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Wikimedia Indonesia receives grant

Wikimedia Indonesia, an independent association established by Indonesian volunteers originating from the Indonesian language Wikipedia contributors, received a US$40,000 grant for their initiative called “Volunteer Recruitment and Capacity Building”

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Wed, March 16, 2011

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ikimedia Indonesia, an independent association established by Indonesian volunteers originating from the Indonesian language Wikipedia contributors, received a US$40,000 grant for their initiative called “Volunteer Recruitment and Capacity Building”.

The initiative was launched to increase volunteer capacity to design free knowledge projects and attract new talented young volunteers from academic circles to participate and contribute using the wiki platform while running a project or writing in the internet.

As much as Rp 90 million ($10,260) will be allocated for a program in cooperation with Semarang State University (SSU) to increase activity on the Javanese language Wikipedia, which currently only has two regular editors since its launching in June 2006.

Meanwhile, around Rp 50 million from the grant will be allocated to revive the Sundanese language Wikipedia, which has not had any regular editors since 2009. It is expected that this wiki will be more difficult to revitalize.

Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia is the largest free encyclopedia site in Indonesian, with all articles contributed and maintained by volunteers. As of March, it had more than 150,000 articles. As of February, the Indonesian language Wikipedia received 1.6 million page views every day. — JP

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