Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia Indonesia/2017/Final report/Outcome/Language program

Metrics and objectives – Javanese & Sundanese
Project Goal Status Remarks
Javanese and Sundanese
90 participants and new users
100% complete
314 total participants (Javanese: 110; Sundanese: 204) including 165 new user (Javanese: 70; Sundanese:95)
26 of participants on average editing every month during the competition
84.6% complete
22 participants in average per months (Javanese: 14; Sundanese: 8)
18 of participants editing one month after the competition
11.1% complete
Only 2 participants (Javanese: 1; Sundanese: 1 -but now editing in ID-)
8 of participants who are active editors one month after the competition
25% complete
Only 2 participants (Javanese: 1; Sundanese: 1 -but now editing in ID-), minimum 50 edits per month
2 of participants who are very active editors one month after the competition
50% complete
Only 1 users (Janese: 1; Sundanese: 0), minimum 100 edits per month
1200 new articles meeting the minimum criteria (5 sentences and 1 source)
100% complete
2,296 articles that meeting with the minimum criteria (Javanese: 2,138 <1> <2>; Sundanese: 158, <1> <2>). Total new articles are 3,364 (Javanese: 2,818; Sundanese: 546)

Wiki Mrebawani II is a continuation of the Wiki Mrebawani (2015–16) which aims at increasing the number of active editors in the Javanese Wikipedia, and through that also aims at building the Javanese Wikipedia community and preserving the Javanese language. The rule of the competition is creating articles as many as possible, in which committee decides if the articles are accepted based on the established standard, and the judges will assess the quality of samples of the created articles. The rule is a simplification of the previous Wiki Mrebawani rules, which went through major changes during the course of the competition. The competition is held in two terms: the first was started at April 15th, 2017 and ended at September 14th, 2017, the second was started at September 23rd, 2017 and ended at February 23rd, 2018. In each term, a winner was announced.

Since mid-April to mid-September, also called the first term, 35 people registered the competition, 8 participated in editing, and 460 articles were created for the competition. The participants made 546 articles, edited 1,150 articles with more than 1,950 total edits during the competition. Several parties had been outreached such as Javanese Diaspora Network, a Javanese community with members from around the world, and Komunitas Jogja Peduli, a group for Yogyakarta local communities that concerns on education issues. The Javanese Wikipedia and a new way of preserving Javanese through encyclopedic writing were introduced to them. Besides the competition, a total of 3 (three) Wikipedia training have also been held to encourage more people in editing the Javanese Wikipedia and to improve skills in Wikipedia editing. From the training, we have got 16 participants joining with a total of 74 edits made.

During the first term, the number of Javanese Wikipedia’s articles was finally reaching 50,000 and featured in a local newspaper. We also open a community space in Yogyakarta.

Partnered with Radya Pustaka Museum in Surakarta, Wikimedia Indonesia held the announcement and closure of the first term of Wiki Mrebawani II at the museum’s hall at September 17th, 2017. The winner of the first term of Wiki Mrebawani II is Igho with score 79,1 of 100 based on article's quality (40%), quantity (40%), and presentation (20%) aspects. Igho is previously an active Indonesian Wikipedia user and now also active in the Javanese Wikipedia during and after the competition. The closing ceremony is featured in Suara Merdeka, a national newspaper based in Semarang.

The second term was followed by 60 participants, with 16 of whom were active editors. Articles created during the second term were 1,824 or around four times the number of the first term. The closure of the second term was held at Data Building, Tamansiswa Complex in Yogyakarta. Ganyong was declared as the winner of the second term by scoring 88,4 of 100. The second term was covered by Jaya Baya and Djaka Lodang (magazines), and Republika (newspapers).

During one-year Wiki Mrebawani II, the committee members also held 11 Wikipedia editing workshops named WikiLatih Jawa in several cities in Java: Yogyakarta (5 times), Surakarta (2 times), Salatiga (once), Semarang (once), Cirebon (once), and Surabaya (once). Most of these workshops were to train participants of Wiki Mrebawani on editing Wikipedia.

