Wiki Women Camp 2012 IIEF Report

Participant ID: 3718 | Grantee ID: 08007385 | SRF ID: 17535

Conference Report

Siska Doviana – Wikimedia Indonesia WikiWomenCamp initiated as an event to open up opportunity for women (by gender or sex) to get together, learn from each other's experience, network with other women. The conference is held to explore challenges facing women contributing to free knowledge movement and discuss opportunities to actively support the spread of free knowledge by communicating successful strategies.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

23-25 May 2012

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Table of Contents

Narrative Report ................................................................................................................ 3 Background ......................................................................................................................... 3

First Day, May 23, 2012 ................................................................................................... 4 Day Two, May 24, 2012 .................................................................................................... 6

Third Day, May 25, 2012 ................................................................................................. 7

Summary and potential collaboration project ........................................................ 8 Publications ......................................................................................................................... 9

Financial Report ............................................................................................................. 10

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Narrative Report

WikiWomenCamp 2012 is a women only international conference by sex or by gender for all individuals supporting “Free Knowledge and Technology” held in Buenos Aires Argentina 25-‐27 May 2012. The attended by eighteen women from various countries, most of the participants are media wiki contributors. The conference is supported by Wikimedia Australia, Wikimedia Austria, Wikimedia Germany for travel participant, Wikimedia Argentina for conference room, lodging, and meals during the conference, Wikifarm Anne Goldenberg as free of charge facilitator, and The Ford Foundation for the participants trip.

Background

WikiWomenCamp began as the idea of holding a meeting with the intention of opening opportunities for women (both biologically based on their gender or preferred sex) to come together, learn from other women's experiences, and to network and meet interface so that they can achieve their goals and share the passion and effort as a “wiki ohana”. The event is also intended as a forum for discussion to meet other individual with similar effort and share problems and solutions that can be implemented. The conference was held to discussed the challenges women face in contributing to the movement of "Free Knowledge" and try to identify possible opportunity for women in order that they can actively support the dissemination of knowledge. Sharing successful strategies in conducting outreach in different countries and getting to know each other. Eighteen women from various countries eventually participated in WikiWomenCamp. Organizers believe that the diverse participants need to have an open mind in order to make the conference successful and colaboration possible. Participants are expected to take an active role in discussing and helping other participants interact in groups if they are having problems, and to share personal experiences. Because WikiWomenCamp is grassroots effort, each participant is solely responsible for making the conference to be productive, lightweight, and fun. This event is open to all women who are involved in the movement of "free knowledge" wikimedia, or affiliated with either wiki wiki in terms of commercial, nonprofit, wiki for education, and more. The conference will take place on 23, 24, and May 25, 2012 in Buenos Aires and closed with Wiki Genero on May 26, 2012.

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First Day, May 23, 2012

Opening WikiWomenCamp first day, facilitator Anne Goldenberg (standing in the middle of the circle) describes the concept of an open conference Conference opens WikiWomenCamp designed using the concept of "open conference". The concept were unlike other meetings planned far earlier and uses a fixed agenda. On the first day WikiWomenCamp the facilitator, Anne Goldenberg explained about the "open conference" concept. Although many things are flexible, but opens conference has fixed rules, such as; Whoever comes are the right people Whatever has happened to be the only event that might happen The event started when everyone was ready to start The event finishes when everyone was finished Also there are other regulations that accompanies changes of classes classes: the rule of two feet, which means that participants are allowed out to go from a class where s/he thinks didn’t suit their need, and the discussion leader should not protest when participants exit . Also participants who are not learning anything, or do not contribute to the discussion are welcome to go and do something else. Approximately 45 minutes were spent explaining the regulation and then proceed to discuss the agenda for the three-‐day conference. Class discussion According to statistics, only about 10% of women who participated becoming

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contributors to Wikipedia and this fact is likely to occur due to factors related to the community and users. In addition to technical problems, information about how to contribute – up to recognition by Wikipedia is still very limited. New users need specific training and guidance to start editing and overcome discomfort. It is identify that there is a need to make an active new user to feel welcome to the community. Another factor that led to the low participation of women in Wikipedia is a limited time to volunteer. Women tend to be less confident in arguing against the articles they write, and the main thing is women should know clearly why they need to contribute to Wikipedia.

