Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/2025
This page is still under construction until 9 September 2025
This page is the 2025 Annual Report for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (MYS) for the period of 10 September 2024 – 31 December 2025. This annual report is the eighth report submitted by the user group after its official formation and formal recognition on 10 September 2017.
Note: By default, all of the links written here are directed to Meta-Wiki pages. If not, then it will be directed to English Wikipedia pages, and some to Wikimedia Commons or third-party websites.
Background
[edit]TBA
Committees
[edit]2025
[edit]| Position | Name | Location | Job Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| President | Dody Ismoyo | Johor | Liaise with Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Education Program in Malaysia Outreach for meetups around Malaysia, especially in Johor Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia LinkedIn, Facebook group and page admin |
| Chairperson | SNN95 | Selangor | Malay-language Wikipedia Multimedia/animation-related matters to Wikipedia Malaysia |
| Vice Chairperson | MYMMMC | Kuala Lumpur | Outreach for meetups in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Wikipedia researcher |
| Treasurer | Taufik Rosman | Sabah | Financial matters of the user group Malay-language Wikipedia New Malaysia local language incubation Outreach for meetups in Penang and Sabah |
| Committee | Wadiq Aqil | Bangladesh/Kelantan | Malay-language Wikipedia Jury in online Wikimedia events Wikimedia Malaysia social media admin |
| Committee | Song GK | ||
| Committee | Sangsilar | ||
| Committee | *angys* | ||
| Staff | Farouk Azim | Programme coordinator | |
| Staff | Zahirul Nukman | Social media coordinator | |
| Staff | Naila Rahmah | Graphic designer |
Editors
[edit]The following list is the new editors who joined the user group because of the outreach events made by the user group during the 2023 reporting period. Only those who have made their Meta-Wiki or Wikipedia username and user pages will be listed here.
Events
[edit]Note: By default, all of the events are meetups, unless specified otherwise; or if they are more detailed than just meetups. All locations are in Malaysia, unless specified otherwise. All events were organized by the user group or the second party we were dealing directly with, unless specified "(participated)", in which we took part in a larger event organized by the third party.
Completed
[edit]| Name | Type | Venue/Title | Date | Meetup Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Majlis Perasmian Penutupan dan Penyampaian Hadiah Pertandingan Wikikata 2024 | Kompleks KPM, Putrajaya | 13 January | ||
| Kelab Wiki Malaysia-Kelab Wiki Turkey Collaboration 2025 | Editathon | Online | 20 January | |
| Wikimedia Estonia-Malaysia Friendship Editathon: Celebration on Independence and Liberty | Editathon | Online | 15-28 January | |
| Palestine-Malaysia Exchange Activity 2.0 | Editathon | Online | 15-28 February | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Seremban | Meetup | Wisma Pasti Negeri Sembilan | 2 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Kuala Lumpur | Meetup | Balai Wikimedia Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur | 8 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 UIAM Gombak | Meetup | UIAM Gombak, Selangor | 18 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Kota Kinabalu | Meetup | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah | 19 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Kudat | Meetup | Kudat, Sabah | 20 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Sandakan | Meetup | Sandakan, Sabah | 23 March | |
| WikiSungkai 2025 Penampang | Meetup | Penampang, Sabah | 23 March | |
| WikiGap Malaysia 2025 Kuala Lumpur | Workshop | Naza Tower, Kuala Lumpur | 17 March | |
| WikiGap Malaysia 2025 Sabah | Workshop | IPGM Kampus Kent, Tuaran | 24 March | |
| WikiGap Malaysia 2025 Penang | Workshop | Wisma AIA, Tanjung Tokong | 25 March | |
| WikiBudaya Momogun Kudat: Bengkel Wikikamus Etnik Tempatan | Workshop | Kolej Vokasional Kudat, Sabah | 20-21 March | |
