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The Hablon User Group of Wikimedians in the Philippines or simply Hablon User Group (HUG) is a community of Filipino Wikimedians dedicated to promote free knowledge by improving Wikimedia projects through various activities such as, but not limited to, fora, learning sessions and edit-a-thons. It is based in Manila and Tacloban City in the Philippines.

A user group is defined as a group of individuals who have the same interests and use a particular product or service, thus, we are a group of individuals who promote free knowledge through Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Hablon is a Bisaya word which means either "weaver" or "something woven". Bisaya is the second among the languages in the Philippines that most Filipinos speak. Filipinos, especially indigenous Filipinos, are weavers. As Filipino weavers use fibers and threads to illustrate the culture of the Philippines in their textiles, HUG strives to interlace small bits of information to form knowledge and to make these knowledge accessible to everyone through Wikimedia projects.

Background

The three Wikimedians who spearhead Hablon User Group (HUG) are members of the Wikimedia Philippines (WMPH) when it was still recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter in the Philippines. As members, while the two of them have been part of the Open Web Day project of the Wikimedia Philippines and the Mozilla Philippines and the other one has been coordinating fora and edit-a-thons under an independent Wikimedia community recognized by the Wikimedia Philippines which is the Sinirangan Bisaya Wikimedia Community (SBWC), they collaborated on most of activities of SBWC particularly the 1st and 2nd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.

Despite the derecognition of WMPH in 2017, the three Wikimedians continue to participate and conduct fora, learning sessions and edit-a-thons either with SBWC and or with other similar organizations.

Who we are

To be more effective in promoting free knowledge by reaching out to other organizations and institutions to be partners, the three Wikimedians decided to form the Hablon User Group of Wikimedians in the Philippines or simply the Hablon User Group.

The Hablon User Group is not an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation but is a community of volunteers for the Wikimedia movement.

We are based in Manila and Tacloban in the Philippines.

Objectives

The purpose of Hablon User Group is to promote free knowledge by improving Wikimedia projects through activities and projects in partnership with like-minded individuals, organizations, institutions, the Wikimedia Foundation and other Wikimedia communities.

Specifically, this group aims to:

• Inform the public about the Wikimedia movement and its projects by participating and conducting meet-ups, fora, conferences and other activities;
• Encourage individuals, organizations, educational institutions and government units to contribute to Wikimedia projects by reaching out to them through meet-ups, fora, conferences, learning sessions and other activities;
• Improve Wikimedia projects by adding content and editing existing information by conducting learning sessions, edit-a-thons and other activities;
• Support the Wikimedia Foundation by promoting and participating in its projects, activities and other undertakings;
• Reach out to other Wikimedia communities by supporting, promoting and participating in their projects and activities as well as collaborating with them by exchanging ideas and good practices.

Members

• Jojit fb – Administrator in Tagalog Wikipedia (primary contact person for the group)
• JinJian – Administrator in Waray Wikipedia
• Billie bb – (primary contact person for the group)
• Maxdaquilanea

What we do

The activities in which these Wikimedians participated in, organized and conducted are as follows:

Type of activity	Title of activity	Organizations involved	Year conducted
Fora	2nd Waray Wikimedia Forum	UPVTC , SBWC , WMPH	2014
Fora	3rd and 4th Waray Wikimedia Forum	PHILACI , SBWC	2015
Fora	5th Waray Wikimedia Forum	AGIO , SBWC	2017
Fora	Software Freedom Day Celebration – Philippines	CPU	2017
Learning session	Wikipedia Orientation	CPU	2017
Edit-a-thon	1st Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	MAWF , SBWC, WMPH	2014
Edit-a-thon	2nd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	NPC-Tac , SBWC, WMPH	2015
Edit-a-thon	3rd Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	Catbalogan City government, SBWC	2015
Edit-a-thon	4th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	JCI-Catarman Cocoking , SBWC	2015
Edit-a-thon	5th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	Municipal government of Guiuan, SBWC	2016
Edit-a-thon	6th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	UPVTC, SBWC	2016
Edit-a-thon	7th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	PSHS–EV , SBWC	2017
Edit-a-thon	2nd Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Pangasinan	Pangasinan Wikipedia Community, Pangasinan Provincial Government	2017
Edit-a-thon	8th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	UPVTC, SBWC	2018
Edit-a-thon	9th Waray Wikipedia Edit-a-thon	UPVTC, SBWC	2019
Resource Persons for Edit-a-thon	10th Bikol Wikipedia Anniversary	PhilWiki Community	2017
Resource Persons for Edit-a-thon	Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Documenting Desaparecidos and Red-tagging against activists in the Philippines	UP Internet Freedom Network	2020
Conference participation	ESEAP Conference 2018	Wikimedia Indonesia, WMF	2018
Conference participation	International Conference on Multicultural Education, Linguistics, Counselling, and Social Sciences 2019	Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology	2019
Conference presentation	Contributing Freely to the Sum of all Knowledge	International Conference on Inclusive Education and Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education	2016
Conference presentation	Conducting a successful edit-a-thon	ESEAP Conference 2018	2018
Conference presentation	Improving Wikimedia Projects Content through Collaboration-Waray Wikipedia Experiences 2014 to 2017	ESEAP Conference 2018	2018
Paper presentation	How Philippine-language Editions of Wikipedia Can Assist in Achieving Equality in Indigenous Education	International Conference on Multicultural Education, Linguistics, Counselling, and Social Sciences 2019	2019
Lightning talk	Mozilla Philippines Monthly Meetup, April 2020	Mozilla Philippines	2020
Write-up Publication	Disseminating Information Using an Indigenous Language – the Waray Wikipedia Experience	Aboriginal Education World vol. 91	2020

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Notes

a.^  UPVTC = University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College;

b.^  SBWC = Sinirangan Bisaya Wikimedia Community;

c.^  WMPH = Wikimedia Philippines;

d.^  PHILACI = Philippine Association of Court Interpreters;

e.^  AGIO = Association of Government Information Officers of Eastern Visayas Region;

f.^  CPU = Computer Professionals' Union;

g.^  MAWF = Maharlika Artists and Writers Federation;

h.^  NPC-Tac = National Press Club - Tacloban;

i.^  JCI = Junior Chamber International, Philippines;

j.^ PSHS-EV = Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus;

k.^  PhilWiki Community = Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group;

l.^  Conference reports of HUG representatives can be read here and here

m.^  WMF = Wikimedia Foundation

n.^  Report on conference participation can be read here

o.^  Organized by 170+Talaytayan MLE and endorsed by UNESCO Bangkok

p.^  Organized and sponsored by Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Foundation and held in Bali, Indonesia in 2018

q.^  Organized by and held at the Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology;

r.^  The Aboriginal Education World is a bimonthly periodical of the Center for Aboriginal Languages, Cultures and eDucation, Center for Aboriginal Studies, National Chengchi University in Taipei City in Taiwan

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