Wikimedia-asia-chapters March 2012

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Another/ replacement list: Asia-Australia-Africa Wiki Free Knowlege List
by Siska Doviana 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi all, I would suggest a bold move - (and whoever make this list will probably hate me for it) - to replace this Asia list to Asia-Australia-Africa list. I think a lot of group to chapters are facing similar issues and best to share. Also whether you realize it or not, WMID itself are having serious regeneration issue back in 2010, which we handle quite well fortunately and things are showing sign of progressing in early 2012 for the effort we done back in 2010. This kind of list will help bumping anyone who cares to someone "known" regionally in addition to locally. Unfortunately I couldn't think of a catchy tag for this new list. (Ok to be honest I thought of "ASS" but that would be inappropriate) The new list should be open to *any* chapter members and *volunteer group* (like Kansai, Kazakhtan, Korea ) without chapters - or even without group (soloist because their wikipedia only have two editors - for example) who would like to be active in projects and governance or in replying and reading a lot of English *erk* Any takers? WMID member would be happy to organize the list and start inviting. Thoughts?

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Citation Party in Tokyo (出典をつけよう大会 in 東京) 2012-01-28
by Yusuke Matsubara 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Dear all, Let me share another event report and news of an emerging user group from Tokyo, Japan. Five Wikipedians in the greater Tokyo area including me held a citation party in Tokyo in the end of this January [1], which was then followed by another one in Kansai as reported by Kizu-san recently on this list. It looks like Japanese Wikimedians are getting active offline here and there! Like other Wikipedias, the core community of the Japanese Wikipedia has always hoped to overhaul missing citations for important articles, which sometimes were overlooked behind the growth of the site. Following a call by [[User:Vigorous_action]] (who was an organizer of the Kansai event in February), we gathered at the Chiyoda public library, in the center of the Tokyo metropolis. On January 28th, 2012, five attendees spent the whole three hours intensively adding citations to the Japanese Wikipedia. We had reserved a conference room with 6-8 sheets as a volunteer group (with no special cooperation with the staff at the library). All of the five were experienced Wikipedia editors and they were advised to find target articles and prepare resources in advance (we expected otherwise a 3-hour session would be too short to produce meaningful outcome). Each of us brought (or borrowed from the shelves) biographies, fact books and other kinds of resources, to carefully compare statements written on Wikipedia articles and those on the books. Subject areas we worked on range from linguistics and philosophy to biology and computer science. After finishing the work, we shared techniques to choosing articles with rather easy improvements, finding missing citations from resources, and using tools like citation templates effectively. (I found it helped me to improve articles quickly if I use both concise books written for casual readers and large authoritative reference works.) As far as I know, this time was, if rather small in scale, the first occasion for people living around Tokyo to have an event purely focused onto the collaboration between Wikimedians, in contrast to more outreach-focused events in the past, like the Wikimedia Conference Japan 2009 [2]. I am feeling that the Tokyo area is finally filling one of the missing pieces of the puzzle in the Wikimedia movement. Let us hope events like the Citation Party in Kansai and this will continue to consolidate collaboration between Wikimedians, ensuring continued growth of the movement in Japan. Encouraged by this successful editathon, we are going to establish "Wikimedian Society of Tokyo" (東京ウィキメディアン会), a local Wikimedia user group for people around Tokyo. We are now rapidly preparing our activity plans. Please stay tuned for more progress at our (soon-to-be-official) website: http://tokyo.wikimedia.jp. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Tokyo/33 [2] http://wcj2009.info Best regards, Yusuke Matsubara [[User:Whym]]

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Wiki Loves Monuments (again)
by Josh Lim 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi guys, So far, the Philippines will be organizing a national Wiki Loves Monuments competition, and according to Commons, South Korea may be organizing as well. Are there other Asian countries participating this year? Also, for groups who are represented on the list but have not listed themselves on the table on Meta, please list yourselves at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Asia_Project. :) Regards, Josh JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Block I1, AB Political Science Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Vice-President (2011-2012), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly Member, Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com | +63 (927) 531-8301 Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com

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