| Wiki Cinta Ramadan 2025 | Editathon | Online | 25 March-15 April | |
| WikiGotong-royong Muzium 2025: Hari Muzium Antarabangsa | Editathon | Online | 18 May | |
| Pitabangan Prague: Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 | Editathon | Online | 16-24 May | |
| Pitabangan Manila: Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 | Editathon | Online | 23-31 May | |
| Wikipedia Workshop TED x UTM 2025 | Workshop | Univerisiti Teknologi Malaysia Johor | 25 May | |
| WikiTemu Mei 2025 | Meetup | Online | 31 May | |
| Dataton Buku 2025: Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur | Editathon | WTC Kuala Lumpur / Online | 31 May | |
| Pitabangan Bogota: Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 | Editathon | Online | 30 May-7 June | |
| WikiKata Bahasa Tamil 2025 | Editathon | Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik, UM | 4 June | |
| WikiDoropi 2025: Piombolutan Wikimedia Jipun-Malaysia | Editathon | Online | 4-14 June | |
| Dataton Muzik 2025: Hari Muzik Sedunia | Editathon | Online | 21 June | |
| Sompuruan Komi Boros Kadazandusun (SoKiD): Bengkel Wikikamus Bahasa Kadazandusun | Workshop | SK Tengkurus, Kota Belud | 23 June | |
| WikiTemu Jun 2025 | Meetup | Online | 28 June | |
| WikiTour 2.0: Bengkel Wikipedia Bahasa Iban | Workshop | IPG Rajang, Sibu | 30 June | |
| Wiki Loves Earth Malaysia 2025 | Editathon | Online | 1-31 July | |
| Pitabangan Nairobi: Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 | Editathon | Online | 6-14 July | |
| WikiTemu Julai 2025 | Meetup | Online | 26 July | |
| Bengkel Wikimedia Asrama Sabah 2025 | Workshop | Online | 26 July | |
| International Conference on Translation 2025: Wikipedia Workshop | Workshop | Riverside Majestic Hotel, Kuala Lumpur | 19 August | |
| WikiTemu Ogos 2025 | Meetup | Online | 23 August | |
| WikiKata Bahasa Kelantan 2025 | Workshop | Kampung Parit Pasir Tumboh | 13 September | |
| Wikimedia CUG Malaysia 2025 Anniversary Editathon | Editathon | Online | 10 September | |
| Maradata 2025: Hari Malaysia | Editathon | Online | 16 September | |
| WikiTemu September 2025 | Meetup | Online | 27 September | |
| Pitabangan Anniversary 2025: Celtic Knot Online Celebration Day 2025 | Editathon | Online | 23-25 September | |
| WikiKata Bahasa Negeri Sembilan 2025 | Meetup | Senawang Jaya, Seremban | 12 October | |
| Marasunting Persahabatan Wikimedia Korea-Malaysia 2025 | Editathon | Online | 11 Ocober | |
| Marasunting WLF25: Yokohama | Editathon | Online | 1 October-25 November | |
| Pertemuan Maya Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu 2025 | Meetup | Online | 18 October | |
| WikiTemu Oktober 2025 | Meetup | Online | 25 October | |
| Marasunting Hari Jadi Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu 2025 | Editathon | Online | 26 Oktober-1 November | |
| Sambutan Hari Jadi Wikidata ke-13 | Meetup | Online | 1 November | |
| Bulau Asia Wikipedia 2025: Persahabatan Wikimedia Korea-Malaysia | Editathon | Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik, UM | 8 November | |
| WikiGotong-royong Pilihan Raya Sabah 2025 | Editathon | Online | 15 November | |
| #KataNita 2025 | Editathon | Online | 1 November-31 December | |
| Pertandingan Wiki Sains 2025 | Editathon | Online | 20 November-20 December | |
| WikiTemu November 2025 | Meetup | Online | 26 November | |
| Wikimedia Japan, Malaysia and Turkey Friendship Editing Month December 2025 | Editathon | Online | 1-31 December | |
| WikiGotong-royong ADUN Sabah ke-17 | Editathon | Online | 6 December | |
| Wikiquote Workshop and Editathon: #KataNita: Empowering Women's Voice | Workshop | UIAM Gombak | 18 December | |
| 2025 Sea Games Datathon | Editathon | Online | 20 December | |
| Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship | Editathon | Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik, UM | 19 December | |
| Jejak Gambar Hari Moyang 2025 | Meetup | Bukit Tadom, Banting | 31 December |
Overseas
[edit]| Name | Type | Venue/Title | Date | Meetup Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Loves Living Heritage Zamboanga: Wikipedia Chavacano Edit-a-thon | Editathon | Univerisiti Zamboanga | 4-5 January | |
