June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
Begins	25 June 2022
Ends	26 June 2022
Location(s)	Online & offline

25 June - 26 June 2022

June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon is part of a series of mini edit-a-thon just like previous edit-a-thons. Wikimedia celebrates every important and notable event through events, meet-ups or edit-a-thons. CIS-A2K is going to be celebrated in the month of June due to plenty of special days taking place in the same month.

June month is also known as pride month. During the month, there are other important days such as International Bicycle Day (3 June), World Environment Day (5 June), World Ocean Day (8 June), World Day against Child Labour (12 June), and ( World Blood Donor Day (14 June) etc.

This edit-a-thon will happen on 25 June and 26 June.

Objective

To celebrate the month of June which is known as pride day also. During the edit-a-thon, will create or develop the content related to special days of the June only.

Time & Date

25 June - 26 June 2022
24 June 2022 00:01 hours and 25 June 2022 23:59 hours

Rules

Method

This will be an online event. However, any community that wants to conduct an on-ground small event for these two days, can conduct it.

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

Scope

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 improvements, just like in previous edit-a-thons. These are some contributions you can make:

Create a Wikipedia article about days of the month of June, directly or indirectly.
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 June days, directly or indirectly.
Upload or improve images on Wikimedia Commons if you click during the month of June which is connected to the edit-a-thon. 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. Wikimedians can also create their own SVGs and upload to 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 language-related book in your own language.
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 languages.

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

Please add your username below. Also include the project names you worked on. You may add the project names 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 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 days

Here is the list of June 2022 Important Days:

1st June - en:World Milk Day
2nd June- en:Telangana Formation Day
3rd June- en:World Bicycle Day
4th June - en:International Day of Innocent Children
5th June - en:World Environment Day
7th June- en:World Food Safety Day
8th June - en:World Oceans Day & en:World Brain Tumor Day
12th June - en:World Day Against Child Labor
13th June- en:International Albinism Awareness Day
14th June - en:World Blood Donor Day
15th June - en:World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16th June - en:Guru Arjan Dev Martyrdom Day
20th June - en:World Refugee Day
21st June - en:International Yoga Day & en:World Music Day
23rd June - en:International Olympic Day
23rd June - en:United Nations Public Service Day
26th June - en:International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
30th June - en:World Asteroid Day

Participants

Sangram Keshari Senapati (talk) 13:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
-- कन्हाई प्रसाद चौरसिया (talk) 16:45, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
JyotiPN (talk) 18:06, 21 June 2022 (UTC)JyotiPN (Assamese Wikipedia)[reply]
user:Bvprasadtewiki (Telugu wikipedia)
Obaid Raza (Urdu Wikipedia)
511KeV (Kashmiri Wikipedia). 511KeV (talk) 14:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Chandan Chiring Phukon ^{Let's chat} 16:47, 23 June 2022 (UTC) (Assamese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons)[reply]
Salil Kumar Mukherjee (talk) 06:30, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Jagseer S Sidhu (talk) 06:47, 25 June 2022 (UTC) (Punjabi Wikipedia)[reply]
Meghdhanu (talk) 07:01, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗ (talk) 07:06, 25 June 2022 (UTC) (Santali Wikipedia)[reply]
R Ashwani Banjan Murmu (talk) 07:10, 25 June 2022 (UTC) (Santali Wikipedia)[reply]
Dugal harpreet (talk) 09:45, 25 June 2022 (UTC) (Punjabi Wikipedia)[reply]
--आर्या जोशी (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Vijay Barot (talk) 16:58, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Manjit Singh (talk) 08:38, 26 junw 2022 (Punjabi Wikipedia)
Rajdeep ghuman (talk) 04:45, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nayan j Nath (talk) 14:34, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Participanting communities

Submissions

511KeV (Kashmiri Wiki)

Manjit Singh (Punjabi Wiki)

Nayan j Nath (talk) (Assamese Wikipedia)

as:আন্তঃৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় গ্ৰহাণু দিৱস

Vijay Barot (Gujarati Wikipedia)

Report

June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon was a two-days long edit-a-thon. For participation in the edit-a-thon 18 users signed on the event page. The theme of the event was to create content related to June month on Wikimedia projects. There were many special days during the month and the edit-a-thon was not restricted to only the Wiki projects. This time, eight languages Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi and Santali entered this event. During these two days, all the language Wikis were worked on 35 new articles and a few articles were expanded or edited. 13 users out of 18, participated in this event.

We also have created a submission section and a few participants submitted their contributions on the same page. A few users submitted their work in the section of submissions. From Assamese community two users, JyotiPN and Nayan j Nath participated in this edit-a-thon. JyotiPN created 4 articles and Nayan j Nath created 1 article and edited two articles, he also proofread 18 pages on Wikisource. From the Bengali community User:Salil Kumar Mukherjee participated and created 1 article, 2 articles expanded and 12 items edited 0n Wikidata. Two Gujarati Wikimedian participated, User:Vijay Barot created 14 articles and 7 articles edited and another Wikimedian User:Meghdhanu created 3 articles. Kashmiri Wikimedian User:511KeV created 4 articles on Kashmiri Wikipedia. From Marathi community User:आर्या जोशी created 2 articles on Marathi Wikipedia. Odia Wikimedian Sangram Keshari Senapati also created one article on Odia Wikipedia. From the Sanatli community, User:R Ashwani Banjan Murmu created 1 article. From the Punjabi community 4 user-contributed, User:Jagseer S Sidhu expanded 2 articles, User:Dugal harpreet created 1 article, User:Manjit Singh created three articles and expanded five and User:Rajdeep ghuman expanded 1 article.

Contact

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

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