Wikimedia Conference 2018/Asia Meetup

Meetup for Asian Wikimedians

Venue & Time

6:30 PM (Local Time)

Room KINDL, Mercure Templehof Hotel Berlin

Participants

Bidgee
Rahul Deshmukh
ANKAN
Nahid Sultan
Morgan Jue
Daniel Chong
Wikilover90
Jitendra Shah
Irvin Parco
Steven Fung
Tanweer
Biplab Anand
Pankaj Deo
Rachmat Wahidi
Ravidreams
Punchalee
Athikhun
Balaji Krishnan
Chia-Yi Meng
Sanket Oswal
Imacat
Motoko C. K.
Rinto Jiang
Ivonne Kristiani
Jayanta Nath
Satdeep Gill
Abbad Darriya
Ijon
Lahariyanithi
Liang chi

Meeting notes

New Readers: Awareness Campaign and Inspire Campaign.
Marathi Wikipedia: Offline Wikipedia. Offline User Group
Wikimedia Bangladesh: Awareness on Mother Tongue language day.
Wikimedia Taiwan: Edting Medical articles. WikiWomen edit-a-thons every year.
Korea: Helping governmet to edit articles related to themselves.
User Group Malaysia: Got funds from other partners.
Wikimedia Indonesia: Writing competitions related to Science. Increasing awareness of Wikipedia. Doing ESEAP next month.
West Bengal Wikimedians: 12000 books uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.
Punjabi Wikimedians: Social media inspire campaign with an animated video. Collaborating with CIS for Punjabi Wikisource as Focused Project for the next fiscal year.
Maithili Wikimedians: Wikipedia Education Program in 20+ schools.
PhilWiki community: February 2019: Wiki Loves Art
Punchalee and Athikum (Wikimedians in Thailand): Editor retention. Mentor-Mentee project. Education program since 2014, 103 students have participated.
Balajijagdish (Wikisource community): Tamil Wikisource collaborated with Tamil Nadu government. Got copyrights of Tamil books by paying authors.
Hindi Wikipedia: Ektara video. World Hindi Conference.
CIS: Now supporting capacities and capabilities of Indic communities.
Wikimedia India: Internation winner for WLM. Thinking of doing Wiki Loves Food again.
Ravi: We need newcomers. Let's look forward to Movement Strategy. Coming up with ideas relevant to our communities.
Wikimedia Australia: Digitization project without many resources. Andy Mabbet might be able to do Wikidata sessions. Interested in organizing ESEAP or Asia-Oceania Conference in Perth in 2019.