Wikipedia:Meetup/Kuala Lumpur 8



Note: ''Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Wikipedia meetup is opened to those fully vaccinated only without any symptom (Low Risk or Casual Contact status only in MySejahtera COVID-19 tracking app) as stipulated by the Government of Malaysia. Facemask should be worn at all time during the meeting.''

The Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 8 (the 35th Wikipedia meetup in Malaysia) was the 8th Wikipedia meetup held at the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. The meetup was held on:
 * Date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021
 * Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 * Venue: Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya (UM), Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 * Medium of communication: English and Malay

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

 * Dody Ismoyo (presenter and trainer)
 * SNN95 (presenter and trainer)
 * AmpangBoy
 * Imnelh
 * Travisbang
 * SNMKLMY
 * Maxcare031
 * PBoyssss

Topics of discussion

 * Example of topics to be written:
 * Energy Economics and Policy
 * Media and Telecommunication Policy
 * Wikipedia course syllabus at Oregon State University: Wikipedia: Universally shared, edited by whom? - Spring 2019
 * Editor Statistics US fall 2012
 * Subjects to write or improve in mechanical engineering:
 * Wikipedia
 * List of power stations in Malaysia
 * List of tallest buildings in Malaysia
 * Category:Mechanical engineering
 * Category:Bridges in Malaysia
 * Category:Buildings and structures in Malaysia by type
 * Category:Energy infrastructure in Malaysia
 * Category:Malaysian engineers
 * Category:Professional associations based in Malaysia
 * Template:Engineering fields
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Category:Mechanical engineering
 * Wikibooks
 * Subject:Mechanical engineering
 * Wikiversity
 * Category:Mechanical engineering
 * Wiktionary
 * Listing of technical tools in Malay language (e.g. skru)
 * Wikiquote
 * Category:Malaysians (Category:Engineers by country)
 * Wikimedia club at university

Minutes of meeting

 * The presenters emphasized that they were not trainers and the attendees were not trainees. The meetup was intended to be more like a kind of sharing session between the presenters (whom probably were more 'nerd' of having played around Wikipedia since ages ago) and the attendees (newbie Wikipedia editors) on friend-to-friend basis ;)
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia and its history
 * Overview briefing of Wikimedia projects, especially on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata
 * Overview of Wikimedia Foundation (HQ location, total annual funding) and various Wikimedia international conferences
 * Overview of Wikipedia article components (article title, lead section, infobox, body, references, categories, interlinking to Wikimedia Commons and talk pages)
 * Overview of navigating around Wikipedia articles (navbox, template, categories, different languages of Wikipedia for that article)
 * Overview of navigation around Wikimedia Commons (navbox, categories) and showing various category of photos within the platform, including a collection of anime and cosplay conventions-related photos around Malaysia, to show that we Wikipedians are not always the book-nerd kind of people. Cosplayers, engineers and animators can also be Wikipedia editors :)
 * Interlinking between articles of facts in Wikipedia (e.g. height of Petronas Twin Towers) or with other highly technical terminologies (e.g. mechanical engineering-related terms)
 * Creating Wikipedia usernames and playing around with sandbox
 * Uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons and its categorization, including what are the photos eligible to be uploaded to the platform (from original author's camera upload or Flickr photos with tag stating that the photo can be edited and modified only)
 * Overview of Wikidata on its contents (including identifies) and interlinking to all related Wikimedia project pages for an entity
 * Notability of a subject before having its Wikipedia article or Wikidata entry
 * The importance of proper documentation of everything and having third-party sources for improving notability of a subject
 * Introduction to WikiProject, especially WikiProject Malaysia
 * Introduction of Wikipedia for one full semester university course
 * Using Wikipedia for academic research, continuous professional development and paper publications
 * Possibilities of translating between different languages of Wikipedia of a particular article while maintaining the list of references to be up-to-date or to archive them in the event of dead links
 * Adding technical-related content (within subheading) to any existing Wikipedia article
 * Navigating Malaysia-related stub articles for ideas on what articles to expand
 * Request for having Tamil-speaking (and writer) editor for Wikimedia Malaysia user group
 * Discussion on having Wikipedia Student Club (or Department under existing student club or any event) of the University of Malaya
 * Discussion on future Wikipedia meetups in January 2022 before WikiGap in March 2022 (in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Kuala Lumpur) for being better prepared for the event
 * Discussion of having University of Malaya as the host for future Wikimania Conference
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia social media (Facebook group and Facebook page)

Self driving
- Key-in Fakulti Kejuruteraan, Universiti Malaya in Waze or Google Map - Address: 50603 Kuala Lumpur - Coordinate: 3°7'4.4"N, 101°39'19.4"E

Disability access
The venue was located on the upper floor with wheelchair ramp access on the ground floor and lift, equipped with toilet on the same floor.