 Hi everyone, I'm Sandra Acheng from Coa Organising Team and I want to thank everyone who joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. It's likely the most, biggest and the most inclusive Wikimania in history and it wouldn't have been possible with the time of dozens of volunteers around the world and thousands of participants who have been joining different sessions. Thank you everyone and see you next year for Wikimania 2023. Stay tuned for its announcement soon. Hello everyone, my name is Anton Mtawangu and I am a member of the Wikimania Committee of the Wikimania Forum. I would like to thank all of you who have joined the Wikimania Festival Edition this year. Thank you for your history, I want to thank you for being here with me and I want to thank you for supporting us. Thank you very much for being here with me and I want to thank you for your help and for your support. Parer tez yas nanor garabbed yannim, wikimania yargoha zar kisani yargoki sioti an tam. Ahlam bi kum, anan nanor min farid tanzim al asasi fi wikimania 2022. Awad du an ashkora kullaman an dhamma ila mihrajani wikimania. Qadi akun wikimania had al ham, wal akbar, wal ashmal fi tariqi haraqatina. Wama kana lihaza an yata haqqa, lewla tafani hasharatin to towahin, wal alafin an mushadikin. Nalqa kum fi wikimania 2023. Taraqabu i alana ho baada kalil. 大家好,我係黎智維基媒體國際會議核心組織團隊的Vinus. 我想喺度再次感謝各位參加今年嘅維基媒體國際會議節日慶典. 冇你哋嘅參與,我哋今次嘅會議一定會失色不少, 所以我哋好感謝你哋嚟到呢個會議同我哋分享你哋嘅維基媒體嘅經歷. 我哋好希望喺下一年嘅 wikimania 2023 會見到你,多謝各位. 多謝各位,多謝各位,多謝各位. Hello everyone, I am Anton from the Central Organization of the Team, and I would like to thank everyone who made it to the festival wikimania 2022. This may be the biggest and the most inclusive wikimania in history, and it was not possible without dozens of volunteers and volunteers and thousands of participants. Thank you, I hope to see you at the wikimania 2023 and to listen to the news for her announcement. Hello everyone, I am Hossein from Turkey and I am part of the committee of the wikimania 2022 organization. I would like to thank everyone who joined the wikimania festival. This may be the biggest and the most inclusive wikimania edition in history, and it was not possible without dozens of volunteers and thousands of participants. I thank you and see you at the next wikimania edition in 2023, which will be announced in a few moments. The fun thing about writing articles in wikipedia is whenever I get a feeling whenever I finish an article because you know you have done something good, you have changed the world for the better, you fixed something that was broken, and that's our purpose on earth. That's why it got created us, to change the world for the better. And things are wrong in the world because that's our job to make them better. That's the whole point of being alive. That's on the big scale. There are many people who I interact with online and I don't get to see them very often and it's a chance to meet those people and meet new people from all over the world. People are linked to the future of the web. Welcome to Mexico City. Welcome to Mexico City. Back in 2012, ECL was formed as a hub or a group of affiliates from the East-South-East Asia Pacific region. And over the years we continued, we developed and grew and have gone from there in 2018. We held our first regional conference and that was in Bali. In 2019 when submissions were called or bids were called for a choice of locations within the region, Perth and Bali submitted. And then those were considered and after discussions with the steering committee we decided that ECAT as a whole, the region, the hub would be the host of Wikimania and then we thought well we also need to reconsider the options for where we would go and we came up with the decision of hosting it in Bangkok. From there we worked on setting up Wikimania in person event which we all enjoy. Unfortunately as everyone knows it started to get a little bit difficult to make plans and create events like that. And in March 2020 we had to also cancel Wikimania for that year. In 2021 Wikimania went online and that was a really successful event and that's been followed up by Wikimania 2022 which also is proving to be really successful and I'd like personally to thank the organisers for their efforts. Again we looked at the steering committee started looking at 2023 and they went back to Bangkok and the Thai community and ECAT to find out whether we wanted to host it and where we wanted to host it wasn't going to be Bangkok. Now we decided firstly that we wanted to host at ECAT as a group. Bangkok and Wikimedia Thailand decided that things aren't exactly right where we are and that we'd like the ECAT community to consider every option that's available to them. So we took that approach. We worked and had meetings and discussions with the community. The WMF did a risk assessment for us which looked at nine countries within the region. From that information we narrowed it down to two countries and that was all documented on the Manawiki. I almost slipped up then and told you and sold Butcher's Thunder by telling you where Wikimania is going to be. Anyway we would like to thank the Wikimania core organising team of 2022. They've done a