Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2021

This page is the 2021 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2020 – 9 September 2021. This annual report is the fourth report submitted by the user group after its official formation and formal recognition on 10 September 2017.

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

This fourth year of the user group establishment saw some big milestone achievements in their presence in Malaysia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting almost everyone around the globe, nevertheless the user group has been able to obtain a number of achievements.

On 24 September 2020, we've launched our official LinkedIn group for the user group. On 11 January 2021, two of our editors were featured in Malaysian local newspaper. Also in the same month on 20 January 2020, one of our editor were interviewed live on Malaysia local radio station. Also in the end of January 2021, one of the English-language Wikivoyage article about a city in Malaysia (which was heavily written and expanded by one of our editor) became Destination of the Month for January 2021, the first time for such achievement made by the Malaysian user group.

Committees

Position	Name	Location	Job Scope
President (2020–2021)	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 (2020–2021)	SNN95	Selangor	Malay language Wikipedia Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia
Vice President II (2020–2021)	Sabre23t	Selangor
Committee	WAqil (WMYS)	Kelantan	Malay language Wikipedia Jury in online Wikimedia events Outreach for meetups in Kelantan and Terengganu Wikimedia Malaysia social media admin
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	Getterrobo	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

The following list is the new editors who joined the user group because of the outreach events made by the user group during the 2021 reporting period. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here.

Events

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

Name	Type	Venue/Title	Location	Institution/Venue Type	Date	Language	Meetup Page
Malaysia Online 3	Online Meetup	Potential for Cooperation on Language and Linguistic Clusters of the Borneo Institute for Indigenous Studies of University of Malaysia Sabah with Wikipedia Malaysia	Online	University of Malaysia Sabah	24 November 2020	Malay	Malaysia Online 3
Malaysia Online 4	Online Meetup	STEAM: Is Arts Stream Important?	Online	Enlight Malaysia	29 November 2020	English
Sabah 2	Meetup	Residence	Kota Kinabalu, Sabah		24 December 2020	Malay and Bajaw	Sabah 2
Sabah 3	Meetup	Dapur Yasmeen	Kota Kinabalu, Sabah	Restaurant	30 December 2020	Malay and Bajaw	Sabah 3
Sabah 4	Meetup	Dapur Yasmeen	Kota Kinabalu, Sabah	Restaurant	3 January 2021	Malay and Bajaw	Sabah 4
Malaysia Online 15	Online Meetup	Pengakap untuk Warisan (PeWaris) Meetup	Online	Scouts Association of Malaysia	19 August 2021	Malay	Online Meetup 15

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
Online Meetup is a general meeting between editors online in webinar form 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

Other activities

Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Commons

WikiSelera 2021

Wikipedia

Complete reactivation, consolidation and take over the day-to-day update of WikiProject Malaysia in English-language Wikipedia (including its monthly newsletter)
Complete reactivation and consolidation of Malaysia Portal in English-language Wikipedia
WikiSihat 2021
Creation of WikiProject Malaysia (ProyekWiki Malaysia) in Indonesian-language Wikipedia

Wikivoyage

Johor Bahru – Destination of the Month (January 2021)

Wiktionary

WikiKata 2021

Social media

Name	Type	Platform	Date of creation	Language	Link
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	LinkedIn Company Account	LinkedIn	24 September	English	wikimedia-community-user-group-malaysia

Websites

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

"Volunteers in Malaysia keep Wikipedia free from trolls" by The Star (11 January 2021)
"Jasa ilmu penyunting Wikipedia" by Harian Metro (18 January 2021)
"Suara Siswa: "Siswa Penyunting Wikipedia"" (recorded Facebook live) by IKIM FM (20 January 2021)
"WHO partners with Wikimedia to raise health awareness in Malaysia" by World Health Organization (15 April 2021)
"Perekodan Istilah dan Perkataan daripada Bahasa Peribumi" by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (10 July 2021)

Promotion and publications by third parties

"Suara Siswa: "Siswa Penyunting Wikipedia"" by IKIM FM (20 January 2021)

Branding

Type	Date of creation	Language	Link
User group logo	18 November 2020	Malay	Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Logo (horizontal version)

Planned activities

Consolidate and reactivate WikiProject Malaysia (in English-language Wikipedia) and make it fully under the scope of the user group
Full revamp and overhaul of all article layouts and categories in Malay-language Wikipedia.
Push for getting Malaysia indigenous languages in its Wikipedia language version.

Acknowledgements

Wikimedia Foundation

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

Photos

Sabah Meetup 2
Sabah Meetup 3
Sabah Meetup 4