Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2022

This page is the 2022 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2021 – 9 September 2022. This annual report is the fifth 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

This fifth year of the user group establishment saw some of the return to normal like the pre-COVID-19 pandemic. In total within the year period, the user group had made a total of nine face-to-face meetup, including the very first face-to-face WikiGap in Malaysia.

While outreach works still faced some difficulties and challenges due to the shortage of human resources within the group, the user group managed to promote the Wikimedia movement in Malaysia by having itself written in two online national newspapers (The Star and MalaysiaKini) and two university pages in Malaysia (Universiti Teknologi Petronas and University of Malaya). We've created a strong partnership with a public university for further collaboration in creating more Wikimedia events in the future.

We've also managed to secure the approval for our very first year of funding from the Wikimedia Foundation and started the process to open up the group's official bank account.

Committees

Position	Name	Location	Job Scope
President (2021-2022)	Dody Ismoyo	Johor	Liaise with Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Education Program in Malaysia Outreach for meetups around Malaysia, especially in Johor Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia LinkedIn, Facebook group and page admin
Vice President I (2021-2022)	SNN95	Selangor	Malay-language Wikipedia Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia
Vice President II (2021-2022)	Sabre23t	Selangor
Treasurer	Tofeiku	Sabah	Financial matters of the user group Malay-language Wikipedia New Malaysia local language incubation Outreach for meetups in Penang and Sabah
Committee	WAqil (WMYS)	Kelantan	Malay-language Wikipedia Jury in online Wikimedia events Outreach for meetups in Kelantan and Terengganu Wikimedia Malaysia social media admin
Committee	Exec8	Singapore/Philippines	Adviser and liaise with Wikimedia Foundation
Committee - Legal and Strategy	Jayraj15	Selangor	Legal-related affairs Outreach for meetups in Johor
Committee	MYMMMC	Kuala Lumpur	Outreach for meetups in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Wikipedia researcher
Committee	Getterrobo	Kuala Lumpur/Penang	Chinese-language Wikipedia

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 2022 reporting period. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here.

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/Title	Location	Institution/Venue Type	Date	Language	Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 8	Workshop	University of Malaya	Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur	University	10 November 2021	English/Malay	Kuala Lumpur 8
Johor 14	Presentation	Sutera Mall	Iskandar Puteri, Johor	Shopping mall	12 December 2021	English	Johor 14
Sabah 5	Meetup	Dapur Yasmeen	Likas, Sabah	Restaurant	25 December 2021	Malay/Bajau	Sabah 5
Johor 15	Meetup	Treasure Trove	Iskandar Puteri, Johor	Restaurant	16 February 2022	English	Johor 15
Kuala Lumpur 9	Booth exhibition	Sunway Velocity Mall	Cheras, Kuala Lumpur	Shopping mall	20 March 2022	English/Malay	Kuala Lumpur 9
Kuala Lumpur 10	WikiGap Malaysia 2022	Kuala Lumpur Library	Old City Center, Kuala Lumpur	Library	21 March 2022	English	Kuala Lumpur 10
Kuala Lumpur 11	Presentation	Malaysia Tourism Centre	Kuala Lumpur	Government institution	4 June 2022	English	Kuala Lumpur 11
Johor 16	Meetup	Paradigm Mall	Johor Bahru, Johor	Shopping mall	2 July 2022	English	Johor 16
Perak 1	Workshop	Perak State Educational Technology Division	Ipoh, Perak	Government agency	18 August 2022	Semai/Malay	Perak 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
Online Meetup is a general meeting between editors online in webinar form 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

Cancelled/postponed

Name	Type	Venue	Location	Institution/Venue Type	Date	Language	Meetup Page
Putrajaya 1	Meetup	Alamanda Shopping Centre	Putrajaya	Shopping mall	7 November 2021	English/Malay	Putrajaya 1

Planned

The following planned meetups are the meetups in which the user group had already an initial discussion within this fifth year of user group (10 September 2021 to 9 September 2022) 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	Meetup Page
Kuala Lumpur 12	Workshop	University of Malaya	Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur	University	TBA	English/Malay	TBA

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.

Simple English Wikipedia

Marina Mahathir

Photos uploaded

21st Birthday @ Kuala Lumpur Meetup 8
Ipoh Trip IMechE UM @ Kuala Lumpur Meetup 8

Other activities

Websites

Note: Archiving these website might be necessary to be done soon because the information contained in it might easily be changed in the future by the website host.

In the News

"Meet UTP electrical engineering alumnus Dody Ismoyo, one of the world’s top 200 most active English-language Wikipedia editors" by Universiti Teknologi Petronas (29 September 2021)
"Meet the man who wrote 2,200 Wikipedia articles" by The Star (4 October 2021)
"How engineer Dody Ismoyo became a leading Wikipedian" by Malaysiakini (26 December 2021)

Promotion and Publications by Third Parties

"WIKIGAP" by University of Malaya, for Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur 10
"Celebrating International Women's Day - The Embassy of Sweden in Partnership with Wikimedia Malaysia & Universiti Malaya (IMechE UM Student Chapter) Hosted a WikiGap Workshop 2022" by University of Malaya, after Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 10
"Celebrating International Women's Day - The Embassy of Sweden in Partnership with Wikimedia Malaysia & Universiti Malaya (IMechE UM Student Chapter) Hosted a WikiGap Workshop 2022" by UM Sustainability and Development Centre - UM SDC, after Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 10

Planned activities

Securing operational budget to make this organization more sustainable and can make more outreaches.
Recruiting more editors from various institutions, expertise and geographical areas.
Create Wikimedia community in each state and federal territory in Malaysia.