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A 26-year old who goes by the pseudonym Nohirara, which means falling in love in Central Sulawesis local language, remembers clearly how he was introduced to Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia. Choosing only to use his Wikipedia username and not his given name, Nohirara, who works for a digital comic publisher, takes The Jakarta Post back to his high school days, six years ago. His history teacher had asked the class to write a paper about Indonesias rule under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) during the colonial era. He knew that there were books in the school library that would help his research, but limited in quantity, all those books had been rented out. Seeing Nohirara uneasy about the situation, a friend told him about this site containing nearly everything called Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia, the Indonesian version of Wikipedia.

I copy-pasted the whole page and submitted it. My teacher didnt know [I was cheating], so I got a good grade, he laughed.

The next day, driven by curiosity, he returned to Wikipedia and found that anyone could edit the pages. From that day on, Nohirara spent his recess on the librarys computer, editing Wikipedia pages. Today, he is one of the websites administrators and manages Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesias Twitter account. An administrator can delete or protect (ensuring no malicious edits are made) articles and ban problematic accounts.

One of the most popular websites in existence (it was ranked the fifth-most visited website globally as of January 2021 with 6.1 billion monthly visitors), Wikipedia is powered by a community that shares a passion for information; it has served as a lot of people as the first stop for general information since its launch in 2001. Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia launched in 2003.

Benny Lin (also using his Wikipedia username), a then-17-year-old Indonesian living in the United States (he is now 36), was one of the first Wikipediawan a term Indonesians use for local Wikipedia editors. He remains an active editor.

Wikipedia [Bahasa Indonesia] challenged me to be able to write and edit in formal Indonesian. As an Indonesian living abroad, it made me realize I was not that good at writing in my mother tongue, said Benny. In his early contributions, Benny wrote about musical instruments, history and anything he could translate often until ten at night using the computer at the universitys library.

Majoring in Computer Science, Benny helped develop the early stages of Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesias user interface, such as the categorizations feature or the formatting template. Thanks to his work, a then-third grader, Ramzy from Pekanbaru, was able to navigate his way on the website quickly, sometime in 2007.

It was all about soccer articles in the beginning. Slowly but surely, I (worked on) history, politics, law, film and pop culture, said Ramzy Muliawan, now a 22-year-old law student at Andalas University in West Sumatra. In 2013, he was nominated as an administrator.

#BoikotWikipedia campaign

In 2020, a viral #BoikotWikipedia (boycott Wikipedia) hashtag made the editors fear for their safety.

In June 2020, a group of unidentified people on the internet began the campaign, utilizing threatening language, because they were not happy with the way Wikipedia wrote about the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the massacre of 1965. They think we were presenting inaccurate information, because it did not match the official history narrative of the government, said Ramzy. The weird thing is, it was only Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia they were campaigning to boycott, not Wikipedia English, where they could clearly see that the story [there] is more antigovernment than ours.

Rian hopes more experts will write and edit for Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia to improve the quality of its articles. (JP/Courtesy of Hari Suharto)

The impact was huge for the local Wikipedia community. Many of my friends werepersecuted online, said Nohirara. Those people even tried to find personal information about the contributors involved in the article and sent threats.

Thank God, there was no real violence. After that, we learned to separate our online presence from our real identity, said Benny. Ramzy even changed his username.

Despite the turmoil, Hari Rian Suharto still uses his real name on the site. As a veterinarian working at the Ministry of Agriculture in South Sulawesi, the 32-year-old has a mission in mind. One problem I want to solve regarding Wikipedia (Bahasa Indonesia) is its lack of expert contributors. I use my real name and write about something Ive deeply learned about to inspire other experts to do the same.

Rian, who just got promoted as an administrator a month ago, was the first to create the Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia page about COVID-19 last year.

Wikipedia and women

Rahmi has been working at Wikimedia Indonesia since 2018, a host institution that is officially part of Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia. The 25-years-old woman works day-to-day as an educational program coordinator.

Wikimedia often holds writing and editing training courses, we need more people, because contributors are the backbone of Wikipedia, said Rahmi. It is a challenge, because contributors, both administrators and supervisors, are nonpaid positions.

Another big challenge for Rahmi, Benny and everyone in the Wikipedia community is how to get more women involved.

