PhilWiki Community/Reports/2019 Report

This page is the Annual Report of PhilWiki Community for the year 2019. It includes the activities of the organization from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

Report of activities: 2019

The Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group or PhilWiki Community was formed on 1 June 2015 to serve as an organization of unaffiliated Wikipedians in the Philippines.

January

• January 13 - WikiTutorial Session 2 was held in Naga City. Attendance: 11 including 7 new participants. New users were taught how to create an account, basic editing and adding references while existing contributors explored the Translation feature on English Wikipedia.

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  WikiTutorial session 2 group photo
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  WikiTutorial session 2 participants
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  WikiTutorial session 2 survey
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  Dinner

February

• February 3 - The last Monthly Meeting was held in Naga City with 9 community members in attendance. The upcoming board election was among the agenda.

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  Attendees

March

• March 3 - The second Annual General Meeting was held at Caby's Cabana Restaurant, Elias Angeles St., Naga City with 5 members in person and 5 online attendance out of the thirteen (13) official members. The duly-elected as Trustees to serve for a one-year term are Irvin P. Sto. Tomas, Froy B. Beraña, Anthony B. Diaz, Maffeth C. Opiana and Ramon O. Olaño, Jr.

The results of the election of officers are: Irvin P. Sto. Tomas, and Froy P. Beraña were reelected for another term as President and Vice President, respectively. Anthony B. Diaz was voted Secretary, while Ramon O. Olaño, Jr. is the new Treasurer. Joseph V. Ciudadano was appointed Auditor.

Name of Trustee	Position
Irvin P. Sto. Tomas	President/Chairman
Froy P. Beraña	Vice President/Vice Chairman
Anthony B. Diaz	Secretary/Public Information Officer
Ramon O. Olaño, Jr.	Treasurer/Board Member
Maffeth C. Opiana	Board Member

Name of Member	Position
Steven A. Fung	Overseas Chapter Representative
Joseph V. Ciudadano	Auditor
Jusan V. Misolas	Member
Maricris F. Gomez	Member
Harold Gomez	Member
Ian Kenneth D. Orasa	Member
Rodel Frias	Member
John Paul Collantes	Member

On 22 May 2019, it adopted a new constitution and by-laws.

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  Group photo
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  Selfie of some of the attendees
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  Start of the election
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  Result of PhilWiki Community election of the Board of Trustees 2019-2020.jpg

• March 9 - The Philippines joined WikiGap campaign. Four (4) new WikiTutorial participants joined the month-long WikiGap Challenge. This served as the WikiTutorial Session 3. As a result, two participants made it to the top contributors, internationally.

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  WikiGap Philippines 2019 launch
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  Some of the WikiGap Challenge participants in the Philippines
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  Participants creating new articles thru Translation
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  WikiTutorial session 3 WikiGap participants

• March 24 - The 1st Board Meeting was held in Naga City. Attendance: Irvin, Ramon, Froy, Anthony, and Maffeth; Joseph was also present. Agenda: Equipment grant, WikiTutorial final month, Wikimedia conferences, Wikimedia communication channels, and PH-WC strategic planning in Catanduanes.

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  Board of Trustees with appointed Auditor Joseph Ciudadano
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  Meeting proper
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  Meeting proper
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  PH-WC appointed Auditor Joseph Ciudadano, former Treasurer Maffeth Opiana, and newly-elected Secretary Anthony Diaz

• March 29-31 - Irvin represented the User Group at Wikimedia Summit 2019 in Berlin, Germany where he attended and participated in different discussion which also included the Asia-Oceania Meeting, User Groups Meeting on Affiliate-selected Board seats of the Board of Trustees among others.

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  Group photo
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  Asia-Oceania Meeting
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  One of the sessions
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  Closing program

April

• April 1-2 - Irvin joined the post-event activity called Trainer's Training in Berlin, Germany.
• April 5-7 - Irvin participated at Wikimedia+Education Conference in San Sebastian, Basque Country in Spain where he presented a lightning talk and participated in discussions.

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  Group photo
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  Lightning talk on Bikol Wikipedia as a local resource
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  Presentation
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  Wikimedians joined the Korrika event in France

• April 8 - WikiGap Challenge ended with bcl:User:Maffeth.opiana and bcl:User:Brazal.dang making it to the top 10 contributors.

Hurop-Hurop, Huron-Huron: Usapang Panpanitikang Bikol (Reflections, Dialogues: Bikol Literature Forum) was held at Lecture Hall, Humanities Building, CBSUA. It was attended by Froy P. Beraña to share about the Bikol Wikipedia initiative as an advocacy in promoting and preserving the Bikol language. The forum sponsored by the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Sentro ng Wika at Kultura and Parasurat Bikolnon, Inc.

