Wikimedia Japan-Morocco Friendship

This page describes the collaboration between Moroccan Darija Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia. The first goal is to organize an edit-a-thon between editors of the two Wikipedias. The collaboration was suggested after Wikimania 2024.

The exact dates and details of the edit-a-thon will be announced at a later point.

Contact people:

• User:Eugene Ormandy
• Ideophagous

Edit-a-thon 1

1. Format and period: 20 topics per community, written over 1 month (from 01.08 to 31.08)
2. Below is a list of suggested topics

Next tasks:

1. Create participation badges/barnstars
2. Add extended list of Japanese topcis to include in an upcoming contest on arywiki
3. Inform respective communities

Topics

Japan topics

№	Article	ja	ary	ar	fr	en	Σ	Wikidata	st.
1	history of Japan	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q130436	13	+
2	Kyoto	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q34600	64	+
3	Japan men's national football team	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q170566	19	+
4	kanji	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q82772	15	+
5	flag of Japan	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q43175	12	+
6	ukiyo-e	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q185905	14	+
7	Murasaki Shikibu (970s-11. century)	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q81731	32	+
8	atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q488	16	+
9	Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q8006	40	+
10	Government of Japan	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q1190574	10	+
11	Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q5676	33	+
12	Himeji Castle	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q188754	43	+
13	noh	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q226887	10	+
14	Kimigayo	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q81534	21	+
15	bonshō	+	-	-	+	+	3	Q8192099	9	+
16	Akihito (b. 1933)	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q37979	36	+
17	kami	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q524158	9	+
18	katana	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q172736	8	+
19	kimono	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q483444	13	+
20	Amaterasu	+	-	+	+	+	4	Q455602	19	+
Σ	→ Autolist→ map gallery→ timeline	20	0	19	20	20	79	avg: 4\16\79%	436

Morocco topics

№	Article	ja	ary	ar	fr	en	Σ	Wikidata	st.
1	culture of Morocco	-	-	+	+	+	3	Q286806	5	+
2	languages of Morocco	-	-	+	+	+	3	Q621770	5	+
3	Moroccans	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q1891793	9	+
4	Constitution of Morocco	-	-	+	+	+	3	Q2616245	3	+
5	Moroccan genetics	-	-	+	+	+	3	Q17011475	1	+
6	Abdallah Laroui (b. 1933)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q1753931	20	+
7	Mohamed Zafzaf (1945-2001)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q1942639	12
8	Ibn Abi Zar (13. century-1326)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q3046604	11	+
9	Youssef ibn Tashfin (1009-1106)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q369981	19	+
10	Sayyida al-Hurra (1485-1561)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q4299447	17	+
11	Bocchus I (2. century BCE-1. century BCE)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q530576	10	+
12	Bou Ahmed (1840-1900)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q125829	13
13	Allal al-Fassi (1910-1974)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q2837662	21	+
14	Saïd Naciri (b. 1960)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q3474818	13	+
15	Abderrahim Tounsi (1936-2023)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q308064	20
16	Hassan El Fad (b. 1962)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q3128133	13	+
17	Laarbi Batma (1948-1997)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q3214273	12
18	Mouna Fettou (b. 1970)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q3325946	9	+
19	Rachid El Ouali (b. 1965)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q1643878	22	+
20	Joudia Hassar-Benslimane (1943-2018)	-	+	+	+	+	4	Q133258111	8
Σ	→ Autolist→ gallery→ timeline	0	16	20	20	20	76	avg: 4\15\76%	243

Reserve topics

When the edit-a-thon officially starts, please feel free to reserve any article you want to work on, by adding the title of the topic and your signature (e.g. by copying this code: # example topic --~~~~ which generates the signature below). Please make sure you create the article within 3 days of the reservation, otherwise please unreserve the article (for example by striking the title and signature through), so that someone else can work on it.

1. example topic --Ideophagous (talk) 14:47, 30 June 2025 (UTC)