Ramzy presents at the WikiPelatih (WikiTrainer) workshop in Jakarta in 2009. (JP/Courtesy of Ramzy Muliawan)

A woman finally joined us [as an administrator] last year, Benny said, after nearly 16 years of all-male administrators. Benny shares part of the blame on history.

At Encyclopedia Britannica, the editors are hundred percent men. (History tells) us that writing and editing is a men-only type of job, but now we are trying our best to [close] the gap. The problem also occurs globally. According to a 2018 survey by Wikimedia, only 8 percent of global Wikipedia contributors are women.

One of their efforts is the Wikigap program, which trains women to write about women-related articles. Wikigap has been held four times: in Yogyakarta (2018), Padang (2018), Bandung (2019) and as a webinar format (2021), with 30 to 40 participants in each session.

Wikimedia also has an Indonesia-exclusive monitoring program called Wikisedaya to supervise the women theyve trained.

Benny tries to do his part by sharing Wikipedia articles that anyone can relate to. I try to attract more women readers in the hope that it will encourage them to edit on the site, Benny said.

As of March 18th, 2021, Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia has 1.2 million users, 2,093 active users, 38 administrators and 564.044 articles.

Not surprisingly, Many people write about themselves in Wikipedia, even though most of them are not qualified for an article; bureaucrats and businesspeople even often order articles about themselves, said Ramzy, when asked about some memorable moments taking care of the site. He mentioned that you have to be in three credible sources book, journal, media to have your own Wikipedia page.

He laughs, recalling one particularly heated exchange among editors. We had a good debate in 2014 to decide whether or not we should make an article for each member of girl band JKT48.

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Wikipedia is one of the most highly trafficked sites in the world and one of the top websites for finding information online. It really is the online encyclopedia for almost everyone. Its free and funded by donations, but Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs this site, wants to change that.

According to Wired, the Wikimedia Foundation wants to raise additional money by charging tech companies for publishing their content. To accomplish this financial gain, Wikimedia Foundation would spin-off Wikimedia Enterprise to create a new division under the Wikimedia brand.

Wikimedia Enterprise would offer a commercial product that would customize Wikimedias content for paying customers like Apple. For example, Wikipedia could work hand in hand with Siri, Apples digital assistant.

When a user asks Siri a question, the Wikipedia service would then mine their archives and pull out the appropriate answer for the user.

Wikimedia currently operates with a $100 million budget that is funded primarily by donations from its users. This move to charge for its services has been a long time coming.

As far back as 2018, the company has expressed displeasure that big tech companies were benefiting from Wikipedia and not contributing any money to keep it afloat.

Wikimedia doesnt plan on changing its service for users. It will still be free for people to read and will rely on volunteers to curate its content. Wikimedia allegedly already is talking to big tech companies about this monetization plan.

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Wikipedia is funded largely by donations from its users and has been free to everyone since its launch in 2001. But WikiMedia Foundation, which administers the online encyclopedia, announced via an article in Wired that it is launching a paid API service for large-scale for-profit users.

Big tech companies like Google, Apple and Amazon have been using Wikipedia extensively as a source of information. Responses to queries on Google Search and questions to Amazons Alexa are often sourced from Wikipedia, and are available for free to these companies just like they are to any other user on the internet. Wikimedia is trying to change this with Wikimedia Enterprise, which will launch later in 2021.

Wikimedia Enterprise provides APIs for large scale content reuse, to pull content from Wikipedia more conveniently, efficiently, and securely. Previously, big companies had dedicated teams to clean and organize Wikipedia content. With Enterprise, not only is this service provided to them, but the data will be tailored to each companys requirement and delivered quicker than before, the company told Wired.

Wikimedia Enterprise will use Amazon Web Services to store data and provide services, unlike its free version which hosts content on its own servers. This is to provide better service to customers, Wikimedia said.

Although the new revenue source will be substantial, it will not be a significant contributor to the foundations $100 million budget, Wikimedia claimed. Responding to concerns that this could make Wikimedia over-reliant on corporate partners and shift the foundation from its core mission of providing free information, the foundation countered that Wikimedia Enterprise would provide the foundation with funds to provide better services in emerging markets in Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia.

By 2030, one of the things that we want is to achieve something called knowledge equity, which really means we want to grow in emerging markets really significantly over the next ten years. That requires additional resources, increased investment, and we are hopeful that Enterprise can help get us the resources to grow around the world. Seitz-Gruwell, the chief advancement officer at the Wikimedia Foundation

While the free version of Wikipedia is still available to everyone, including commercial users, conversations between Wikimedia and big tech companies to attract them to the new service are reportedly already underway.

