Translations:Wikimedians of the Levant/2020/5/en

We organized a competition to add images to thousands of articles

One of the maps translated as part of the "Levantine Images" competition.

This year, we launched an new initiative called "Levantine Images (صور شامية)" aiming to enrich articles on Arabic Wikipedia with images. Participants would gain points for adding images to articles related to the countries of the Levant lacking visual content, as well as for uploading images to Wikimedia Commons, translating them, or adding Arabic descriptions to them. Despite the challenges we faced in tallying the points due to the novel nature of the competition and despite the difficulty in accurately counting the number of articles to which images were added (due to overlapping edits), the outcomes exceeded expectations. Articles enriched with images numbered about 1,300, including hundreds of articles that had zero images before. Participants also added over 500 images to Wikimedia Commons, as well as Arabic descriptions to over 1,500 images.