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Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon
5-6 December 2020
Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon
A wiki-event is planned on 5 and 6 December 2020
Begins5 December 2020 (2020-12-05)
Ends6 December 2020 (2020-12-06)
Location(s)Online

Greetings for the ongoing festivities/festive seasons. Festive season 2020 edit-a-thon is the second edit-a-thon under the mini edit-a-thon series. This edit-a-thon is followed by Mahatma Gandhi 2020 edit-a-thon. This event is to be conducted on 5 and 6 December 2020. The festive season has already begun and this edit-a-thon is going to happen to celebrate all the Indian festivals.

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Objectives

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  • To celebrate the festivals of India and aligning it with Wikimedia by improving the content about Indian festivals.

Rules

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Time

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  • Dates: 5 December to 6 December 2020
  • Time: 5 December 2020 00:01 hours and 6 December 2020 23:59 hours.

Mode

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This is an online event only. No on-ground activity/event is planned during this edit-a-thon.

Scope

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For participating in this edit-a-thon, you can choose/edit any Wikimedia project such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikiquote etc and make some improvement, just like Mahatma Gandhi edit-a-thon. These are some contribution you can make:

  • Create a Wikipedia article on Indian festivities you can access the list of some articles below. You may also use recommend.wmflabs.org for an article idea.
  • If the article already exists then you can expand a Wikipedia article (or you can copyedit, add reliable references, fix typos, add relevant images etc.)
  • Create Wikidata items or improve Wikidata items related to any Indian festivities.
  • Upload or improve images on Wikimedia Commons. Please see photos in gallery Festivals of India (please also see numerous subcategories). Other than uploading images, you may improve image details such as improving description, writing image descriptions in your native languages, adding/improving structured data etc. Also, you can add photos to Wikipedia articles, which do not have enough photos, from Wikimedia commons.
  • You can work on Wikisource as well if you have any book on book/article which you have on Wikisource. Proofread any page related to a specific festival or related to festivals.
  • Add or improve quotes on Wikiquotes.
  • This edit-a-thon is not limited to any specific Wikimedia project. You can select any Wikimedia project (like; Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikisource etc.) of your interest to contribute about Indian Festivities.

Note: All edits must follow a project's and the community's policies and guidelines. Please consider making a high-quality contribution. You can work on more than one project.

Participation

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  • Please add your username below. Please also include the project names you worked on. You may add the project names after completion of your work also.

Prizes

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This is not a competition just like previous mini edit-a-thon, but more like a celebration. We do not have any target of NN number of articles to be created or expanded, or BB bytes to be added. The idea is to make some contribution.

List of articles

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Note: There is the list of some festivals which are celebrated in India. Feel free to expand the list or can add more festival names if you have any.

Participants

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Special note: Please write your username below. Please mention only those projects with language name where you will work on during the edit-a-thon. We'll check your contribution on the mentioned projects only. You may change the projects during/after the edit-a-thon.

For example;
  1. Rajeeb (talk), Structure data on Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata
  2. Sangram Keshari Senapati, Odia Wikipedia/Wikisource, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons
  3. Raju Jangid (talk) 09:38, 24 November 2020 (UTC), Hindi Wikipedia/Wikidatareply
  4. Gazal world (talk) 09:39, 24 November 2020 (UTC), Gujarati Wikipediareply
  5. Jagseer S Sidhu (talk) 10:18, 24 November 2020 (UTC) Punjabi Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata, Commonsreply
  6. ❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉, Wikidata, Malayalam Wikipedia
  7. Ritu ramneek (talk) 11:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC) punjabi Wikipedia, wikisourcereply
  8. Gill jassu (talk) 14:02, 24 November 2020 (UTC) punjabi wikipedia,wikisourcereply
  9. Dugal harpreet (talk) 06:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC) Punjabi Wikipedia,Punjabi Wikisourcereply
  10. Atudu (talk) 15:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC) Wikidatareply
  11. Vijay Barot, Gujarati wikipedia; wikimedia commons
  12. Brihaspati (talk) 12:09, 27 November 2020 (UTC), Gujarati Wikipediareply
  13. Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 15:36, 27 November 2020 (UTC), Punjabi Wikipediareply
  14. Simranjeet Sidhu (talk) 15:48, 27 November 2020 (UTC) , Punjabi Wikipediareply
  15. Kiran Gopi (talk) 18:32, 27 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  16. Nayan j Nath (talk) 18:59, 27 November 2020 (UTC), Assamese Wikipedia.reply
  17. Meenakshi nandhini (talk) 19:11, 27 November 2020 (UTC) Malayalam Wikipediareply
  18. অজয় দাস (talk) 00:58, 28 November 2020 (UTC), Assamese Wikipediareply
  19. Ranjithsiji (talk) 02:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  20. Sushant savla (talk) 05:10, 28 November 2020 (UTC), Gujarati Wikipedia, Commons, Gujarati Wikisourcereply
  21. Kuldhar Rabha (talk) 05:27, 28 November 2020 (UTC) Assamese Wikipediareply
  22. --Rajasekhar1961 (talk) 06:01, 28 November 2020 (UTC) English and Telugu Wikisource, Telugu Wikipedia, Commonsreply
  23. --Rajdeep ghuman (talk) 15:48, 28 November 2020 (UTC) Punjabi wikipedia, wikisource, wikidatareply
  24. -- দিব্য দত্ত (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2020 (UTC) Assamese Wikipediareply
  25. --ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা (talk) 16:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC) Assamese Wikipediareply
  26. -- R Ashwani Banjan Murmu (talk) 04:27, 29 November 2020 (UTC) Santali Wikipedia. Odia Wikipediareply
  27. Sreenandhini (talk) 04:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC) Wikidata, Malayalam Wikipediareply
  28. Sridhar G (talk) Tamil Wikipedia, Commons,wikiquotes 14:50, 29 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  29. Bijendra Hansda Purudhul (talk) 15:12, 29 November 2020 (UTC) Santali Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commonsreply
  30. Mahalingam--TNSE Mahalingam VNR (talk) 15:35, 29 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  31. Rorki amandeep sandhu (talk) 08:19, 30 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  32. JyotiPN (talk) 08:41, 30 November 2020 (UTC)JyotiPN Assamese Wikipediareply
  33. টিটো দত্ত (কথা) 08:51, 30 November 2020 (UTC), Wikimedia Commons, contribution tracked at c:Category:Bengali pronunciation uploaded during Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thonreply
  34. Bhuvana Meenakshi (talk) 10:19, 30 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  35. K.Venkataramana (talk) 14:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC) Telugu wikipediareply
  36. Ramesam54 (talk) Ramesam54 (talk) 16:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC) Telugu Wikisourcereply
  37. Babulbaishya (talk) 18:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) Assamese Wikipedia, Wikidatareply
  38. -J. Ansari Talk 18:45, 30 November 2020 (UTC)reply
  39. Kasyap (talk) 06:25, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Telugu Wikipediareply
  40. GGK1960 (talk)--GGK1960 (talk) 06:58, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Telugu wikisourcereply
  41. Tnse anita cbe (talk) Tamil Wikisource,wikipedia, wikimedia Commons 10:23, 01, December 2020 (UTC)
  42. Maina Tudu (talk) 14:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Santali Wikipediareply
  43. --Chandan Chiring Phukon Let's chat 12:03, 2 December 2020 (UTC) Assamese wikipedia and Wikimedia Commonsreply
  44. #𝕾𝖆𝖋𝖚𝖆𝖓(𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖐) 12:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  45. Hasan (talk) 12:30, 2 December 2020 (UTC) Urdu Wikipediareply
  46. Soumendrak (talk) 15:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC) Odia Wikipediareply
  47. Kazi Mizanur Rahaman (talk) 21:20, 2nd December 2020 (UTC) Bengali Wikipedia/Wikisource
  48. आर्या जोशी (talk) 05:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)Marathi Wikipediareply
  49. Faismeen (talk) 06:19, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Urdu Wikipediareply
  50. Pranayraj Vangari (talk) |Contribs) 08:53, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Telugu Wikipediareply
  51. Nilesh shukla (talk) 13:14, 3 December 2020 (UTC), Hindi Wikipediareply
  52. উন্মীলন মেধি (talk) 15:29, 3 December 2020 (UTC), Assamese Wikipediareply
  53. Salil Kumar Mukherjee (talk) 16:49, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Bengali Wikisource/Wikipediareply
  54. KartikMistry (talk) 17:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Gujarati Wikipedia, Wikidatareply
  55. Aliva Sahoo (talk) 08:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  56. Satdeep Gill (talk) 09:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  57. Hindust@niक्या करें? बातें! 09:13, 4 December 2020 (UTC), Hindi Wikipediareply
  58. SlowPhoton (talk) 11:18, 4 December 2020 (UTC), Assamese Wikipediareply
  59. User:Balu1967--Balu1967 (talk) 11:37, 4 December 2020 (UTC) Tamil Wikipediareply
  60. Mulkh Singh (talk) 11:43, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  61. JogiAsad (talk) 12:19, 4 December 2020 (UTC) Sindhi/Urdu Wikipediareply
  62.  Innocentbunny    TALK  12:03, 4 December 2020 (UTC), Hindi Wikipediareply
  63. कन्हाई प्रसाद चौरसिया (talk) 12:47, 4 December 2020 (UTC) , Hindi Wikisource/Hindi Wikipedia जोनबील मेलाreply
  64. অনামিকা(চুমু) বড়া (talk) 18:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  65. ज्ञानदा गद्रे-फडके (talk) 03:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Marathi Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidatareply
  66. Gujarati and English Wikipedia VikramVajir (talk) 03:22, 5 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  67. Joy sagar Murmu (talk) 04:00, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Santali Wikipediareply
  68. MT731 (talk) 04:47, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Santali Wikipediareply
  69. Jagmit Singh (talk) 07:09, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Punjabi Wikipedia/Wikidatareply
  70. ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਦੀ (talk) 07:15, 5 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  71. Nitesh Gill (talk) 07:18, 5 December 2020 (UTC) - Punjabi Wikipedia ਪੋਂਗਲ (ਤਿਉਹਾਰ) ਰਾਸ-ਲੀਲਾreply
  72. --Hellohappy (talk) 07:33, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Odia, English and Hindi Wikipedia, Wikidatareply
  73. Kalpgna (talk) 11:06, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Gujarati Wikipediareply
  74. KSK TRY (talk) 14:25, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Tamilwikisourcereply
  75. Girijaanand (talk) 14:24, 5 December 2020 (UTC) tamil wikisourcereply
  76. Golam Mukit ☆ (Talk) 01:21, 6 December 2020 (UTC)- Bengali Wikipediareply
  77. বিশ্বজিৎ বৈশ্য (talk) 11:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC) Assamese Wi#reply
  78. pranamikaadhikary(Talk)19:35,6 December 2020 (UTC) Assamese wikipedia
  79. Gaurav Jhammat on Punjabi Wikipedia Gaurav Jhammat (talk) 14:35, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
  80. Alokjain19883105 (talk) 14:45, 6 December 2020 (UTC) Wikimedia Commonsreply
  • Sanskrit Wikipedians have participated in this edit-a-thon. click here for more details and participant's list.

