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Line 1: [[{{Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thons\|image=File:2017 Waray Edit-a-thon at Palo 32.jpg\|~~200px\|right]]~~caption=}}▼ ~~{{draft}}~~ {{TOC right}} ▲[[File:2017 Waray Edit-a-thon at Palo 32.jpg\|200px\|right]] [[File:2017 Waray Edit-a-thon at Palo 6.jpg\|200px\|right]] [[File:2017 Waray Edit-a-thon at Palo 9.jpg\|200px\|right]] Line 62: The Sinirangan Bisaya Wikimedia Community (SBWC) in cooperation with the [[:en:Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus\|Philippine Science High School - Eastern Visayas Campus]] (PSHS-EVC) conducted the '''7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon''', an event in which people come together in a place to collaboratively contribute to online projects such as but not limited to [[:war:Syahan nga Pakli\|Waray Wikipedia]], at the Computer Laboratory, 3rd Floor, Main Building, Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus, Pawing, Palo, Leyte on March 10, 2017. This edit-a-thon was funded by generous donors. Wikimedia Foundation has granted a one-time license to use its trademarks for this activity. Two Wikimedia volunteers from Manila served as resource speakers for wiki editing and assisted in the conduct of the actual edit-a-thon. Professor Voltaire Oyzon of Leyte Normal University also served as resource speaker for the orthography of the Waray language. The PSHS-EVC provided the venue and invited participants for the event. This is the first edit-a-thon hosted in Palo, Leyte. This edit-a-thon is unique among other edit-a-thons done in Eastern Visayas or in the Philippines because this is the first time that it was held in a high school. Also, within three hours and forty-five minutes, this edit-a-thon produced the most number of characters contributed in any documented edit-a-thon conducted in the Philippines as of March 2017. Upon generating 218,721 characters, it has widely beaten the [[6th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon]] at the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, which contributed 66,366 characters ~~only~~. As a side event, the project team of this edit-a-thon presented Waray Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects to the members of the Association of Government Information Officers (AGIO) of Region 8 (Eastern Visayas Region) during its meeting on March 13, 2017 at the Leyte Academic Center. This side event is the '''5th Waray Wikimedia Forum''' that was made possible with the cooperation of Ms. Alicia E. Nicart, Officer in Charge of the Office of the Director of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) of Region 8. Line 82: !Notes \|- ! colspan="4" \|March 1310, 2017 (Friday) \|- \| width="10%" align="center"\|8:30 am Line 143: ======List of participants====== There were twenty-one (21) students and ~~four~~five (45) teachers who participated in the edit-a-thon. All of them were new to Wikipedia ~~and~~but only twenty five (25) were able to create their Wikimedia user accounts. One teacher failed to create his user account but he assisted the students with the translation during the edit-a-thon. The students, who were handpicked by PSHS-EVC, belonged to Grades 10 and 11 and had ages between 15 to 16 years old. The registered teachers also ~~joined~~edited some articles during the edit-a-thon and assisted students on their editing, particularly in translation work. Prizes were given to the top twelve (12) students and the top teacher based on the number of characters contributed. All student winners received Offline Wikipedia versions of both English and Waray language editions. The top three winners of the edit-a-thon each won a USB flash drive containing Offline Wikipedias of both English (version 0.8_2016-09) and Waray (version all_2017-01) language editions as well as a Wikipedia mug while the rest of the winners received their offline English (version 0.8_2010-12) and Waray (version all_2017-01) Wikipedias in DVDs. The teacher who contributed the most number of characters among the teachers was given a USB flash drive containing the offline English (version 0.8_2016-09) and Waray (version all_2017-01) Wikipedias and a Wikipedia mug while the rest of the teachers received DVDs containing offline English (version 0.8_2010-12) and Waray (version all_2017-01) Wikipedias. All participants received Wikipedia stickers and Wikipedia key chains as well as certificates of attendance. <div class="noresize"> '''Students''' {\| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 1200px;" \|+ Students ! align="center" width="25%" \|Username Line 191 ⟶ 192: * [[wikipedia:war:Jacob Lee\|Jacob Lee]] * [[wikipedia:war:AJ Rafael\|AJ Rafael]] * [[wikipedia:war:William Singe\|William Singe]] }} \| Waray Wikipedia \|\|Fourth place winner Line 339 ⟶ 341: \| Waray Wikipedia \|\| \|} </div> {\|<div class="~~wikitable sortable~~noresize" > '''Teachers''' {\| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 1200px;" \|+ Teachers ! align="center" width="2025%" \|Name ! align="center" width="1510%" \|Username ! align="center" width="5%" \|Gender ! align="center" width="5%" \|Contributions in characters Line 381 ⟶ 386: \|\| \|\| \|\| Unable to create a user account but helped students on their edits. \|} </div> ====5th Waray Wikimedia Forum with Philippine Information Agency - Eastern Visayas==== Line 393 ⟶ 399: # This edit-a-thon was held at a science high school, which is a first for an edit-a-thon in the Philippines. The participants consisted of high school students and teachers who participated individually at the high school's computer laboratory. Most of them contributed seamlessly due to the reliable internet of PSHS-EVC. With a total of 218,721 characters contributed by the participants, the project team was very much pleased with this overwhelming results and they also found out that most of the top contributors created good articles even though this edit-a-thon's goal does not include measuring quality of the articles unlike with the [[6th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon]]. The students were very eager to edit the Waray Wikipedia and share what they know. # Some of the students drafted their work first on a word-processor software or text-editor before uploading it to Wikipedia, which helped them to not lose their work. The project team suggested this technique to PSHS-EVC contact person/s before the actual event. # Although some of the participants had difficulty translating some English words to its Waray counterpart, the assistance of the teachers as well as students (who were also participants) solved this problem.▼ # Because PSHS-EVC have one IP address, the project team was initially worried about the [[Grants:Learning patterns/Six-account limit\|six-account limit]] per day per IP that Wikipedia imposes. This is usually resolved by creating user accounts through a Wikimedia user who has an account-creator status. During the event, although the project team has two account creators, Jojit and Michael, Michael was preparing for the next item on the schedule so he was not present at the venue during the creation of the participants' user accounts. But only several participants needed to have their user accounts created by an account-creator because participants who weren't able to create an account due to the six-account limit were able to create their user accounts by connecting to the project team's personal broadband WiFi. Thus, it is a good thing that the project team have a backup broadbrand WiFi. # The edit-a-thon is a stand-alone event (not part of a larger event) which enabled the participants to focus on editing/contributing content to Waray Wikipedia. ;What didn't work? # AnDuring the edit-a-thon, an Administrator of Tagalog Wikipedia, another Philippine-based language Wikipedia, who was not part of the project team, reverted edits and blocked a participant from editing indefinitely that particular Wikipedia because he suspected the participant of vandalism. The edits were indeed vandalism upon Jojit's inspection. Despite that, Jojit immediately unblocked the said participant so that ~~the~~ he could continue ~~participate~~participating in the edit-a-thon. Then, Jojit said to the audience/participants that it is fine to edit Wikipedia as long as the changes/contributions are valid. After this incident, the said participant no longer vandalized Wikipedia during the event. # A participant continued to edit in the Waray Wikipedia after the edit-a-thon but his edits are vandalism. He was blocked by Michael for one month. He is not the same person who vandalized the Tagalog Wikipedia during the actual edit-a-thon. As a lesson learned and to avoid these kind of incidents in the future, the project team shall emphasize more that vandalism is not being tolerated in Wikipedia. # Edits in the English Wikipedia of another participant (not the participant who vandalized Tagalog Wikipedia or the one who was blocked by Michael) were reverted back after the edit-a-thon due to copyright issue. This shows that issues on copyright were not clear enough during the edit-a-thon and that copyright matters should be explained and emphasized more in the next edit-a-thon/s or events such as forums. ▲# Although some of the participants had difficulty translating some English words to its Waray counterpart, the assistance of the teachers as well as students (who were also participants) solved this problem. ==Outcomes and impact== Line 406 ⟶ 413: The main focus of this project is to increase quality contributions to the Waray Wikipedia that includes editing existing articles and creating new ones. Participants were able to contribute mostly to the Waray Wikipedia, linked data from the Wikidata to the Waray articles and edit a few articles in the English Wikipedia. The first goal is to have at least fifteen (15) participants for the event which was achieved because twenty one (21) students and four (4) teachers actively participated in the edit-a-thon. There iswas ~~also