Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia’s 2022 General Support/Midpoint Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Midterm
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.
- Name of Organization: Pertubuhan Kebajikan Komuniti Pengguna Wiki Malaysia
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia’s 2022 General Support
- Amount awarded: 17550 USD, 73929.37 MYR
- Amount spent: 4185.49 MYR
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
- Strategy 1, Activity 1: A Wiktionary introductory workshop has been organised with the public school teachers of the aboriginal Semai language with the collaboration of the Perak State Education Department. It was the first time a Wikimedian even was held in the state of Perak. This activity was implemented hugely with the support and collaboration with the department. Other than the event is the WikiGap workshop with the Swedish Embassy in collaboration with the students of Universiti Malaya.
Strategy 3, Activity 1
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
- Yes especially Strategy 1, Activity 1. One of our main objectives is to narrow the content and representation gaps (i.e. under represented communities). Organising the workshop helps the underrepresented community ie. aboriginal people to discover Wikimedia projects and use them to preserve their language and culture.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
- The challenge that we faced was having more people to help in organising the events. It would be more efficient if there were more people in helping us even though having only person was enough for organising the event. This is to have more impact and efficient so that the event will be able to reached the desired goal more.
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
- The targeted community ie. underrepresented community participated in the work we are doing from our partners who helped communicate with the community and make them join our work. For example, the Perak State Education Department helped us by contacting the aboriginal Semai teachers to join the Wiktionary workshop.
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
- The workshop in particular helped to engage participants and build content for the underrepresented group ie. Semai community. There was not that much free knowledge online on the language. However with the workshop, we had created a lot of lemmas of the language in Malay Wiktionary. This help to increase the online visibility and presence of the language and community.
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?
- I have learned that it is more effective to organise an event with more people to help rather than doing it alone. This was proven in the WikiGap event where we received help from the students of Universiti Malaya to co-organise the event.
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
- Due to the delay of the account opening, we will be focusing on Malay Wikipedia 20th birthday and also Wikipedia Asia Month in collaboration with the Japan Embassy in Malaysia.
Part 2: Metrics[edit]
8a. Open and additional metrics data.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 402 | 402 Semai language lemmas created in Malay Wiktionary in the Wiktionary workshop | Outreach dashboard |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 11 | 11 new people learnt about the Wikimedia movement and editing Wiktionary more efficiently offline than learning it through online lessons | Workshop |
| 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 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
8b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The number of participants in all activities is 200 participants:
30 particularly indigenous editors from the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia, and indigenous groups from Borneo Malaysia. Of these, our target is that 25 will be new participants. 100 participants for Malay Wikipedia monthly online meetup. Of these, our target is that 80 will be new participants. 30 participants for WikiGap, particularly female editors. Of these, our target is that 20 will be new participants. 20 participants for WikiSelera. 20 participants for WikiKata. |
200 | 11 | 11 new users of Malay Wiktionary to add Semai language lemmas | Outreach dashboard |
| Number of editors | The number of editors in all activities is 150 editors: 20 particularly indigenous editors from the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia, and indigenous groups from Borneo Malaysia. Of these, our target is that 15 will be new editors.
80 participants for Malay Wikipedia monthly online meetup. Of these, our target is that 70 will be new participants. 20 participants for WikiGap, particularly female editors. Of these, our target is that 15 will be new participants. 10 editors for WikiKata 20 editors for WikiSelera |
150 | 11 | 11 new editors have edited Malay Wiktionary in the Semai Wiktionary workshop | Outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers | The number of organisers in all activities: 5
Of these, our target is that 3 will be new organisers that will help co-organise competitions and workshops. 2 will be existing WCUGM organisers. |
5 | 2 | 2 organisers that we have collaborate with. One for each of the two events. WikiGap (Swedish Embassy in Malaysia). Semai Wiktionary workshop (Perak State Education Department) | Report |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 new articles created for Malay Wikipedia. | 50 | 402 | 402 lemmas (pages) have been created in Malay Wiktionary through the Semai Wiktionary workshop | Outreach dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. | 500 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wiktionary | 150 entries created or improved to Malay Wiktionary. | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Incubator | 100 entries created or improved to Tausug Wikipedia Incubator. | 100 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
- Not really because we use the Outreach dashboard to quantify all the data needed
10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- No
10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
https://outreach.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2022/Contents/Malaysia_report
Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 4185.49
13. Local currency type
- MYR
14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Provide links to your financial reporting documents.
15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?
- No
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- N/A
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.
- So far it's been good. Having someone to guide in writing the report is really helpful.