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PROJECTS

This section highlights our initiatives from 2023–2026, including edit-a-thons, cultural documentation projects, digitization efforts, and community building.

2026 SKAP Projects & Events

1. A Night of Open Culture: Celebrating Wikipedia @25

A Night of Open Culture: Celebrating Wikipedia at 25 -An evening celebrating Wikipedia's 25-year legacy through storytelling, live editing, cultural performances, and conversations on the future of open knowledge and AI.

Wikiclub Cebu and SKAP at Wikipedia’s 25th Anniversary

2. WikiNights Baguio

The inaugural WikiNights gathering in the Cordillera region, bringing together volunteers, educators, and new contributors to build a stronger Wikimedia community.

WikiNights at Burnham Park

3. Wiki Covers Panagbenga 2026: Women Edition

A Wikimedia Commons campaign documenting the women of Panagbenga Festival 2026 through freely licensed photographs that celebrate their contributions, creativity, and cultural heritage.

4. Sual Wikipedia tan AI para sa Senior High

A student-led edit-a-thon introducing AI literacy and Wikipedia editing while creating and improving content about notable women in Pangasinan and the Ilocano language.

Basic Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Sual Pangasinan

5. WikiWomen Davao & WikiClub Davao Launch

A dual celebration during International Women's Month that launches WikiWomen Davao and WikiClub Davao to empower new contributors and expand the Wikimedia community in Mindanao.

Rear view of attendees during the opening session of WikiClub Davao.

6. WikiClub Iligan Launch

The official launch of WikiClub Iligan, establishing a new community of students, educators, and volunteers committed to open knowledge and local content creation.

Group photo from the WikiClub launch event, featuring invited speakers and participants gathered to celebrate the club’s official opening with their WikiSign.

7. WikiClub Iloilo Pre-Launch & Knowledge Expedition

A community immersion and exploratory program introducing WikiClub Iloilo while documenting local knowledge, heritage, and places of significance.

Iloilo City Hall located at De la Rama St, Iloilo City Proper, Iloilo City, Iloilo.

8. WikiLiteracy in Three Cities

A Mindanao roadshow promoting Wikipedia, its sister projects, and digital knowledge literacy through interactive workshops and community engagement.

9. SKAPihan with PPC

A beginner-friendly workshop introducing participants to AI literacy, Wikipedia editing, and the role of open knowledge in the digital age.

10. SKAPihan Edit-a-thon

A recurring community editing session where volunteers collaborate to improve Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects.

Output: SKAPihan Editathon Dashboard

11. Wake the Wiki – Season 1

A recurring editing campaign that encourages SKAP members to contribute regularly across Wikimedia projects through collaborative editing sessions and community challenges.

12. Philippine LGU Financial Reports 2023–2024 Datathon

A collaborative data initiative to structure, verify, and publish local government financial reports on Wikidata, making Philippine public finance more accessible, transparent, and reusable.

Output: Philippines LGU Financial Reports 2023-2024 Datathon Dashboard

Wikiwomen Knowledge Fellows

A university to community network where women and allies lead, create and carry knowledge forward. Through universities, communities, Wikimedia and Knowledge Continuity, Fellows bring overlooked people, histories, cultures and ideas into the open, helping ensure that valuable knowledge is not lost, forgotten or left behind.

Application is now open to women who are currently enrolled in high school, college or graduate school and are passionate about knowledge, culture research, technology or community, fill up the application form below:

Application form:

2025 SKAP Projects & Activities

1. WikiClub Zamboanga Edit-a-thons

Focus: Wiktionary expansion (Chavacano–Tausug lexicon), Wikipedia partnership with Zamboanga City Mayor Hon. John M. Dalipe.
Highlight: First WikiClub in Mindanao, strengthening heritage documentation and governance partnerships and in partnership with Wikimedia Malaysia.
Project Report: Diff post

2. WikiClub Cebu Edit-a-thons

Scope: Cebu City
Highlight: Hands-on Wikipedia training and content creation workshops.

3. WikiClub Cebu Wikitown & Sinulog Festival Photo Competition

Highlight: Documented Cebu’s cultural heritage and festivals through community-driven media.
Date: January 9–30, 2025

This infographic presents the output of the Sinulog 2025 Edit-a-thon project.

4. Online WikiClub Zamboanga Edit-a-thon

Date: February 18, 2025
Location: University of the Immaculate Conception (Davao)
Partners: UIC-CCS, SKAP, and WikiClub Zamboanga
Highlight: Promoted student participation in free knowledge movements.

