Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Taiwan/Activity Report 2016

Brief notes

The section include all headlines of part 1 and 4 in Wikimedia Taiwan Newsletter. In the journal, title of part 1 is "Chapter affairs" and of part 4 is "Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan". That will show what things of Wikimedia movement were happening in Taiwan every month.

Jan

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Chapter affairs

1. Volunteers responded enthusiastically for WikiMed project. Established student club in university is hopefully.
2. To support citizen journalist, project of Wikinews is under preparation.
3. Custard Cream Co-working space held annual meeting for setting up new branch. WMTW released the newest vision.
4. The 2nd community management workshop 2016 held on 19th Dec. Organizer form six communities exchanged of their experience together.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. The output of Spoken Wikipedia project by Hsin-Chu Wikimedia Community was published.

Feb

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Chapter affairs

1. James Heilman visited Taiwan briefly.
2. What does WMF work for? James Heilman brought us the one hand global information.
3. How is Wikipedia important to medicine? (Summary of James's speech)
4. Th last meeting of the 2nd board will be hold before the Lunar New Year's Eve.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. Taiwanese language(Taiwanese Hokkien) project invite "Hêng-chhun--ê"(恆春兮) to speech.
2. Project "Dian-guang-huo-shi"(電光伙時, which means "when electricity get together with light") is run under the cross-communities cooperation.
3. WikiWomen will decide their new direction in the year-end party.

Mar

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Chapter affairs

1. The most important resolution of the 2nd board's last meeting.
2. The 1st time of 3rd general assembly will be hold at 5th March.
3. A server machine is coming! Much technology things can be test on it.
4. Wikimedian will take pictures in Legislative Yuan (Congress of Taiwan) in March 2016.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. Go go WikiWomen! Urgent mobilization for art and feminism edit-a-thon was published.
2. Citizen group "Key Data" retreated. The future of public issues wiki workshop is uncertain.
3. Touching time at Taiwanese language community: speaker Hêng-chhun--ê(恆春兮) was in tears when he met Prof. Wu's son
   Prof. Wu Sho-li is a gone Taiwanese language scholar. He left a Mandarin-Taiwanese dictionary, his children donate copyrights of the dictionary to Wikisource. That made the beginning of Taiwanese language project.

Apr

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Chapter affairs

1. New members are welcome to join the board.
2. Chairperson is re-elected, supervisory chairperson is changed.
3. WMTW's founding member "Zi Yu Mao" (User:子毓貓) was sudden death. Wikimedian express condolences.
4. Wikipedian take photos to Members of the Legislative Yuan. Reporters of news channel are curious about the active.
5. WMTW held a workshop in Ministry of Health and Welfare. Government officers learned how to edit Wikipedia.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. Not the first around earth, art & feminism edit-a-thon in Taiwan still had great output.
2. Wiki club was established in Chung Shan Medical University.

May

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• Skip, because this is a special issue for WMCON 2016. All news in the issue are not about WMTW but WMCON.

Jun

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Chapter affairs

1. The statistical data of activity "Photo Legislator" are released: male more than female, Green more than Blue.
2. First community workshop in this year will be hold on 11 June.
3. WMTW's director had a conversation with Dr. Tsong-he Liang, the developer of the website "WikiSeeker".
4. Important resolutions from the 2nd time meeting of the 3rd Board.
5. Retired politician send a mail to ask us to delete some data on Chinese Wikipedia.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. 0 participant on June meet-up of Taiwanese language project. A serious defeat.
2. Hsinchu community rerun again with new space and new look.

Jul

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Chapter affairs

1. Community workshop finish successfully.
2. IDS system can be tested online now. It caused a sensation.
3. The active "A Room of WikiWomen's Own" is so famous that receive an invitation to hold an additional meet-up.
4. An exclusive Wiki platform for encyclopedia in all languages of Taiwanese aborigines is online.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

(No news in this issue)

Aug

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Chapter affairs'

1. The first meet-up of "Our Taiwanese Songs" began. Participants sang "Bāng Chhun-hong" in the original version.
2. The APP "Offline Medical Wikipedia" is launched. User of Android system can enjoy it first.
3. The photoelectric project is closed.
4. What is the next step of IDS?

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. Some photos with generator were referred to delete in wrong reason, because someone misunderstand the meaning of OTRS.
2. Hsinchu community published their activity plan for the 2nd half of this year.
3. The organizer of Hsinchu community get the permissions of OTRS.

Sep

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Chapter affairs

1. "Dr. Wu's Mandarin-Taiwanese dictionary" project needs proofreading volunteers.
2. Taiwan community's annual plan can be applied in September.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. National Taiwan University Wikipedia Club restart.
2. WikiWomen drumming touched participants of COSCUP.

Oct

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Chapter affairs

1. A company failed to advertise on Chinese Wikipedia, then tired to buy a position from WMTW.
2. Taiwan communities's annual plan was stop to apply. Six communities referred their proposals.
3. Two officers of WMTW were nominated for "Prize of Wiki Promoting". One refuse, and another was re-nominated.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. NTU Wikipedia Club held founding conference. Old alumni come back.
2. A 12-years-old child want to edit Wikipedia. The H.K school-age child cause some discussing.

Nov

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Chapter affairs

1. Apply simple annual plan? Three problems need to be solved.
2. Output of "Taiwanese Song" project is published.
3. A Wikipedian comes from a far place. He had some cultural exchange with WMTW.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan

1. China Times stole photo again. Member of Taiwan Wikipedia community try to help himself.
2. East-south Asia edit-a-thon was held in NTU. Thai food surprise participants.
3. The membership of Facebook group "Taiwan Wikimedia Community" is over than 5200.
4. Taichung community may re-run by Wiki farm project.

Dec

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Chapter affairs

1. 2 new policies were adopted by the Board.
2. Annual member conference will be held on 18th Dec.
3. Face the challenge from new media. WMTW will start a new on-line live show in December.
4. Board member Li-yun Lin gets international graduate program.
5. The project "Magic Temple in Chiayi County" start. Staff of international education program follows with interest.

Dynamic of Communities in Taiwan