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Wikimedia foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, said it will launch a paid service for high volume commercial re-users of its content. The service has been designed for companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, commonly referred to as Big Tech.

The foundation said on its page there wont be an exclusive contract or content, and that the product will help provide smaller for-profit organizations to have a more level playing field to benefit from the use of Wikimedias content on their platforms.

The newly designed API is said to be an opt-in product for firms. Wikimedia will package existing publicly-available data from its projects and make commercial companies reuse them on their services. It is a new method of delivering content at a volume and speed designed specifically for major for-profit organisations that are using Wikimedia content commercially.

The foundation clarified that while the enterprise API is selling the service of this new method of access, it does not stop anyone from using the existing free methods of access.

Wikimedia noted that its content is often used by commercial organisations that rely on it to support their business models and earn revenue from it. Each of these large companies independently re-builds Wikimedia project data internally to address their very similar use cases, it added.

This significant investment is not only duplicated effort, but also represents resources spent within each company rather than in support of the free knowledge ecosystem, Wikimedia said.

The foundation wants to eliminate the system where software development needs of some of the worlds largest commercial organisations are met with donor money.

It is still working on determining the costs of the API by exploring factors such as the volume of content reuse to determine the appropriate cost for each customer.

As government around the world are brainstorming ways to build a financially sustainable model while working with Big Tech, Wikimedia believes enterprise API creates a way for those for-profit organisations that have built business models from the use of freely-available Wikimedia content to also invest in the Wikimedia movement in a reliable and ongoing manner.

With Wikimedia Enterprise, the foundation wants to create a new revenue stream and improve the content available to readers. It clarified that the revenue stream is an added source of revenue and the foundation will continue to rely on donors for funding.

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The Singapore star is the Lions' only player who has made the move to Europe and he's determined to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious dad

For Ikhsan Fandi, the journey from unassuming, football-crazed youngster to national sporting icon has been a long and winding one.

Growing up in a family devoted to the sport, however, it always seemed a matter of when, rather than if Ikhsan would take up the mantle of Singapores main goalscorer.

With eight goals in 18 matches for the Singapore national team and 12 strikes in two seasons over in Norway, the 21-year-old is just getting started.

My whole family revolves around football, so I kind of grew up with it! he said in an exclusive interview with Goal.

When I decided to take the step to become a professional footballer, I knew I had to give my 100 per cent and be committed to what I set my mind to. One of my goals has always been to play outside of Singapore.

"That first step is done, but I have a long way to go in terms of my development and where I want to be in the future.

It did come as a surprise then, given how much of his life has been spent obsessing over football, to learn that Ikhsan doesnt actually watch the game.

Thats the funny thing, I just dont watch it, he chuckled. My dad watches sometimes, Arsenal games and big games, but my siblings and I dont really watch football. So I dont support any team, but I do watch players who are in my position. I like [Karim] Benzema, [Robert] Lewandowski, [Edison] Cavani, and when I was younger, I really liked Kaka. If someone asked me who I liked, I would say Kaka.

Having left local football for Norways second tier in 2019, Ikhsan became one of Singapores first footballing exports to Europe in decades, signing for OBOS-Ligaen side Raufoss IL aged just 20.

While Ikhsan had played overseas before, most notably on trial in Chile and Spain, it was his first permanent foray abroad, and a hugely exciting opportunity for the youngster. However, it also brought a different sort of challenge for him in the off-pitch aspect of playing abroad -adapting to a new country, climate and culture without his family.

It wasnt easy, actually, because the first year as a foreigner you have to adapt, he admitted. But I was alright. Food, people, the culture, its all good. The people are very nice, at Raufoss I had really good groups of friends both from inside and outside my team. Food is fine, Western food is what I like.

"The only problem is the weather in the winter. The cold is okay, but the problem is when you play in the cold, when you get stepped on it hurts so, so much! Thats the only thing, but other than that, I kind of like it here.

Mulling over the reasons for the dearth of Singaporean footballers in Europe, Ikhsan mused that a greater sense of independence would go a long way in helping one adapt to a foreign country.

I know a lot of Singaporeans get homesick.Some of them go away even on training tours and they need to call their families every day. I guess they need to be more independent, be able to do things on their own, away from their family, and figure things out by themselves. Understand youre here for a reason, and be mentally strong, he affirmed.

Beginning the 2019 season with Raufoss, it took Ikhsan a while to start getting substantial minutes regularly, but once he did, the goals began to flow. He hit five goals in just three starts in a period between May and June, and with his confidence up, Ikhsans irrepressible star was once again beginning to shine.

I remember going back to Singapore and playing in the Merlion Cup, and I had a good time there. I came back and I was in good form, so my confidence was up and I was feeling good. Its all about confidence as a striker, when you have that you feel like you can score every game, and the best strikers in the world are the ones who are the most consistent throughout the season, he said of his scoring run that season.

Unfortunately, the strikers spell with Raufosssoon began to turnsour.

Having played a part in 28 of Raufoss 32 matches in 2019, Ikhsan went into the 2020 season hoping to get more consistent starts under his belt, and begin clocking the mileage needed to hit his scoring stride. Yetover the first 12 games of the new campaign, he spent no more than 53 minutes on the pitch.

I played almost every game in 2019, but not always starting. You need time to adjust into a new league. The second year I expected to play more, but due to some internal issues, I didnt get much time, he revealed.

There were some differences between my coach and me. There was a new striker as well, and I didnt get much playing time. We had a few problems with the international travel and stuff too.He didnt want me to go, I wanted to go, so a few disagreements, he said of Raufoss manager Christian Johnsen.

With his Raufoss stint starting to go sour, a move was on the cards for the forward.

A number of clubs were quick out the traps when they heard Ikhsan was available, the biggest of which was top-tier side IK Start. Linking up with the two-time Norwegian champions in March 2020, Ikhsan made a huge impression on coaches there,with the manager gushing over his ability and signalling that a permanent deal was close.

However, football once again threw everyone a curve ball.

I was with them in Spain, but it broke down due to corona.They didnt have the budget, and there were some other issues at the club. It was a good experience, a little more professional, and some really good players. It was nice, they had a nice stadium, good facilities, I was really looking forward to it. Its unfortunate, but these things happen. Just have to keep working, he stated.

With the Start move dead in the water, Ikhsan returned to Raufoss for the time being, but was soon on the move once again. This time it was FK Jerv, another second-tier Norwegian side, who offered to sign the player permanently from Raufoss. Having played just 425 minutes over 11 matches for Raufoss in 2020, scoring once, Ikhsan was keen to end his misery at the Nammo Stadion and jumped at the chance to start afresh.

When I moved to Jerv, it was a chance for me to get back to scoring and get back my confidence. They really gave me a chance to do that, he enthused.

At Raufoss I wasnt getting enough service, and theirplaying style was a bit different. But the main reason was playing time. At my age, you need to be playing weekly and getting enough minutes to improve. I couldnt be on the bench all the time, so I needed somewhere else to build up my confidence and develop again, said Ikhsan of his decision to move.

Jerv was the most interested in me, and they said they wanted to use me in the box as a number nine. At Raufoss sometimes I played on the wings, which isnt my preferred position. At Jerv I play as a number nine, and they needed someone who was good in the box, good in the air, so I thought it was a good fit for me to rekindle the flame.

It seemed a match made in heaven. With three starts and four goals in his first five matches for the club, it looked as though Ikhsan was set to explode in the coastal city of Grimstad, where Jerv are based.

Nevertheless, his form soon took a hitand he began struggling for the goals that had come so easily to him in his month at the club.

I started well, I scored four goals in five games, on a good run, and after that I just stopped scoring, for six games or something, he revealed. I really felt demoralised. This happened a few times as well, not scoring for long periods of time, that really gets me down. But you have to figure out a way to get back up again.

And get back up again he did.

Having failed to score in his last eight matches, Ikhsan was introduced in the second half of Jervs final match of the season,inwhat was essentially a relegation playoff with Stjordals-Blink. With both clubs hovering just above the relegation zone, a win for Stjordals-Blink would move them up to 36 points, two above Raufoss, who would then slip into the drop zone. A goal down following Sondre Stokkes 10th-minute strike, Jerv manager Arne Sandstowent for broke, throwing on the 1.83m tall striker in a final roll of the dice.

With Ikhsan having earlier hit the woodwork, the second time Jerv had done so that game, it was beginning to look like one of those days.

