My talk presented during Wikimania 2013 on Asia Track

1. Wikipedia Bootcamp in Taiwan:
Experience of Taipei Writing
Camp for Tutorialing New Editors

2. I'm Dennis
● SupaplexTW
● Secretary of Wikimedia Taiwan
● OpenStreetMap Mapper
● Deal with Open Data Movement in Taiwan

3. Wikimedia Taiwan
● Establish in 2007
● Currently running Wiki
Loves Monuments
● Project: Localwiki,
Eduction project

4. WLM

5. Taipei Community

6. Seasonly Meetup

7. ● The Beginning of
Taipei Writing Bootcamp

8. Meetup in Taipei

9. 2011. 3.4 Taipei First Meetup Since
Wikimania 2007

10. Finally We had Meetup After
Wikimania 2007

11. It seems Work Fine in Taipei

12. But

13. ● Someone
though we are
wikileaks

14. Log of 5/23 2011
● The Redesign of Chinese Wikipedia Frontpage
– It should be user friendly
– According to attendees who are readers, they won't go
to frontpage
● The Date and Topic of Summer Meetup is Decided
● Wiklleaks is not Wikipedia
● The Possible of Wiki Club in School

15. There's Some Problems in Meetup
Hold in Taipei
● Too much Topics
● It's Hard to Control Attendees' User
Experience
● New Comers Won't Attend Again, Only
Experienced Editors
● Meetup Can't Recruit More Contributions to
Wikipedia

16. For Potential Contributer
● They're Curious about Wikipedia
● They Saw the Promotion Banner of Meetups
● New comers can't get into the topic
● Someone want to learn how to edit Wikipedia

17. ● Someone Ask Permission to Put Their Stuffs
on Wikipedia
● Someone Want us to help them edit things

18. ● It's Annoying to Answers these #@$
Questions
● The Active Contributors usually Won't Showup
in Meetup

19. Why We Hold Meetup?
● Making Friends
● Learn How to Edit Wikipedia
● Learn More Knowledge
● Let More People Know Wikipedia
● More

21. What We Should Do
● Improve the Chinese WIkipedia, Especially
Quantity
● Need More Editors
● Keep New Contributors and Train Them

22. ● Maybe It's A Good Idea to
Incubate Contributors

23. What We Change
● Split the Meetup
– Regular Meetup for Communities
– Tutoring Meetup for Newbies
● Tutoring Meetup acts as Help Desk for
Newbies

24. About Writing Bootcamps
● Start: September, 2011
● Taipei, Taiwan
● Every Second Saturday
● Hold 20 times

25. Workflow of Writing Bootcamps
●
1. Singup
●
2. Report What was done Last Month
●
3. Tutoring Time

28. Workflow of Writing Bootcamps
●
1. Singup
●
2. Report What was done Last Month
●
3. Tutoring Time

30. Workflow of Writing Bootcamps
●
1. Singup
●
2. Report What was done Last Month
●
3. Tutoring Time

31. Tutoring Time
● Q&A
● Discussion Time
● Editing

33. LOGO
● The Chinese
Character 北 is the
Abbreviation of 'Taipei'
● Pen Stands for Writing
● Plus symbol is for
keep improvement of
Wikipedia
● Puzzle Piece is for
Small Contribution

34. Comparison to Editathon
● In Writing Bootcamp, the Hosts doesn't
Provide Reference
● We Hold the Bootcamp in Coffee Shop with
Wifi
● Still Want to Collaborate with Cultural Institute

35. Obstacle
● Hard to find a proper Meeting Space for
discussion and Editing
● Active Editors in Taiwan Usually Won't Show
up in Meetup

36. Obstacle
● Can't establish connections
between GLAMs
● Lack of Proper References to
Support Editing

37. Obstacle
● Needs to Translate
Educational Booklets to
Traditional Chinese

38. Thank You
● info@wikimedia.tw
● Twitter @Dennisc140