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The ESEA community met in Wikimedia Conference 2015

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• Community:East and South East Asia
• Addis Wang (Wikimedia User Group China)
• The Wikimedia Conference 2015 was held in Berlin, Germany. During the conference, the community of East and South East Asia got the chance to have a regional meetup at the venue. The members of Wikimedia Taiwan, Wikimedia Indonesia, Wikimedia Hong Kong, Wikimedia Philippines and staff from Wikimedia Foundation attended. ESEA Wikimedians discussed the possibility of regional collaboration.
  • Asaf Bartov suggested that each community hold a survey to discover the interests of the community and find out whether there are similarities inviting collaboration.
  • In the end, the ESEA community agree to set up a platform on Meta to exchange experience and news about ongoing projects, so that if there is community interest in the program that is being done by others, they can get in touch and collaborate.

Attendees: Addis Wang, Liang-chih Shang Kuan, Reke Wang, Eugene Alvin Villar, Juan Bautista Alegre, Josh Lim, Hendra Prastiawan, Siska Doviana, Venus Lui, Asaf Bartov, Alex Wang, Anna Koval

Click Here to see the brief record of the meeting

Chinese students commemorate deceased philanthropist Run Run Shaw

• Community: Chinese Wikipedia
• Author:
  • Addis Wang (Wikimedia User Group China)
  • Anna Koval (WMF)

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Snippet: Chinese students honor deceased philanthropist in a photo campaign.

Wikimedia User Group China organized a photo campaign to honor the memory of deceased philanthropist Sir Run Run Shaw and used the opportunity to teach a new generation of young people about his legacy. The participants were Chinese students -- mostly university level but also some from secondary schools. They photographed monuments -- some of the 6,013 schools and university buildings, public hospitals, and public theaters that Shaw donated during his lifetime.

Run Run Shaw was, by all accounts, a great man. He was an advocate for and financial sponsor of both education and the arts. Called "a colorful media mogul" by the New York Times, Shaw's name was synonymous with action movies and horror films, especially of the kung fu genre, which is is widely credited with inventing. He used his influence and his ample wealth to better his world, his homeland, and his people. He was a very generous philanthropist. According to China News, he donated over 4.7 billion Hong Kong dollars to education. Shaw passed away at the age of 106 last year.

The photo campaign ran for one month from 13 January through 15 February 2014. It was an online event only. It was the intention of the organizers to make this campaign a contest with prizes. However, because of limitations on volunteer time and capacity, it was not possible to do that this year. Nevertheless, the contributions were impressive! 81 participants from 24 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and special administrative regions uploaded 293 high quality photos to Wikimedia Commons. The photos can be seen at Commons:Category:Shaw Memory Campaign.

This small sized photo campaign was easy to organize. And it was effective at recruiting new content contributors. Wikimedia User Group China plans to do other similar projects like this one in the future.

Read more about the photo campaign on Chinese Wikipedia here.

View the students' photos on Wikimedia Commons here.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in China here.

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Feedback

• There has been talk in Wikimedia Indonesia to do photo contest way way back in 2009 when photo contest was starting, however it dies because the one who talk about it is wikipedian and not a photographer. We are still looking for photographer contributor who is able to manage communities of photographers to do contents. Previously there are issues that photos from Indonesia or about Indonesia (about building) were deleted in huge numbers because the commons admin understood/ translate our copyright law as all buildings are not allowed, whether the buildings stood before Indonesia become a country and have copyright or after. So one of our architech contributor to commons left annoyed because a lot of his hardwork are deleted. Back to level 0, and we have grant for camera in here. Siska.Doviana (talk) 15:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Taiwan's medical students will introduce offline Wikipedia to Cambodia

• Community: Taiwan
• Author: Reke (WMTW)
• There are many students in Taipei Medical University (TMU) organize a group called FLYoung International Service (飛洋國際服務團) every year, and they will visit en:Swaziland or Cambodia to help local education voluntarily. They are discussing about how can they help local students and teachers by providing better access to knowledge other then using books. The idea of introducing Wikipedia to Cambodian students comes to their mind. But there are many barrier for them to do so since there is almost no internet connection in the countryside area of Cambodia, thus, the volunteer group asked Wikimedia Taiwan's advise about which offline tool is best to bring to developing countries such as Swaziland and Cambodia.

In order to help the FLYoung group of Taipei Medical University, Shang-kuan Liang-chi, supervisor of WMTW, will hold a two-hour workshop on May 26th, 2015 to introduce Wikimedia movement and offline wikipedia.

