Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia’s 2026 General Support

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia’s 2026 General Support

Fluxx IDR-GS-2509-20228

start date2026-01-01

end date2026-12-31

budget (local currency)2311772.59 MYR

amount requested (USD)502579.36 USD

grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

funding regionESEAP

decision fiscal year2025-26

funding program roundRound 1

organization (if applicable)Pertubuhan Kebajikan Komuniti Pengguna Wiki Malaysia

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

Pertubuhan Kebajikan Komuniti Pengguna Wiki Malaysia

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required)

Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required)

Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required)

Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Please provide links to the following documents if they are available

These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.

• Organizational website
• Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
• Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
• Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

https://wikimedia.org.my/index.html

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)

Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia’s 2026 General Support

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants)

No

2.1. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2026-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2026-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)

No

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)

No

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region)

Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Timor-Leste

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

One of the affiliate main programmes that have been done since the past few years is the indigenous language editathon and training sessions. There are a lot of indigenous languages in Malaysia however these languages are mostly endangered and lack online resources. With that, we approach these communities to teach them how to add their indigenous language’s vocabulary into Wiktionary to ensure there is free access to these languages online. Our strategy is usually collaborating with villages and local community associations and also education institutions. The reason why we approach community associations and education institutions is because they usually have established their language’s orthography and standard spelling which will make contributing to Wikimedia projects easier. Some of our success was managing to publish three new Wikipedia editions which are Iban, Kadazandusun and West Coast Bajau Wikipedias. We have collaborated with the Institute of Teachers Education Kent Campus where they train future teachers for the Kadazandusun language. It made publishing the Wikipedia from Incubator a success.

Other programmes that we are aiming to do is to mentoring emerging Wikimedia communities within the region. This has been suggested by Jacqueline to the affiliate as we have helped other communities in the region by assisting them in organising events and giving best practices to them in managing their community. The communities that will be pioneering this programme would be Singapore, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, the Philippines and Cambodia. Our approach is to provide them training sessions on how to organise Wiktionary and Wikipedia workshops and also editathons. We will be teaching them on how to collaborate with other institutions based on our years of experience. For starters, we will be having photowalks and workshops with these new emerging communities. The challenges we might face are language barrier and the far distance of these communities. We need to encourage communities to get involved in organising events for them to attract more volunteers to grow the Wikimedia movement within their communities.

Furthermore, we will conduct programmes with WikiClubs in educational institutions by organising meetups with the students and teachers. We will be overseeing their activities and provide support and guidance for them to be able to organise their own activities. Some of the Wikiclubs are IPGM Kent Campus and IIUM. The big challenges would be time and interest among the students. Their time is limited due to their class and could only join events during the weekends or permissions from the faculty. With that, we will dedicate specific time to help them in organising events in their institutions.

The other programme is bilateral Wikipedia editathons. We have a strong partnership with foreign embassies in Malaysia. We will be conducting Wikipedia workshops and editathons related to the embassy’s country. For instance, every March we will be collaborating with the Embassy of Sweden in Kuala Lumpur to organise a few editathons for Wikigap. We have done this for a few years now. Other than that, Wikipedia Ukraine Cultural Diplomacy Month which we collaborate with the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia. Our main challenge is in finding interested participants. This is true for most of our physical events. To deal with this, we collaborate with institutions such as embassies. With that, the embassies can help promote the event and find the participants.

Other than that, we will be doing Wikimedia Friendships with other Wikimedia communities around the world. We have done this over the past few years starting with the Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia friendship. We organise meetups and editathons together with the community. We also organise simultaneous physical events. For instance during Wikipedia Asian Month, both Japan and Malaysia communities organise an editathon at the same time and date and we connect each other through ZOOM. Our challenge is finding suitable articles for the editathons. It takes time for participants to find missing Wikipedia articles. Hence, having discussions prior to the event will be helpful to come up with an article list for the editathon. We also organise Pitabangans which are Wikipedia editathons about the hosting city/country of the Wikimedia conferences. For example, we will be organising a Pitabangan for France during Wikimania 2026. We have done this for Wikimania 2025 and other Wikimedia conferences.

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)

Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)

Wiki Club, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project programs

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)

Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors

Other groups if any: N/A

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required)

Documenting or incubating languages on Wikimedia projects, Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.

Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.

