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Wikipedia Asian Month participation is not limited to Asian communities. If you want to take part in the contest as a participant, find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit in the list below. At least 51 participating local communities will run this online Edit-a-thon on November 2020:
- Arabic Wikipedia (Fountain) – Avicenno, عرين أسد أبو رمان
- Avar Wikipedia (Fountain) - Soul Train
- Azerbaijani Wikipedia (Fountain) - Eldarado, Wertuose
- Bangla Wikipedia (Fountain) – ZI Jony, Moheen
- Belarusian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Artificial123
- Bikol Wikipedia (Fountain) – Maffeth.opiana
- Bosnian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Arnel, Croxyz
- Bulgarian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Spasimir
- Catalan Wikipedia (Fountain) – F3RaN
- Chinese Wikipedia (Fountain) – Streetdeck, 人人生來平等
- Croatian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Fraxinus
- Czech Wikipedia (Fountain) – Jan Myšák, Khamul1, OJJ, Patriccck
- English Wikipedia (Fountain) – ZI Jony, Narutolovehinata5, SuperHamster
- Esperanto Wikipedia (Fountain) – Fenikals, KuboF Hromoslav
- Esperanto Wikivoyage – Fenikals, KuboF Hromoslav
- Finnish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Lentokonefani, PtG
- French Wikipedia (Fountain) – Daxipedia, Pierre André
- German Wikipedia (Fountain) – Braveheart, Dario Mazzucchelli, Dreizung, FelixL., Liuthalas, J. Patrick Fischer, Martin de la Iglesia, Rolf acker, SDKmac, Stefan, Sebastian Wallroth, Squasher, Tetraeder, Walter Riccius, Winschu, Yanikor, 史安南,
- Georgian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Mehman97
- Greek Wikipedia (Fountain) – MARKELLOS, NikosLikomitros
- Hebrew Wikipedia (Fountain) – Euro know
- Hindi Wikipedia (Fountain) – AshokChakra, हिंदुस्थान वासी
- Hungarian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ogodej, Teemeah
- Italian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Camelia, Beatrice, Giaccai
- Italian Wikivoyage (Fountain) – Andyrom75, FMRFAN, Gce
- Japanese Wikipedia (Fountain) – FMRFAN, 片割れ靴下
- Kannada Wikipedia (Fountain) – ಅನೂಪ್
- Korean Wikipedia (Fountain) – Motoko C. K.
- Kurdish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Bikarhêner
- Latvian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Papuass
- Lezgi Wikipedia (Fountain) – Soul Train
- Macedonian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Kiril Simeonovski
- Malay Wikipedia (Fountain) - PeaceSearcher, Ricky250, SNN95
- Malayalam Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ranjithsiji
- Marathi Wikipedia (Fountain) - Tiven2240
- Minangkabau Wikipedia (Fountain) – Naval Scene, David Wadie Fisher-Freberg
- Odia Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ssgapu22
- Persian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Arash.pt, Darafsh, Mardetanha, Persia
- Polish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (WMPL), Paulina Studniczka (WMPL)
- Portuguese Wikipedia (Fountain) – Juan90264
- Punjabi Wikipedia (Fountain) - Gaurav Jhammat
- Romanian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Gikü
- Russian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ле Лой
- Sanskrit Wikipedia (Fountain) – Suyash.dwivedi
- Santali Wikipedia (Fountain) – Anuradha Sharen, Bijendra Hansda Purudhul, Joy sagar Murmu, Shibu Murmu
- Simple English Wikipedia (Fountain) – BRPever, Camouflaged Mirage, つがる
- Sindhi Wikipedia (Fountain) – JogiAsad, سونھن راڻي
- Slovak Wikipedia (Fountain) – Lišiak (starts at November 2, 2020)
- Spanish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Millars, Rodelar
- Swedish Wikipedia (Fountain) – Bairuilong, Deryni
- Tagalog Wikipedia (Fountain) – Jojit Ballesteros
- Tamil Wikipedia (Fountain) – Dineshkumar Ponnusamy
- Tatar Wikipedia (Fountain) - frhdkazan
- Thai Wikipedia (Fountain) – B20180
- Ukrainian Wikipedia (Fountain) – Ата
- Urdu Wikipedia (Fountain) – Hammad, Obaid Raza
- Uzbek Wikipedia (Fountain) – Asadbek Botirqulov, Malikxan
If you don't find your home Wikipedia on the list and you would like to organise contest, sign up to be the local organizer! Create a WAM page and link it here: Add Wikipedia Page
Preparation: Before 29 October 2020[edit]- As an Organizer:
- Set-up an Wikipedia event page on a local level within your language community, then put the link to your local event page in the list. You also can use this well-designed sample page, localized this and this template is required.
- Translate the rules into your language, and maybe slightly adjust the rules if needed.
- Call a few Wikipedians to join you as local organizers (up to five).
- If your local Wikipedia is already participating, ask if you can help judge articles if you are interested.
- Post an invitation message on the village pump, Community bulletin board, mailing list, or even make a Site Notice, around two weeks before it starts.
- >>> Read more about the organise here
During the event: November 2020[edit]- As an Organizer:
- Engage local editors and aim for maximum participation.
- Organize online and offline events for contest promotion and increase in participation.
- Continue to call for participants to participate at the village pump, community bulletin board, mailing list, site notice, etc.
- The Fountain tool is hosted at Tool Labs. This tool for keeping track participants' progress will be available.
- If you have expertise or skills in public relations, then you can help us get media coverage.
- As an Editor:
- Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit, if they are participating.
- You have to be registered on Wikipedia to enter the contest. Register for Wikipedia if you have not done so.
- Read the rules listed below. It is really important that you follow the rules, otherwise your effort will be wasted.
- Choose articles about themes and topics related to Asia, but not from your native country, and start creating articles.
- Participants have to submit their contributions through the Fountain tool.
Wrap-up: Before 2021[edit]- As an Organizer:
- Check how articles, which are submitted by participants, fulfill the article criterias before December 31.
- Have the name of "Wikipedia Asian Ambassador", who created most articles that fulfills the criteria. Put it here!
- The mail address will be randomly distributed to the communities that are able to send postcards.
In a nutshell: Create new articles relating to Asia (people, places, culture, etc.), 3,000 bytes and 300 words minimum, with sources, during November 2020. Lists do not qualify.
- The article should be about any topic concerning an Asian country.
- The article is newly created by you (i.e. not expanding stubs) between November 1st, 2020 0:00 and November 30st, 2020 23:59 (UTC).
- The article should be at least 3,000 bytes and at least 300 words in length (exclude Infobox, template etc.).
- The article should be informative. There must be no major issues with the article (no copyright violations, questions of notability, etc.).
- The article must fulfill the notability criteria set by the respective language Wikipedia.
- The article must have decent references; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
- The article should not be a list.
- Exception: Creating a list that becomes a featured list counts. Only applies in Wikipedias that have featured lists.
- The article must not be purely machine translated and should be properly copy edited.
- When you create four articles that fulfill the above rules, you will receive a WAM postcard from one of the Asian communities.
- Judge(s) from each language Wikipedia will determine whether an article is accepted or not for their language Wikipedia's contest.
- Articles submitted by an organizer need to be checked by other organizers.
- WAM Ambassadors / Organizers will receive a signed certificate from Asian Affiliates, and an additional postcard, i.e. if they also accomplish the requirement, they can receive one postcard and one certification.
- See the FAQ for more information.
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