| WikiLibCon25: Pitabangan Mexico City | Editathon | Online | 15-23 January | |
| Sesi Perkongsian Wikimedia @ Osaka 2025 | Presentation | Japan Da'wah Centre, Osaka | 14 August | |
| Junior SDGs Camps: Connecting You to Malaysia | Presentation | Expo 2025, Osaka | 30 August | |
| WikiKata Jawi: Bulan Bahasa 2025 | Workshop | Hackerspace SG, Textile Centre | 6 September | |
| WikiKata Brunei 2025 | Workshop | Universiti Brunei Darussalam | 17 September |
Note:
- Conference is a full-day event with detailed in-depth knowledge exchange and/or training in editing Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation offline projects
- Meetup is a general meeting between editors face-to-face discussing Wikipedia without really focusing on Wikipedia in the Internet
- Online Meetup is a general meeting between editors online in webinar form discussing Wikipedia without really focusing on Wikipedia in the Internet
- Presentation is a one-way explanation about Wikipedia to audience in which the audience do not really engaged in editing Wikipedia
- Workshop is an event where there is presentation and also the engagement from the audience in learning or editing Wikipedia in their computer
Photos uploaded
[edit]Blogs
[edit]TBA
Other activities
[edit]Wikimedia Projects
[edit]Wikimedia Commons
[edit]- Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Malaysia: 300 medias uploaded
Wikipedia
[edit]- Malay: Wiki Loves Ramadan: 124 articles created
- Kadazandusun: WikiDoropi: Pitabangan: 170 articles created
- Kadazandusun: WikiDoropi: Piombolutan Wikimedia Jipun-Malaysia: XXX articles created
Wikivoyage
[edit]Wiktionary
[edit]Social media
[edit]| Name | Platform | Date of creation | Link | Followers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.01.2025 | 31.12.2025 | Changes | ||||
| Wikimedia CUG Malaysia | 30 April 2012 | wikimediamalaysia | 2,397 | 2,618 |  221
| |
| August 2018 | wikimediamy | 1,637 | 2,151 | 514
| ||
| X/Twitter | March 2021 | wikimediamy | 488 | 566 | 78
| |
| Telegram Channel | 29 June 2023 | wikimediamy | 84 | 143 | 59
| |
| WhatsApp Channel | 21 August 2023 | Wikimedia Malaysia - CUG | 237 | 1,408 | 1,171
| |
| November 2023 | Wikimedia CUG Malaysia | 89 | 115 | 26
| ||
| YouTube | 9 July 2020 | Wikimedia Malaysia | 65 | 70 | 5
| |
| Daun | December 2024 | wikimediamy | 53 | 77 | 24
| |
| Bluesky | Oktober 2024 | wikimediamy.bsky.social | 94 | 195 | 101
| |
| Threads | November 2025 | wikimediamy | - | 647 | 647
| |
| Kelab Wiki Kent | September 2023 | kelabwikikent | 211 | 248 | 37
| |
| Malay Wikipedia | 11 November 2010 | mswikipedia | 1,537 | 1,646 | 109
| |
| June 2024 | mswikipedia | 117 | 336 | 219
| ||
| X/Twitter | November 2018 | ms_wikipedia | 1,573 | 1,605 | 32
| |
| Discord | 4 October 2019 | Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu | 420 | 428 | 8
| |
| TikTok | Mac 2025 | ms_wikipedia | - | 36 | 36
| |
| Kadazandusun Wikipedia | 1 July 2024 | dtpwiki | 5 | 9 | 4
| |
| May 2024 | dtpwiki | 86 | 123 | 37
| ||
| X/Twitter | May 2024 | dtpwiki | 38 | 39 | 1
| |
| Bajau Sama Wikipedia | 14 August 2024 | bdrwiki | 2 | 4 | 2
| |
| August 2024 | bdrwiki | 29 | 34 | 5
| ||
| X/Twitter | August 2024 | bdrwiki | 17 | 17 | 
| |
| Malay Wiktionary | 2 May 2023 | wikikamus | 6 | 6 |
| |
| May 2023 | wikikamus | 173 | 233 | 60
| ||
| X/Twitter | May 2023 | wikikamus | 107 | 124 | 17
| |
| Malay Wikisource | 24 April 2024 | wikisumber | 4 | 4 |
| |
| April 2024 | wikisumber | 58 | 97 | 39
| ||
| X/Twitter | April 2024 | wikisumber | 36 | 38 | 2
| |
| WikiProjek Perubatan | April 2022 | wikiprojekperubatan | 83 | 91 | 8
| |
| Malay Wikinews | June 2023 | wikiberita | 86 | 103 | 17
| |
| Iban Wikipedia | Oktober 2024 | wikipediaiban | 12 | 13 | 1
| |
| 9 Oktober 2024 | ibawiki | 41 | 90 | 49
| ||
| X/Twitter | 9 Oktober 2024 | ibawiki | 33 | 76 | 43
| |
| TikTok | Mac 2025 | ibawiki | - | 53 | 53
| |
| Threads | November 2025 | ibawiki | - | 27 | 27
| |
Websites
[edit]Note: Archiving these website might be necessary to be done soon because the information contained in it might easily be changed in the future by the website host.