Siska Doviana of Wikimedia Indonesia demonstrate the utility of reading Wikipedia statistics for measuring project success and publicity efforts. Ability to read statistics is like seeing the number of readers, ranking Wikipedia, and Wikipedia fluctuations or the developments in various languages to help the

mainstream media journalists write their stories in more exciting because accurate data. However, input from Russia, are the statistics that show the factual data that a wiki / community does not operate with a level above average unattractive to be reported to the media, because you will have a bad effect on the news reader. Wikimedia Indonesia explained that for the important data to be accurate at the media, not "cool", but Russia still think the data should be given a "cool" thing, not bad. Participants from India and Spayol interested to know more about how statistics become one of the means to see the success of a writing competition and the results obtained showed that women dominate the top five ranking in all competitions ever held.

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Day Two, May 24, 2012

Participants discussion on the second day WikiWomenCamp Volunteers from Cambodia lead a class about how to organize a successful community event. The explanation includes Southeast Asia: organizing a pre-‐event for the promotion and outreach to the community, to share responsibility during the event and post-‐event activities to evaluate the difficulties and lessons learned from the implementation of an event. The use of Wiki for project management has been implemented in Indonesia via Wikimedia Cipta project. Steps needed include: budgeting funds for major infrastructure, training volunteers who will implement the project, implement the program, and prepare the final report. Many questions regarding the use of grant funds and its reciepient, including: "What if the funds are administered and the recipient run with the project money?” India expressed interest to conduct competitions in the language of Kerala, and WMID will evaluate the possibility of training for India volunteer in Jakarta for a replication project. A lecturer in digital art and photography in a college Argentina using Wikipedia as a medium of education. He gave the task of researching a particular topic to the students and the results were presented to the class. A summary of the research included Spanish Wikipedia within 3 months. Students who are new to directly interact with the Wikipedia community and also mentored by the technically lecturer. The participants discussed about the harassment or threat they received and experienced on Wikipedia. One of the participant attempted to neutralize an

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article about feminism or women's rights written with bias,. She realize that there are barriers and challenges experienced by women in their daily lives for contributing. Even in Argentina which has a woman president, the issue of gender inequality is not the agenda of the government so that there are many women who are sexually abused and ± 500 000 women / year die from illegal abortions. In South Africa, even if a woman has a successful personal life or great power in public, but once back in the house, they only have a weak position. Women with a deviant sexual orientation (lesbian) is also highly discriminated against to have abused and even killed because of their sexual preference. While the gays more likely to be tolerated and accepted by the public.

Third Day, May 25, 2012

Participants including Sue Gardner (WMF Executive Director) posed for an Argentine newspaper Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM), and Wikimedia Love Monument (WLM), is a project that is usually is done by collaborating with the relevant institutions to produce content that can be accessed and used freely, including free of charge to the public. Volunteers from Russia and Spain shared their experiences in organizing a photo competition Wikimedia Love monument with a total 18,000 photos in Russia in Spain collected by the participants. Some of the participants still contribute at Wikimedia Commons even though the competition has ended. They identify that part of difficult process in the competition that can reduce the desire to participate is the difficulty to upload images to the Commons and copyright issues that preclude the publication of a

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picture of the work of the participants. Not only that, dealing with the jury photos also are not easy, many times volunteers who become committee should contact the jury to remind them to do their job on time. In Spain other obstacles in Wiki Loves Monument project include participants that aren’t aligned with the theme. This includes unrelated photos such as sunbathing in a beach and wrote a statement that the beach is within walking distance of historic buildings, and many others. In Russia, winner of the photo is not the best photo, but instead of a picture of a one a very historical monument that now crumbling down. The jury decided to award that with the goal to remind the public and the government to preserve the monument. Several other challenges were also identified is in determining the prize, according to Spain prize should be a fun gift gifts such as travel incentive and stay at the hotel, they have been doing gift for nerds like computers and electronic devices. While Russia has a funny experience on the prize, the winner get tickets for air travel but they forgot to fund for the road trip, there are other times volunteers also forgot element of travelling cost included in the prize. A session is brought to document women in relation to the movement of "Free Knowledge" and Wiki in various countries will be printed in Indonesia with funding from Wikimedia Australia. The book will contain brief information about a country, community, local associations, and the role of women behind it, an invitation to join the community, and the images of women who are active in the project Wiki. WikiWomenCamp 2013 is planned to be held in Australia since this event is an opportunity to share experiences with other women from different countries freely and woman in this case as a knowledge community. Communication will be done by Wikichixs (media wiki) and a mailing wikiwomenlist.

