ESEAP Conference 2018/Program/Lightning Talks

Speaker(s)

Rachmat04, Irvin Sto. Tomas, Daniel Chong Choon Yuen, Leung Chung-ming, Nur Rahmi Nailah, Nur Fahmia and Athikhun Suwannakhan

Length (min)

105

Audience / Target group

Session Format

Description

Desired Outcome

Documentation

Rachmat Wahidi (WMID) - Working with GLAM Institution in Indonesia

• Digitizing letters of Ki Hadjar Dewantara (1st minister of Education of Indonesia), 100 editions of Kejawen Magazine and their metadata
• Collaboration with Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum, Yayasan Sastra Lestari, and Wikimedia Netherlands
• Run from April to November 2017
• Steps including: (1) Approaching and preliminary check, (2) Scanning and creating metadata, (3) Uploading to Commons and Wikisource, (4) Transcribing and Translating
• Challenges:
  • Convincing the museum to open the collection in an open platform, explaining the impact and discussion took three months
  • The language barrier, because the letters are in Dutch, but we have assistance from WMNL
• Rachmat's slides: click here.

Irvin (The Phillipines) - Bikol Wikipedia as a Local Resource

• Dept of Education use Bikol Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, and Commons collaborated for their textbook

Conan – Chinese Wikipedia Administration

• Activities include: Wikipedia Asia Month and Annual writing contest called “The Campaign of the Chinese Wikipedia”
• Campaign: Preparatory works and discussion started in the Village Pump, then moved to a dedicated space
  • 5-7 themes to encourage editors to work on specific topics which was decided by discussions and voting
  • Topics include those which are crucial for an encyclopedia, underdeveloped topics in Chinese Wikipedia, particular interest raised by occasional events (e.g FIFA World Cup), and common content gaps. Controversial and unpopular themes are usually avoided
• Conan's slides: click here.

Daniel Chong - Wikipedia in Malaysia

• Daniel first involved in Wikipedia as a researcher
• Early History: optimistic 1990s Asian Tigers (SK, Taiwan, HK, Malaysia)
• Malaysia heavily used ICT to leap from developing to fully developed country
• Malaysia can Invest a lot in infrastructure, but the mentality/mind set is not there yet
• Invested so much in Encyclopedia of Malaysia (expert, research, etc) in physical form, but never digitize and these encyclopedias hard to find online
• This project produce high quality encyclopedia, but low access and non sustainable
• Meanwhile, the online encyclopedia i.e. Wikipedia Malaysia grows without much resources. It was started by non-locals who had interest in Malaysia.
• Wikipedia Malaysia now has 314,000+ articles and on Top 10 most viewed sites in Malaysia
• Wikipedia Malaysia has a lots of edits and volunteers working on articles, but no community whatsoever
• Intervention action such as Wikipedia Zero, attention from WMF, and visit from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales still fail to establish Wikipedia community in Malaysia.
• One of the reasons might be due to multiculturalism, in which Malay is not equal to Malaysia. Malay language is widely used in the region, not exclusively to Malaysia.
• Studying Wikipedia in High Multilingual country reveals that for example in Sabah which do not have good infrastructure, however the Wikipedia participation is as good as the urban city
• Future of Wikipedia is quite uncertain in Malaysia: no manpower, generating knowledge mostly in social media, autoritarian government. This leads to a question worth of further discussion on the sustainability of the ever-growing number of usergroups across the world.

Ami – Wikipedia Jawa - The development of Javanese Wikipedia and its community

• Javanese Language: Large numbers of speakers (at least 80 million people), yet only few can write
• The issues concerning Javanese language
  • Language shift: speakers using Indonesian language (the national language) which is also the language of instruction in school and everyday lives
  • Language attitude: new generation tend to think Javanese language is only for old people
  • The use of Javanese only as spoken language: no demand of Javanese as written language
• Many spelling mistakes on elementary teaching Javanese, many teachers don’t even know the proper spelling
• Javanese Wikipedia was first initiated by Revo March 8, 2004
• Javanese Wikipedia Community center was launched in May 3, 2017 in Yogyakarta
• (not so) Fun fact: Javanese Wikipedia 84 mil speakers 54 thousands articles VS Basque Wikipedia 600,000-700,000 speakers, >100,000 articles
• Intervention activities: internship, social media posts, meetups, training, outreach
• Upcoming project: Wikipedia Java Goes to School

Mia – The Challenges of Local Languages in Nusantara and Wikipedia

• Indonesia: 652 local languages from 2452 observation areas (Nov 2017)
• Indonesia is a bilingual society: Indonesian language as national language and local language as mother language
• Local languages in Wikimedia Incubators: not only languages but also dialects. Currently there are 83 Indonesian local languages projects on Wikimedia Incubators
• Wikipedia Gorontalo is finally out of Incubators in 18 April 2018
• Challenges:
  • Public awareness of the urgency to preserve written culture in Wikipedia is still minimal
  • Consistency in contributing: Volunteering, After competition no returning after competition such as Wiki Mrebawani (WPJV), Sabanda (WPSU)
  • Technical tools
  • Use of the modern knowledge terms
• Recommendations: Language ambassador (Balai Bahasa)

Athikhun Suwannakhan – Wikipedia Education Program in Thailand: A Three-Year Experience

• University students was introduced to Wikipedia, participation is entirely voluntary
• Students completed online training: The cores of Wikipedia, Editing, Advance Editing. Not complete = excluded
• Students work on texts and illustrations of their article to meet course requirements, peer-reviewed by other wikipedians
• Students’s contribution were graded quantitatively and qualitatively, survey at the ending of the program
• 3,024 edits on enwp
• 788 media uploaded to commons