Wiki Society of the Philippines

Wiki Society of the Philippines
WikiSocPH
Wiki Society of the Philippines; WikiSocPH
Location	Philippines
Country code	PH
Legal status	Non-profit org
Founding date	April 12, 2010
Approval date	March 17, 2010
Derecognition date	March 1, 2017
Main office	Makati
Membership	17
Staff	0
Official language(s)	Philippine English
Incorporation paper	Certificate of Incorporation
Former name	Wikimedia Philippines
Website	wikisoc.ph
E-mail address	wikisocphgmail.com

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For the user group based in the Philippine region of Bicol, see PhilWiki Community.

Wiki Society of the Philippines (WikiSocPH), formerly Wikimedia Philippines (WMPH), is an association of Wikimedians in the Philippines that aim to promote the Wikimedia projects and open content and open data in general in the country. The organization was founded in 2010 as a non-stock, non-profit corporation and was recognized as a Wikimedia chapter in the same year. The organization's recognition as a chapter was discontinued in 2017 and WikiSocPH currently operates as an independent association.

History

The idea to create an organization of Filipino Wikimedians was proposed on May 20, 2007 during the first Wikipedia meetup ("Manila 1") held in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. Over the next few years, the organization's Articles of Incorporation and By-laws were drafted. In early 2010, the Chapters Committee (now the Affiliations Committee) approved the documents and the organization was subsequently recognized as an official Wikimedia chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation on March 17, 2010. Thereafter, the Articles of Incorporation and By-laws were signed by the incorporators on March 28, 2010 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 8, 2010. The Certificate of Incorporation was approved by the SEC on April 12, 2010 (with Company Reg. No. CN201005637) and released on April 16, 2010.

Among the major projects initiated by the chapter were Wikipedia Takes Manila in 2011, the Philippine WikiCon 2012, Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 and 2013, and the Cultural Heritage Mapping project from 2014 to 2015. The organization also held numerous workshops, talks, and edit-a-thons, and attended events such as a few Software Freedom Day celebrations in various universities.

On September 9, 2016, the organization's status as a Wikimedia affiliate was suspended while issues regarding the reporting of activities was delayed. The organization was not able to meet the deadline for remediation of issues (due in part to bureaucracy in the Philippine government) and this resulted in its discontinuance as a Wikimedia chapter starting March 1, 2017.

Although the organization is no longer an official affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization is still continuing with its efforts to promote the Wikimedia movement in the Philippines through projects related to Philippine heritage and history (such as the Panandâ mobile app) based on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and projects to counter online disinformation and historical negationism that culminated with a Wikipedian in Residence project at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani (Monument of Heroes), an institution dedicated to the preservation of the memory of the heroes and martyrs that suffered under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.