 Hi, yep, I'm starting out. Hi, so I am Venus and I'm going to have my presentation now. The topic is exploring the possibility of outreach in Asia. So first of all, I would like to introduce myself to all of you. I'm Venus originally from Hong Kong and I have been working on different Wikimedia projects before. So mainly focusing on Wikimedia or Wikipedia Education Program, GLAM and also Movement Strategy. And I think this topic is quite interesting because it's like combining both my experience as a Wikipedia in Asia. So the very first question is, outreach in Asia, is it possible or is it impossible? I think the answer is quite clear, it's very possible for Wikimedia community or like for the whole movement to reach out in Asia. And but here is like another question. So why do we reach out in Asia? Why do we need to focus on like why would I bring up this particular topic here now in this presentation Asia as like the region that I want to reach out? I think there are quite a couple of reasons that I think we, I have thought about. Of course the first one is about free knowledge. This is like the mission of Wikimedia movement. And I think it's very important to include the knowledge from the region in our movement. And of course also unlock the participation because if you look at the Wikimedia movement or like all these projects that in the movement, for most of the time or like for most of the situation, a lot of participants there from Europe and not so many participants there from Asia. And we would really like to improve the diversities of contributions in the movement. And this is why that we would like to or like I think that it's very important to include Asia in like our projects or like we need to reach out more in the region. And of course exploring the local partnerships. Taking Glam as the example, I think that it's very important that for the Wikimedia movement to explore the local partnerships in the region. In Asia there are lots of museums with great collections of art. And so far these information on this knowledge or resources, they are still like only available in the region. And I see Wikimedia as an ideal platform to share knowledge with all over the world. And this is why that we need to explore the local partnerships in Asia. And of course inspire localization because I think this is also very important that we as a movement that we can bring our movement to like the region and people can really use it or like to contribute it every day. So I think that's why we need to reach out in Asia. Taking like Wikimedia as the example, this very simple page. I think everyone knows this page. This is like the very first page when you type in like Wikipedia on the searching engine. So if you look at the numbers of articles and on different Wikipedia's, you can see that on English Wikipedia, there are more than 6 million articles on it. And I would say that is a very significant number of articles. But if you look at two Asian languages, which are shows here, the Chinese Wikipedia and also the Japanese Wikipedia, you can see that both of them or each of them got around like more than a million articles on it on its Wikipedia. And the numbers when you compare it with English Wikipedia, they're not that many. And of course that they're not that many articles. And of course, we would like to increase the numbers of the articles. So here's another answer to the question, why do we reach out in Asia? Because we are missing Asia and it's rich diversity. So I think it is quite important or it is really necessary for us to work more on the region. And I think now we can do a bit like experiments. So to see why we need the diversity from Asia. So here's a little question. What would you think about when I mentioned the word arts? I think the word itself is like, it's quite interesting. And let's see what are you thinking about? So when I talk about arts, which you think of, for example, classical paintings like the Mona Lisa, or the birth of Venus, or some classical statues from museums like the ones from the British Museum, or like the ones from Victoria and Albert's Museum, or you would think about like paintings like modern paintings like the persistence of memory, or like some works from Picasso. But when I talk about arts like at this moment now in this presentation, have you actually heard about or heard of arts in Asia? So I think that's quite interesting because previously when I tried to reach out in Asia, I mean, like when I, for example, asked the other organizations to cooperate with Wikimedia movement, and when I talk about arts, for example, most of them, they just think about like the arts from the Western culture, and they don't really like think about the arts in Asia. And this is like why we need all like this, why we want to use Wikipedia as the platform to encourage people to share more resources and knowledge on Wikipedia. So just right now, have you thought of, for example, the Chinese painting, or like paintings from Japan, or like the Chinese like textile, or even like batik from Indonesia. So when I talk about this, a lot of people like see that for most of the time, or like for in many situations, like they're missing the knowledge or they're missing these type of resources from Asia. So this is why we need like to encourage people to reach out more in Asia. However, we are facing like different difficulties with outreach integration. And when we talk about like the possibility of outreach in Asia, this is what we are facing to, and it makes like the whole outreach in Asia very difficult. So I think there are like three points that I would like focus on, like when I talk about the difficulties. So the first one is like the familiarity with Wikipedia and the system projects. What I mean is like the public, they are not familiar with Wikipedia and projects, and then also with the resources, and then also with like the censorship issues in the region. I mean only in certain places, but still like this is an issue that we are facing at the moment when we work on like the outreach in Asia. So the first one is people in the region are not familiar with Wikipedia and the system projects. What I mean is like of course people, they use Wikipedia every day in their daily life. They use it like for study, they use it like for check up something like to check up something that they want to know, but they are not really familiar with like Wikipedia or like the project, the system projects. So for one common situation or like for one issue, one of the issues that I was facing to is when I work on the grant project in Asia, people are not familiar with Wikidata or like comments. So they don't know about the system projects. They thought that like Wikipedia was just an encyclopedia online. It's just about writing, but Wikipedia is not just like about articles. It's about like different type of media and like people can share online. So they are not really familiar with like Wikipedia and the system projects. There's one of the question that like one of the question I always like asked like the people, hey, do you know about Wikipedia? Do you know how it works? But this one thing that when we work on the outreach in Asia for a lot of time, or we have to spend a lot of time and effort to introduce the projects to the audience before we can really start like the cooperation. So this one thing. The other problem is about confusion. So people are not really familiar with Wikipedia and then they always mix it up with something else. For example, they mix up with Wikileaks. Obviously this is not really related to or like this is not related to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Foundation or the system projects at all, but they are very confused because they think that oh, it's Wikis. So they just come at it with Wikipedia and the system projects. And so people are very confused about like the name and then they don't know how to understand or they don't know how it works in general like Wikipedia. And of course like the first thing is they don't really understand the Wikicommunity. What I mean is like when I talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation, very often that the people would think that Wikimedia Foundation is the organization which writes Wikipedia articles and which is not true because everyone can edit on Wikipedia, but they don't really understand how it works as a community. And they thought that like Wikimedia Foundation is like an organization. They got paid and they edit on Wikipedia. So obviously this is not true. And for most of the time when we try to reach out in the region, we have to spend a lot of time to explain like to the audience how the whole community works. And the second thing is about resources. Just as I mentioned, because we need a lot of time and effort like to develop in the region and we need the resources so much, but we don't have like a lot of resources that we can use now. For example, of the human resources, one of the problems that we are facing too or like I have faced too is always is the human resources. So for most of the time when we reach out like here are organizations, they would like to talk to like someone who is in charge. But with the media movement or the Wikimedia community, we are volunteers. And most of the people are volunteers. So we don't have someone who has like more authority or like who are in a higher position as like the representative from like the organization or from the movement to talk to the other organizations. So this is one of the problems that we're facing too. The other one is about the facilities, hardware software. For some countries or like for some communities in the region, they still need like a proper internet, they still need like a proper hardware so that they can edit on Wikipedia, but they don't have it. So this is one of the things that we are facing too, which makes like the possibility of outreach so difficult in the region. The other ones is like the software, but more or less, I mean like, for example, the language barrier. So this is one thing that we are facing too in the region because people in the region, we don't have like a share or like we don't have a common language. Most of the time people communicate with each other in English. And this is like not easy when everyone is using their second language to communicate with each other. And the third thing is about time, like a lot of people, they are like a volunteer as I mentioned, so they don't have a lot of time to invest in like the community or like the community movements. So it's really difficult for them like to stay or like they don't have much time like to work on like the outreach in the region. And the first questions or like the first problems that we were facing too is censorship. I mean in only in certain places, still like this is like an issues like for us to approach the others. When I talk about the artists, it's like the other communities in the region or like other organizations in the region. For example, like some people or some Wikipedia, they would like to reach out to other organizations to seek for the opportunity to operate. But this is always difficult with censorship, which means like they are not allowed to do it because their government doesn't allow them to do so. And it makes the whole outreach very difficult in the region. So this is like a case study. It was like the Wikipedia education program in Hong Kong that what I was working on, it was like in 2014, 15 and 16, we were working with like different universities in Hong Kong. The students from the universities in Hong Kong were invited to edit on Wikipedia. But this is exactly what I was talking about, that we were facing like the difficulties during the program or like when we reached out in the region. So like students were not familiar with Wikipedia and the system projects. So we needed to spend a lot of time and effort in human resources just to explain like an introduced like Wikimedia movement and Wikimedia community to the audience. And it makes like the whole project or like program very difficult. And yeah, so it is not that easy when we try to reach out in the region because of like these reasons. So, however, we still need like the Asian community. This is necessary like for us to invest more, for example, time effort and resources to reach out in Asia because we need the diversity. Just like now when I show you the number of the articles on Wikipedia, you can see that there is a huge difference like of number of the articles on Wikipedia. And we need like to invite a like, we need to include more people from the Asian community like to share their knowledge on Wikipedia. So in the foreseeable future, we hope to hear the voices from the Asian community. And I'm sorry. So this is what exactly we need to do. As I mentioned at the very beginning of this presentation, this is possible like to reach out in the region and to invite like more people to edit on Wikipedia to share their knowledge on Wikipedia. And I think this like the mission of Wikipedia over the whole Wikimedia movement is like to have free knowledge for everyone. And this is why like I believe that this is important for us to reach out in the region. So this is the end of my presentation and thank you for listening. So here is my comments. If you have any questions that you would like to discuss with me about the region like the the outreach in Asia or like if you would like to know more about the Wikimedia education program, GLAM or movement strategy projects that I have been working on in the region, please feel free to contact me. And here's like my email address. So you can send me emails and I will try to reply to you as soon as possible. And this is like the very end of my presentation. So thank you for listening. And I think now I will be doing wrap up soon now. And I would like to see if there are any questions for me to so no one asks me any questions, but this okay. Like I mentioned, please feel free to send me emails if you would like to know more about my work. That's the end of my presentation. Thank you.