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Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 10
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The Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 10 (the 40th Wikipedia meetup in Malaysia) was the 10th Wikipedia meetup held at the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and in conjunction with Sustainable Development Goals - The Nordic Way 2022, as a joint collaboration between the Swedish Embassy in Malaysia and the University of Malaya. It was also held as the first face-to-face WikiGap event in Malaysia. The meetup was held on:

  • Event name: WikiGap Malaysia 2022
  • Date: Monday, 21 March 2022
  • Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Venue: Training Room, Level 2, Kuala Lumpur Library, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Medium of communication: English

Participants

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Presenters

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Participants and committees

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Participants

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Topics of discussion

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Minutes of meeting

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Opening ceremony

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  • The meetup was opened by the Ambassador of the Swedish Embassy in Malaysia and representative from the University of Malaya

Editing workshop

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  • Overview of Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote and Wikidata
  • Overview of a Wikipedia article (Infobox, introductory paragraph, article body, references, external links, inter-Wiki links) on a Swedish female article
  • Navigation around Wikipedia (categories, navigation box, inter-languages), inter-Wiki projects (which were all consolidated in Wikidata)
  • Interlinking and up-to-date information checking on Wikipedia
  • Data consolidation and cross-checking mechanism in Wikidata
  • Completing all of the data and references/citations in Wikidata first before developing any Wikipedia article
  • The more emphasize on the use of Simple English Wikipedia to write new biography articles for newbie Wikipedia editors
  • The introduction of sandbox for personal space to practice the coding of Wikipedia before publishing it at the main space
  • The concept of links and piped links in Wikipedia
  • Creating a Wikipedia article from a given online sources to extract all of the important information, facts and identifiers
  • Filling up references using templates
  • Introduction to WikiProject Malaysia as the discussion page for creating/improving articles about Malaysia
  • Showing of WikiProject Malaysia resources page for the list of acceptable online references (Malaysia online news) for creating Wikipedia articles
  • Useful links presented to participants to help them build up Wikipedia articles:

Other aspects of Wikimedia projects

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  • Research that can be done with Wikimedia projects as the subject
  • International Wikimedia conferences (Wikimedia Conference, ESEAP, Wikimania)

Results

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  • Full list of works added after the meetup: Dashboard (password: qoawjtnf)

Challenges

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  • Difficulties were faced by the participants in creating Wikipedia username due to the blocked IP address of Kuala Lumpur Library, thus the need to use tethering from the participant's personal mobile phone
  • Difficulties were faced by the presenter for having to do face-to-face meetup and online meetup, where for face-to-face meetup, there are many additional explanation were needed to be written in the given white board, thus online participants could not follow in detail
  • Difficulties faced by some participants due to differences in Wikipedia page layout with the presenters

Transportation

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Public transport

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  • Masjid Jamek LRT station, Kelana Jaya, Ampang and Sri Petaling lines
  • KL114 Dataran Merdeka bus stop, Routes 171, 173, 190, 220 and 250
  • KL10656 Dayabumi bus stop, Route BET 6

Self driving

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- Key-in Perpustakaan Kuala Lumpur in Waze or Google Map
- Address: No. 1, Jalan Raja, 50050 Kuala Lumpur
- Coordinate: 3°08'51.1"N 101°41'33.7"E

Disability access

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The venue was located on the second floor with lift access and wheelchair ramp access on the main entrance at the ground floor, equipped with toilet on the same floor.

In the news

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See also

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