PhilWiki Community/Annual Plan 2022/Report

This is the report of the 2022 annual plan of PhilWiki Community.

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Programmes

Advocacy

The objective of the Advocacy program is to engage in various activities for the promotion of free knowledge using different platforms. As part of its inclusive and pluralistic focus, the organization is currently presiding over various advocacy programs aimed at reaching out to marginalized groups in the Philippines. The SMART objectives of the Advocacy program are:

to sticker 100 laptops, tablets or cellphones with Wikipedia logo and other stickers promoting Wikimedia projects
to feature at least 1 sister project or Wikimedia related news on PhilWiki Community Facebook page every month

Results

1. Stickering Campaign: 2 tablets and 1 cellphone using the Wikipedia 20 stickers

2. PhilWiki Community Facebook Page:

March 13 - Wikipedia Content Translation Tool was introduced to participants in the 3-Day Training in Translation and Creative Writing for Teachers and Young Writers held from March 11-13, 2022 via Google Meet. Literary translation, flash fiction writing and creative non-fiction writing were the other topics discussed in the training sponsored by Parasurat Bikolnon, Bikol High School for the Arts and Culture and PhilWiki Community. (921 people reached)
April 12 and 13 - The official page featured two local projects: Bikol Wikipedia's Literature Month campaign: Parambongon an mga biograpiya nin mga parasurat sa Bikol Wikipedia ngunyan na Bulan nin Literatura! Bisitahon an portal kan Literatura para sa mga tampok na parasurat: https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Literatura (241 people reached); and Bikol Wikisource's call for contributors - Magin paraambag Bikol Wikisource, sarong proyekto kan Wikimedia Foundation na kolaboratibong hinahaman nin mga boluntaryo tanganing makamukna nin burabod nin mga babasahon na libreng makukua sa internet asin nin mga Binikol na babasahon gikan sa manlainlain na tataramon kan kinaban. Ngunyan na Semana Santa, basahon an An Bagong Tipan ò Testamento nin cagurangnan tang Jesu-Cristo na nalalagdaan can magña evangelio asin magña gawe nin magña apostoles. https://wikisource.org/wiki/An_Bagong_Tipan_(1909) (50 people reached)
May 1, June 3 and 21, August 14 - The official page shared 5 posts relevant to Wiki Loves Earth Philippines 2022 photo contest which ran from May 1 to June 30, 2022. (177; 77; 62; 111; 62 people reached, respectively)
July 3 - Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 winner from the Philippines was announced: Topping over 8584 entries from different countries is the photograph Child's Faith to Santo Niño (CC BY-SA 4.0) by Michol Sanchez. As a prize, he will receive $400 USD worth of gift certificate. Entries were judged based on technical quality, originality, potential usefulness and overall value of the image including its licensing to the Wikimedia projects. Three more entries of Michol Sanchez received honorable mentions namely "Child'Faith", "Dinagyang" and "The mother of all festivals today". CONGRATULATIONS! More at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022/Winners Wiki Loves Folklore in the Philippines #WLFPH #WikiLovesFolklore (355 people reached)
August 6, 9 and 13 - Wikimania 2022 and Wikimania 2022 local event in the Philippines were announced on the official page. (366; 395; 535; 1,456 people reached)

Wikimania 2022 was promoted in 95.1 Home Radio Naga and Radio Natin radio stations on August 10 and 11, wherein the community members also discussed the promotion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons in the Philippines.

September 24 - Feature: Wiki Loves Fashion in the Philippines features modest clothings and traditional wears of the Filipino people. Join the photography contest and win amazing prizes! Contest period is from September 1 to September 30, 2022. To join, visit [website] #wikilovesfashion (102; 119 people reached)
November 1 - Feature: Join the Wiki Loves Food Philippines featuring the rich Filipino cuisine. Competition runs from November 1 to December 31, 2022. #WikiLovesFood (191 people reached)

Diversity

As a free, open, and vibrant organization of Filipino content editors, the community also aims to engage diverse participation to address the gender and knowledge gaps. Since 2019, the community has organized the WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines to close the gender gap and other diversity gaps on Wikipedia. It has also conducted activities that aim to build content on Philippine minority language-based Wikimedia projects including the Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia, Bikol Wikipedia, and Bikol Wiktionary.

The SMART objectives of the Diversity program are:

to complete 1 book project on Bikol Wikisource
to create and translate 10 articles during Wikipedia Philippine Month on Philippine language based Wikipedia editions
to create and translate 100 women biographies on Philippine language-based Wikimedia projects currently in Incubation

Results

1. 4 new pages were added on Bikol Wikisource this year:

2. February, March and November were the 3 participated months for Wikipedia Philippine Month 2022

Month	Articles created	Participants
January Visayans (Region VI, Region VII, Region VIII, Romblon)
February Filipino-Chinese heritage (Wiki Loves Love; Chinese New Year)	28 new articles about Philippine traditions were created	User:Maffeth.opiana User:Filipinayzd User:Derk29
March Filipina (WikiGap; Women's Month)	89 new articles about women were created	Top contributors: User:Ringer (28 articles) User:Maffeth.opiana (26 articles) User:Derk29 (19 articles)
April Tagalogs: NCR, Region IV-A, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Marinduque (Literature Month)	Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo Estrella Alfon	Filipinayzd
May (Heritage Month)
June Filipino-Spanish heritage (Filipino-Spanish Friendship Day)
July Ilocanos and minorities in Lowland Ethnolinguistic Nations in Cagayan Valley Region (Region I, Region II)
August Highland Ethnolinguistic Nations (Tribal Palaweño, and Lumad) and Lowland Ethnolinguistic Nations in Bangsamoro (Palawan, BARMM, Region IX, Region X, Region XI, Region XII, CARAGA; Moro) (Indigenous Month)
September Bikolanos and Masbateños (Region V)
October Pangasinan and Bolinaos (Pangasinan)
November Asians (Wikipedia Asian Month)	at least 45 articles about Asia were created on Bikol Wikipedia alone	User:Jay_Bolero (top contributor) User:Filipinayzd User:ShiminUfesoj
December Kapampangans and Sambals (Pampanga, Zambales, Tarlac)

3. Gender gap addressed during WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines

Now on its 4th year, the activity was held in celebration of women's month with the goal to close the gender gap on the internet. WikiGap Campaign Philippines is another self-funded activity of the Community launched on March 5. It was attended by junior and senior high school teachers at Tugawe Cove Cafe in Naga City, Philippines.

A total of 89 new articles about women were created by the end of WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines. The top 3 contributors are: User:Ringer (28 articles), User:Maffeth.opiana (26 articles), and User:Derk29 (19 articles). Eight other participants contributed at least 1 new article about women.

3. A historic female-majority Board

At the 2022 Annual General Meeting Community, the Community elected 2 non-male board members. The tally of votes were as follow: Irvin Sto. Tomas with 12 votes (ELECTED), Maricon Opiana with 12 votes (ELECTED), Zyra Hila with 10 votes (ELECTED), Johnny Alegre with 9 votes (ELECTED), Francis Charles Brioso with 7 votes (ELECTED), Frinces Ezra Carullo with 6 votes.

Two months later, the board conducted a Special Board Election and finally restructured the officers with Zyra Hila elected as the second female Board Chair in the history of PhilWiki Community. Further, with the appointment of Marife Altabano and Frinces Ezra Carullo, the new composition of the board became a female-majority Board for the first time.

Education

The organization believes that Wikipedia, among other Wikimedia projects, belongs in Education hence it engages in projects, programs and activities that promote free, responsibly open-content resources and reference materials, through academia among other entities. It supports active learning and the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom pilot program of the Education Team of Wikimedia Foundation. WikiTutorial was a project conducted from November 2018 to June 2019 which involved participants in editing tutorials as well as engagement in the training and organizing of activities. During this period, the participants along with educators learned the basic editing and got familiarized with the Wikimedia movement in the Philippines.

The SMART objectives of the Education program are the following:

to recruit 10 teachers, or better, to join the organization and train them as content editors

Results

1. More than 30 primary school teachers heard the presentation of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom during the school-based In-service Training (InSeT) on February 2, 2022 at DepEd Minalabac District, Schools Division of Camarines Sur, Philippines. PhilWiki Community was one of the 3 Wikimedia Affiliate partners of WMF Wiki Education Team during the pilot implementation of RWiC in 2020. As an initiative, the Community shared about the results of the said program.

Presentation proper
Presentation proper

2. Seven (7) teachers from primary, junior and senior high school levels were re/introduced to Wikipedia Content Translation Tool during the launching of WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines held at Tugawe Cove Cafe in Naga City, Philippines.

WikiGap Campaign 2022
One-on-one tutorial
Participants

3. In partnership with Parasurat Bikolnon, and the Bikol High School for the Arts and Culture, the Community initiated the 3-day Training in Translation and Creative Writing for Teachers and Young Writers 2022 held from March 11-13, 2022 via Google Meet. The participants composed of college, junior and senior high school teachers learned about Wikipedia Content Translation Tool. (See GLAM)

Wikipedia Translation Tool presentation
Attendees

Outreach

Outreach activities are being conducted to reach more people both online and offline thru collaboration with organizations and institutions. Wiki Loves photography contests proved to have a considerable impact on Wikimedia projects. Offline activities such as photography walks have engaged new contributors and volunteers.

The SMART objectives of the Outreach program are the following:

to entice 10 new contributors of photographs about local products (handicrafts, delicacies, textiles etc.) through photowalks
to target 60 participants in Wiki Loves Monuments PH
to upload 50 notable images of tourist destinations in the Philippines by new contributors
to organize at least 1 other localized photography contest aside from WLM PH

Results

1. PhilWiki Community joined Wiki Takes Nueva Caceres

PhilWiki Community participated in a photowalk organized by Commons Photographers User Group held on August 13, 2022 within the old business district of Naga City in celebration of Wikimania 2022.

Plaza Quince Martires
San Francisco Church
Naga river
Participants at UNC Museum

GLAM

Partnership with Raul S. Roco Naga Public Library and James O'Brien SJ Library will be established further through collaborations and mutual sharing of resources such as reference materials which will benefit the users of Wikimedia projects and the clientele of the library. The libraries will also be pilot GLAM institutions of Wikipedian In Residence (WIR) program of the PhilWiki Community.

The SMART objectives of the GLAM program are the following:

to conduct at least 1 editing or non-editing activity at a GLAM partner institution
to establish at least 1 partnership with a GLAM institution

Results

1. Webinar on Wikimedia held December 2, 2022 at Fr. James O'Brien SJ Library in Ateneo de Naga University - We have just celebrated this week the 15th Anniversary of Bikol Wikimedia Community, which serves as the constituency of PhilWiki. Today, we hosted a Webiner attended online by LiAnna Davis (Chief Programs Officers & Deputy Director, Wiki Education) and Satdeep Gil (Senior Program Officer, Culture and Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation). One of the key learnings that surfaced from the webinar is the urgent need for digitization and Optical Character Recognition of heritage literature, for transfer to WikiSource. The webinar was held in partnership with the Ateneo University of Naga City. We shall nurture these institutional relationships in all fields.^[1]

2. In partnership with Parasurat Bikolnon, and the Bikol High School for the Arts and Culture, the Community initiated the 3-day Training in Translation and Creative Writing for Teachers and Young Writers 2022 held from March 11-13, 2022 via Google Meet. The participants composed of college, junior and senior high school teachers learned about Wikipedia Content Translation Tool. (See Education)

Capacity Building

The SMART objectives of the Capacity Building program are the following:

to conduct a monthly physical meeting and meetups with new contributors during the year
to submit the required documents on time and secure permits necessary to continue to operate as a non-profit corporation
to submit the project reports on time and update the latest information about the user group on Meta regularly
to get a Chapterhood recognition from the Affiliations Committee within the year

Results

1. Monthly meeting The Board have approved and published the following resolutions:

Resolution: 2022-2023 Officers of the Corporation (March 19, 2022)
Resolution: PhilWiki Community's official delegate at Wikimedia Summit 2022 (April 13, 2022)
Resolution endorsing the Chapter application of PhilWiki Community (April 28, 2022)
Resolution on committee chairpersonship of PhilWiki Community’s main programs (April 28, 2022)
Resolution: Program Committee Chairpersons (2022-2023) (May 13, 2022)
Resolution on New Membership Structure (May 26, 2022)
Resolution on Special Board Election (June 11, 2022)
Resolution on New Officers of the Corporation (June 22, 2022)

2. Legal documentations and reports as a non-profit corporation

3. Project reports

4. Chapterhood recognition

The Board passed the Resolution endorsing the Chapter application of PhilWiki Community on April 28, 2022. A communication was received from AffCom :

Message from AffCom via Bunty Avieson on May 11, 2022 (UTC):

It has been a year since we notified you on meta that the application for Chapter status is on hold considering the unresolved conflict and capacity challenges of the User Group. As your group is still dealing with conflict issues, and we have not received any status update, we are reaching out to inform you that you have till end of May to resolve the standing issues or the application will be removed from the pipeline and marked archived. You are welcome to submit a new application when you have resolved the identified issues.

We note the communication from Filipinayzd on meta that the PH-WC Board has voted to endorse your application. This is excellent news, but on its own not enough to meet the requirements of becoming a Chapter.

This message will be emailed and posted on the application meta page.

We look forward to working with you in the future.

At the May 13, 2022 Board Meeting, the Board resolved to remove one target, in particular, putting on hold the distribution of copies of localized Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom booklet from the activities therefore amending the approved 2022 Annual Plan. Further, initiatives connected to Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom including personal efforts to promote the program is put on hold in the meantime. After the resignation of the Board Chair, the founding Chair and President, and Incorporator, in connection with PhilWiki Community's thought-partnership with the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, the rest of the Board approved via a unanimous vote on May 13, 2022 during a regular Board meeting held virtually Program Committee Chairpersons 2022-2023:

RESOLVED, that the following are appointed as program committee chairpersons to serve from May 13, 2022 to May 13, 2023:

Advocacy - Zyra Hila, and Cris Fragata-Gomez as the vice-chairperson

Capacity Building - Marvin Molin

Diversity - Emilyn Mae Cernitchez, and Joseph Ciudadado as the vice-chairperson

Education - defer

GLAM - Juan Bautista Alegre

Outreach - Maffeth Opiana, and Leah Sumalinog as the vice-chairperson

PH-WC president responded to a communication dated May 18, 2022 relevant to a User Group application of a former PhilWiki Community member on June 7 and August 12, 2022.

References

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