In the News
[edit]- "Wikipedia BM sambut ulang tahun ke-22, kini ada 392,156 rencana". Astro Awani. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
- Effi Saharudin (2024-10-29). "Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu Menyambut Ulang Tahun Ke 22 – Kini Mempunyai 392,156 Rencana". Amanz. Amanz. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
- "Kelab Wiki Kent, IPGM kampus Kent laksana bengkel Wikikamus Etnik Kadazandusun". Jesselton Times (in en-US). 2025-02-15. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- "Wikibudaya Momogun 2025: Pelajar Kolej Vokasional Kudat Perkasa Digitalisasi Bahasa Rungus di Wikikamus". Jesselton Times (in en-US). 2025-03-23. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- "WikiGap Tuaran Tahun 2025: Program penulisan artikel tentang wanita dalam Wikipedia Bahasa Kadazandusun". Jesselton Times (in en-US). 2025-03-26. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- "Pelancaran Program 100 Hari Wikipedia Hasilkan Artikel Dalam Bahasa Kadazandusun". Jesselton Times (in en-US). 2025-05-08. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
Promotion and Publications by Third Parties
[edit]- International Delegates Celebrate Erasmus + WikiWomen Initiative at Waterford’s Celtic Knot Conference by Waterford City & County Council (1 October 2024) for Pitabangan Waterford.
- Bengkel “1Lib1Ref: Pustakawan di Wikipedia” by UTM Library (18 September 2024)
- Digitising Sabah’s various dialects by The Star Focus (16 September 2024) for preserving Sabah indigenous language
Branding
[edit]| Type | Date of creation | Language | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Planned activities
[edit]TBA
Acknowledgements
[edit]Wikimedia Foundation
[edit]We would like to express our utmost gratitude to Wikimedia Foundation for the warm hospitality or full support and sponsorship of:
- TBA
Wikimedia Users
[edit]We would also like to express our special thanks to the following user for all of the help, advice, support and everything for the user group.
- TBA
Wikimedia affiliate
[edit]We would also like to express our special thanks to the following Wikimedia affiliate (chapter/user group) for all of the collaboration with the user group:
- Wikimedia Community Ireland, for allowing us organized Pitabangan Waterford.
- Wikimedians of Singapore User Group for helping us in WikiKata Jawi Bulan Bahasa 2024
- Padang Wikimedia Community of Indonesia, for collaboration in Malay–Minangkabau Wikipedia Exchange Activity
- Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific, for invitation on training and establishment of WikiClub Zamboanga
Organization Partners
[edit]We would also like to express our special thanks to the following organization for all of the help, advice, support and everything for the user group
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Library, Kuala Lumpur Campus for 1Lib1Ref and Malay Wikipedia Workshop
- Jawi Writing Alliance Singapore (PTJS) for WikiKata Jawi Bulan Bahasa 2024
- National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore for WikiKata Jawi Bulan Bahasa 2024
- Singapore's Bulan Bahasa Committee for WikiKata Jawi Bulan Bahasa 2024
- Southern Zone Muslim Students' Association (PRISMA) of Selangor Islamic University (UIS) for Malay Wikipedia Workshop
- UNESCO Office in Jakarta for Pertandingan WikiKata 2024
- Malaysian National Commission for UNESCO, for Pertandingan WikiKata 2024
- Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia for Pertandingan WikiKata 2024
Events and activities reports
[edit]TBA
Photos
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