Wikipedia:Meetup/Kuala Lumpur 3

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Wikipedia Awareness was one of the talks at GeekCampKL 2018.
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The Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur Meetup 3 (the 13th Wikipedia Malaysia Meetup) was the third Wikipedia meetup held at the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. The meetup was held in conjunction with a festival/event, GeekCampKL 2018 where a 30 minute presentation about Wikipedia in Malaysia and Wikimedia as a movement was presented alongside many other tech related issues. The meetup was held on:

  • Event name: Wikipedia: From Encyclopedia to Free Knowledge Movement
  • Date: Saturday, 30 June 2018
  • Time: 9:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (overall event), 4:30–5:00 p.m. (Wikipedia presentation)
  • Venue: Level 20, AIA Cap Square Tower, No. 10, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Medium of communication: English

IMPORTANT: Please make sure you have bought an RM5.00 ticket via the GeekCamp event page.

EVENT IS FREE FOR STUDENT WITH ID CARD

Things to bring

  • Laptop or tablet
  • Notebook/pen/pencil
  • Camera (for group photo shooting)

Participants

Topics

One of senior Wikipedia editor will present a topic about Wikipedia: From Encyclopedia to Free Knowledge Movement to the audience. While this will be an event on presenting about Wikipedia followed by some discussion and Q&A session, but it is also possible to extend it to have a prior/followup Wikipedia meetup on the sideline of the event during that day.

Minutes of Meeting

Presentation went on as scheduled. Content was mainly basic awareness generation on the movement and local usergroup. Crowd numbered around 20 to 30, mainly local IT professionals. When questioned, up to 4 or 5 were wikipedia had some experience editing. The organizer of event is familiar with WikiData.

After the talk, the crowd disperse so MYMMMC was only able to chat briefly with CyberTroopers, who has since been added to the Whatsapp group.

Worrying issue was the large numbers of those who clicked 'interested/ attending' for the FB event page but never attended. The problem of bots and fake profiles can distort public awareness and interest on the movement.

Photo of the event can be found on flickr

Transportation

Public transport

Self driving

- Key-in AIA CapSquare Tower in Waze or Google Map
- Address: No. 10, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, 50100 Kuala Lumpur
- Coordinate: 3°09'15.4"N 101°41'55.9"E

Disability access

The venue is located in a building with lift and wheelchair access, with same height level between the ground floor of its main entrance and the public road.

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