Category: Training
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Wiki Advocates Philippines UG Learnings from Wikimania 2025
This year’s Wikimania in Nairobi is another success, looking at the number of participants who have attended both in-person and online and the variety of presentations from different communities. Although we may not have been able to be present in person and meet some of our old-time friends or mingle with new participants, our virtual…
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Connection and Longing In Between
Takeaways from the Wikimedia Youth Conference in Prague 2025 Some of us are lost—but deep inside, we long to be found. The power of doing what scares you. Image by: Annidafattiya CC BY 4.0. “Mabuhay!” I’m MaxixKatana, a proud member of Wiki Advocates Philippines. From all around the globe, we arrived at this conference carrying many…
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You in YOUth: Lessons from Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025
YOU will always be a part of the YOUth. It can be a fancy word play but I think everyone, regardless of their status as well as background, have been in the spirit of the youth. What I mean by being part of the youth is, we have similar problems, and challenges we dealt with in…
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Empowering High School Students with Digital Wellbeing Essentials
In today’s digital age, high school students are increasingly exposed to the online world, where they face numerous challenges and opportunities. As technology continues to shape their lives, it’s essential to equip them with the knowledge and skills to navigate the digital landscape safely and responsibly. Access to digital content is only one click away…
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WAP Virtual Wikimania 2024
On August 12, 2024, Wiki Advocates Philippines virtually participated in the Wikimania 2024 celebration at their designated learning hub. This event served as an occasion to acknowledge the dedication and significant contributions of the organization’s members. Wikimania 2024, the annual global conference for the Wikimedia movement, was held in Katowice, Poland. The conference featured presentations encompassing Wikimedia projects,…
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ESEAP Conference 2024 Experience
This should have been my second time attending the ESEAP conference if not for the circumstances when I was about to board a plane for Australia in 2023. That event may have devastated me at first. Still, after a year of working again with my affiliate and with some of my regular functions as one…
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Central Bikol Wiktionary through the years
The Central Bikol Wiktionary celebrated its third birthday on January 13, 2024! Narrating the story of the Central Bikol Wiktionary is the same as with any language request on Wikimedia Incubator: requesting the project, developing it, until such time it’s ready to be hatched. But the highlight of this story would be during its 13th year. It’s…
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WikiDunong: EduWiki Initiatives in the Philippines Project
by Imelda R. Brazal and Anthony B. Diaz The Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group is a community of Filipino volunteer Wikimedians advocating free knowledge through the different Wikimedia projects, promoting the use of these Wikiprojects in education, and promoting equal gender representation. We empower communities through project development, supporting global human rights advocacy, and hosting campaigns promoting the open knowledge…
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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023 Campaign in the Philippines
by Imelda Brazal and Anthony Diaz Wiki Advocates Philippine User Group joined this year’s international Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign. This annual contest provides avenue for Wikipedia editors to improve Wikipedia language projects with images and other relevant media. Adding more visuals to any Wikipedia article makes it more instructive and engaging to read. Since…
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Hatch-A-Wiki Project
Hatch A Wiki Project was a term coined by the first developers of the Central Bikol Wiktionary, although developing incubator projects were already the group’s objective even before the name itself. It started on November 16, 2020, during the Bikol Wiktionary Trainer’s Training and Edit-a-thons, wherein the proponent’s (Imelda Brazal) goal is to train editors on how…