a~~another teacher who did not participate in the actual edit-a-thon ~~but~~(i.e. hedid ~~was~~not ~~there~~edit toor contribute content) but he ~~support~~assisted the students on their translation ~~works~~work. The second goal is to have a minimum of 30,000 characters contribution into the Wikimedia online projects. This was also achieved because the participants contributed a total of 218,721 characters. Incidentally, as of March 2017, this is the most number of characters contributed in any documented edit-a-thon in the Philippines beating the 6th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in November 2016 that produced 66,366 characters. To determine the number of contributed characters: (a) the facilitators of the event took note of the usernames of the participants; and (b) contributions were counted after the actual edit-a-thon with the use of "global edit summary" and the "recent changes" features of MediaWiki for each project that the participants have been editing. MediaWiki is the software behind Wikimedia online projects. Line 429 ⟶ 436: \|- \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| There should be at least 15 participants for the event. \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| Excluding the project team and organizers, twenty one (21) students and four (4) teachers actively participated in the edit-a-thon by creating user accounts and contributing information in the Waray Wikipedia. \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| Through the directions of Dr. Garnace, the PSHS-EVC Campus Director, Mrs. Paete, a faculty member of the school, coordinated the attendance of the participants. \|- \|- \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| There should be 30,000 characters or equivalent to approximately 20 pages of printed text added in the Waray Wikipedia and other Wikimedia-related projects. \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| There ~~are~~were 218,721 characters contributed mostly in the Waray Wikipedia and a few in the English Wikipedia. \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| The participants were actively contributing content during the edit-a-thon. Although some students had difficulty translating, their fellow students and the teacher-participants assisted them in the translation. \|- Line 479 ⟶ 486: \|- \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| 5. Number of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| 31 ~~new~~ articles added with a total of 155 edit count \| style="background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: .5em 2em"\| 31 new articles are created in the Waray Wikipedia \|- Line 499 ⟶ 506: The project team generally assessed this edit-a-thon as an event with a significant impact to the Wikimedia Movement's vision that everyone could "share in the sum of all knowledge." This is due to the fact that twenty-five (25) individuals who are new to Wikipedia were able to add thirty one new articles with an overwhelming 218,721 characters contribution in less than four hours. In the [[Wikimedia ~~Movement~~movement]], contributors are mostly male-dominated and the movement is trying to encourage more female contributors and narrow the [[gender gap]]. In this edit-a-thon, the ratio of female participants to male participants is two is to three (2:3). Though there were greater number of males than females, the female participants which include the top winners are more prolific writers because 53.5% of the total characters contributed are theirs. As for the 5th Waray Wikimedia Forum at the Association of Government Information Officers Meeting, the project team was able to reach out to government information officers of Region 8. Through this forum, the attendees have acquired a better understanding of Wikipedia and how it works and gained some information on how they can help improve Wikipedia. They expressed their interest in helping Waray Wikipedia grow particularly in improving the terms used on the user interface. The forum also made the information officers realize that Wikipedia can be a source of good information with the references being verifiable and reliable. ==Lecture presentation files== <gallery mode="packed" caption="Presentation file of the lecture given by Bel and Jojit" heights="350"> File:Introduction to Wikipedia 2017 March 8.pdf\|Introduction to Wikipedia </gallery> <center>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Introduction_to_Wikipedia_2017_March_8.pdf Download the original file]</center> <gallery mode="packed" caption="Presentation file of the lecture given by Voltaire" heights="350"> File:An Winaray - Guide to the Orthography and Grammar of the Waray Language.pdf\|An Winaray </gallery> <center>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/An_Winaray_-_Guide_to_the_Orthography_and_Grammar_of_the_Waray_Language.pdf Download the original file]</center> [[File:Wikipedia - FactsMatter2016.webm\|thumb\|"Wikipedia - FactsMatter" This was shown during the lecture