Asian Chapters Meeting
Asian chapters meeting is a regional meeting held for Asian chapters. The meeting is under the collaboration of Wikimedia Asia Project.
2011
[edit]The proposed meeting of 2011 will be organized with the APRICOT-APAN.asia/2011 in Hong Kong, as a session in the conference.
Time
[edit]The conference is on 21-25 Feb 2011. The time of the meeting is TBD.
Location
[edit]Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Participants
[edit]TBD
Other participants
[edit]- Erik Zachte WMF statistician (requested by Siska Doviana – Wikimedia Indonesia)
Data collection and topic discussions
[edit]- Leadership situation for other Asian chapter:
- how many are yous?
- how many are active from x members?
- what are their background?
- what do you expect when you first establish an organization? where are you now?
- what is your situation in regeneration of your board?
- Monetary situation for another Asian chapter:
- how much does it take to run an organization in your country? where are you now?
- Doing exchange for university students inside a program (this is worldwide – not limited to Asian only – either way works though) for
"free knowledge movement"
- Where are our projects in the map and how we can boost it? (needed: Erik Zachte)
- For example, is Bangladesh people more interested in Wikisource than Wikipedia? How did the community and the chapters interacts?
2013
[edit]Meeting Log
[edit]Wikimedia Asia Meeting in Wikimania 2013
Pictures and media
[edit]2017
[edit]Ideas of an Asian Conference has sparked discussion on 2017 Wikimania as well as the post-conference chats in social media. In the end, sub-regional and national events will be prioritized.
- ESEAP Conference 2018 – For the Far East (East and Southeast Asia) and the Western Pacific (Australia, New Zealand)
- WikiConference India
- WikiArabia
2018
[edit]At the Asia meetup during the Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin, Wikimedia Australia stepped in and offered to host a bigger conference in 2019. The chapter offered to unite all affiliates and individuals across Asia and Oceania into a regional conference similar to Wikimania.