Feedback

• This is great, you should talk to Wikimedia Swiss who developing kiwix (offline) seriously or professionally for offline wikipedia. WMID was going to do similar thing, but we are building content first before seeking the vehicle to deliver it (kiwix). Siska.Doviana (talk)
  • Thanks a lot, Siska. I'll remind Liang. --Reke (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Indonesia's Basic Encyclopedia Articles Approach

Photo (compilation of photos)

• Community: Indonesia
• Author: Siska.Doviana (Indonesia)
• Summary: A lot of community effort focused on community or to grew editing community. However, sometimes this effort forgets that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, as Indonesian Wikipedia lack of basic encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Indonesia drill hard to make sure these articles are met to be consume by the Indonesian public with a series of efforts combine.

Digitalization effort

• Sources for reference - Our previous 2010 writing competition learn, one participant who never edits wikipedia could write up to 208 good quality articles in three months.

• Lack of resources to write encyclopedic articles - However lack of resources meaning that the participants could write more articles and faster if resource and guidelines to write which encyclopedia articles that is not exist yet has been provided for them by the writing competition organizers.
• Lack of resources in Indonesian language - There are also language issues, the participant that can contribute a lot of articles are only participant who have no problem at understanding English. There are lack of resources to write encyclopedic article in Indonesian. However Indonesian do have a lot of encyclopedia articles, which are copyrighted.

Our digitalization effort provide a closed "wiki source type" full of copyrighted material in Indonesian language for the wikipedian interested to write encyclopedia articles. The design of the effort are to combine a selected participant that passed round three to have access to this online library. Unfortunately, the competition ends in June 2014 while the online library kick off on January 2015 due to technical difficulties.

Free Your Knowledge 2014

• List of Indonesian language encyclopedia articles - Wikimedia Indonesia listed 24,211 basic encyclopedia articles index

Feedback

• Valuable experience. What "technical difficulties" did you encounter?--Reke (talk) 09:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month is Coming!

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• Community: Wikimedia Asian Community
• Author: Addis Wang (WMCN)
• EN: Wikipedia Asian Month is coming in this November! Wikipedia Asian Month is an online Edit-a-thon aimed at enhancing the understanding among Asian Wikipedia communities. During the event, each participant community will run a local edit-a-thon on their local Wikipedia, and asking editors to write at least five articles about other Asian countries. As a part of culture exchange in this event, Wikipedians who accomplish the requirement can receive a Wikimedia postcard sent by other Wikimedia communities. ESEA community has a great participation in Wikipedia Asian month that five out of six major supporting affiliates are part of ESEA community. Wikipedia Asian Month is also a very first regional collaboration in Wikimedia Asian community as well as the ESEA community that is going to be implemented. Sign up now to help your language community has a better understanding of our neighbors!
• ZH: 维基百科亚洲月将于今年11月正式开幕！维基百科亚洲月是为增进维基百科亚洲社群互相了解而举办的在线编辑马拉松。在亚洲月活动期间，每一个参与亚洲月的维基百科社群将会在本地的维基百科中举办在线编辑马拉松，并且鼓励参与者至少撰写5篇关于亚洲其他国家的条目。作为亚洲月文化交流的一部分，每一个完成这项任务的维基人将受到一张从其他维基媒体社群寄出的维基媒体纪念明信片。东亚及东南亚（ESEA）社群在亚洲月中扮演了重要的角色。支持亚洲月举办的最主要的六个维基媒体分会及用户组中有五个都是ESEA社群的成员。维基百科亚洲月是维基媒体亚洲社群（也是ESEA社群）的第一个真正执行的区域性合作项目。现在就来报名参加维基百科亚洲月的活动，帮助您的语言社群更好的了解我们的邻居们！（中文用户在Meta设置语言偏好后可使用繁简转换系统阅读本段中文/To Chinese Speaker, you can view the simplified/traditional Chinese version of this article by change your setting on meta.）

Metrics report of Wikipedia Asian Month

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• Community: Wikimedia Asian Community
• Author: Addis Wang (WMCN)
• EN: In the past November, Wikimedia Community around world achieved an amazing accomplishment during the Wikipedia Asian Month. 1,286 editors created or largely expanded 4,310 articles on 41 language versions of Wikipedia, or 36 million bytes. Russian Wikipedian Winterpool contributed most articles in the Asian Month, as much as 85 articles. As the major organizer, nine Wikipedia communities from ESEA community participated in this event. Since one of our major goals of Wikipedia Asian Month is helping smaller communities to grow, we are planning to get more languages involved, especially minority or aboriginal languages. If you are interested to join us in November 2016 or have some idea to share, please discuss with us at meta talk page. (To Asian Month attendees: Some postcards are sent already. We will set the end of Febuary as the deadline for those who does not fill out the survey, and rest of postcards will be all sent by deadline.)

