The Wikipedia Johor Meetup 5 (the 9th Wikipedia meetups in Malaysia) was the second Wikipedia meetup held at college in Malaysia and the first meetup in Malaysia in 2018. The meetup was held on:
Event name: Overview of Wikipedia Malaysia and Introduction to Wikipedia Editing Workshop
Improvement of existing Wikipedia article (
Sunway College Johor Bahru) from its introductory sentences, historical, faculty, facilities and transportation point of view
List down the most common coding in writing article content in Wikipedia (
abc for links, abc for bold, abc for italic, * for bullet, ==abc== for first heading, ===abc=== for second headings & its subsequent headings) and its listing in
Help:Cheatsheet
Team works and edit conflict solving in creating one article by several editors
Conflict management on particular topic in talk page and how to respond to it
Steps in creating new article demonstration (
Sunway Velocity Mall), including its infobox choosing, geographic coordinate location mapping from Google Map, article categorization, stub categorization assigning, external link (its official Facebook, YouTube or Instagram page if applicable)
Steps in uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons and its categorization
Photo categorizations into a single category in Wikimedia Commons
Linking between Wikipedia article with its Wikimedia Commons link and vice versa
Definition of an acceptable notable topic to write an article (having its official website, written by third party sources (online news), there are offline resources (books in library etc))
Definition of proper referencing (government website, tourism website, ones establishment official website, no blogs websites)
Demonstration on writing full and proper reference in Wikipedia article
Nuisance "police forces" in patrolling any newly written Wikipedia article, and how to bring this problem to Wikimedia Foundation for some protection for articles created during any meetup
How to bring Wikipedia for short until long-term development:
Short: Creating and completing standalone articles
Medium: Improving high-importance articles and interlink between various Wikimedia projects
Long: Topic-based research by academicians or students (research collaboration, conference etc)
The importance of expanding and writing new articles with less popularity from the mainstream general public (e.g. villages and FELDA in Malaysia) and also articles with local contexts (e.g. local food of Malaysia or Johor)
Emphasize that Wikipedia is not the reference source to cite, but as a learning tool for people to fully develop their understanding on a particular topic from various point of view and always maintain it up-to-date with the fast changing of the world we are living in now
To have a pre-listed set of articles before coming to any meetup (to be more focused on some particular topics)
Wikimedia Foundation
donation funding, annual financial report, how those donation funds being used (to make Wikipedia events, conferences, maintain server and its minimum employees etc) and proposal to the government on how to make donation to the foundation to be tax deductible in Malaysia
Introduction to Wikipedia cosplay mascot
Wikipe-tan
Proposed module for Wikipedia as college/university subject (Wikipedia introduction, Wikimedia Malaysia overview, code learning, article content breakdown, infobox and coordinate, article wording and language, photos attachment, external links in article, article Wikipedia categorization, article WikiProject categorization and its class and importance level, Wikimedia Foundation projects interlinking, Wikipedia article traffic, Wikipedia-based projects)
Proposed list of events Wikipedia student club in universities or colleges
Wikilove icon/button to give barnstars to other users
Explaining why we editors love to keep contributing to Wikipedia although there is basically no monetary reward given (aside from the scholarship given for Wikipedia-related conferences), which we said about the life satisfaction of filling all of the knowledge gaps which have not been written before and also the satisfaction to share everything we know to general public around the world without taking any credit from it
Creation of certificate template for the workshop meetup attendees
- Key-in Sunway College Johor Bahru in Waze or Google Map
- Address: No. 3, Jalan Austin Heights Utama, Taman Mount Austin, Johor Bahru, Johor
- Coordinate: 1°33'34.6"N 103°46'47.6"E