User:KOKUYO/Wikimedia Taiwan/Advocacy
The Wikimedia Movement's vision is to achieve a world in which every person has free access to the sum of knowledge and can participate in its collective construction. We follow the philosophies of free knowledge and free culture, which defend the fundamental right of access to them.
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that everyone can edit, is our best-known project, but we work with 11 other free knowledge collaborative projects online. For example, Wikidata, a structured database; or Wikimedia Commons, the world's largest free multimedia repository.
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Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects have changed the way we access and build knowledge in the digital ecosystem. The more diverse the people who participate, the more complete the information we provide will be. In order to reduce gaps and biases, we need Wikipedia to gather information that is representative of all cultures and social groups, and make it available in every language.
Wikimedia Taiwan works in partnership with organisations from the cultural and education sectors and beyond in order to unlock content, remove barriers to knowledge, develop new ways of engaging with the public and enable learners to benefit fully from the educational potential of the Wikimedia projects. We also try to use different tools, investigate and involve in more Wiki-projects, cooperate with different chapters and associations to make the database stronger, try to erase the technical barriers of Wiki, also provides our partners with other research directions.
We keeps providing guidance and tutorials for the public and partners. There are a lot of differences between Mandarin and English, Wikimedia Taiwan keeps translating information to Mandarin to allow communities can have further discussions in Mandarin. Wikimedia Taiwan also cooperates with the research centre to use Wikipedia to protect endangered aboriginal languages. As a senior chapter in ESEAP (East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation) region, Wikimedia Taiwan also participates in organizing regional meetings, assist Wikipedians to hold online events.
Community
Wikimedia Taiwan tries to prove documentation, build up systematic information organization and encourage community members to share their knowledge / experience. To promote and guide the newbies of the communities, Wikimedia Taiwan translated and create several guidances, FAQ to assist community members to communicate with newcomers.
To make sure Wikimedia Taiwan can incubate more local community members / leaders and distribute resources more precisely. Since 2013, Wikimedia Taiwan drafted and published several policies to clarify the sponsor policy and financial policy. We spent time and effort on creating the regulation and platforms for community members to apply for grants and allow them to track their progress easily. We also translated the Wikimedia 2030 movement documents and introduce it to the Chinese Wikipedia Community.
We also knows that it's impossible to run local communities without safe and positive environment. We do care about the safety and security of our community members, also their privacy. Wikimedia Taiwan also assist Wikipedians who use Mandarin as their mother tongue to report harassment/ violence cases to Trust and Safety team and translate documents of evidence from Chinese to English for them.
Public policy
"Digital rights are human rights" is why we spread the importance of preserving Wikimedia projects as a common good within a free and open Internet. We defend the right to share and build free knowledge online by collaborating with institutions.
Wikimedia Taiwan support the development of open knowledge in the Taiwan, by increasing understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level. We demand measures and regulations that do not jeopardize access to online knowledge and culture, and that protect those who participate in its collective construction.
Besides releasing statements to express our standpoints of the incidents that can impact Wikimedia movements, we also share experience from community members and investigate whether there will have better strategic plans. And we help create policies that promote and protect free knowledge in Taiwan.
