Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

WAM 2019

Online Edit-a-thon

Event Partners

Onsite Events

Media coverage

Postcards

For Organizers

Help desk & FAQ

About the event Wikipedia Asian Month is an online article contest on Wikipedia focused on promotion of Asian content in different language Wikipedia. Each participating community runs a month-long online edit-a-thon every November at their local language Wikipedia to create new content about Asia except their home country. Participation is not limited to Asian communities. The first iteration of this competition began in 2015 and each year, the article counts and participating communities have diversified and expanded. In the past three years, over 27142 high quality articles have been added in more than 63 language Wikipedia by more than 2767 Wikipedia editors. As a part of friendship and culture exchange of Wikipedia Asian Community, participants who create at least four articles receive a special Wikipedia Postcard from another participating community and the highest contributor from each local Wikipedia gets the honor of Wikipedia Asian Month ambassador. Get ready to do an Asian journey in the month of November and receive postcards from different Asian countries!

Contact Contact persons Jamie (Talk Page) (WAM Chief Co-ordinator) Addis (Talk Page) (WAM Chief Co-ordinator) Sailesh (Talk Page) (WAM Advisor) Le Loi (Talk Page) (Judging Tool / Tech) Rupika (Talk Page) (Head of Communications & Media Team) Butch (WAM Promotion and Outreach Co-ordinator) Anthony (Anthony) (WAM Support Team Leader) International Team List Userbox {{User Asian Month}} This user contributes to Asian Month 2019.

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How to Participate in Contest

As an Editor

• Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit below, if they are participating.
• Register for Wikipedia if you have not done so.
• Choose articles about themes and topics related to Asia, but not from your native country, and start creating articles.

As an Organizer

• Set up and run the contest on a local level within your language community.
• If your local Wikipedia is already participating, ask if you can help judge articles if you are interested.
• Engage local editors and aim for maximum participation.
• Organize online and offline events for contest promotion and increase in participation.
• If you have expertise or skills in public relations, then you can help us get media coverage.

Communities and Organizers

Didn't find your home Wikipedia? Sign up below to be the local organizer! Create a WAM page and link it here with the format:

# Name of the wiki – Username

1. Arabic Wikipedia - Avicenno, عرين أسد أبو رمان
2. Azerbaijani Wikipedia – Wertuose, Eldarado
3. Bashkir Wikipedia – ZUFAr
4. Bikol Wikipedia – Filipinayzd
5. Bulgarian Wikipedia – Спасимир
6. Bangla Wikipedia – Moheen, ZI Jony, Marajozkee
7. Catalan Wikipedia – F3RaN, ESM
8. Czech Wikipedia – Patriccck, Khamul1, OJJ
9. German Wikipedia – J. Patrick Fischer
10. Zazaki Wikipedia – Xorasan, Mirzali, Vuzorg
11. Greek Wikipedia – Nikosgranturismogt and Wikimedia Community User Group Greece
12. English Wikipedia – SuperHamster,geraldshields11
13. Esperanto Wikipedia and Esperanto Wikivoyage - KuboF Hromoslav
14. Spanish Wikipedia – Millars
15. Finnish Wikipedia – Lentokonefani, PtG
16. French Wikipedia – Daxipedia, Pierre André Leclercq, Cbyd
17. Gujarati Wikipedia - Hardhrol
18. Hausa Wikipedia – The Living love
19. Hebrew Wikipedia – Ofek j
20. Hindi Wikipedia – अनिरुद्ध!, Raju Jangid, हिंदुस्थान वासी
21. Hungarian Wikipedia – Teemeah, Ogodej, Tao Kai
22. Indonesian Wikipedia – Rachmat04
23. Mon Wikipedia - Ninjastrikers
24. Italian Wikipedia – Camelia
25. Japanese Wikipedia – Takot
26. Georgian Wikipedia – Mehman97, David1010
27. Latvian Wikipedia – Papuass
28. Maithili Wikipedia – PANKAJ DEO, Tulsi Bhagat
29. Minangkabau Wikipedia – Ardzun
30. Malayalam Wikipedia – Ranjithsiji, Mujeebcpy, Ambadyanands, KannanVM,Meenakshi nandhini
31. Marathi Wikipedia – Tiven2240
32. Malay Wikipedia – Tofeiku, PeaceSearcher
33. Myanmar Wikipedia – Zawthet
34. Erzya Wikipedia – Erzianj jurnalist
35. Nepali Wikipedia – Saroj Uprety, पर्वत सुबेदी, हिमाल सुबेदी
36. Odia Wikipedia – Ssgapu22
37. Punjabi (Gurmukhi) Wikipedia – Nitesh Gill, Gaurav Jhammat
38. Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Wikipedia – Abbas dhothar, Hammad
39. Pashto Wikipedia - Ainty Painty
40. Persian Wikipedia – Arash.pt, Mardetanha
41. Português Wikipédia - Conde Edmond Dantès, Tuga1143
42. Romanian Wikipedia – Gikü, NicolaS961
43. Russian Wikipedia - Томасина, MBH, Ле Лой
44. Sanskrit Wikipedia – Suyash.dwivedi
45. Santali Wikipedia – Manik Soren, Bijendra Hansda Purudhul, Albetudu, Maina Tudu, Sohagini Hasdak
46. Sindhi Wikipedia – JogiAsad,
47. Simple English Wikipedia – Camouflaged Mirage, BRPever
48. Slovak Wikipedia – Luky001
49. Swedish Wikipedia – Deryni, Dan Koehl, Bairuilong
50. Tamil Wikipedia – Dineshkumar Ponnusamy
51. Telugu Wikipedia – రహ్మానుద్దీన్
52. Tetun Wikipédia – BJ Sinaga
53. Thai Wikipedia – B20180
54. Tagalog Wikipedia – Jojit fb
55. Ukrainian Wikipedia – Ата
56. Urdu Wikipedia – BukhariSaeed, Faismeen
57. Uzbek Wikipedia – Malikxan, Nataev
58. Classical Chinese Wikipedia – Itsmine, Davidzdh, 丁子君
59. Chinese Wikipedia – Rowingbohe, Theodore Xu, 游魂

Subcontests:

1. Swedish Wikipedia's Asian Week 2019 – Deryni
2. Swedish competition Food and beverages III – Zquid
3. Finnish Wikipedia's Kaakkois-Aasia

Supporting affiliates

Affiliates

Postcard affiliates UG-GE WMTW UG-WDG Supporting affiliates UG-GE WMTW UG-WDG Other organizations

Extension of WAM2019

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.