Wikipedia Asian Month 2025

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Welcome to Wikipedia Asian Month 2025

What is Wikipedia Asian Month?

Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is an annual online campaign, running since 2015 by the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group, designed to boost Asian content on Wikipedia each November. This initiative extends beyond Asian communities, involving various language-specific Wikipedias and Wikimedia Foundation project websites. It also encourages local organizers to hold associated events. Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be granted "Wikipedia Asian Month Golden Award". Where there are local partners, they can decide to organize (or not) judging and local prizes for their communities at their discretion.

How to Participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month 2025?

As an editor

Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit if they are participating.
Read the editing rules carefully.
Choose articles about themes and topics related to Asia, and start creating articles.
Sign up any time through the month of competition.
Feel free to ask any questions on the Help Desk page if needed.

As an organizer

Recruit your local campaign organizing team, we recommend no more than 5 people.
Set up an event page run the contest on a local level within your language community, and create a Fountain tool for the campaign add a link of your campaign to the Registration and Participation page.
Monitor online campaigns, and if capable, organize offline events.
Submit campaign scores and rankings on Golden Award page.
Keep track of participants' progress through the Fountain Tool.
Feel free to ask any questions on the Help Desk page if needed.

As an offline event organizer

Decide the type of offline event (Edit-a-thon, Workshop, etc.) and pick a date in November or December, when Wikipedia Asian Month is officially held.
(Optional) Read the Offline Event Grants Application Guidelines and contact the WAM Ambassadors to ask for support or small grants application.
Add a link of your event to the Registration and Participation page
Promote the event and invite people to participate in the event.

The editing rules and the auditing of eligible editors

The article is Geographically or Culturally centered around Asia/Asian. For more guidance about what is Asia/Asian article, please see the FAQ page.
To earn one point of eligible edit, you have to edit on/create an article of at least 3,000 bytes with reliable resources. Creating/editing a list also counts.
Once you earn 4 points, you are eligible to receive the WAM Barnstar of the year. Whether an edit is eligible for 1 point is audited by the jury of each language Wikipedia Campaign.

Focus Theme of the Year

Asia is a very wide region! It has the biggest land in the world as well as maritime space that many islands are located. It is not easy to understand the multi-diversity of the natural scenes and cultural of this huge area. At Wikipedia Asian Month, we hope to select focus theme for each years campaign, and encourage participant to get to know more about one piece of this area.

Five Themes of this Year
Theme	Women in Politics, History and Cultural	Nomadic and Regional Cuisine	Festivals, Rituals, and Oral Heritage	Beauty pageant titleholders	Historical Monuments and Cultural Heritage along Silk Road
Region	West Asia	Central Asia	South Asia	East and Southeast Asia	Asia
Description	Women have played diverse roles in the politics, history, and culture of West Asia. While contemporary discussions often focus on challenges related to gender equality, the region has a long history of influential women who have contributed significantly in various fields.	This theme explores Central Asian cuisine, contrasting nomadic diets (e.g., qurut, kumis) with urban staples (e.g., plov, manti). It highlights regional dishes, food preservation methods, traditional tools, Silk Road influences, and the cuisines of ethnic groups like the Koryo-saram, Dungan, and Bukharan Jews.	This theme celebrates South Asia's vibrant festivals, rituals, and oral traditions like folk tales, songs, and epics. Contributors are encouraged to explore community-specific practices, religious festivals, ceremonies, performance arts, and traditions shaping identities across South Asia. Focus is on underrepresented cultural elements, including traditional dances, recitations, and crafts at risk of disappearing.	In the past decade, women from East and Southeast Asia have gained prominence in fashion, and pageantry. Many international beauty queens now use their platforms to advocate for causes like women’s empowerment, mental health, and world peace, deserving recognition for their efforts.	The historical monuments and cultural heritage along the Silk Road are vital to Asia as they reflect the exchange and fusion of civilizations. These sites symbolize the flow of ideas, religions, and trade that connected China, India, Central Asia, and Persia, shaping Asia’s development. They continue to represent the cultural diversity and historical richness of the region.
Sample Article	Loujain al-Hathloul, Shulamit Aloni	Beshbarmak	Diwali	Angelia Ong, Huỳnh Thị Thanh Thủy	Suyab

Timetable

October 1st, 2025 : Officially Publish International Campaign Page of the Year.
September 20 to October 10, 2025 : Call for focus themes of WAM 2025.
Before October 29, 2025: Complete registration of each language Wikipedia.
November 1st, UTC 00:00 to December 31th, UTC 00:00, 2025: Running the Campaign. (Find your local campaign for the actual date)
January 1st to March 15th, 2026: Auditing of each language Wikipedia.
March 30, 2026: Deadline of reporting statistics and eligible editors to the International Team.
April 1st to May 15, 2026: The international team distributes Barnstars and Certificates to eligible editors of each event.

Organizer/Editor Tool Box

Fountain Tool
Sample Template: Wikipedia_Asian_Month_2025_Sample Template
Form for collecting statistics: How Organizers, Editors collect and report contributions to existing wiki entries
Userbox:

This user contributes to Asian Month 2025.

Tips for Organizers

Preparing Campaign

Recruit your local campaign organizing team, we recommend no more than 5 people.
Pick a start date for your campaign, count for 30 days as the end date. It should be a continuous 30 days from November 1st to December 31st. For example: November 1st to November 30th, November 15th to December 14th would be good campaign dates.
Set up a Wikipedia page for the local campaign in your language, and place the page link in the Registration list. You should provide a way to collect contributions of your editors and describe how will you collect them in your local campaign page.
Translate this page into your language.
If you discover there is already a local WAM campaign, contact your local campaign organizer, and ask if they need volunteers to help review/auditing articles.

Promoting Campaign

Engage local editors and aim for maximum participation.
Continue to call for participants to participate at the village pump, community bulletin board, mailing list, site notice, etc.

Auditing Articles

Depends on the tool you use for calculation. Auditing the edits from your participants. If a participant has edited more than 3,000 bytes with reliable reference, please add this editor in the Programs & Events Dashboard of your local program, and point those articles to this editor.

Reporting Result Statistic

(To Be Updated)

Tips for Editors

Preparing your participation

Fill out the focus themes form.
Find your local camping event page. If there is no event yet for your home Wikipedia, consider becoming an organizer.
Engage with your local community.

The Role of International Team

Set up the WAM main page.
Promoting and calling for an organizer for WAM.
Provide guidelines for how to participate and rules.
Assist with statistic calculation.
Sending digital rewards, the Barnstar for all eligible editors.
Contact : infoasianmonth.org