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  Presentation during Hurop-Hurop, Huron-Huron: Usapang Panitikang Bikol
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  Presentation during Hurop-Hurop, Huron-Huron: Usapang Panitikang Bikol
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  Freebies during Hurop-Hurop, Huron-Huron: Usapang Panitikang Bikol
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  Bikol Wikipedia initiatives
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  Froy with Director of Sentro ng Wika at Kultura, Dr. Lourdes Bascuña
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  The participants during the Hurop-Hurop, Huron-Huron: Usapang Panitikang Bikol

• April 15 - WikiGap Challenge participant Imelda Brazal and Wiki Loves Earth Philippines 2018 and Wiki Loves Monuments Philippines 2018 winner Ira Villanueva became members of PH-WC.
• April 25 - PHWC conducted a Wiki Loves Earth in the Philippines 2019 photo walk and an outreach activity in Catanduanes attended by around 50 elementary and high school teacher in Social Studies.

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  Twin Rock
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  Twin Rock
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  Floating cottage at Virac

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  Maffeth
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  Open forum
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  Froy
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  Group photo with the participants

May

• May 1 - WikiTutorial participant Leah Banastao and Cebuano Wikipedia contributor Joseph Vincent Libot became members of PH-WC.
• May 5 - WikiTutorial participants Marvin Molin and Marvin Aquino became members of PH-WC.

• May 17 - Conducted Wiki Loves Earth Philippines 2019 photo walk in San Pascual, Masbate.

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  Animasola Island
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  Sunset in Burias Island
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  Tinalisayan Island
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  Rocks in piles at Tinalisayan Island

• May 18 - 1Lib1Ref Campaign was held at University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City.

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  Before the start of the program
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  One on one tutorial
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  A librarian participant
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  Group photo with the participants

June

• June 7 - Formally requested a working space at Raul S. Roco Library thru Naga City Mayor John G. Bongat.

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  Meeting
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  Meeting
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  Meeting
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  Post-meeting groupie

• June 18 - The community adopted its new constitution and by-laws on 21 May 2019 and it received the recognition as a non-stock non-profit company from the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Republic of the Philippines on 18 June 2019.

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  Meeting
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  Meeting

• June 22 - An edit-a-thon during the Wiki Loves Earth in the Philippines 2019 was conducted by PhilWiki Community members to use the images in the 2019 and 2018 contest on Wikipedia. The activity was held at Raul S. Roco Naga City Public Library.

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  PHWC members
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  Edit-a-thon proper
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  PHWC members

• June 25 - Ira Villanueva led a Wiki Loves Earth Philippines 2019 photo walk on Taal volcano in Batangas participated by photographers.

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  Hiking
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  Participants in action
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  Taal crater lake
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  Taal crater lake

• June 29-30 - Froy Beraña and Marvin Molin participated at the Wikimedia ESEAP Strategy Summit 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference aimed to bring ESEAP voices to the global conversation on Movement Strategy. Community leaders discussed the most relevant strategy topics for the region across thematic areas and the Wikimedia movement’s future.

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  Break-out session
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  Conversations
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  Souvenirs' table
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  Group photo

• June 30 - The community collaborated with Nueva Caceres Heritage Movement, Kintab Artists Group, Sumaro Bikolnon, Partido State University and the City Government of Naga in celebration of the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day. An art exhibit participated by some members of PhilWiki Community who are also into visual arts joined the Katood Art Exhibit.

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  Katood Art Exhibit
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  Katood Art Exhibit
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  Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day celebration organized by Nueva Caceres Heritage Movement among other entities including Sumaro Bikolnon and Kintab Artists Group
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  PHWC member at the exhibit

July

• July 27 - PhilWiki Community members Irvin and Ramon appeared on DWOK 97.5 TV program Ini An Totoo hosted by Ernie Verdadero and Irvin Borja. The Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education policy under the K-12 Curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) and Wikimedia Movement were among the topics tackled in the program

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  Guesting on DWOK 97.5

August

• August 3 - Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in the Philippines awarding ceremony held in Naga City. Pangasinan Wikipedia contributor Vanjie Padilla became a member of PH-WC.

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  Trophies
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  Attendees
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  Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in the Philippine 1st prize winner
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  Groupie

September

• September 6 - At the Third Annual James O’Brien, SJ, Memorial Lecture Series: Preserving the Bikol Language – A Challenge to Bikolanos held at the Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City, Ramon Olaño, Jr. served as one of the invited reactors as a contributor of Bikol Wikipedia. The main lecturer is Dr. Jesus Federico Hernandez, Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines, and is currently the Director for Training of the Linguistics Society in the Philippines. Other reactors are Fr. Wilmer Tria and Dr. Cyril Conde.

Gallery

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  Dr. Jesus Federico Hernandez (center)
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  Discussion
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  Ramon Olaño, Jr.
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  Program

October

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

• October 1 - 31 - Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in the Philippines was held.

November

• November 1 - 30 - Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 on Bikol Wikipedia is being held.
• November 7 - One (1) English Wikipedia contributor joined the User Group.

December

Two users showed interest in joining the group:

• December 4 - One (1) Tagalog Wikipedia contributor joined the User Group.
• Decembre 7 - One (1) Meta Wikimedia contributor joined the User Group.