File:Wikimania 2023 - 325 - August 19 - Community Initiatives in the East, South East Asia and the Pacific region.webm

English: The agenda provides a brief overview of the changes and reasons behind the Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) user group and event. After ensuring participants understand the direction of WAM, we would like to discuss the following points:

1.How can the outputs of WAM strengthen community understanding of Asia in different regions? 2.How can we encourage participation in the governance of the WAMUG from various Asian affiliate organizations, especially those that lack representation?

The discussion outcomes will serve as a reference for the future strategies of WAM.

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The user group has collaborated with many embassies in Malaysia. Mostly on edit-a-thons. So far, we have collaborated with the Embassies of Sweden, Japan, Ukraine and France. Embassies are usually quite eager to collaborate with us. The aim of the lecture is to see the hidden potential of embassies in the movement and how Wikimedia projects can be helped by them.

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This is a summary of the WMAU grants to organisations undertaking Wiki projects to collaborate and deliver on shared outcomes that align with our Strategic Plan. WMAU partnered with organisations with ideas to grow Wiki content, address diversity, build skills capacity and extend networks to regional areas of Australia. The range of innovative projects include: - ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) for a Wikipedian in Residence to expand Wikipedia content about women, but to also integrate Wikidata content with their ACMI website. - Shire of Paroo (remote Queensland Council) to train a dedicated group of editors including First Nations people to write both regional data and local indigenous knowledge, which could then serve as a pilot model for other regional Councils. - Wikipedian in Residence at University of Divinity focusing on expanding Wikipedia, Wikidata, WikiCommons and Wikisource for the Australian Women in Religion project.

- Queensland University of Technology (QUT) digitisation project to upload historic photographic material pertaining to remote areas and First Nations from all regions of Australia."