Wikimedia Opens Writing Competition

VIVAnews - Wikimedia Indonesia has launched a writing competition on Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia with the title of “Free Your Knowledge".

The competition is an attempt to encourage talented young volunteers from the group of academics to share their knowledge and contribute to scientific articles using proper bahasa Indonesia on the internet.

“Accessing the internet will be worthy if the sought information is there when it is looked for,” Telematics Application Director General, Aswin Sasongko said in Jakarta on March 30, 2010. “That’s why more submission in Indonesian articles in store are needed”.

Wikimedia Indonesia will be inviting nine most endowed representatives from each of the 10 universities in Jakarta, Bogor and Tangerang to be prepared to participate in the competition.

The universities are FISIP UI, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta, Universitas Al Azhar, Universitas Mercu Buana, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Universitas Paramadina, Institut Pertanian Bogor, London School of Public Relations, Unika Atmajaya and Universitas Bina Nusantara.

The contestants will undergo three stages of assessment starting from April 1 to June 16, 2010.

“From April 1 to May 15, the assessment will comprise qualitative and quantitative methods, “ Wikimedia Indonesia Executive Secretary, Siska Doviana said. “For the record, the qualitative assessment will be based on the quality of the articles and the page views while the quantitative one will be based on the online frequency of each contestant”.

There will be 12 judges appraising the contributions of the 90 contestants. The best winner will be representing Indonesia at the 2010 Wikimania International Conference in Gdansk, Poland.

“We’re currently working on rewarding at least five runner-ups, who won’t be going to Poland, with notebooks,” Doviana said. “For the rest of the contestants participating until the end of the competition, we’ll be providing reference letters from Sue Garder, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation”.

A one-day workshop was held on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Computer Lab of Mercu Buana University that was participated by 64 representatives from eight universities. Another workshop will soon be held at two other universities.

Doviana also pointed out that the competition required Rp 250 million to run. “Unfortunately, we haven’t raised enough money. We’ve only got about Rp 138 million from Ford Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation and Pertamina”.

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Translated by: Nataya Ermanti

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