The main vision for the 2nd year of the user group establishment was to create the solid foundation of the Wikipedian community in the country in various states and cities.

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. Starting from the 2018-2019 period, we shall include the other core committee members in the committee sections.

Position Name Location Job Scope
President (2018-2019) Dody Ismoyo Johor Liaise with Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Education Program in Meta-Wiki
Outreach for meetups in Johor and Melaka
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Facebook group admin
Vice President I (2018–2019) SNN95 Selangor Malay language Wikipedia
Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia
Vice President II (2018–2019) Sabre23t Selangor
Committee WAqil (WMYS) Kelantan Malay language Wikipedia
Jury in online Wikimedia events
Outreach for meetups in Kelantan and Terengganu
Wikimedia Malaysia and Malay Wikipedia Facebook page admin
Wikimedia Malaysia Instagram account admin
Committee Edwin Johor/Sarawak
Committee Exec8 Singapore/Philippines Adviser and liaise with Wikimedia Foundation
Committee - Legal and Strategy Jayraj15 Johor Legal-related affairs
Outreach for meetups in Johor
Committee Jbtonystark Johor Tamil language Wikipedia
Committee MYMMMC Kuala Lumpur Outreach for meetups in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor
Wikipedia researcher
Committee Tintoy Kuala Lumpur/Penang Chinese language Wikipedia
Committee Tofeiku Penang/Sabah Malay language Wikipedia
New Malaysia local language incubation
Outreach for meetups in Penang and Sabah

Editors

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The following list is the new editors who joined the user group because of the outreach events made by the user group during the 2019 reporting period. 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 Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 5 Presentation Malaysia Design Archive Kuala Lumpur Archive 15 September 2018 English Kuala Lumpur 5
Melaka 1 Workshop Multimedia University Bukit Beruang, Melaka University 6 October 2018 English Melaka 1
Kuala Lumpur 6 Presentation National Library of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Library 12 December 2018 Malay Kuala Lumpur 6
Penang 1 Conference (participated) University of Science Malaysia Gelugor, Penang University 12 December 2018 English Penang 1
Kedah 1 Presentation Northern University of Malaysia Sintok, Kedah University 14 April 2019 English Kedah 1
Kelantan 2 Presentation Sungai Petai National High School Pasir Puteh, Kelantan High School 24 April 2019 Malay Kelantan 2
Johor 9 Meetup Pelangi Plaza Johor Bahru, Johor Shopping Mall 1 May 2019 English Johor 9
Johor 10 Meetup Pelangi Plaza Johor Bahru, Johor Shopping Mall 19 May 2019 English Johor 10
Johor 11 Meetup Johor Bahru City Square Johor Bahru, Johor Shopping Mall 31 May 2019 English Johor 11
Johor 12 Conference Crescendo International College Johor Bahru, Johor College 22 June 2019 English Johor 12
Johor 13 Meetup Pelangi Plaza Johor Bahru, Johor Shopping Mall 15 July 2019 English Johor 13
Kuala Lumpur 7 Presentation National Library of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Library 1 August 2019 Malay and English Kuala Lumpur 7

Overseas

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Reports or Minutes
Indonesia-Malaysia 2 Meetup WMID Headquarters Jakarta, Indonesia Wikimedia Foundation 10 September 2018 Indonesian Indonesia-Malaysia 2
Malaysia-Thailand 1 Meetup Thaksin University Hat Yai, Indonesia University 5 September 2019 English, Thai and Malay Malaysia-Thailand 1

Note:

  • Conference is a full-day event with detailed in-depth knowledge exchange and/or training in editing Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation offline projects
  • 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

Planned

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The following planned meetups are the meetups in which the user group had already an initial discussion within this second year of user group (10 September 2018 to 9 September 2019) 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
Kuala Lumpur 7 Group discussion People Ideas Culture Kuala Lumpur Art institution TBA English
Terengganu 1 Camp TBA Terengganu TBA TBA Malay
Melaka 2 Workshop Multimedia University Bukit Beruang, Melaka University TBA English
Johor 13 Workshop University of Reading Iskandar Puteri, Johor University July 2019 English
Johor 14 Workshop VS Industries Senai, Johor Corporation July 2019 English
Kedah 2 Workshop Northern University of Malaysia Sintok, Kedah University Q3 2019 English
Perlis 1 Workshop University of Malaysia Perlis Kangar, Perlis University Q3 2019 English

Articles created

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During the events, many of the new editors were shown by the experienced editors on how to create a new Wikipedia article 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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Photos uploaded

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Blogs

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GLAM Newsletter - Wikipedia for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum @ Malaysia Design Archive
5 September 2018
for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 5

GLAM Newsletter - Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia
12 December 2018
for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 6

Other activities

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Wikipe-tan Malaysia

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikidata

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Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

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Wikimedia Outreach

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Wikipedia

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Social media

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Promotion and Publications by Third Parties
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Branding

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Type Date of creation Link
Wikipe-tan Malaysia 26 May 2019 Wikipe-tan Malaysia

Acknowledgements

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Wikimedia Foundation

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

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 run the user group.

Events and activities reports

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Photos

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    Indonesia-Malaysia Meetup 2
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 5
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    Melaka Meetup 1
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 6
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    Penang Meetup 1
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    Wikimedia Summit 2019
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    Kedah Meetup 1
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    Kelantan Meetup 2
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    WikiNusantara 2019
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    Johor Meetup 9
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    Johor Meetup 10
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    Johor Meetup 11
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    Johor Meetup 12
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    ESEAP Strategy Summit 2019
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    Johor Meetup 13
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 7
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    Wikimania 2019
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    Malaysia-Thailand 1

See also

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