• ZH: 在刚刚过去的11月，来自全世界的维基人在维基百科亚洲月编辑马拉松中创造了惊人的成就。来自41个语言版本维基百科的1286名编者创建或大幅扩充了4310个条目（3600万字节）。俄文维基人Winterpool以85个条目成为亚洲月贡献最多的用户。作为主要的组织者之一，东亚及东南亚（ESEA）社群中的9个维基百科参与了本次活动。我们将帮助规模较小的维基百科社群成长作为亚洲月的目标之一，所以我们计划在2016年的亚洲月活动中帮助更多的少数民族语言或原住民语言维基百科。如果您有兴趣在2016年11月加入我们，或有什么创意与我们分享，请在Meta的讨论页参与讨论。（致亚洲月参与者：第一批明信片已经寄出。填写调查问卷的截止日期为2月底，所有的明信片都会在2月底寄出。）(中文用户在Meta设置语言偏好后可使用繁简转换系统阅读本段中文/To Chinese Speaker, you can view the simplified/traditional Chinese version of this article by change your setting on meta.）

Waray Wikimedia events in November-December 2015 at Eastern Visayas

Participants listen to a lecture about basic Wikipedia editing at the Catbalogan City event before they start editing articles for the edit-a-thon.

• Community: Sinirangan Bisaya Wikimedia Community (SBWC) with support of PhilWiki Community (Philippines)
• Author: Jojit Ballesteros (Filipino Wikimedian)
• The Sinirangan Bisaya Wikimedia Community (SBWC) conducted a series of Waray Wikimedia events from November 26, 2015 to December 2, 2015 in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. The events were supported by PhilWiki Community, a recognized Wikimedia user group. These series of Waray Wikimedia events helped in establishing partnership with the government and other organizations.
• 2015 Waray Wikimedia Forums at Greater Tacloban — The kick-off event started on November 26, 2015 at Tacloban, Leyte when Michael Ong gave his presentation during the 5th Regional Assembly of Philippine Association of Court Interpreters that was organized by the Philippine Association of Court Interpreters Inc (PHILACI). On November 28, 2015, Jojit Ballesteros and Bel Ballesteros presented Wikipedia and other Wikimedia online projects on the same assembly by PHILACI in Palo, Leyte. The main focus of these presentations was promoting the Waray Wiktionary since participants were interested in legal translation although other Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage were presented.
• 3rd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — SBWC resumed the activities on December 1, 2015 as they went to Catbalogan City to facilitate the 3rd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon that was funded by the city government and some generous donors from SBWC. It served as a follow-up to the 2nd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Tacloban last July 2015. Through this edit-a-thon that was attended by 31 participants, there were 49,449 characters added in various Wikimedia projects. The most significant contribution of this edit-a-thon is the expansion of the Catbalogan Wikivoyage article. Participants collaboratively contributed information about Catbalogan in the English Wikivoyage. At the start of the edit-a-thon, the Catbalogan Wikivoyage entry was merely 776 bytes and basically an outline only. After the edit-a-thon, the entry was expanded to 13,313 bytes full of information.
• 4th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — The following day, on December 2, 2015, the last activity happened at Catarman, Northern Samar where SBWC conducted the 4th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, which was funded by generous donors from SBWC and co-organized with JCI Catarman Cocoking, the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Philippines' chapter in Catarman. This edit-a-thon was attended by 25 participants who contributed 23,554 characters in various Wikimedia projects. Just like with Catbalogan edit-a-thon, the participants collaboratively expanded the Catarman Wikivoyage article. At the beginning, the Catarman Wikivoyage entry was merely 915 bytes and basically an outline only. After the edit-a-thon, the entry was expanded to 26,975 bytes full of information.

Wikipedia to showcase Rinconada culture in a photo exhibit

This picturesque view of Lake Bato is among the 65 photographs to be seen in the exhibit

• Community: Placehold Text
• Author: Irvin Parco Sto. Tomas (PhilWiki Community)
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Fifty-eight (58) free-licensed photographs selected from over a thousand images of Rinconada landmarks and cultural icons captured during Wikipedia Takes Rinconada will be exhibited from February 4 - 12, 2016 at Iriga City Public Library in Iriga City in the Philippines.

PhilWiki Community also set up a photo exhibit on Wikipedia Takes Naga as part of the promotional activity of Wikipedia Takes Rinconada last November 28, 2015 in Naga City.

For five weeks, different photography enthusiasts participated in a photo and video scavenger hunt conducted within the 5th district of Camarines Sur province. It was the third edition of Wikipedia Takes the City held in Southeast Asia after Wikipedia Takes Manila (2011) and Wikipedia Takes Naga (2012). Wikipedia Takes Cebu was cancelled in 2013.

The photo exhibit is sponsored by the City Government of Iriga and PhilWiki Community and is part of the celebration of Tinagba Festival.