Summary and potential collaboration project Contributor with the nick named Scanner from Wikimedia Argentina introduced a scanner for books that are inexpensive and can be made (worth about U.S. $ 500) for use by the university's archives. Wikimedia Indonesia expressed interest in doing something similar in empowering volunteers and turn wikisumber Indonesia (and other languages). One Argentinian participant Andrea of Wikimedia Argentina expressed interest to undertake enrichment of the articles about women in Wikipedia article in Indonesian and in Spain. She proposes that the effort could use a google translator and interwiki. Wikimedia Indonesia will try to explore this possibility by introducing women worker community radio who were interested in this issue. Help for Malayalam Wikipedia in Kerala -‐ Malayalam wikipedia rank and its volunteers current situation is similar to the Javanese language wikipedia.

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Wikimedia Indonesia encourages that Malayalam Wikipedia may need similar outreach like holding an off line event such as competition to boost the number of the article. Wikimedia Indonesia offers to trained possible volunteer interested in becoming a committee to do intensive training in Jakarta. The book about female user perspectives and their outstanding contribution to Free Knowledgewill be done jointly by Indonesia and Australia, Spain ready to translate, and Russia will first look at the possibility of its use in Russia.

Publications (Spanish) Wikipedia Genero Femenino Link: http://www.derechoaleer.org/2012/05/wikipedia-‐genero-‐femenino.html (Spanish) Las mujeres wikipedistas llegaron a Buenos Aires para hablar sobre género -‐ Tiempo Argentino Link: http://tiempo.infonews.com/2012/05/25/sociedad-‐76617-‐las-‐mujeres-‐wikipedistas-‐llegaron-‐a-‐buenos-‐aires-‐para-‐hablar-‐sobre-‐genero.php (English) Elderly and Wikipedia -‐-‐ a Possible Matchpoint. But not quite, for now A blog post by Christina Link: http://www.ludost.org/content/elderly-‐wikipedia-‐contribution (English) Wikipedia Why Few Women Edit. A blog post by Christina Link: http://www.ludost.org/content/wikipedia-‐why-‐few-‐women-‐edit (Inggris) Wikipedia for education: how to educate quality contibutors. A blog post by Christina Link: http://www.ludost.org/content/wikimedia-‐education (English) Open Space for WikiWomen? A blog post by Christina Link: http://www.ludost.org/content/open-‐space-‐wikiwomen (Russian) WikiWomenCamp & WikiGenero tulisan blog post by Anastasya Link: http://lvova.livejournal.com/718342.html (German) WikiWomenCamp 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A blog post by Nathalie Koepff Link: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/05/wikiwomencamp-‐2012-‐buenos-‐aires-‐argentinien/ (English) WikiWomenCamp Brings Together Wikimedians in Buenos Aires blog blog post by Laura Hale Link: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/02/wikiwomencamp-‐brings-‐together-‐female-‐wikimedians-‐in-‐buenos-‐aires/ (English) Ladies lets contribute to wikipedia (Forbes). A blog post by Netha Hussain Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2012/08/22/ladies-‐lets-‐contribute-‐to-‐wikipedia/ External links • For the official website (in English) can be found through meta wikimedia:

Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp

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• WikiWomenCamp Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/377541278950458/permalink/378726788831907/

• Twitter hashtag #WikiWomen • Other WikiWomanCamp photo Photo via Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_2012

Financial Report On April 14, 2012 participant requested funding total of Rp. 23,460,000,-‐ or equal to US $ 2,550

Based on approved requested budget for Participant ID:3718 Grantee ID 08007385 SRF ID 17535 -‐ Wikimedia Indonesia received Rp. 23,398,800,-‐.

The amount received in Rupiah were converted back to dollar with the currency rate of US $ 1 = Rp. 9,300,-‐ to purchase return ticket from Jakarta to Buenos Aires US $ 2,280 in rupiah Rp. 21,213,300,-‐

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Expenditure Breakdown details 1. Ticket Rp. 21,213,300 equal to US $ 2,280 (original receipt attached) 2. Visa Rp. 955,000,-‐ equal to US $ 100 (original receipt attached) 3. Airport tax Rp. 150,000,-‐ 4. Taxi from Airport to hotel (Buenos Aires) ARS 198 ARS equal to Rp. 487,350,-‐

(receipt attached) 5. Taxi from hotel to airport (Buenos Aires) ARS 198 equal to Rp. 487,350,-‐ (no

receipt) 6. Total cost: Rp. 22,805,650,-‐ 7. Balance: Rp. 105,800,-‐

Wiki Women Camp 2012 IIEF Report

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