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Participating Communities 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 How to Participate in Contest? Preparation: Before 29 October 2020 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 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 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. Contest Rules About Articles 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. About Rewards 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.