Wikipedia:Meetup/Johor 1



The Wikipedia Johor Meetup 1 (the 1st Wikipedia Malaysia Meetup) was the first Wikipedia meetup in Malaysia. The meetup was held on:
 * Date: Sunday, 22 May 2016
 * Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
 * Venue: OldTown White Coffee, Mall of Medini, Medini Iskandar, Nusajaya, Johor, Malaysia
 * Medium of communication: English

Things to bring

 * Laptop or tablet
 * Multiple cable extensions (to accommodate other laptop/tablet users of electricity)

Participants

 * Dody Ismoyo
 * Exec8
 * MYMMMC

Minutes of meeting

 * Ice breaking and members introduction (when we started writing/editing Wikipedia, what makes us contribute to Wikipedia etc).
 * Finding a balance for each user to remain being anonymous (for down-to-earth reason) or being open (for legitimacy/clarification reason).
 * The nearest short term objective of Malaysia meetups is to make Wikipedia Malaysia user group to be active enough to run by its own members and have continuous activities (not just 1 or 2 meetups then becomes vacuum for a long period).
 * To make Wikipedia Malaysia Meetup 2 on Sunday, 5 June 2016 in Kuala Lumpur (venue to be confirmed later on).
 * Relevance between different languages of Wikipedia to its country-affiliation (e.g. ms.wikipedia to Malaysia-related articles, id.wikipedia to Indonesia-related articles etc).
 * Need to define the definition of the significance of an article worth made and kept as Wikipedia articles (different countries might have different perspective in this, depending on the country size).
 * See the possibility of promoting future Wikipedia-related events to users based on their IP location (e.g. promoting Malaysia meetups to users whose IP indicate that they are in Malaysia).
 * Emphasize of writing Wikipedia articles based on its neutrality, politically-neutral, almost no disputes and maximizing factual info.
 * Possibility for statistical listing of Wikipedia editors (based on their contributions).
 * To have more (and continuous) meetups in the future to nurture the new and young editors, because statistically, the older/more senior editors become, the less active they contribute to Wikipedia.
 * The rolling out of visual editor use for Wikipedia articles editing.
 * Need to figure out the law regarding freedom of panorama in Malaysia for Wikimedia Commons.
 * We need to work out on guidelines on the significance of small articles (e.g. FELDA, rural villages in Malaysia etc).
 * The need to combine and organize a Wikipedia society/community within a country (not too much separated based on geographical condition).
 * One of the attendee, Daniel Chong, has written a theses about Exploring the Characteristics of Wikipedia in Malaysia which is really worth to be read. This can be the stepping stone of engaging the academic and research world with Wikipedia continuously in a sustainable way.
 * Make/expand Wikipedia articles in conjunction with any festival (because festivals keep coming every year, and there are always more new things to be discovered or associated with any existing article).
 * Restructuring articles based on geographical location from the lowest to the highest area. Might involve personnel who will aliase with the related governmental department regarding spatial-matters (e.g. what is the most accepted subdivision of Kuala Lumpur with proper border between each other? (Bukit Bintang, Chow Kit, Bukit Jalil?)).
 * General problems with senior/experienced editors is that once they have written everything that they wished/desired for, they stop from contributing to Wikipedia (retire). How to keep promoting writing Wikipedia articles to both senior or new editors? There are always something new happen in any place, even for small countries.
 * Need to define any Malaysia-related projects regarding offline Wikipedia (outside writing/editing Wikipedia in the Internet) in the next coming meetups and in the future.

Self driving
- Key-in Mall of Medini in Waze or Google Map - Address: Medini Iskandar, 79100 Nusajaya, Johor - Coordinate: 1°25'41.7"N 103°38'01.4"E

Disability access
The venue is located on the ground floor with easy wheelchair access, equipped with toilet on the same floor. There is a ramp escalator from the car park.