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Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022
15 December to 5 January 2023
Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022-2023
Begins15 December 2022 (2022-12-15)
Ends5 January 2023 (2023-01-05)
Location(s)Online & offline


Objective
  • Theme of the improve-a-thon is Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.

Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022 will be a 20-day long edit-a-thon in which anyone can participate from any local/Indian language. The edit-a-thon will be on a specific theme with two lists. The first list will be from A2K and the second list can be created by Wikimedians, they will pick their own stub articles list from their Wiki the decided on them. In this list, it can be, influential - persons, literature, films, music, arts etc.

The Indian communities, affiliates and individuals can participate according to their availability and contribute enthusiastically. The idea of the improve-a-thon is to improve and develop content on the Indic/Indian Wikis.

Time & Date
  • 15 December to 5 January 2023
  • 15 December 2022 00:01 hours and 5 January 2023 23:59 hours

Rules

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Method

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  • This will be an online event. However, any community that wants to conduct an on-ground small event for within these 15 days, can conduct it.
  • If a community is planning to do something, the community needs to create their own local page under the Improve-a-thon.

Note: For conducting the event you can email us at program@cis-india.org or you can request us on our request page in advance.

Scope

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For participating in this edit-a-thon, you can choose/edit any Wikipedia and make some improvements, just like in previous edit-a-thons. These are some contributions you can make:

  • Improve a Wikipedia article about the particular theme from the local Wikipedia stub articles list or any random stub article. (or you can copyedit, add reliable references, fix typos, add relevant etc.)
  • Find a book about Independence, directly or indirectly, on your language Wikisource and work on that.
  • Add an image or more than one image to the article from Wikimedia Commons or the local Wiki.
  • Upload or improve images about the same topic on Wikimedia Commons. Also, add image details such as improving descriptions, writing image descriptions in your native languages, adding/improving structured data etc.
  • Wikimedians can edit labels, items and properties on the Wikidata.
  • 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 languages. The participant can improve the content on any Wikimedia Project.

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 at the same time.

Participation

Please add your username below. Also include the language and Wikipedia names you worked on. You may add it after the completion of your work also.

Prizes

This is an effort to engage Indian Wikimedians on the same platform and it is not a competition, but more like work on the improvement and quality of the content. We do not have any target of NN number of articles to be created or expanded, or BB bytes to be added.

Article lists

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These are the direct categories of the theme.

Here is the list of articles:

Sports:

Politics, Major events and significant topics:

Community List

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The community can create their own stub articles list on the same theme or new list to create articles, create or edit Wikidata items, Find a few books on your Wikisource and find some books to upload on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource (according to the guidelines), upload images related to memorials or related to the theme.

List from Marathi Wiki

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List from Hindi-Urdu Wiki

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Participants

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  1. Snehrashmi (talk); Gujarati Wikipedia and Wiki data (label translation) 09:23, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Sangram Keshari Senapati (talk) 11:45, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Akbarali (talk) 19:28, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4. JyotiPN (talk) 12:58, 13 December 2022 (UTC)JyotiPN ; Assamese wiki[reply]
  5. Meenakshi nandhini (talk) 14:42, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Salil Kumar Mukherjee (talk) 10:54, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Simranjeet Sidhu (talk) 15:29, 15 December 2022 (UTC) Punjabi wiki[reply]
  8. Ramjit Tudu (talk) 18:19, 25 December 2022 (UTC) ; Santali Wiki[reply]
  9. Brihaspati (talk) 10:55, 26 December 2022 (UTC); Gujarati Wiki[reply]
  10. Joy sagar Murmu (talk) 04:45, 27 December 2022 (UTC) Santali Wiki[reply]
  11. Tamanpreet Kaur (talk) 15:20, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  12. R Ashwani Banjan Murmu (talk) 00:24, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Fagu Baskey (talk) 04:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 08:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Shibu Murmu (talk) 08:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Rimil Shyam Sundar Besra (talk) 09:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Surendra Hemram (talk) 09:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  18. ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗ (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Bijendra Hansda Purudhul (talk) 11:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Rocky 734 (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Premchand murmu thakur (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interested communities

