Wikipedia Writing Competition: Free Your Knowledge 2017
Free Your Knowledge 2017 is an online Indonesian language Wikipedia writing competition targeting Indonesian participants aged 18-27 years. Participant's resilience will be tested for three months in writing articles in Indonesian language Wikipedia with specific topics related to Sustainable Development Goals using a local and international perspective and topic about Germany. The Grand Prize Winner will receive one month German language course in Berlin, all cost associated with the study trip will be borne by the Goethe-Institut Jakarta.
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Fundraising statusMedia PartnersWriting competitionFree Your Knowledge Competition is a term introduced by Wikimedia Indonesia in 2010 with the goal Analisis masalahProject synopsisMore quality articles in Indonesian language - Indonesian language Wikipedia has three hundred ninety thousand plus articles on February 2017 with only 40 very active contributors. An addition of 90 talented user gathered by the competition, will automatically adding quantity and the quality of the articles. Number of participants up to 90 people will enable the two-fold increase of Wikipedia Indonesian language editors. The articles in the Indonesian language is highly anticipated by Indonesian speaking information seekers on the Internet. Up to this point Indonesia internet sphere is rich with news sites, blogs, social networking, and other media with commercial goal. When a wikipedia article is written correctly, the article in Wikipedia will be able to provide quality references, neutral point of view, correct grammar, informative content, and make internet browsing for Indonesian become a more valuable experience because of the availability and the accuracy of information it provide. New very active users - The purpose of this competition is to introduce new potential user the correct procedures on how to write using wiki software and the rule of writing in Wikipedia. So far, these rules makes editing in wikipedia difficult and could only been enjoyed by a few users who had the ability of self-taught (autodidact) and not friendly for beginners. During preparation phase in March 2010 the committee visit ten well-known universities in Jakarta, Bogor, and Tangerang. These Universitie was asked to select nine of their representative to compete and provide one of their teacher as a jury to evaluate their students writing result. Participants consist of nine students from each university who felt challenged to compete, or simply feel that they are able to write. Participant need to have internet access, computer, and trusted by their university to compete on behalf of the University. The competition itself will begin in April 2010. Write to Free (your) Knowledge - Committee has designed several level of competitions for three months duration, challenges will increased for the participants. At the end, the real winner comes out from this writing competition is a volunteer who realizes that the desire to compete was not merely a promised grand prize ticket, but the realization that writing is their calling, an ability that is a part of their life, and knowledge is a gift to all and become more valuable when it is free.
Pengguna aktif baru - Tujuan dari Bebaskan Pengetahuan 2017 adalah untuk menarik jumlah pengguna baru di Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia. Pendekatan dengan peserta kompetisi akan dilakukan secara tatap muka dengan mengadakan perjalanan ke beberapa kota di Indonesia untuk mensosialisasikan kompetisi ini dan mengadakan pelatihan perkenalan Wikipedia. Kompetisi ini akan dibuka pada bulan Maret 2017. Pendaftaran peserta kompetisi akan dilaksanakan secara bertahap selama dua kali di bulan Maret 2017 dan Juni 2017. Masing-masing tahap tersebut berdurasi tiga bulan, yang tantangannya akan semakin sulit bagi para peserta. Menulis demi pengetahuan - Panitia telah merancang sebuah kompetisi berjenjang selama 3 bulan, di mana tingkat tantangan akan semakin sulit bagi para peserta. Pada akhirnya pemenang sebenarnya dari kompetisi menulis ini adalah menemukan sukarelawan sejati yang menyadari bahwa hasratnya untuk berkompetisi bukan semata-mata tiket yang dijanjikan sebagai hadiah, namun kesadaran bahwa menulis adalah bakatnya, bagian dari hidupnya, dan pengetahuan adalah berkah untuk semua orang yang menjadi lebih berharga saat dibebaskan serta memiliki keinginan untuk berbagi pengetahuan kepada orang lain. ParticipantsPeserta dalam jaringan (daring), namun terbatas pada Warga Negara Indonesia (WNI) yang berada di 5 (lima) kota: Jakarta, Bandung, Samarinda, Aceh dan Yogyakarta. Comittee
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