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From: Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org>
Date: 2014-10-31 6:34 GMT+08:00
Subject: Re: East Asia Wikimedia Conference
To: Liang-chih Shang Kuan <shangkuanlc@gmail.com>
Cc: Ichsan Mochtar <ichsan.mochtar@wikimedia.or.id>, Isabella Apriyana <isabella.apriyana@wikimedia.or.id>, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80@gmail.com>, Anna Koval <akoval@wikimedia.org>, Vantharith Oum <vantharith.oum@gmail.com>, Naureen <msnora@gmail.com>, Kris Cheng <krischeng@wikimedia.hk>, Josh Lim <josh.lim@wikimedia.org.ph>, Addis Wang <addiswang94@gmail.com>, "taweetham.lim@mahidol.ac.th" <taweetham.lim@mahidol.ac.th>, Reke Wang <rekegiga@gmail.com>

Hi All!

Thanks, Liang for pulling together this draft outline and for everyone's participation. I'm sorry I haven't been able to attend any of the calls yet. Here are some of my initial thoughts:

Plan

So far, only Indonesia and Tawain have filled out country "profiles" on the meta page. It would be really helpful to have a sense of the kind of activities people and groups are doing and the main challenges. I've also added a column for what people are interested in learning more about.

How-to Sessions

From the draft Program, my sense is that the how-to sessions are the most useful and some more could be added. There is a group of activities that we know to be pretty easy to organize, motivate volunteers, and result in impact. Writing competitions are one of these, but also photo expeditions, photo contests, intro to Wikipedia editing series, and themed editathons. Each of these could be a how-to session. There could also be larger sessions on how to develop partnerships -- GLAM and education and the basic theories and first steps to get going with these programs.

I think these types of sessions are the most important, considering a major shared challenge for all your communities is volunteer recruitment and editor retention.

Broad Sessions

The broad sessions are interesting, but less directly related. I think language collaboration on OCR and understanding the open knowledge movement in general is helpful. Discussions about inter-regional project cooperation will happen throughout the conference. I don't think a conference call with an ivy-league professor will result in much useful information. They do not know the cultural, educational, or political context you are working in.

Other Regional Initiatives

There are three other regional initiatives and below is some useful documentation from their meetings. I realize that some of the Iberocoop materials are in Spanish, but Google translate does a good job!

* Iberocoop (Latin America)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AR/Iberoconf_2014#Comments_from_WMF
(It would be especially good to look at the recent grant request for Iberoconf and comments from WMF -- I think the discussion is useful for thinking about how to prepare for an impactful regional conference, whether or not you apply for a grant)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2014/Programa
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_MX/Iberoconf_2013/Report
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2013/Resumen_ejecutivo/en
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2014/Programa

* CEE (Central Europe)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2013/Program

* Wiki Indaba (Africa)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2014/Report (Some very good learnings in this report)
http://wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page/Schedule

Please let me know what you think. Happy to discuss these ideas further or answer any questions.

Cheers,

Alex

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Liang-chih Shang Kuan <shangkuanlc@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Anna, Alex, and all of the SEA + CJK Wikimedians,

For the past 3 sessions on skype and also the discussion in London, we have brainstormed a lot of ideas on how would the session can be. We have a draft for the two day session for now, the theme could still be changed, but I just want to let everyone get a sense of the program might be. The Workshop may have two tracks to be sure enough topics can be presented and discussed.

1. (Day 1) How-to session:
   1. Best case sharing about increasing Wikimedia Projects
      1. Conduct a writing contest (potential speaker: WMID)
      2. Collaborate with college student (potential speaker: WMTW, Cambodia, Thailand)
   2. How to write good proposal to get funding, volunteers, and other resources for the projects
      1. WMF: Grants, Eval&Design, Edu, GLAM
   3. How to work with other organization that willing to share the Open Knowledge
   4. How to train the trainers
2. (Day 2) Broad view on WIkimedia movements in SEA + CJK session:
1. What is open knowledge challenge and advantage in Asia
2. Language collaboration on OCR
3. Education in East & Southeast Asia
4. Com-call with an Ivy league professors about certain topics related to the region.
5. Interregional project co-operations show case.

What do you think? Is there other reference that we could look into? Welcome to give us any feedback. Thank you.

Liang

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2014-10-25 21:31 GMT+08:00 Takashi OTA <supertakot@gmail.com>:

Thank you all for joining us tonight.

I just set up a minute.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SEA%26CJK_Wikimedia_Workshop/MeetingMinutes#2014_10_25_Meetup_.233

It's just a quick job and not wikified enough, not comprehensive though.

Especially, "next steps/action items" should be added.

Your edits will be highly welcome!

--Takashi

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Alex Wang

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