On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

1Lib1Ref, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiGap

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kSIPYz9uVa3HcA3Dt_SyCEcjUm7AjgGC9d4FgcmXup4/edit?usp=sharing

11. Describe your team. (required)

Farouk (User:Ultron90) Salaried Programme Manager Handles coordination of physical Wikimedia programmes between various partners and institutions Leads in training participants during workshop events Zahirul Nukman (User:Rulwarih) Salaried Communications Manager Handles organisation’s social media accounts and content Coordinates internal communications within the community members in the organisation Taufik Rosman (User:Tofeiku) Volunteer Treasurer Manages funds and oversees event planning and execution Naila Rahmah (User:Geleparaplu) Salaried Graphic designer Designs graphics related to programmes and social media posts Dody Ismoyo (User:Dody Ismoyo) Volunteer President Ahmad Wafiq Aqil (User:WAqil (WMYS)) Volunteer Committee member Nazhan (User:SNN95) Salaried (upcoming) Chairperson Executive advisor (upcoming) Webmaster (upcoming) Jilorisa (User:Rombituon) Volunteer Community coordinator for Kadazandusun Wikipedia (dtpwiki) Programme facilitator Correl (User:Lynumiss) Volunteer Programme facilitator Michelina (User:Rumandawii) Volunteer Programme facilitator Ahmad Ali (User:EmpAhmadK) Volunteer Programme facilitator Partnership and external relations coordinator Coordinates communications partners and potential partners WikiClub committee member Aeshah (User:Antaraese) Volunteer Programme facilitator WikiClub committee member Faris (User:PeaceSeekers) Volunteer Social media admin for Malay Wikipedia (mswiki) Programme facilitator Jurina (User:‎Jjurieee) Volunteer WikiClub committee member Programme facilitator Bluster (User:Blusjai) Volunteer WikiClub committee member Programme facilitator Meqqalson (User:Meqqal) Volunteer WikiClub committee member Programme facilitator Nelin (User:Nelynnnnn) Volunteer WikiClub committee member Programme facilitator Gerald (User:Song GK) Volunteer Committee member Community coordinator for Iban Wikipedia (ibawiki) Programme facilitator Amir (User:Mirlim) Volunteer Community coordinator for Kelantan-Pattani Wikipedia (mfawiki) Programme facilitator Ronalita (User:Rruunnaa) Volunteer WikiClub committee member Programme Officer (vacant, upcoming) Assist programme manager in handling coordination of physical Wikimedia programmes between various partners and institutions Administrative Officer (vacant, upcoming) Manages administrative tasks related to organisation Intern (vacant, upcoming) Salaried Assist in programme coordination and facilitation Coordinate with existing indigenous Wikimedia communities for community growth (eg. Iban, West Coast Bajau, etc) Wikimedian in Residence (vacant, upcoming) Salaried Organising Wikimedia meetups and workshops to attract new editors and volunteers in the educational institutions Digitise university publications into Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

We will be working with many internal and external partners. It is very important for the affiliate to organise events with partners whether they are internal or external partners. This is because we have a hard time finding participants on our own, resulting in some events in the past attracting very few to none participants. Partners are usually well-established and bigger than the affiliate. Hence, they can assist us by promoting our events with their large following and recognition among the public. For internal partners, we will be approaching Wikimedia communities within the ESEAP region due to shared culture and interest. For example, with the Singapore community. For external partners, we usually collaborate with educational institutions like universities and schools. We notice that collaborating with them provides participants for our events and they are interested in our events. Other than that, we collaborate with foreign embassies in Malaysia such as embassies of Japan, Sweden, Ukraine and France. They have bigger influence and recognition. Having their names as partners in our events attract participants in joining our events since we have established relationships with big names.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required)

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers

Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	1000	N/A
Number of all editors	1000	N/A
Number of new editors	700
Number of retained editors	200
Number of all organizers	40	N/A
Number of new organizers	10

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	700	300
Wikimedia Commons	4000	1000
Wikidata	2000	15000
Wiktionary	7000	9000
Wikisource	50	20
Wikimedia Incubator	100	20
Translatewiki	500	100
MediaWiki
Wikiquote	100	20
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks	5	5
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)

No

Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required)

No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)

N/A

17. Your local currency. (required)

MYR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)

2311772.59 MYR

Multi-year funding request summary

Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A MYR
Year 2	N/A MYR
Year 3	N/A MYR

Requested amount in USD

502579.36 USD

Multi-year funding request summary in USD

Year	Amount USD
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required)

Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

5 full time paid staff members, two Wikimedians-in-Residence

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

5 full time paid staff members

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees)

Two additional full time paid staff members

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).

Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs	630000 MYR
Operational costs	156962.59 MYR
Programmatic costs	1524810 MYR

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12YTFsn4Hw6RkQKF40XeJO5nTki7d31vc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106730895275997643091&rtpof=true&sd=true

Additional information

22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)

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We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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