ESEAP Conference

The East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Wikimedia Conference (ESEAP Conference) is a regional conference organized by the Wikimedia communities in East, Southeast Asia (also known as the Far East) and the Western Pacific Region. The conference aims to bring people in this region and share their views, challenges and best practices fn their communities and individual efforts in the Wikimedia movement.

Events

ESEAP Conference 2018 – Bali, Indonesia, 5-6 May, 2018
ESEAP Strategy Summit 2019 – Bangkok, Thailand, 29-30 June, 2019
2020–2022 Virtual Conferences – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all meetings and events were shifted to video conferencing with monthly talks happen every 2nd Saturday of each month from October 2020.
Wikipedia 20 Celebration in Asia-Pacific – Virtual, January 16, 2021 (one day after the exact 20th anniversary of Wikipedia)
ESEAP Conference 2022 – Sydney, Australia, 18-20 November 2022
ESEAP Strategy Summit 2023 – Singapore on 15-16 August 2023 (part of the pre-conference events of Wikimania 2023)
ESEAP Conference 2024 – Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 10-12 May 2024
ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 – Metropolitan Manila, Philippines
ESEAP Conference 2026 – To be confirmed

Topics

Traditional

Basic Wiki editing
Immediate and Advanced Editing Methods
Mediawiki
Wikidata
GLAMs and institutional relationships

Organizational

Community Building and Volunteer Management
Project Management
Financial Management
Wikimedia Grants and independent fund raising methods
Event Management
Communications and Social Media