Wiki Society of the Philippines

WikiSocPH co-founder @akiestar was recently featured in this @ChannelNewsAsia Insider documentary about fake news in the Philippines. Josh’s segment starts at 22:40. youtu.be/qcKXNmD1rZI

Happy 90th anniversary to @NHCPOfficial! 🥳 Hope to celebrate your centennial in 10 years' time!

I’m not attending #Wikimania in person this year, but I’ll see you at my presentation if you come! I’ll be talking about all those articles on Philippine embassies and consulates (@DFAPHL) I’ve been writing over the years. 😉

We love this article on Diff about documenting oral cultures and embedding them into Wikimedia projects. diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/26/why…

Several language versions of Wikipedia turned 20 years old in the past week! 🎂 Let's celebrate them 🧵⬇️

Today Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation are “Calling on UK Government to preserve the very best of the internet for future generations” bit.ly/3JxpRMr #ForFreeKnowledge

#SotMAsia2023 | VENUE ANNOUNCEMENT Pack your bags as we are set to land in Thailand! That's right! SotM-Asia 2023 will be happening in Bangkok as a joint event with FOSS4G Thailand. We sincerely thank everyone who showed interest in hosting SotM-Asia. See you in Bangkok!

The Wikimedia community and Board of Trustees have approved enforcement guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): a global policy for addressing negative behavior on Wikimedia sites. Here's a thread on what this is and how it came to life. 🧵 wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/03/2…

Just before Easter, we'll be at @statelibrarynsw to watch @adzebill present The GLAM Wiki Road Map. This free event is a must for anyone in #GLAM interested in Wikimedia projects. eventbrite.com/e/the-glam-wik…

Content proposals for the first LGBTQI+ centered conference in the history of Wikimedia events are open! The Queering Wikipedia Conference (QW2023) will be held in May, both online and offline. Learn more, via @WikiLGBT and @QueeringW ⬇️ w.wiki/6Stb

Last week we hosted an event on how culturally diverse communities are using Wikipedia. Read more her and watch the videos (link in next tweet) wikimedia.org.au/wiki/How_cultu…

In the Philippines, Wikipedia is one of the platforms most safe from historical distortion about the Marcos regime, thanks to industrious volunteer editors (one was in an 8-hour edit war with a revisionist). Since Wiki is a common resource for students, they're doing impt work!

Meet the Flickr Foundation:Flickr.org Flickr is home to more than 50 billion photos, many of them historic, culturally significant, and one-of-a-kind. We believe these photos should be preserved for the future, so we've established a nonprofit to work on just that.

We need to ensure the future of the internet is grounded in the public interest and human rights. That is why we have teamed up with six other organizations to launch the Movement for a Better Internet. Join us today at movementforabetterinternet.org!

Thank you @nytimes for featuring Filipina chemist and food technologist Maria Ylagan Orosa, who fortunately has her own historical marker created by @NHCPOfficial. (Curiously, the NYT states her birth year as 1893 while the marker says 1892.) 📷 @croelintentions / CC BY-SA 4.0

Two of our members, @akiestar and @object404, were interviewed by @FOCAP2020 to talk about how disinformation has been affecting #Wikipedia. See the interview in this video starting at the 6th minute.

More background information here: newsinfo.inquirer.net/1399866/editin…

We are pleased to announce that with the addition of the “Dela Fuente–Villaroman Ancestral House” historical marker which was unveiled yesterday, the Historical Markers Map of @WikiSocPH now has 1,300 featured extant historical markers from @NHCPOfficial! 🎉 #BuwanNgKasaysayan

Get to know all of the 2022 Wikimedian of the Year award winners! #Wikimania2022 w.wiki/5a95

Time to register for #Wikimania2022! w.wiki/5Vue