5. Baguio Adivay Edit-a-thon

Date: June 25, 2025
Location: Baguio City
Partners: SKAP, and community groups
Highlight: Focused on documenting Baguio’s cultural heritage, Adivay Festival, and local traditions on Wikimedia projects.
Output: Dashboard link

Project Report in pdf format

6. VotePH & DataGovPH Projects

Highlight: Structured Philippine election and local government financial data on Wikidata. Wikimedia Deutschland conducted a capacity training for the project participants.
Project report: Activity report, Presentation on Wikimania

7. Partnerships with Binalatongan Community College

Highlight: Planned edit-a-thons and Wiktionary expansion with a local academic partner.

Students and instructors of Binalatongan Community College in San Carlos City Pangasinan were given introduction to Wikipedia lecture by SKAP volunteers.

8. Zamboanga Digitization of Local Laws and Ordinances

Date: September–October 2025
Highlight: Digitizing governance documents across Mindanao for open access.

2024 SKAP Projects & Events

1. Wiki Loves Living Heritage – Pangasinan

Impact: 2.12K edits | 1,063 Commons uploads
Highlight: Documented Pista’y Dayat Festival and Pangasinense culture.

Project report

2. Wiki Loves Living Heritage – La Union

Impact: 2.15K edits | 1,078 Commons uploads
Highlight: Captured cultural festivities along the coast of La Union.

3. Wiki Loves Living Heritage – Cordillera

Impact: 1.23K edits | 548 uploads | 31.4K bytes added | 12.3K article views
Scope: Panagbenga Festival + Cordillera edit-a-thon
Output: Dashboard link
Highlight: Major regional impact, connecting digital heritage with community voices from indigenous culture and festivities.

Project Report

4. Wiki Loves Living Heritage – Isabela

Impact: 828 edits | 369 uploads
Highlight: Focused on documenting Isabela’s living traditions.
Project report: Diff Post

5. Ilocano Wiktionary – Asingan, Pangasinan

Impact: 1.33K edits | 604 pages edited | 61.8K bytes added | 4.1K views
Highlight: Preserved the Ilocano language through collaborative lexicography.

6. Pangasinan Wiktionary

Impact: 1.21K edits | 489 pages edited | 55.4K bytes added | 2.97K views
Highlight: Expanded resources for the Pangasinan language community.

7. Philippine Government Data Project

Impact: 272K edits | 1.73K items edited | 6.81M words added | 337K references
Highlight: Structured governance and financial data into Wikidata for transparency.
Output: Dashboard

Project report

8. Digitization of Local Laws and Ordinances

Partners: 85 LGUs
Highlight: Deepened collaboration with local governments across multiple provinces.
Output: Diff post

Project report

9. Cebu WikiClub Launch

Date: November 29, 2024
Impact: 20 new editors and media partners joined
Highlight: Established the Cebu WikiClub as a hub for open knowledge in the Visayas.
Output: Diff post

2023 SKAP Projects & Events

1. SKAP Members: What the Wiki Training

Date: February 10, 2023
Description: Capacity building for SKAP members on Wikimedia basics
Impact: Kick-off activity for community skill development

2. Philippine Digitization of Local Laws and Ordinances (Phase 1: Pangasinan and La Union Provinces)

Pangasinan Edit-A-Thon at the Pangasinan National High School: On April 28, 2023, 30 senior high ICT students were trained by Jasvrenne Ferrer and Kimberly Manuel.
Scanning of Local Laws and Ordinances: Documents digitized and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.

Partnership with Media and Legal Mission: Media launch on June 1, 2023, with local news coverage and legal mission for citizen awareness.

See project report here.

3. Pangasinan WikiVoyage

Scope: Boost tourism and improve Pangasinan’s content on Wikivoyage (40 towns, 100,000+ characters uploaded)

See project report here.

4. Wiki Loves Living Heritage – Sagada 2023: Kankana-ey Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Day 1: Training of Sagada National High School students (Kankana-ey Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, local industries)

Day 2: Sagada Business Owners Wikivoyage Training

Pre-Incorporation Projects/Events

WikiProject Pangasinan 2014 Edit-a-thon

This Basic Wikipedia Workshop and editathon happened in 2014 in Pangasinan conducted by Wikimedia Philippines and supported by the Province of Pangasinan and Pangasinan State University Lingayen Campus students.

2nd Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in Pangasinan (2017)

In 2017, various Wikimedia user groups in the Philippines collaborated with us for Wikimedia projects. We did editathons, translate-a-thons and photo walks together in Pangasinan and other parts of the region.

Cook + Edit Fest Pangasinan Edition (2020)

This project is a co-production with an international organization asking our community to film local heritage particularly heirloom recipes in our province Pangasinan. Our volunteers prepared some dishes and submitted the film to our partner for use.

Google Projects-related Events: Community leadership through Google Business Group chapters in Northern Philippines

Before we even organized SKAP, we already have been doing outreach programs in our community dating back 2011. Alongside our Google Business Group outreach programs, we are integrating and doing Wiki projects side by side. We combine culture, heritage and technology to educate our people and help contribute to the global knowledge repository.