Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship

Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship is a project organized by Wikimedians who are active in Turkish or Japanese Wikimedia community. This project aims to enrich Wikimedia contents about Türkiye or Japan and strengthen the collaboration between the two communities.

Wikimedia Japan - Türkiye Friendship logo

Before the launch

"Hi!" logo.

In February 2023, Japanese Wikimedian Eugene Ormandy introduced Üsküdar University Wikipedia Student Club in his Diff article "University student Wikipedian communities around the world". In August 2023, Eugene Ormandy met Turkish Wikimedian and Founder of Istanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club Caner at Wikimania 2023 and hit it off. After the event, on September 8, they launched this project.

Vision

• Enriching Wikimedia contents about Türkiye or Japan
• Strengthening the collaboration between two communities

Activities

2023

Date	What was done?	Reference
February 14, 2023	Eugene Ormandy introduced Üsküdar University Wikipedia Student Club in a Diff post 「世界各国の大学生ウィキペディアン・コミュニティ」(Japanese).
February 24, 2023	Eugene Ormandy translated a Diff post 「世界各国の大学生ウィキペディアン・コミュニティ」 into English (University student Wikipedian communities around the world)
August 18, 2023	Caner and Eugene Ormandy met at Wikimania 2023.
September 6, 2023	Caner introduced Eugene Ormandy and Student Wikipedian Community in Waseda University Tokyo in a Diff post "An event where diversity, collaboration and the future meet: Wikimania 2023".
September 9, 2023	Caner and Eugene Ormandy launched a project called "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship"
September 9, 2023	Caner created a logo.
September 11, 2023	Caner created a "Hi!" logo.
September 11, 2023	Caner translated Eugene Ormandy's Diff post "Taufik Rosman and Eugene Ormandy were interviewed by BBC" into Turkish.
September 13, 2023	Eugene Ormandy published a report of the launch of this project on English Diff
September 15, 2023	Eugene Ormandy's Diff post "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship project was launched" was translated into German.
September 19, 2023	Eugene Ormandy's Diff post "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship project was launched" was translated into Turkish.
September 22, 2023	Caner created a logo for Diffquote.
September 28, 2023	Eugene Ormandy quoted Caner's Diff post "An event where diversity, collaboration and the future meet: Wikimania 2023" in his Diff post "Diffquote Volume 1 (9 September 2023)."
September 29, 2023	Caner created a logo for declaration of friendship between student Wikipedian clubs in Türkiye and Japan.
October 3, 2023	Eugene Ormandy wrote an article "Friendship between Wikipedia Student Clubs in Türkiye and Japan" on English Diff.
October 4, 2023	Eugene Ormandy introduced Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship in his Diff post "Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedian of the Year 2023 awardees."
October 10, 2023	Kurmanbek shared Wikipedia Student Clubs friendship declaration on BİLGİ Wikipedia Student Club's social media accounts Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram and Threads
October 10, 2023	Eugene Ormandy made slides to introduce the friendship project in Japanese and English and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons.
October 10, 2023	Takenari Higuchi and Eugene Ormandy held a small editathon in Nagoya, Japan.
October 16, 2023	Eugene Ormandy introduced the project in his Diff article「早稲田Wikipedianサークル勉強会（2023年10月10日）」
October 18, 2023	Eugene Ormandy introduced the project in his Diff article "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship Editathon in Japan 13 October 2023"
November 30, 2023	Istanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club held a Japan-themed editathon
December 22, 2023	Friendship projects between Japan - Türkiye and Malaysia were stated among the outputs of Wikimania 2023.

2024

Date	What was done?	Reference
January 20, 2024	Online meeting
January 21, 2024	Eugene Ormandy wrote "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship Online meeting 20 January 2024" on English Diff.
5-11 February 2024	Online editathon week
February 22, 2024	Eugene Ormandy introduced the editathon week in his Diff article "Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship edit-a-thon 5-11 February 2024"
February 22, 2024	Eugene Ormandy introduced Turkish Wikimedia Movement in a Japanese Web magazine. Article: 検閲を乗り越えたトルコのウィキペディアンたち【ウィキペディアの歩き方】
February 23, 2024	Kurmanbek translated the Eugene Ormandy's editathon week Diff article to Turkish "Wikimedia Japonya-Türkiye Dostluk Vikimaratonu 5-11 Şubat 2024"
March 5, 2024	Eugene Ormandy wrote a Diff post "The Wikimedia movement in Turkey was featured in a Japanese web magazine"
May 11, 2024	Eugene Ormandy introduced the Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship project at ESEAP Conference 2024. You can read the presentation.
June 19, 2024	Eugene Ormandy wrote a Diff post entitled "Web NDL Authorities の SPARQL エンドポイントを活用してトルコ文学に関するウィキデータ項目を改善してみた" on Japanese Diff. In the article, Eugene introduced how to improve Wikidata items related to Turkish literature using Web NDL Authorities, the authority data of National Diet Library Japan (NDL).	[3]
August 10, 2024	Eugene Ormandy, Y. Caner Özyayıkçı and Taufik Rosman presented “Wikimedia Friendship between Japan, Malaysia and Turkey” at Wikimania 2024 Katowice.
September 1, 2024	A month-long Wiki edit-a-thon on Japan - Malaysia and Türkiye has started.

Participants

• Eugene Ormandy - Toumon Wikipedian Club Japan. Newcomer of the Year 2023.
• Kurmanbek (Caner) - Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey, Turkic Wikimedians and Istanbul Bilgi University Wiki Student Club
• のりまき (talk)
• saebou - the Wikipedia Translation Class Project
• Wadakuramon - Japanese Wikimedian, learned Turkish a long time ago.
• LABlab0330
• Sadrettin. Turkish Wikipedian. Frankly, this friendship group is very meaningful. I have great respect for Japanese culture and I believe that increasing the number of articles about Japan in Turkish Wikipedia will be of great benefit. I hope the number of participants will increase even more.

Wishlist

• Editathons themed Türkiye in Japan (articles to write)
• Editathons themed Japan in Türkiye (articles to write) (Edit-a-thon I)
• Photo contest

Gallery

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  Student Clubs friendship declaration (PDF)
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  Student Clubs friendship declaration (PNG)
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  Editathon in Japan 13 October 2023
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  Japan themed editathon in Türkiye I