Wikipedia:Meetup/Melaka 1



The Wikipedia Melaka Meetup 1 (the 18th Wikipedia meetups in Malaysia) was the first Wikipedia meetup held at university, with an engineering institution and at the state of Melaka. It was held in collaboration of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) of Multimedia University. The meetup was held on:


 * Event name: Wikipedia in University Engineering Study
 * Date: Saturday, 6 October 2018
 * Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
 * Venue: Room MSMR 2013, CLC Building, Multimedia University, Bukit Beruang, Melaka, Malaysia
 * Medium of communication: English

Things to bring

 * Laptop
 * Notebook/pen/pencil
 * Portable modem or mobile phone hotspot (in case there is no/weak access to Wi-Fi at the venue)
 * Multiple cable extensions (to accommodate other laptop/tablet users of electricity)
 * Camera (for group photo shooting)
 * Port converter (to/from HDMI etc)

Participants
In its peak time, there were 12 participants of the workshop.
 * Dody Ismoyo (presenter)
 * Garyng2000
 * Hahaweiwei
 * Ingramtarik
 * Kahting
 * LLegacy
 * Lohalexlha
 * Philip258
 * Surajkartik

Topics

 * Ice breaking
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (presentation)
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Foundation projects (presentation)
 * Introduction of Wikipedia (browse)
 * Introduction of other Wikimedia Foundation projects (browse)
 * Wikipedia for education and research
 * Wikipedia Club at universities
 * Creating one Wikipedia article (with its Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage and Wikidata): Sultan Ismail Library <- not enough time for this

Minutes of meeting

 * Introduction of Wikipedia Community User Group Malaysia.
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Foundation projects.
 * Overview of Wikipedia browsing in various languages and switching between them (English (en), Malay (ms), Japanese (jp), Tamil (ta) and Chinese (zh)) and the possibility to use it for learning new languages (by keep practicing to write) and also Wikimedia Incubation (for Iban and Kadazan languages), including to protect endangered languages from being extinct.
 * Ice breaking (name, courses, location, experience with Wikipedia).
 * Introduction of Wikipe-tan and its photo galleries in Wikimedia Commons (everyone loves this the most ~ :P).
 * Donation page for Wikimedia Foundation and its financial report history and allocation.
 * Initial discussion in creating Wikipedia Student Club/Department and its related activities.
 * Overview of various engineering-related topics in Wikipedia.
 * Overview of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia Facebook group.
 * Creating Wikipedia user name (we faced some difficulties due to the banning of the university IP address by Wikipedia, probably due to previous person using it for a not-so-nice edit in Wikipedia).
 * Basic editing of existing Wikipedia page (coding, save, edit history, referencing, linking, category, sandbox).
 * Overview of Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage (different platforms for different purposes).
 * Acceptable and non-acceptable topic/title to have its article written in Wikipedia.
 * Taking Wikipedia into higher level of learning/education (e.g. research, technical paper publication etc).
 * Advantage and benefits of keep contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation projects.
 * Discussion to make the next meetup after final exam in the early coming semester.
 * Should have thought of bringing a speaker for voice demonstration from Wikimedia Projects (e.g. Wikimedia Commons, national anthem of a country's Wikipedia page).

Public transport
Take bus from:
 * Melaka Sentral Bus Terminal towards MITC (Panorama Melaka 24B) and stop at Bukit Beruang

Self driving

 * Key-in Multimedia University (Malacca, Malaysia) in Waze or Multimedia University (Malacca) Google Map
 * Coordinate: 2°14'57.8"N 102°16'35.9"E

Disability access
The venue was located at the second floor with lift access and toilet on the same floor.