wonderful job. We'd like to thank and acknowledge the core organising team from 2020 and the Wikimedia Thailand for their efforts and for graciously allowing us to reconsider and look at the whole of the region. So at that point I'd like to, well I look forward to Occaminoal to Wikimania in 2023 and if I've filled enough time and got everything right it's now 4pm and Butch should be ready to take over the discussion. So hopefully Butch will be there. Hello there. I'm very happy that we're meeting again in person for Wikimania 2023. It's been a while. Three years. Is it three years? Yeah, three years. It's been a while. But I'm happy that we're meeting in a tropical country now 9,631 kilometers southeast of Stockholm and we welcome you to the wonderful city of Singapore. And we're proud at Isiap that we're hosting it in a country that is close to our hearts, central to most of our countries and the city of Singapore welcomes you to Wikimania 2023. I'm here with Robert and Jacqueline who will tell us about Singapore. Over to you Robert. Thank you Butch for introducing me. I'm Robert editing under the username Robert Ski, primarily on the English Wikipedia. We welcome you to Singapore and we are happy to host Wikimania 2023. We are a very diverse bunch of people here. We have four different major races, the Chinese, Indian, Malay and what we classify as others. But under others we have many many subsets of people who comes from the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and all over the region to come here to live and work. We are a regional travel hub for the region here. Travelling to Malaysia is just under an hour. Going down to the south we have Indonesia and to the east we have Philippines. Beyond that you can easily transit through air travels travelling to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. All within under the span of eight hours each. Singapore is a tropical country, tropical country. We are just one degree or so north of the equator, or whether it's hot or wet, hot and wet throughout the year. So you can come in t-shirts and shorts. If you want to be a bit more formal, polo tee and jeans, you'll be fine. In Singapore we have a very passionate bunch of Wikimanias editing. In the free time, in the spare time, on the various Wikipedia's. We are just getting started here. Our journey will continue to unfold with many exciting adventures planned ahead of us. With that, we welcome you to Singapore for Wikimanias 2023. Hi everyone, I'm Jacqueline and we can't wait to welcome you to Wikimanias 2023 in Singapore. There are so many things to love about Singapore, from the arts and heritage scene, to we have also a very extensive university network. And if you are a technology enthusiast, you can definitely find a space here. And finally the food. We can't wait for you to try them. So see you then. Hi, my name is Antikun from Thailand. It was so unfortunate that Wikimanias did not take place in Bangkok in 2020. Obviously because of COVID-19. So instead, we are going to take you fourteen hundred kilometers south of Bangkok to Singapore. It's going to be the hottest Wikimanias we ever had, because Singapore is right above the equator. And of course, we, the ECAP, will work together as a team to deliver the first coalition Wikimanias, hosted by several regional affiliates. I'm sure it's going to be incredible and exciting for everybody involved. So please make a room in your calendar and we look forward to welcoming you. Thank you. Hi. Robert. Hi. Yeah. So Singapore is an excellent location to host Wikimanias with strong connectivity within the country and among the ECAP region. For those who are into photography, you'll be pleased that there is freedom of paranormal here. If you are here, if you are into wildlife despite being a small city state with high level of urbanization, there are an estimated number of 23,000 to 20,000 species of territorial organisms. Do take plenty of photos or videos when you are here. The 2023 conference will focus centre on diversity, camaraderie and collaboration. Wikimanias 2023 will focus more on active engagement of participants as we return to in-person gatherings. We hope to see you here in Singapore in 2023. Rahmat. Thank you. Hello there. My name is Rahmat. I'm here presenting Wikimedia Indonesia to completely Singapore for being the host of Wikimanias 2023. And we welcome you all in Singapore. Singapore is a perfect and convenient place for us to meet for the grand event of Wikimanias around the world. And I am positive that you are getting ready to be there and meet your fellow Wikimanias contributors. Hopefully you have enjoyed this Wikimanias and learned new ways to get more involved in building the free knowledge ecosystem on Wikimanias projects. So thank you and I wish you all good health. Okay. Thank you. I think Nangara had to give his message earlier. So thank you Nangara, Jacqueline, Athikon, Robert and Rahmat for your messages. Thank you 2022 core organizing team and Wikimedia foundation. We call upon the Wikimanias of the world to assemble and to celebrate with us the 18th edition of Wikimanias. See you in Singapore. Enjoy the rest of the Sunday sessions of the conference. Bye bye.