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Submissions

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Meenakshi nandhini

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  1. ml:Kishan Singh Gargaj
  2. ml:Ram Rakha
  3. ml:Shankar Mahale
  4. ml:Jacobin Club of Mysore
  5. ml:Arthanareesa Varma
  6. ml:Kamala Das Gupta
  7. ml:Kalyani Das
  8. ml:Titumir
  9. ml:Santi Gopal Sen
  10. ml:Mrigendra Dutta
  11. ml:Mera Joota Hai Japani
  12. ml:Chicago Radio
  13. ml:Pratapaditya
  14. ml:Vidurashwatha
  15. ml:Borsad
  16. ml:SS Maverick
  17. ml:Nathu Dhobi
  18. ml:Hariprobha Takeda
  19. ml:London Indian Society
  20. ml:Paina
  21. ml:Laxmi Indira Panda
  22. ml:Hindavi Swarajya
  23. ml:Prabartak Sangha
  24. ml:Servants of India Society
  25. ml:Mathanda Appachu
  26. ml:Amara Sullia Rebellion
  27. ml:Al-Islah (newspaper)
  28. ml:Pabna Peasant Uprisings
  29. ml:Nityanand Saha
  30. ml:Gangu Baba
  31. ml:Pandit Kanshi Ram
  1. Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium (created)

Simranjeet Sidhu

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  1. Atul Sen
  2. Ramkrishna Roy
  3. Mrigendra Dutta
  4. Nirmal Jibon Ghosh
  5. Anantahari Mitra
  6. Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya
  7. Pramod Ranjan Choudhury
  8. Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal
  9. Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya
  10. Charu Chandra Bose
  11. Brajakishore Chakraborty
  12. Arthanareesa Varma
  13. Banwari Lal (revolutionary)
  14. Satish Sardar
  15. Srish Pal
  16. Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
  17. Pratul Chandra Ganguli
  18. Rajat Sen
  19. Nathu Dhobi
  20. Hariprobha Takeda

Salil Kumar Mukherjee (Bengali Wiki)

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  1. bn:ব্রজভূষণ গুপ্ত (Braja Bhusan Gupta) - Page created
  2. bn:নিরঞ্জন সিং তালিব (Niranjan Singh Talib) - Page created
  3. bn:নাথু ধোবি (Nathu Dhobi) - Page created
  4. d:Q7249851
  5. d:Q113044399
  6. d:Q20824334
  7. d:Q20823767
  8. d:Q110975350
  9. d:Q109545453
  10. d:Q109310735
  11. d:Q16345690
  12. d:Q3349315
  13. d:Q4890145
  14. d:Q20823984
  15. d:Q4667431
  16. d:Q25586774
  17. d:Q97497443
  18. d:Q4866226
  19. d:Q8031640
  20. d:Q16346065
  21. d:Q4740216
  22. d:Q6355575
  23. d:Q110651486
  24. d:Q22132073
  25. d:Q20824334
  26. d:Q56290564
  27. d:Q15998964
  28. d:Q12458216
  29. d:Q23806453
  30. d:Q15118235
  31. d:Q4860758
  32. d:Q31725877
  33. d:Q7856750
  34. d:Q4805798
  35. d:Q50326707
  36. d:Q6786063
  37. d:Q21081517
  38. d:Q57342606
  39. d:Q110269837
  40. d:Q50650321
  41. d:Q13058645
  42. d:Q6121537
  43. d:Q31725142

Pranjyoti Nath (Assamese Wiki)

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  1. As:ৰৱান এটকিনচন

Prasanta Hembram (Santali Wiki)

