Draft Bebaskan Pengetahuan 2010/Laporan/en

Dari Wikimedia Indonesia

Overview

The Indonesian language Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia site in Bahasa Indonesia. It has 1.2 million visits per day and over 100 thousands articles as of 2009. However for a site that “anyone can edit”, not everyone knows how to edit it. Established in 2003, the Indonesian Wikipedia community realizes that they don’t want just any edit, or any writing; that they want quality edits and quality article. Any edit that falls short of this will be challenge or deleted, turning away any “sane” new possible editor. In short, it is much easier to read (consume) than it is to contribute. This atmosphere has hurt the growth of its content and the number of editors, leaving a small number of very active contributors stagnant for years.

Free Your Knowledge 2010 project is the Indonesian chapter's approach for community participation where the community takes initiative independently to change their values and systems, develops working relationships with other institutions for technical assistance (i.e. funding), and takes control in the utilization of available resources. An ideal campaign requires a mix of anthropology, economics, sociology, and politics to accurately detail the preferences and target it will achieve. More often than not, an ideal scenario is almost impossible due to time and financial restraints. Well, almost ;-) .

Using an environmental communication action tree, the project is planned and uses communication processes and media products to support effective policy-making, public participation, and project implementation - geared toward sustainability.

Environmental communication action tree was used because:

1. The complexity of the issues: Wikipedia means science, economics, law, politics, and human behavior plus their many trade offs and interactions, in a holistic way.
2. Comprehension Gap: what public knows and understand about Wikipedia and its technical dimensions differs widely from the know-how existing with very active contributors.
3. Personal Impacts: contributing to anything have a personal impact in people's life, contributing to wikipedia is no different. In order to have an active participatory behavior, impact need to be able to triggers reactions, emotions, motivations into daily practices. To turn non-participant to active participant, the project design non-monetary incentives^[1][2] that hopefully build a culture of contributing in a long term behavior change.
4. Risk Element: a frequent factor in the effort especially as passive/uncontrollable or active/voluntary actions are concerned.
5. Large-scale Intervention: requesting 10 universities in Jakarta, Tangerang, and Bogor to actively participate is a large scale operation, not to mentioned the support from government, foundations, and private companies for funding in a professional manner. It requires coordinated action facilitated by small-group approaches.