Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2019

This page is the 2019 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2018 – 9 September 2019. This annual report is the second report submitted by the user group after its official formation and formal recognition on 10 September 2017.

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

In this second year of the user group establishment, we could see that there has been a growth in the number of editors with high enthusiasts that have helped the user group growth and activities. These editors are also located in various geographical region in Malaysia (e.g. Sabah, Penang, Kelantan), in which it really helped in terms of reaching out to the new geographical places in introducing Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation projects to the Malaysian society. At the same time, routine Wikipedia meetups are always being held from time to time and participation in global and regional Wikimedia-related conferences were being done continuously.

We realize that in order to maintain the existence of this user group, continuity and sustainability is the key factor. This user group can never continue long in the future if it is run as a 1 or 2-person show. We had to create a community and society in which everyone can always take turn to run this group. Introduction to students in schools and universities are continuously being held in the hope that we can create Wikipedia Student Club in each of those educational institution.

The main vision for the 2nd year of the user group establishment was to create the solid foundation of the Wikipedian community in the country in various states and cities.

Committees

Three active Wikipedia editors voluntarily formed the high committees to maintain the documentation works required for the user group. In day-to-day reality, everyone helped each other whenever who is available to run the user group with other editors who are not high committees. Starting from the 2018-2019 period, we shall include the other core committee members in the committee sections.

Position	Name	Location	Job Scope
President (2018-2019)	Dody Ismoyo	Johor	Liaise with Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Education Program in Meta-Wiki Outreach for meetups in Johor and Melaka Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Facebook group admin
Vice President I (2018–2019)	SNN95	Selangor	Malay language Wikipedia Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia
Vice President II (2018–2019)	Sabre23t	Selangor
Committee	WAqil (WMYS)	Kelantan	Malay language Wikipedia Jury in online Wikimedia events Outreach for meetups in Kelantan and Terengganu Wikimedia Malaysia and Malay Wikipedia Facebook page admin Wikimedia Malaysia Instagram account admin
Committee	Edwin	Johor/Sarawak
Committee	Exec8	Singapore/Philippines	Adviser and liaise with Wikimedia Foundation
Committee - Legal and Strategy	Jayraj15	Johor	Legal-related affairs Outreach for meetups in Johor
Committee	Jbtonystark	Johor	Tamil language Wikipedia
Committee	MYMMMC	Kuala Lumpur	Outreach for meetups in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Wikipedia researcher
Committee	Tintoy	Kuala Lumpur/Penang	Chinese language Wikipedia
Committee	Tofeiku	Penang/Sabah	Malay language Wikipedia New Malaysia local language incubation Outreach for meetups in Penang and Sabah

Editors

The following list is the new editors who joined the user group because of the outreach events made by the user group during the 2019 reporting period. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here. During some meetups, there were people who only became audience or passively participated in without having their hands on the computers.

Events

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

Name	Type	Venue	Location	Institution/Venue Type	Date	Language	Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 5	Presentation	Malaysia Design Archive	Kuala Lumpur	Archive	15 September 2018	English	Kuala Lumpur 5
Melaka 1	Workshop	Multimedia University	Bukit Beruang, Melaka	University	6 October 2018	English	Melaka 1
Kuala Lumpur 6	Presentation	National Library of Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Library	12 December 2018	Malay	Kuala Lumpur 6
Penang 1	Conference (participated)	University of Science Malaysia	Gelugor, Penang	University	12 December 2018	English	Penang 1
Kedah 1	Presentation	Northern University of Malaysia	Sintok, Kedah	University	14 April 2019	English	Kedah 1
Kelantan 2	Presentation	Sungai Petai National High School	Pasir Puteh, Kelantan	High School	24 April 2019	Malay	Kelantan 2
Johor 9	Meetup	Pelangi Plaza	Johor Bahru, Johor	Shopping Mall	1 May 2019	English	Johor 9
Johor 10	Meetup	Pelangi Plaza	Johor Bahru, Johor	Shopping Mall	19 May 2019	English	Johor 10
Johor 11	Meetup	Johor Bahru City Square	Johor Bahru, Johor	Shopping Mall	31 May 2019	English	Johor 11
Johor 12	Conference	Crescendo International College	Johor Bahru, Johor	College	22 June 2019	English	Johor 12
Johor 13	Meetup	Pelangi Plaza	Johor Bahru, Johor	Shopping Mall	15 July 2019	English	Johor 13
Kuala Lumpur 7	Presentation	National Library of Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Library	1 August 2019	Malay and English	Kuala Lumpur 7