Report

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A picture clicked by User:आर्या जोशी

During this 2-day-long edit-a-thon, we saw contributions from 13 Indian language communities— Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Santali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu (and English). In this event total 98 Wikimedians signed up to create or improve content regarding festivals on different Wikimedia projects. Out of 98 users, 76 editors participated.

Most of the participants created content on Wikipedia and around 230 articles were created. 13 editors from the Assamese community participated and created 59 new articles. The Sanskrit community performed well. They (User: Sayant Mahato and User: Soorya Hebbar) created a local page on Sanskrit Wikipedia for this event and 17 participants created 18 articles in Sanskrit. On Tamil Wikipedia, 4 editors created 21 new articles, only User: Balu1967 created 12 articles. User: Maina Tudu from the Santali community, created 10 articles. On Malayalam Wikipedia, User: Meenakshi Nandini created 13 pages. User:आर्या जोशी created 5 new articles on Marathi Wikipedia. User: Simranjeet Sidhu from Punjabi community, created 14 articles. Gujurati Wikipedian User: Vijay Barot created 11 new articles. User: Salil Kumar Mukherjee created a total of 5 articles on Bengali Wikipedia. User: Hellohappy created 3 articles, one on Odia, Hindi, English Wikipedia, respectively.
On Wikisource, we saw less participation for this time. A few users made edits on it and created some pages or proofread the pages of those books which are related to festivities, directly or indirectly. User: Rajdeep Ghuman pages proofread on Punjabi Wikisource. On Telugu Wikisource, User: GGK1960 created a few pages, around 27 pages. On Wikidata, the edits were mostly related to labels and descriptions improvement. User: Atudu, User: GnOeee, User:Marajozkee contributed to Wikidata during this event.

The editors contributed to Wikimedia Commons well. Editors uploaded files on Commons, beside of it, structure data also added on Wikimedia Commons. User: Alokjain19883105 uploaded 44 pictures or files on Commons. Tamil community User: Sridhar G uploaded 5 files. From Marathi community User:आर्या जोशी uploaded 17 photos and User:ज्ञानदा गद्रे-फडके uploaded 3 files of festivals.

Also, on two more projects volunteers took part. One is Wikiquotes and the other one is LinguaLibre (through it files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons). User: Sridhar G created a page on Wikiquotes about an Indian festival, Diwali. User: Titodutta recorded 442 words on LiguaLibre related to Indian festivities and uploaded on Commons.

Contact

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For any query related to the event please contact Nitesh (CIS-A2K).


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