Wikipedia:Meetup/Johor 3
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The Wikipedia Johor Meetup 3 (the 7th Wikipedia meetup in Malaysia) was the first Wikipedia meetup held in conjunction with a festival event in Malaysia, the [https://www.jbifc.co/workshops Johor Bahru Writers + Film Festival 2017]. The meetup was held on:
- Event name: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- Date: Sunday, 22 October 2017
- Time: 2:00–5:30 p.m.
- Venue: Big Bites Café, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
- Medium of communication: English
Things to bring
- Laptop or tablet
- Notebook/pen/pencil
- Portable modem (in case there is no/weak access to Wi-Fi at the venue)
- Multiple cable extensions (to accommodate other laptop/tablet users of electricity)
- Camera (for group photo shooting)
Participants
Topics of discussion
- Introduction to Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
- Introduction to Wikipedia (English version) and Welcome! message on User talk page
- Introduction to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, Meta-Wiki)
- Other language versions of Wikipedia and interlinking, including with other Wikimedia Projects and external links
- Editing, article structures, infobox, creating articles, attaching photos, referencing, WikiProjects classification etc
- Photo uploading, naming, categorization, Wikipedia-linking etc in Wikimedia Commons
- Collaboration, discussion, flagging, dispute solving etc among other editors
- Total articles, redirection, edits contributions checking
- Do and don'ts etc in Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Conference, other Wikimedia Foundation-related events etc
- Other topics based on request
Minutes of meeting
- Introduction to Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia and Wikimedia Foundation projects (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage etc).
- Overview of Wikipedian editors in Malaysia statistical data (location, language, contribution etc).
- Introduction to Wikipedia website layout and the major user interface buttons.
- Overview of [https://donate.wikimedia.org/ Wikipedia donation page] and emphasize that all Wikimedia-related project works are completely voluntary and free of charge.
- Demonstration to create user page and its Welcome! message as the first guideline.
- Discussion on the place to practice editing Wikipedia (sandbox).
- Demonstration on creating one simple (stub-class) Wikipedia article with infobox, categorization, photo upload and WikiProject classification/evaluation.
- Discussion on who are the administrators in Wikipedia to check and verify articles.
- Discussion on visit to introduce Wikipedia to students in universities around Johor.
- Discussion on various languages in Wikipedia and the needs for translation to other language of Wikipedia.
- The needs to make proper guideline in introducing Wikipedia editing for the first time.
- The needs to make listing of code meanings in Wikipedia article creation/editing.
=Articles created=
=Photos uploaded=
Transportation
=Public transport=
- Rail: Johor Bahru Sentral station (walking distance to the venue)
- Road: Larkin Sentral bus terminal (proceed to take local transfer bus to JB Sentral and walk to the venue)
=Self driving=
- Key-in Big Bites Cafe in Waze or Google Map
- Address: No. 18, Jalan Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor
- Coordinate: 1°27'23.8"N 103°45'51.8"E