Overseas

Name	Type	Venue	Location	Institution/Venue Type	Date	Language	Reports or Minutes
Indonesia-Malaysia 2	Meetup	WMID Headquarters	Jakarta, Indonesia	Wikimedia Foundation	10 September 2018	Indonesian	Indonesia-Malaysia 2
Malaysia-Thailand 1	Meetup	Thaksin University	Hat Yai, Indonesia	University	5 September 2019	English, Thai and Malay	Malaysia-Thailand 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
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

Planned

The following planned meetups are the meetups in which the user group had already an initial discussion within this second year of user group (10 September 2018 to 9 September 2019) 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
Kuala Lumpur 7	Group discussion	People Ideas Culture	Kuala Lumpur	Art institution	TBA	English
Terengganu 1	Camp	TBA	Terengganu	TBA	TBA	Malay
Melaka 2	Workshop	Multimedia University	Bukit Beruang, Melaka	University	TBA	English
Johor 13	Workshop	University of Reading	Iskandar Puteri, Johor	University	July 2019	English
Johor 14	Workshop	VS Industries	Senai, Johor	Corporation	July 2019	English
Kedah 2	Workshop	Northern University of Malaysia	Sintok, Kedah	University	Q3 2019	English
Perlis 1	Workshop	University of Malaysia Perlis	Kangar, Perlis	University	Q3 2019	English

Articles created

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.

English Wikipedia

Photos uploaded

Zhongshan Building @ Kuala Lumpur Meetup 5
Cendol in Penang @ Johor Meetup 12
Computer Mice @ Johor Meetup 12
Computer Mice @ Johor Meetup 12
Computer Mice Black @ Johor Meetup 12
Water Bottle @ Johor Meetup 12

Blogs

GLAM Newsletter - Wikipedia for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum @ Malaysia Design Archive
5 September 2018
for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 5

GLAM Newsletter - Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia
12 December 2018
for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 6

Other activities

Wikimedia Projects

Social media

Promotion and Publications by Third Parties

"IET MMU Melaka On Campus" by Multimedia University, for Wikipedia Melaka Meetup 1
"Crescendo Wikipedia Conference 2019" by Crescendo International College, for Wikipedia Johor Meetup 12
"Crescendo Wikipedia Conference 2019" by Crescendo International College, after Wikipedia Johor Meetup 12

Branding

Type	Date of creation	Link
Wikipe-tan Malaysia	26 May 2019	Wikipe-tan Malaysia

Acknowledgements

Wikimedia Foundation

We would like to express our utmost gratitude to Wikimedia Foundation for the warm hospitality or full support and sponsorship of:

SNN95 to attend Wikimedia Summit 2019
Tofeiku and WAqil (WMYS) to attend WikiNusantara 2019
Dody Ismoyo, Jayraj15 and SNN95 to attend ESEAP Strategy Summit 2019
Tofeiku to attend Wikimania 2019

Wikimedia Users

We would also like to express our special thanks to the following user for all of the help, advice, support and everything that it needs to run the user group.

Events and activities reports

29–31 March 2019
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia was represented by SNN95 in Wikimedia Summit 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
Report: WMSUMMIT19
27–28 April 2019
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia was represented by Tofeiku and WAqil (WMYS) in WikiNusantara 2019 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Report: WikiNusantara 2019
29–30 June 2019
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia was represented by Dody Ismoyo, Jayraj15 and SNN95 in ESEAP Strategy Summit 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Report: ESEAP 2019
14–18 August 2019
Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia was represented by Tofeiku in Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Report: Wikimania 2019