Lesson learned
  • During first term, many participants submitted their articles in the last day, so the committe need to do extra work. In the second term, The committe already tried to remind the participants, but that's still happened.
  • For several years, Javanese community was growing so slow, buat because they have community space now, they have place to gather and can coordinate better. This is part of communal culture of Javanese people
Post-activities and follow-up
  • Javanese community decided to do more WikiLatih for next grants and finding new potential partners, especially educational institution
Metrics and objectives – Javanese & Sundanese
Project Goal Status Remarks
Javanese and Sundanese
90 participants and new users
100% complete
314 total participants (Javanese: 110; Sundanese: 204) including 165 new user (Javanese: 70; Sundanese:95)
26 of participants on average editing every month during the competition
84.6% complete
22 participants in average per months (Javanese: 14; Sundanese: 8)
18 of participants editing one month after the competition
11.1% complete
Only 2 participants (Javanese: 1; Sundanese: 1 -but now editing in ID-)
8 of participants who are active editors one month after the competition
25% complete
Only 2 participants (Javanese: 1; Sundanese: 1 -but now editing in ID-), minimum 50 edits per month
2 of participants who are very active editors one month after the competition
50% complete
Only 1 users (Janese: 1; Sundanese: 0), minimum 100 edits per month
1200 new articles meeting the minimum criteria (5 sentences and 1 source)
100% complete
2,296 articles that meeting with the minimum criteria (Javanese: 2,138 <1> <2>; Sundanese: 158, <1> <2>). Total new articles are 3,364 (Javanese: 2,818; Sundanese: 546)


Sundanese poster competition

Wiki Sabanda II is a multilevel system competition, which means a participant should finish one level to continue to the next level. The project was improved and its rules based on the lesson learned from previous competition. The competition is held in two terms: the first was started at April 15th, 2017 and ended at September 14th, 2017, the second is going to start at September 23rd, 2017 and to end at February 22nd, 2018. In each term, a winner was announced.

In the first term, 47 registered participants and only 5 people who participated in competition by claim its articles. There are 253 articles edited (including 148 new articles for competition), and total 1,690 total edits. Beside the competition, we did WikiTraining to Sundanese community for the first time, there are 2 participants with 6 new articles, 10 edited articles and 36 total edits. Promotional activities have been conducted, both online and offline. We collaborated with promoted literary community "Malam Puisi Bandung" and aggreed to promote via their on-air radio program and also social media. We also had meeting with Library and Archive Department, West Java and Reading Community Club (Taman Baca Masyarakat) Sukamulya in Bandung to know and explore more with Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia. In this first period selected one person champion of Wiki Sabanda II that is Dinototosugiarto with the score 64 of 100.

Wiki Sabanda II second term started on September 22, 2017. The competition was announced online (via social media) and offline (by visiting educational institutions and spread the competition via poster). There are 70 participants registered in this term: one of them was previously registered to this competition, 61 persons were new users, and 8 persons were registered but did not continue to create their Wikipedia account. Among the 70 participants, only 9 persons were actively writing in Sundanese Wikipedia. To attract more participants from the previous term, the committee decided that participants from the previous term can automatically be the participants in the second term and also collaborated with Sundanese Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Indonesia University of Education.

There are 50 articles claimed by the participants to be scored, although there are 199 articles created. Wiki Sabanda II second term closed officially on December 31, 2017. Setia Muhammad Fauzi won the first place, and Zaenal Abidin won the second place. See the jury's score sheet here.

Wiki Sabanda II conducted 10 days Sundanese editathons during the second term, participated by 131 persons in total.

  • First training was held at SMK Informatika Terpadu on October 19-20, 2017, with the participation of 15 persons
  • Second training was held at SMK Farmasi Bakti on October 19-20, 2017, with the participation of 55 persons and writing pharmacy articles
  • Third training was held in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia on October 27, 2017, with the participation of 15 persons
  • Fourth training was held at SMA Negeri 1 Cisarua on December 12, 2017, with the participation of 12 persons

Later, the committee decided to alter the competition design by joining an event conducted by Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia to attract university students in the competition. The committee conducted two pieces of training:

  • First training conducted on January 18-19, 2018 in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia and participated by 20 participants in total
  • Second training conducted on February 1-2, 2018 in the same place and participated by 7 participants each day
Lesson learned
  • During the training session, most of the presentation and speech did not deliver entirely due to lack of time. There should be more time to deliver the presentation (more than 4-hour duration of the training).
  • All training participants should be forced to bring computers with them to avoid idling during the training session.
  • There was difficult to gather Sundanese Wikipedia community due to working time and regional disparity, thus it is better to have more than three committee living the same city or living in the nearby at least.
Post-activities and follow-up
  • Sundanese community plan to do meet up and WikiLatih, so the community is not gone after the competition.