Wikipedia Asian Month 2022
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"2022 Focus Themes: Shinto shrine, Islam in Asia, Natural in Central Asia, Austronesian languages, Hindi cinema."
What is Wikipedia Asian Month?
Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is an annual Wikipedia contest focused on the promotion of Asian content on various language-specific Wikipedias. Each participating community runs a month-long online edit-a-thon every November on their language's Wikipedia to create new content or improve existing articles about Asian topics apart from their own country.
The first iteration of this competition began in 2015 and each year the number of articles has increased and the participants have diversified and expanded. Wikipedia Asian Month has achieved much over 6 years: over 37,500 high-quality articles have been added in more than 63 language-specific Wikipedias by more than 2,900 Wikipedia editors. After 6 years of experience, the WAM 2022 is comming to its new version, and continue call for Wikipedia contribution on Asian related content.
More contest information for this year comming soon!
Call to Action!
There are millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia, but Asian topics are largely underrepresented on the internet as well as on Wikipedia despite being the largest and most populous continent. Without being presented on the internet, Asia's rich culture and history are hard to be learned and known by the rest of the world. Meanwhile, most Asian languages Wikipedia projects and communities are relatively smaller compared to its large population base. There are 9 Wikipedia projects that have more than 5,000 active users, yet only 2 of them are Asian languages. Among 39 Wikimedia Chapters, only 7 of them are from Asia.
Wikipedia Asian Month wishes to narrow these gaps. Supporting is essential for these communities to take more approaches to grow. Wikipedia Asian Month devotes itself to this supporter position for demands of community development. For many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects / communities, Wikipedia Asian Month is their only online event. By participating in the Asian Month, you are empowering the WAM team and make all these supporters possible and available to these communities.
Unlike some other Wikipedia events, Wikipedia Asian Month isn't paying most of its attention to outreach to new users, or highlight extraordinary active editor. Instead, we give most of our effort to praise the core forces of the Wikipedian communities, who has constantly contributed to Wikipedia for a long period of time by writing serval new articles every year, or by making a couple hundred edits once a while.
How to Participate in the Contest?
Introduction
- Date and Time: A continues 30 days within November 1st, UTC 00:00 to December 31th, UTC 00:00, 2022. (Find your local campaign for actual date)
- Tools: Wikipedia Asian Month 2022 Programs & Events Dashboard.
- Rules: Rules for the contest part are published. Some subcontests might have their own rules, nominations, deadlines etc.
- Prize: Coming soon!
- Userbox:
{{User Asian Month|2022}}
As an Editor
- Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit, if they are participating.
- Choose articles about themes and topics related to Asia, but not from your native country, and start creating articles.
- Sign up any time through the month of competition.
As an Organizer
- When local Wikipedia communities participate in Wikipedia Asian Month, they need someone to be an organiser.
- Set up an event page and run the contest on a local level within your language community.
- Organize online and offline events, and keep track of participants' progress though the Program & Dashboard.
- If you have expertise or skills in public relations, then you can help us get media coverage.
Communities and Organizers
Wikipedia Asian Month's project is a one-month contest, and participation is not limited to Asian communities. At least 54 participating local communities will runs this online Edit-a-thon, and some subcontests are held with our partner:
- Arabic Wikipedia (dashboard) Avicenno عرين أسد أبو رمان
- Bashkir Wikipedia (Fountain) – ZUFAr
- Belarusian Classical Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – W
- Bengali Wikipedia (Fountain) – Aishik Rehman
- Bikol Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Filipinayzd
- Bulgarian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Алиса Селезньова
- Bosnian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – AnToni, Arnel
- Catalan Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – F3RaN
- Chinese Wikipedia (Fountain)
(outreachdashboard)– A Chinese user, BlackShadowG, 魔琴, Ghrenghren - Croatian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Fraxinus
- Czech Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Aktron KKDAII
- English Wikipedia (Fountain) (dashboard) – ZI Jony
- Finnish Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Lentokonefani, PtG
- French Wikipedia (Fountain) – Daxipedia, Pierre André
- German Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) - Sebastian Wallroth
- Greek Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) - (Wikimedia Community User Group Greece - MARKELLOS)
- Hebrew Wikipedia (Fountain) – Euro know
- Hungarian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Xia
- Italian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) Camelia
- Japanese Wikipedia (Fountain) – Los viajeros 77
- Korean Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) - Jjw, Twotwo2019, Softwave206, 이강철
- Latvian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Egilus, Papuass
- Malay Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – PeaceSeekers
- Malayalam Wikipedia (Fountain) – Meenakshi nandhini, Ranjithsiji
- Marathi Wikipedia (Fountain) – Sandesh9822, Tiven2240, संतोष गोरे
- Nepali Wikipedia (Fountain) (outreachdashboard) – Saroj Uprety
- Odia Wikipedia (Fountain) – ssgapu22
- Romanian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – NGC 54
- Russian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ле Лой
- Sanskrit Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Suyash.dwivedi
- Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) - Vipz
- Sindhi Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) & (Fountain)– JogiAsad, مومن_خان_ڏاهري, مھتاب_احمد_سنڌي
- Slovak Wikipedia (Fountain)
- Spanish Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Rodelar
- Swedish wikipedia (outreachdashboard, Fountain tool) – Bairuilong, Deryni
- Tagalog Wikipedia (outreachdashboard) – Jojit Ballesteros
- Tatar Wikipedia (International in outreachdashboard, Local in Fountain: Qualifying-New, Qualifying-Improved, manual assessment criteria, total points calculation table) – frhdkazan
- Thai Wikipedia (Fountain) – B20180,
Horus - Turkish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Kurmanbek
- Swedish Wikipedia - Weekly competition about Asia
- About: New articles about Asia but also about anything that makes articles about Asia better
- Time: 7 November to 14 November 2022
- Contact: Nalle&Lisa
- Reward: Diplomas
- Italian Wikipedia - (WikiDonne) Wikipedia Asian Month 2022
- About: New articles about Asia/Asian women
- Time: 1 November to 30 November 2022
- Contact: Camelia
- Reward: Postcards/E-Certificates
- [Your Language] Wikipedia - Event Link
- About:
- Time:
- Contact:
- Reward:
Don't find your home Wikipedia? Sign up below to be the local organizer! Create a WAM page and link it here: