Hablon User Group/WOW2022 and ESEAPCon2022
The Hablon User Group of Wikimedians in the Philippines (HUG) presented a paper at the Worlds of Wikimedia Conference 2022 and participated in the ESEAP Conference 2022 held in Sydney, Australia in November 2022.
WOW2022
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Members of HUG participated and presented a paper in the Worlds of Wikimedia Conference 2022 held in Sydney, Australia in 17-18 November 2022 at Sydney University. The paper entitled Open Knowledge using Indigenous Language - the Waray Wikipedia Experience is about the development of Waray Wikipedia and how this version of Wikipedia disseminates information.
Abstract of the paper: Waray Wikipedia, an edition of Wikipedia written in the Waray language of the Philippines, is an open platform that contains open knowledge, the contents of which are contributed voluntarily by registered and anonymous users including lsjbot which is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program. Since the inception of Waray Wikipedia in September 2005, the number of users who registered per year ranges from 16 to 87. The average number of active editors in a month increased from 2 in 2005 to 14 in 2021. They have contributed about a minimum of six new articles per day from 2009 to 2013 and at least one new article in a day from 2005 to 2007, 2014, and 2016. On the other hand, anonymous users contributed a minimum of two new articles in a day in 2005, from 2016 to 2018, and in 2020, and one new article per day in 2014, 2015, 2019, and 2021. While lsjbot was adding 1,143,002 articles in Waray Wikipedia from 2013 to 2014, registered and anonymous users were also creating a total of 4,011 new articles during the same time. In the eight edit-a-thons that contributed about 644,638 characters to Waray Wikipedia, at least one participant from each event continued editing. Pageviews of Waray Wikipedia have been increasing at an average annual growth rate of 40% with desktop computers as the most commonly used devices. Waray Wikipedia answers the need of the Waray-speaking community for free information that is written in a language that they easily understand.
ESEAPCon2022
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Members of HUG participated in the ESEAP Conference 2022 in 18-20 November 2022 held in Sydney, Australia sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Australia. HUG representatives did not apply for Wikimedia scholarship since HUG is not a recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation.