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This is the annual plan of the activities of PhilWiki Community for 2024-2025.

The logo of PhilWiki Community
The logo of PhilWiki Community

The Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group (PH-WC) or PhilWiki Community, registered as Philippine Wikimedia Comunity Inc. in the Securities and Exchange Commision in the Republic of the Philippines is a non-stock non-profit corporation, which main objective is to initiate, support, promote, participate, create, organize, develop and engage in projects, programs and activities that promote free, responsibly open-content resources and reference materials, in English and in different Philippine languages, and of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Since 2021, it has adopted and implemented an annual plan which serves as its guide to remain on track.

Since last year, our Annual Plan is consistent with the strategic direction of Movement Strategy, centering on the goals of knowledge equity and knowledge as a service. Our strategy is simplified into 5Ps or Promotion - Participation - Partnership - Pursuit of Purpose:

  • Promotion by raising the awareness of Wikimedia projects in the country as a platform that serves open knowledge
  • Participation by increasing participation from all sectors of the society
  • Partnership by creating opportunities through collaboration with public and private organizations
  • Pursuit of Purpose thru practice and demonstration of our values and by pursuing our mission for the humanity

We have created programs and identified effective approaches to remain focus on our work for this year.

Our Community's goals for 2024-2025 are:

Promotion edit

We aim to promote Wikimedia projects and encourage different stakeholders to be part of the movement. Under the Advocacy Program, and Wiki Education Philippines program, the User Group has initiated sustainable, creative, and innovative projects which enabled us to spur the interest and promote the Wikimedia projects both online and offline, among academics and non-academics. On 13 December 2023, we relaunched our education program encompassing the different initiatives of the User Group under Wiki Education Philippines. Currently, we are supporting 4 Wiki Clubs namely: CBSUA Wiki Society, CBSUA Wiki Club, CNHS Wiki Club, and Wiki Club Minalabac.[1][2][3]

The Wiki Education Philippines program deals with the promotion of open educational resources within and thru academic institutions. It promotes the utilization of Wikimedia in lessons thru trainings and WikiTutorial to engage both teachers and students as participants in utilizing the contents on Wikimedia and in participating in Wiki-related activities.

The organization also conducts advocacy activities in collaboration with civic organizations and academic institutions to promote Wikimedia projects and encourage its constituents to be part of the movement. The Advocacy Committee Chair creates and supports activities related to the promotion of building a free knowledge on the local heritage, culture and the arts.

For 2024-2025, the Specific, Manageable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound or SMART objectives aligned with Promotion are:

Targets Activities Timetable Outcomes
Organize Wiki Clubs Orientation, team-building, and participation in WikiProjects quarterly organize 3 new Wiki Clubs and support existing ones
Recruit volunteers Call for volunteers and orientation; participation in Wiknics, meetups and extra-curricular activities quarterly encourage 50 new volunteers
Utilize open resources Participation in conferences, workshops and trainings year-round Increased awareness of Wikimedia among students and academics
Promote Wikipedia in schools and universities WikiTutorial, editing activities and proofreadathons year-round engage participation of 30 teachers
Create content on Philippine educational system Participation in WikiProyekto Edukasyon year-round improve and increase 50 articles of schools, colleges and universities
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Marife Altabano is the Education Committee Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024), and Ian Kenneth Orasa is the Advocacy Committee Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024).

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Participation edit

We aim to foster diverse participation to address the gender and knowledge gaps. Under our Diversity, and Outreach programs, the User Group aims to engage a diverse participation to address the gender and knowledge gaps in its activities being a free, open, and vibrant organization of Filipino content editors and volunteers. Since 2019, the community has organized the WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines to close the gender gap and other diversity gaps on Wikipedia which led to the formation of Wiki Women Filipinas community. Last year, we organized a forum on Preservation of old publications through Bikol Wikisource, and a 3-day national conference with the theme Preserving Our Heritage: Safeguarding Digital Assets Through Wikimedia. This conference brought together participants from different Wiki Loves photography contests from various parts of the country, photography enthusiasts and heritage advocates with the aim to strengthen collaboration.[4][5]

We also conduct activities to reach more people both online and offline thru collaboration with groups, organizations and institutions. The "Wiki Loves" photography contests have proven to have a considerable impact on our Wikimedia activities. Offline activities such as photography walks have engaged new contributors and volunteers. Aside from Wiknics and several photo walks, edit-a-thons have been organized to engage more participants and utilize the images gathered in Wiki Loves photography contests.

This 2024-2025, the SMART objectives on Participation are:

Targets Activities Timetable Outcomes
Sustain women participation Participation in Wikipedia Asian Month, Feminism and Folklore, WikiGap, Wiki Loves Earth November; February-May, May-June encourage 25 women contributors
Create content on significant women in the society in all fields Participation in WikiProyekto Kababaihan year-round improve and increase 100 articles about women and related topics
Organize Bikol Wikisource and Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia campaigns Sustain activities to encourage a more diverse participation year-round 4 editing sessions
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Maria Glenda Perico is the Diversity Committee Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024). Maffeth Opiana serves as the Outreach Committee Chair (2019 - May 13, 2024), and Leah Sumalinog as the Outreach Committee Vice Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024).

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Partnership edit

We aim to benefit from resource sharing as well as have sustainable programs through collaborations with public and private organizations. PH-WC launched the GLAM Philippines program in September 2023. The organization also aims to engage with libraries, museums, among others as GLAM institutions provide the foundation for our verifiable information such as original books and manuscripts. Recently, it held its activities at the National Museum of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Fine Arts, Museo ni Jesse M. Robredo, Universidad de Santa Isabel Museum, Museo del Seminario Conciliar de Nueva Caceres (Holy Rosary Minor Seminary Museum) and the University of Nueva Caceres Museum.[6][7]

Also through the Outreach program, various activities are being conducted to reach more people both online and offline which can be done through collaboration with groups, organizations and institutions. In the past, the User Group has collaborated with Kintab Artist Group, Nueva Caceres Heritage Movement and Sumaro Bikolnon cultural organizations in the promotion of local heritage and the arts. Partnership with these organization means more collaborations toward the promotion of accessible information.

The Outreach Committee is also responsible in creating projects and programs to engage new contributors in online and offline activities.

The SMART objectives for the Partnership are the following:

Targets Activities Timetable Outcomes
Collaborate with GLAM institutions Forum, discussions, exhibits September-November; April-May 3 events at GLAM institutions
Formalize partnership Discussions, planning, implementation of projects year-round 3 memorandum of understanding/agreement signed
Collaborate with LGUs Cultural emersion and photography walks year-round 2 activities in collaboration with local government units
GLAM in Caraga Region (Heritage Walk) Target will be May 2 activities in collaboration with local government units
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Francis Charles Brioso currently serves as the GLAM Committee Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024). Maffeth Opiana serves as the Outreach Committee Chair (2019 - May 13, 2024), and Leah Sumalinog as the Outreach Committee Vice Chair (May 13, 2023 - May 13, 2024).

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Pursuit of Purpose edit

We aim to develop and strengthen the members' skills and abilities, and our organization's processes and resources that it needs to sustain, adapt, and grow. Under our Capacity Building program, the community has initiated projects thru self-funding and volunteerism as it envisions itself to be a free, open and vibrant organization. The community aims to achieve its goals thru sustainable, creative and innovative projects and partnerships. To date, PhilWiki Community has eighty-three (83) volunteers.

In August 2023 at the Bikol WikiConference, all (5) officers and a number of members participated as part of the organizing team and as presenters. Board secretary Maria Glenda Perico facilitated in the Training sessions 1 & 2 on Basic Rules in Wikipedia Introduction to Editing, while board secretary Marife Altabano facilitated in the Training session 3: Evaluating Articles and Sources on Day 1. On Day 2, former president Ralff Nestor Nacor led the Training sessions 4 & 5: Writing a Draft Article; and Sources and Citations, board member Francis Charles Brioso facilitated in the Training sessions 6: Plagiarism and Copyright Violation, while former board secretary Marvin R. Molin led the Training session 8: Contributing Images and Media Files on Wikimedia Commons. On Day 3, president Maffeth Opiana talked in the Plenary session 6: Wiki Loves Philippines while Marvin continued his discussion on Wikimedia Commons and Relicensing. Board chair Ian Kenneth Orasa and board secretary Marife Altabano served as the conference's Trust and Safety officers.

Two current board members and two past officers represented PhilWiki Community at Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedia ESEAP Strategy Summit 2023 held in Singapore. One of the highlights of its participation in the ESEAP Affiliates meeting with Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa, the director and representative of UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Jakarta to Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Founding chair Irvin Sto. Tomas, current president Maffeth Opiana and board treasurer Marife Altabano attended the discussion. Former president Ralff Nestor Nacor and former PIO John Paul Collantees, attended photowalks organized by Commons Photographers User Group in Singapore and by Wikimedians in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

In October 2023, PH-WC president Maffeth Opiana attended the WikiWomenCamp 2023 in New Delhi, India. The conference with the theme "Map Up, Rise Up" brought together individuals who identify themselves as women from different countries of the Wikimedia movement. Maffeth served as part of the communications team composed of Wikimedians of different backgrounds.

In December 2023, the User Group in collaboration with Commons Photographer User Group organized the 3-day WikiCommons PH Conference 2023, a national conference of contributors on Wikimedia Commons, held at Avenue Plaza Hotel, Magsaysay Avenue in Naga City, Bicol. This conference brought together participants from different Wiki Loves photography contests, photography enthusiasts and heritage advocates with the aim to strengthen collaboration and better understand the issues faced among the contributors, and to look for solutions. Most recently, PhilWiki Community signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bikol Wikipedia Community and the Nueva Caceres Heritage Movement for its upcoming collaboration on GLAM and Bikol Wikisource projects for 2024.

The SMART objectives of the Capacity Building program for the Pursuit of Purpose are the following:

Targets Activities Timetable Outcomes
Organize and facilitate photography contests Wiki Loves Earth Philippines, Wiki Loves Fashion Philippines, Wiki Loves Monuments Philippines, and others May-June, September-October, November-December; year-round develop 3 new project leaders
Organize and facilitate editing activities WikiGap, WPWP Campaign Philippines, Wikipedia Asian Month, and others year-round develop 3 new project coordinators
Organize and facilitate a conference for Wikimedians[8] National conference for contributors September gathering of 30 local Wikimedians in a national conference
Represent the User Group in regional and thematic conferences Wikimania, ESEAP, Wiki Women Camp, GLAM-Wiki, EduWiki conferences year-round participation in 3 conferences of 3 new delegates
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The Officers of PhilWiki Community (March 2023-March 2024) are the following: Arch. Ian Kenneth Orasa, Board Chair; Maffeth Opiana, President; Maria Glenda Perico, Secretary; Marife Altabano, Treasurer; Francis Charles Brioso, Board Member. Acting as the internal Auditor is Joseph Ciudadano. Every 3rd Saturday of March, the organization elects a new set of Board wherein the new set of board members elect the new officers among themselves per bylaws.

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References edit

  1. ↑ CNHS Wiki Club
  2. ↑ CBSUA Wiki Club
  3. ↑ Wiki Club Minalabac
  4. ↑ Outreach: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration
  5. ↑ Diff: Heritage conservationists push for the preservation of the old Spanish district in Naga
  6. ↑ Outreach: Wikisource promotion at UNC Museum
  7. ↑ UNC is recognized by the Bikol Wikipedia Community and PhilWiki Community (external link)
  8. ↑ Commons talk: WikiCommons PH Conference 2024

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