Wikipedia:Meetup/Selangor 1
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The Wikipedia Selangor Meetup 1 (the 3rd Wikipedia meetups in Malaysia) was held on:
- Date: Sunday, 11 December 2016
- Time: 12:00-2:00 pm
- Venue: Sudo Brew, 7 Jalan SS 22/11, Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- Medium of communication:
- English language - for the general overall meetup
- Malay language - for a special session to discuss Malay Wikipedia (subject to enough number of participants)
Things to bring
- Laptop or tablet
- Notebook/pen/pencil
- Portable modem (in case there is no access to Wi-Fi at the venue)
- Multiple cable extensions (to accommodate other laptop/tablet users of electricity)
- Camera (for group photo shooting)
Participants
- Chongkian (talk · contribs)
- Exec8 (talk · contribs)
- MYMMMC (talk · contribs)
- NSaad (WMF) (talk · contribs)
- sabre23t (talk · contribs)
Topics of discussion
- Nichole, the Asia regional focal point for the Wikipedia Education Program will present the education program and will answer any question regarding the program. Submit questions by email nsaad @ wikimedia.org, via talk page or the Facebook event.
- SCAR 2016 Wikibomb
Minutes of Meeting
Wikipedia Expansion
- Ways to make Wikipedia reaches out to more countries, e.g. through Facebook, Twitter, Path, Foursquare
- To search and establish country-level data for Wikipedia writing data
- Discussion on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
- Phenomena on the tendency of people to create and develop new prime source for Wikipedia quote sources
Wikipedia Editors
- To make Facebook/chat room/mailing list for Wikipedia Malaysia Meetup people
- To create Wikipedia Malaysia User Group Facebook page
- To make Whatsapp for Wikipedia Malaysia editors
- To get more user groups into Wikipedia Malaysia
- To think of balancing between being open (for giving credit) or being anonymous (e.g. using IP number) for Wikipedia editors
- To see the Wikipedia Meta: "Wikipedia Malaysia"
Wikipedia Editing/Writing
- It's preferable to do more and more expansion to new/existing articles, then only to limit/cleanup those established articles
- To classify articles based on popular or non-popular topics to get more editors for the latter ones
- To make or further explain/guide editors on Wikipedia coding, especially on Wikipedia coding elements (e.g. html etc)
- Solving the too-automated Wikimedia Commons categorization (e.g. Category:Malaysia, Category:Taipei etc)
- Colonial English usage in Wikipedia
- To get more information or photos from open-source websites, such as Lowyat/blog etc
- To develop further articles related to transportation in Wikipedia
- Neutral point of view in writing articles, especially those who involve politics or politicians
- Legality of graphic design of public-domain logo
- Legality of maps in Google Maps/Google Earth/satellite images
- To create more and more svg maps (especially for Malaysian administrative division areas, e.g. districts, towns, villages etc)
Wikipedia Education Program
- Presentation on introduction to Wikipedia Education Program (URL: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/education, YouTube: Program and Events Dashboard Demo)
- To make outreach for Malaysia Education Program
- Understanding of Wikipedia components of education, teaching and ICT tools
- Examples: Ask teachers to tell students to write articles as means of part of education component during class time in strategies such as assignment, extracurricular activities, education camp etc
- Showcases of samples of projects/tasks undertaken at schools/universities for the education program
Transportation
Public transport
- Taman Bahagia LRT Station (3 km away)
Disabled access
The venue is located on the ground floor with easy wheelchair access, equipped with toilet on the same floor.