WikiDiplomasi lightning talk on Indonesian Wikipedia diplomacy articles: transcript

Key points

• Fewer than 200 articles on Indonesian Wikipedia were tagged with diplomacy and international relations, creating a content gap.
• The five-month project was managed by Kanya Prasetyo, with a team of six from Club Wiki Universitas Brawijaya and partners at six universities and six Wikimedia communities.
• It reached more than 200 participants and 133 newly trained editors, and held one editathon with the Bandung Wikimedia community.
• Outputs included 343 new and edited articles, 417 references added, and more than 100 video and photo files added to Wikimedia Commons.
• Key lessons: established partnerships help, keeping participants engaged is hard, and combining diplomacy workshops with Wikipedia training works well.
• The team wants to continue the project at more universities outside Java and with more Indonesian Wikimedia communities.

Chapters

1. 0:00The content gap in diplomacy articles
2. 1:06Project setup, team and partners
3. 2:07Results and impact figures
4. 2:55Key takeaways from the project
5. 4:03Future plans and project management

Full transcript

0:00That's coming up and Kanya is going to be joining us online via Zoom talking about wiki diplomacy and how we can improve international relations content related to Indonesia on Wikimedia projects. Okay, so do you know that only less than 200 articles tagged with diplomacy and international relations on Indonesian Wikipedia?

0:36Yeah, so hi, I'm Kanya Prasetyo, I'm from Indonesia, and today I will share you a story about Wiki Diplomacy Project, a project to improve diplomacy and international relations contents on Indonesian Wikipedia. So what we learned from our, what we found last year is that diplomacy and IR topics are often inequitably covered and underrepresented, creating content gaps on Indonesian Wikipedia.

1:06So we created Wikidiplomacy, which is a Wikimedia Foundation rapid fund project to enhance the quality and quantity of articles on those topics on Indonesian Wikipedia. I And the project was conducted on a five-month period from February to May 2025, in which I am the project manager. Our team consists of six people from Club Wiki Universitas Brawijaya and we partnered with six universities and six Wikimedia communities in Indonesia to conduct diplomacy workshops and also Wikipedia trainings for university students and faculty members and yeah so uh this is our impacts so we so over the course of our project there are 200 more than 200 participants and 133 newly trained editors and also we also conducted

2:07one editathon with bandung wikimedia community and we also created 343 uh new articles and also new and edited articles. We created almost around 100 articles and also 239 articles improved. And we also added more than 100 video and photo files on Wikimedia Commons. We also added 417 references for the edited Wikipedia articles and around 700 edits were made with 383 bytes were added with an average of around 1000 bytes per article.

2:55So here are some of our key takeaways from the project. So we believe that having established partnership goes a long way. So having MOUs or even informal talks with the universities or Wikimedian communities is a key to our success. But on the other hand, keeping participants engage throughout the activity is tough so better measures are needed for example how we we connect and convert these participants to the wikimedia volunteers and connect them with the local wikimedia community and also we we also believe that combining diplomacy workshops and wiki media trainings help to achieve our objective because during the workshops we We have the Diplomacy or International Relations specific topic that we talk about, and then we dive into the Wikimedia movement and also Wikipedia, and it helps the participants to use Wikipedia, to edit and also create new articles.

4:03and uh uh by by the end of the project we believe that we successfully uh reach our main objective to enhance the quality and quantity of uh diplomacy and ir related contents on indonesian wikipedia and it would like we would like to continue uh the project to expand the project uh this year also um to more universities especially outside java and also to more indonesian wikimedia communities that we partner with and yeah so uh also we believe that good project management is key to our success so we use a program and events dashboard and also google forms to track the participants record and also progress um yeah so that's all uh from me uh you can read more about the project on div and also meta wiki or you can contact me or follow club

5:03wiki on instagram and tiktok at club wiki ub thank you very much

Source and licence

Recording: File:WikiDiplomasi - Improving Diplomacy and International Relations Contents on Indonesian Wikipedia - Lightning Talk - Wikimania Day 3 - Nairobi.webm by Kanya Prasetyo (2025-08-08), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.