Why Relationships Matter in Community Building...
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Wikimedia Philippines secures 80,000 dollars to run the Philippine cultural heritage mapping project, funds three wiki expeditions and trains 20–30 participants (mostly non‑Wikipedians). The project uploads 5,200 images and improves or creates 710 articles. Relationships drive recruitment, protect new editors from hostile deletion, and produce sustained activity (one participant earns a Wikimedia scholarship and 1,000+ edits in 12 months), showing the effort builds community as well as content.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Cultural heritage mapping origins
- 3:35Project launch and community
- 6:26Why relationships matter
- 7:52Relevance through relationships
- 10:18Protecting new users
- 13:33Keeping members engaged
- 15:41Collaborative Wikipedia building
- 17:29Future and next steps
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