Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship/Wiktionary Editathon 2023/dtp

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Date: Saturday, 7 Gumas 2023
Time: 20:00–22:00 UTC+8 / 21:00–23:00 UTC+9
Venues:

The Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship Wiktionary Editathon is the second activity organised together with Wikimedians between the two countries after the launch of the project and was the first activity that involved Wikimedians from Medan, Indonesia (Wikimedia Medan Community). This editathon focused on editing on the Japanese and Malay Wiktionary with the theme of "Indigenous Languages" in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples' Day and was organised simultaneously in Zoom.

Details

Basic information

Zoom (link)

Program


Japan Time (UTC+9)	Malaysia Time (UTC+8)	Activities
21:00–21:15	20:00–20:15	Greetings from Wikimedians in Japan, Medan (Indonesia), and Malaysia
21:15–23:00	20:15–22:00	Editathon
23:00–23:10	22:00–22:10	Results of the editathon

Participants

Malaysian users	Japanese users	Medan users
WAqil	Eugene Ormandy	Lim Natee
Ultron90	Takenari Higuchi	Agus Damanik
Tofeiku		Astari28
Zahirulnukman		HaidirAndiNovianto
Jilorisa		Rafarahh
Jjurieee		Salsa66syifa
Michelina Michael		WanaraLima
PeaceSeekers		Zhilal Darma

Results

Full results can be found in the Outreach Dashboard.

Overview

This editathon was attended by a total of 18 users: 8 users from Malaysia, 8 users from Medan (Indonesia), and 2 users from Japan. The editathon resulted in the creation of a total of 84 new articles: 68 articles in the Malay Wiktionary and 16 articles in the Japanese Wiktionary. 40 new articles were by the Malaysian users, 16 new articles were by the Japanese users, and 28 articles were by the Medan users. A total of 25 existing articles were improved: 16 articles in the Malay Wiktionary, 8 articles in the Japanese Wiktionary, and 1 article in the Indonesian Wiktionary. 7 improved articles were by the Malaysian users, 8 improved articles were by the Japanese users, and 10 improved articles were by the Medan users.

List of articles created

List of articles improved

Statistics

Participants	Articles created	Articles improved
Malaysia	40	7
Japan	16	8
Medan	28	10
Total	84	25

Comments from participants

It was a fabulous event. I could learn Malay and Central Dusun!--Eugene Ormandy (talk) 01:36, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have the opportunity to learn various languages through this event😍 --Jilorisa (talk) 12:12, 18 October 2023 (GMT)

Acknowledgements

From Malaysian participants

It was an enjoyable experience to learn new words in indigenous languages of Japan such as the Ainu language. Thank you!

Mampayat Mantad Medan

It was a good opportunity and enjoyable experience to learn how to edit the Malay Wiktionary and we can add the local languanges that we have to the Malay Wiktionary. We really love this collaboration. And hopefully in the future we will have further collaborative activities. Thank you!

From Japanese participants

It was a good opportunity for us to learn Malay language and Central Dusun language. We love this international collaboration. Thank you!