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Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2022

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This page is the 2022 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2021 – 9 September 2022. This annual report is the fifth 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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This fifth year of the user group establishment saw some of the return to normal like the pre-COVID-19 pandemic. In total within the year period, the user group had made a total of nine face-to-face meetup, including the very first face-to-face WikiGap in Malaysia.

While outreach works still faced some difficulties and challenges due to the shortage of human resources within the group, the user group managed to promote the Wikimedia movement in Malaysia by having itself written in two online national newspapers (The Star and MalaysiaKini) and two university pages in Malaysia (Universiti Teknologi Petronas and University of Malaya). We've created a strong partnership with a public university for further collaboration in creating more Wikimedia events in the future.

We've also managed to secure the approval for our very first year of funding from the Wikimedia Foundation and started the process to open up the group's official bank account.

Committees

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Position Name Location Job Scope
President (2021-2022) Dody Ismoyo Johor Liaise with Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Education Program in Malaysia
Outreach for meetups around Malaysia, especially in Johor
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia LinkedIn, Facebook group and page admin
Vice President I (2021-2022) SNN95 Selangor Malay-language Wikipedia
Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia
Vice President II (2021-2022) Sabre23t Selangor
Treasurer Tofeiku Sabah Financial matters of the user group
Malay-language Wikipedia
New Malaysia local language incubation
Outreach for meetups in Penang and Sabah
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 Selangor Legal-related affairs
Outreach for meetups in Johor
Committee MYMMMC Kuala Lumpur Outreach for meetups in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor
Wikipedia researcher
Committee Getterrobo Kuala Lumpur/Penang Chinese-language Wikipedia

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 2022 reporting period. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here.

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/Title Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 8 Workshop University of Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur University 10 November 2021 English/Malay Kuala Lumpur 8
Johor 14 Presentation Sutera Mall Iskandar Puteri, Johor Shopping mall 12 December 2021 English Johor 14
Sabah 5 Meetup Dapur Yasmeen Likas, Sabah Restaurant 25 December 2021 Malay/Bajau Sabah 5
Johor 15 Meetup Treasure Trove Iskandar Puteri, Johor Restaurant 16 February 2022 English Johor 15
Kuala Lumpur 9 Booth exhibition Sunway Velocity Mall Cheras, Kuala Lumpur Shopping mall 20 March 2022 English/Malay Kuala Lumpur 9
Kuala Lumpur 10 WikiGap Malaysia 2022 Kuala Lumpur Library Old City Center, Kuala Lumpur Library 21 March 2022 English Kuala Lumpur 10
Kuala Lumpur 11 Presentation Malaysia Tourism Centre Kuala Lumpur Government institution 4 June 2022 English Kuala Lumpur 11
Johor 16 Meetup Paradigm Mall Johor Bahru, Johor Shopping mall 2 July 2022 English Johor 16
Perak 1 Workshop Perak State Educational Technology Division Ipoh, Perak Government agency 18 August 2022 Semai/Malay Perak 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
  • 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

Cancelled/postponed

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Name Type Venue Location Institution/Venue Type Date Language Meetup Page
Putrajaya 1 Meetup Alamanda Shopping Centre Putrajaya Shopping mall 7 November 2021 English/Malay Putrajaya 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 fifth year of user group (10 September 2021 to 9 September 2022) 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 Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 12 Workshop University of Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur University TBA English/Malay TBA

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.

Simple English Wikipedia

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Photos uploaded

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Other activities

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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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Planned activities

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  • Securing operational budget to make this organization more sustainable and can make more outreaches.
  • Recruiting more editors from various institutions, expertise and geographical areas.
  • Create Wikimedia community in each state and federal territory in Malaysia.

Acknowledgements

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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 for the user group.

Photos

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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 8
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    Johor Meetup 14
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    Johor Meetup 15
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 9
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 10
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    Kuala Lumpur Meetup 11
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    Johor Meetup 16
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    Perak Meetup 1

See also

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