on Introduction to Wikipedia\|center]] <center>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm Download the original file]</center> ==Gallery== Line 526 ⟶ 558: </gallery> <gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> File:2017 Waray Edit-a-thon at Palo 25.jpg\|Offline Wikipedia DVDs given to the top 12 winners while all participants received Wikipedia stickers with the text of the Wikimedia vision in English and Waray </gallery> <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="250" caption="The morning session lectures of the 7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Philippine Science High School-Eastern Visayas Campus~~" heights="250~~"> File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 02.JPG\|Michael Ong welcomes the participants File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 03.JPG\|Participants listening to lecture Line 571 ⟶ 603: <gallery mode="packed~~-hover~~" caption="Presentation of plaque of ~~participation~~appreciation to Dr. Reynaldo Garnace" heights="200"> File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 34.JPG File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 15.JPG Line 578 ⟶ 610: <gallery mode="packed~~-hover~~" caption="The edit-a-thon participants with the project team and PSHS-EVC partners" heights="200"> File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 33.JPG File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 36.JPG Line 585 ⟶ 617: <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="200" caption="Awarding of prizes to edit-a-thon winners~~" heights="200~~"> File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 38.JPG\|12th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 39.JPG\|11th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 40.JPG\|10th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 41.JPG\|9th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 42.JPG\|7th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 43.JPG\|6th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 44.JPG\|5th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 45.JPG\|4th place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 46.JPG\|Mrs. Vicky Maraya-Paete received the prizes of the 8th place and 3rd place winners on their behalf File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 47.JPG\|2nd place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 48.JPG\|1st place winner File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 49.JPG\|The 1st place winner with Dr. Garnace and Jojit Ballesteros File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 50.JPG\|The 1st place winner with Dr. Garnace and Jojit Ballesteros File:7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 51.JPG\|Gina Cañete is the first place winner among the teachers. </gallery> <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="200" caption="5th Waray Wikimedia Forum at the Association of Government Information Officers Meeting~~" heights="120~~"> File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 01.JPG\|Opening ceremonies before starting the AGIO meeting File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 02.JPG\|The Wikimedia Forum banner at the stage File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 03.JPG\|The AGIO meeting starts File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 04.JPG\|Bel Ballesteros gives a talk about Wikipedia File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 05.JPG\|Bel Ballesteros gives a talk about Wikipedia File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 06.JPG\|Bel Ballesteros gives a talk about Wikipedia File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 07.JPG\|The attendees of the AGIO meeting File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 0809.JPG\|Jojit Ballesteros gives a demonstration on how to edit Wikipedia File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 0910.JPG\|Jojit Ballesteros gives a demonstration on how to edit Wikipedia File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 1011.JPG\|The project team answers questions from the audience File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 1112.JPG\|The project team answers questions from the audience File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 1213.JPG\|The project team answers questions from the audience </gallery> File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 13.JPG▼ <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="350"> File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 14.JPG ▼ ▲File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 1308.JPG\|A plaque of appreciation was given to Ms. Alice Nicart ▲File:Waray Wikimedia Forum at the AGIO Meeting 14.JPG\|A plaque of appreciation was given to Ms. Alice Nicart </gallery> Line 625 ⟶ 659: [[Category:Palo Wikimedia meetups]] [[Category:~~Edit~~Waray Wikipedia edit-a-thons\|07]]▼ [[Category:Philippines]] ▲[[Category:Edit-a-thons]] ~~[[Category:Projects]]~~ [[Category:Reports]]