Wikipedia:Meetup/Kuala Lumpur 14



The Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 14 (the 57th Wikipedia meetup in Malaysia) was the 14th Wikipedia meetup held at the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the 3rd one to be held at the University of Malaya. It was held as a joint collaboration with the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia. The meetup was held on:
 * Event name: Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023
 * Date: Sunday, 19 March 2023
 * Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
 * Venue: AV2 Computer Lab, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (UM), Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 * Medium of communication: English

Things to bring

 * Laptop or tablet
 * Notebook/pen/pencil
 * Multiple cable extensions (to accommodate other laptop/tablet users of electricity)
 * Camera (for group photo shooting)

Participants
Please add your username here and please also register in this link
 * Dody Ismoyo (presenter)
 * Tofeiku (presenter)
 * PeaceSeekers (IT assistant)
 * SNN95
 * Lilcho72
 * Nogobel

Topics of discussion

 * Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023

Event flow

 * Official opening by His Excellency Mr. Denys Mykhailiuk, Counsellor, Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia
 * Introduction of Wikimedia outreach works in Malaysia
 * Introduction to Wikimedia and all of its projects
 * Fully use Wikimedia projects in navigating all information regarding Ukraine
 * Viewing article on Ukraine in English Wikipedia and the explanation of components of the article body (e.g. different language ISO code, infobox, section, photos, references, inter-wiki linking, categories etc)
 * Navigating between different languages of Wikipedia for Ukrainian culture article (e.g. in English and Ukrainian languages)
 * Navigating around the categories of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture in English Wikipedia
 * Navigating around the categories of Ukraine and Culture of Ukraine in Wikimedia Commons
 * Introduction of English Wikiquote on Ukrainian people
 * Navigating around the categories of People from Ukraine in English Wikiquote, such as Volodymyr Zelenskyy
 * Introduction of Wikidata as a centralized database for all information regarding Ukrainian culture from various Wikimedia projects
 * Editing workshop to create and translate articles about Ukrainian culture

Inputs

 * To have slide shows showing:
 * Wikimedia and all of its sister projects
 * Body of a Wikipedia article (infobox, references, navigational box etc)
 * To make sure the participants can easily create their username in English-language Wikipedia without having difficulties dealing with blocked IP address

Results

 * Full list of works added after the meetup: Dashboard

Self driving
- Key-in Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik UM in Waze or Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL), University of Malaya in Google Map - Address: 50603 Kuala Lumpur - Coordinate: 3°07'20.0"N 101°39'04.5"E

Disability access
The venue was located on the floor which needed staircase access to it. For those with mobility difficulties, do let us know beforehand and we are more than happy to lend our hand to assist you in reaching up the venue :)

In the news

 * "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023" by Посольство України в Малайзії / Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia (21 March 2023)