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  1. sat:ᱯᱨᱚᱛᱤᱠᱥᱟ ᱠᱟᱥᱤ -- Deleted unimportant part of the article.
  2. sat:ᱵᱟᱨᱠᱷᱟᱱ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ -- removed the info error by deleting the reference

Snehrashmi (Gujarati Wikipedia)

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  1. ‎ગંગા નારાયણ સિંહ
  2. ‎સાગરમલ ગોપા
  3. ‎આર. શ્રીનિવાસન
  4. ‎લક્ષ્મણ નાયક
  5. જંગલ મહલ
  6. ‎બિપિનચંદ્ર પાલ
  7. ‎પુલિન બિહારી દાસ
  8. ‎સુરેન્દ્રનાથ ટાગોર
  9. ‎વંદે માતરમ્‌ (સાપ્તાહિક)
  10. ‎વંદે માતરમ્‌ (પેરિસ આવૃત્તિ)
  11. ‎અવિનાશચંદ્ર ભટ્ટાચાર્ય
  12. ‎બંકિમચંદ્ર ચટ્ટોપાધ્યાય
  13. ‎ભવાની મંદિર (પત્રિકા)
  14. ‎તલવાર (સામયિક)
  15. ‎અરવિંદ ઘોષ
  16. ‎ઢાકા અનુશીલન સમિતિ
  17. ‎ચારુચંદ્ર બોઝ
  18. ‎ઉલ્લાસકર દત્ત
  19. ‎બિપિન બિહારી ગાંગુલી
  20. ‎પ્રતુલચંદ્ર ગાંગુલી
  21. ‎શિવદાસ ઘોષ
  22. ‎માતાદીન વાલ્મીકિ
  23. ‎રામપ્રસાદ વૈરાગી
  24. ‎હરગોવિંદ પંત
  25. ‎સોહનલાલ પાઠક
  26. ‎શ્રીશચંદ્ર મિત્ર
  27. ‎હરિદાસ દત્ત

Tamanpreet Kaur

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  1. Jyoti Jebon Ghosh

Contact

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For any query related to the event please contact Nitesh (CIS-A2K) or leave a message on the event talk page.

Report

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Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022 was a 20-day-long improve-a-thon event. It started as an online activity, so, communities could participate together and create or develop content in their own languages. It started on 15 December 2022 and ended on 5 January 2023. The event was not restricted to any particular project and the event was followed by a theme "Azadi ka Mahotsav". Many individuals and language communities participated in the event. A total of 21 participants showed their interest to participate in this event and three language communities, Odia Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedians of Kerala, Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group, signed up to contribute together. A total of 7 languages participated in the event: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, and Santali. Mainly two projects, Wikipedia & Wikidata, were edited during the event,

Meenakshi nandhini created 31 articles on Malayalam Wiki. Snehrashmi who is a part of the Gujurati Community, created 27 articles, Punjabi Wikimedian Simranjeet Sidhu created 20 articles on the local Wiki, Ssgapu22 created 1 article on Odia Wiki, Tamanpreet Kaur created one article on Punjabi Wikipedia and JyotiPN created an article on Assamese Wikipedia. Also Rocky 734 edited two articles on Santali Wikipedia. Gujurati Wikimedian Brihaspati created one article on Gujurati Wikipedia. Salil Kumar Mukherjee is from the Bengali language community, he created 3 articles on Bengali Wikipedia and he edited 40 items on Wikidata during the event.

Under this event, Santali communities organised a one-day in-person event. The event was organised on 01 January 2023 from 10.00AM-5.00 PM and the venue of event was Baba Tilka Library, Patra Mahulbani, Bahalda, Mayurbhanj. It was a well planned event and 12 participants participated Ramjit Tudu, ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗, Joy sagar Murmu, Rocky 734, R Ashwani Banjan Murmu, Bijendra Hansda Purudhul, Fagu Baskey, Shibu Murmu, Premchand murmu thakur, Durga Soren, User:Rimil Shyam Sundar Besra, User:Surendra Hemram.