Up came the latest cross floated into the box, as the game entered stoppage time. A scuffle between a Jerv forward and one of Stjordals-Blinks centre halves led to both of them missing the ball, as it pinballed off three different players before eventually finding its way to the far post, where the Singapore frontman was poised. One swing of his left boot was all it took.

It was definitely a high point of my career, enthused Ikhsan on the goal which had essentially kept his side in the division.

It was so important, and I was really emotional, because not only was it a crucial game, it also decided if I could go home or not. I wanted to be home for the New Year with my family and friends, and if I didnt score that, Id have to be in Norway for another two or three weeks for the relegation playoffs! It was really emotional; I hadnt been home in a year and I just wanted to get it done.

It's evident how important Ikhsans family is in his life. With his fathers footballing experience and his mothers constant encouragement, hes made it clear that one of his main motivations is to repay them for all the faith theyve put in him.

Theyve been crucial in my career, he admitted. My dad has sacrificed a lot for me, a lot of time and money, and my mum as well giving me moral support, she always calls me and wants the best for me, its unfortunate she hasnt been able to come to Norway to watch me play.

When I feel down, I always think about all the sacrifices theyve made for me,why Im here. To make them proud, to make the Singapore fans proud and to fly our flag high, he continued.

My dad always analyses my games for me. He shows me my movements and stuff. Hes always repeating the same things, but I understand, because the easiest things are the ones you tend to forget.

With the promise of more minutes on the pitch next season compared to the start he had at Raufoss in 2020, Ikhsan is determined to hit the goal he set for himself when he first set foot in Norway - to score 10 goals in a season. With six goals in each of his last two seasons despite not starting regularly, its a target hes confident hell be able to hit this time round.

As far as Fandi brothers go, Ikhsan isnt the only one looking to hit new heights this season. His elder brother Irfan, fresh from becoming the first ever Singaporean to win the Thai League, has an AFC Champions League campaign on the horizon, while younger brother Ilhan is starting to make his name in the Singapore Premier League with the Young Lions.

We always push each other, even now. When Ilhans playing, I give him tips on his games, and Irfan as well, everyones watching him, hes been great for Singapore and our family, were really proud of him. You can see hes been working hard and it motivates me and Ilhan as well to keep going, keep pushing and do big things, said Ikhsan of his centre-back brother, Irfan.

Im really excited for Ilhan too, Ive been watching him and hes doing great, first game already one goal one assist, I think hes going to be really good this season. I keep reminding him to keep working hard and be humble.

Soon, Ikhsan will once again put his Norwegian exploits on hold and return to Asia to represent the national team in the upcoming Asian Qualifiers -the Lions group will be contested in Saudi Arabia. With Singapore sitting third in the group, two points behind Uzbekistan and one behind Saudi Arabia, the possibility is there to mount a serious challenge for Asian Cup qualification, and Ikhsan is brimming with confidence.

Football is crazy, anything can happen. We need to play our best, everyone needs to be ready and fit, ready to fight. If we do what we need to do, well get the results. So far, weve been doing really well, we need to keep it up with the momentum and play our game, he said of the Lions campaign.

I really enjoy playing under (Singapore coach Tatsuma Yoshida). He trusts me a lot to get the job done, and I take it really seriously. I want to repay any coach who trusts me, and his style suits me, playing alongside Faris and Shahdan, I really like it. He gives me confidence, continued Ikhsan.

The striker has managed three goals in five outings in Group D, and is one of many in-form players the Lions will look to take to Riyadh for the games.

At 21, Ikhsans career is only just beginning, but he already has a clear roadmap in his mind of how he wants his journey to go.

I hope I can be playing in a top European league, whether in Norway or elsewhere, he said. I dont have a league or club in mind, but as a striker I just want to score goals. When I look at my Wikipedia, I want it to show every club I played for I scored goals, goals, goals. And for the National Team, I want to score more goals than my dad!

Holding a diploma in sports management, Ikhsan is looking forward to a career in and around football post-retirement, although his reluctance to actually watch the sport is likely to take management out of the picture.

Maybe a sports trainer, but not a coach. I dont watch football, so I cant analyse games and stuff. But to be around the pitch would be nice, to be a specific striker coach or something. Or even doing something in the media, I have no idea!

My message for young, Singaporean footballers is to dream big, start young. You have to love the game, enjoy the game, so start young, think about the future, dream big, and work towards it. Because if you work hard, anything is possible.

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