Grants:Project/Rapid/Tofeiku/Wiki Selera 2021 in Malaysia
gmail.com; snn1395gmail.com• dody.ismoyogmail.com (President of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia)• ahmadalikarimomarhotmail.com
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Project Goal edit
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- Recruit new editors among Malaysians
- Increase skills for existing editors
- Introduce local community to available resources from WMF
- Create awareness on Wikimedia projects and its volunteer community in Malaysia
- Improving and adding the gap of Malaysian cuisine articles from various ethinicities in Malaysia
- Illustrating Malaysian cuisine articles with images
Project Plan edit
Activities edit
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
- One online photography competition where participants upload their pictures of food in Malaysia into Wikimedia Commons.
2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
- The most important way to advertise the contest will be central notice banner in Malay Wikipedia.
- Posting announcements in local language and culture related forums and sites.
- Press release announcing the competition just some days before the starting date
- Collaboration with other organisations such as Sabah State Cultural Board (LKNS), etc
- Communication through our social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook) which have limited reach.
3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?
- Yes. It will lead by me (Tofeiku) and EmpAhmadK who are Malay Wikipedians.
4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- They only need to know the basics of uploading pictures into Wikimedia Commons. We will show the format for them to follow and provide a template for them to fill in.
5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We will keep them in contact and encourage them to continue be a volunteer in Wikipedia. We will ask them to add pictures that they took into articles with no pictures. We will also invite them to join other activities organised by WCUGMY. Furthermore, we will cooperate with the participants for future events and teach them the basics of Wikipedia for them to understand more about the volunteer work in Wikimedia projects. Since this project is expected to be well-received by many due to its simple and interesting nature, Wikimedia CUG Malaysia hope this would attract people from each state in Malaysia to contribute and will increase the community size in Malaysia.
6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- WikiSelera aims to document the multi-ethnic Malaysian culture through food. We are lacking of Wikipedia articles on Malaysia cuisines and some of them do not have any photos of them. Since Malaysia shares culture with neighbouring countries, some of the articles do not have the Malaysian variety of the cuisine in the article. Malaysia is also home to many ethnicities and some of them do not have an article about their cuisines like the indigenous people. We are hoping with the funds by WMF could encourage more people to edit in Wikimedia projects. The prizes aim to attract more people to edit especially among the youths. We are hoping that from this event, we could identify more aspiring editors to contribute to Wikimedia projects and develop their more Wikimedia projects as well expanding Wikimedia community in Malaysia. April will be the month of Ramadan where the majority of the population will observe fasting, May and June will be Hari Raya, Kaamatan and Gawai, and there will be a lot of foods especially traditional ones made during the festivities.
Impact edit
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of participants: 20 and more
- Number of new editors: 15 and more
- Number of pictures uploaded: 75 and more
- Number of Wikipedia articles benefit from this: 50 and more
Resources edit
What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- Human resources
- Members of UG MYS
- Individual Wikimedians
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- 1 USD = 4.05 MYR as of 4 March 2021 https://www.oanda.com
- Project budget table
| No. | Item | Quantity | Total (MYR) | Total (USD) | Notes | ||
| 1 | Prizes | 10 | MYR 1,750 | USD 432.23 | * Photo: 1st prize: MYR600 worth of Lazada giftcard, 2nd prize: MYR300 worth of Lazada giftcard, 3rd prize: MYR150 worth of Lazada giftcard, 4th - 5th prize: MYR100 Lazada giftcard. Special category: 5 x MYR100 Lazada giftcard | ||
| 2 | Fees, delivery, etc | 3 | MYR30 | USD7.41 | Postage fee and payments to the shipping agents for deliveries (appreciation plaques and others). | ||
| 3 | Appreciation for invited juries and partners | 3 | MYR 150 | USD 37.05 | Plaque of appreciations will be given to partners that joined as jury of this contest. | ||
| 4 | Social media promotions | N/A | MYR 202.44 | USD 50 | The fund will be use to pay ads in social media such as Instagram and Facebook | ||
| Total: MYR 2,132.44 (USD 526.69) | |||||||
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