Wikipedia Asian Month User group 2020-2021 annual report

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Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is an annual online event that aims to promote Asian content in Wikipedia. Since 2015, each participating local community runs an online Edit-a-thon every November, which promotes the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about Asia except their own country.

The participating community is not limited to Asia. The project is run across various language-specific Wikipedias and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia movement), however, some specific actions are held in some countries and Wikimedia communities with local organisers.

Wikipedia Asian Month has achieved much over 5 years: over 37,500 high-quality articles have been added in more than 63 language-specific Wikipedias by more than 2,900 Wikipedia editors.

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Annual Report

Here is the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group 2020-2021 annual report. From 2020 to 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month held the Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 (WAM 2020) and prepare for Wikipedia Asian Month 2021 (future event). We also work on reframing our projects and looking for more cooperation. As always, we would like to thank the volunteers and partners for helping us in different phases of organizing these contests, subcontests and edit-a-thons.

Past Events[edit]

Outline[edit]

The event we held last year in November was Wikipedia Asian Month 2020.
Our volunteers and partners organized 8 online events and 1 onsite event for Wikipedia Asian Month 2020.

Timeline[edit]

July

August

September

October

November

December

MassMessage for organizers and participant about COVID-19 pandemic.

Designed the specific report channel including for postcards and certification.
Completed the 2019-2020 annual report.

MassMessage for organizers and participant.
Created practices and documentation for our organizing processes and methods.
Build usage guidance of the Fountain tool.
The organizers created event page and add to the Meta-wiki page.

Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 contest, 8 online subcontests and 1 onsite edit-a-thon.

MassMessage for organizers.
The jury members judge all articles before December 31st.
The organizers report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador, and update the final version of organizer and jury member list.

January

February

March

April

May

June

Outcomes[edit]

Wikipedia Asian Month 2020[edit]

This year, we had a record total of 57 Wikipedia / Wikivoyage projects sign up to participate (including several first timers) in Wikipedia Asian Month 2020. Of the 57 language-versions of Wikipedia / Wikivoyage that signed up, 22 of them had at least 10 participants, leaving 35 with less than 10 as part of the event.

As was done in previous years, we were able to involve hundreds of editors to contribute over 6,672 articles related to Asia. XXX of those fit our standard and were accepted. We have a total number of 581 participants who created and submitted at least 1 article for Wikipedia Asian Month. Of all the participants, XXX editors created and submitted more than 4 articles (the requirement to receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard).

In consideration of the Fountain tool didn't working for around 5 hours, Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 contest has been extended for 5 hours past November to let the participants from different time zones submit the articles before the system closes. The articles submitted till December 1st, UTC 05:00, 2020.


Language Group	Number of Participation

Affiliated Events[edit]

Online Events
No.	Events	Date	Place	Explanation	Organizers
01	Women in Asia contest	1st October to 31th December	English Wikipedia	WikiProject Women in Red holding the first of three-month virtual contests devoted to notable women's biographies from the continents of Asia.	Ipigott, Rosiestep
02	Asian Week 2020	2nd November to 8th November	Swedish Wikipedia	Competition of the Week concerning articles about Asia on Swedish Wikipedia.	Deryni
03	Kvinnor då och nu VII	16th November to 22th November	Swedish Wikipedia	Competition of the Week concerning articles about Women with special bonus for articles about Asia, on Swedish Wikipedia.	Zquid
04	Stubbar November 2020	23th November to 29th November	Swedish Wikipedia	Competition of the Week concerning short articles with special bonus for articles about Asia, on Swedish Wikipedia.	Zquid
05	Concorso Donne asiatiche 2020	1st November to 30th November	Italian Wikipedia	Competition concerning articles about Asian Women on Italian Wikipedia.	Camelia.boban
06	Asian Mining Heritage Month 2020	1st November to 30th November	Asian Month Wikipedias	The topics include geology, minerals, industrial technology, history, mine workers, settlements, cultural assets, and natural ecology, etc.
07	WikiUral 2020 Subcompetition	1st November to 30th November	Asian Month Wikipedias	A global contest dedicated to Ural region.	Niklitov
08	Asia Democracy Month 2020	1st November to 30th November	Wikimedia Commons	A photographic contest to document democracy in Asia. Upload media files of relative topics, such as people, events, places, etc. to Wikimedia Commons.

Onsite Events
No.	Events	Date	Place	Explanation
01	Wikipedia Asian Month 2020: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories	28th November	Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong	This workshop is part of an ongoing effort to contribute to discussions about the representation of art and visual culture in Asia on open-source knowledge platforms.

Other[edit]


Problems We faced	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our supporting Affiliate - Wikimedia Taiwan cannot send anything through international postal systems to several countries at this moment.		We send all the participants digital postcards and digital certifications for organizers to the email address they provided for postcard progress tracking.
Some teams are not familiar with the usage of the Fountain tool.		We helped to build usage guidance of the Fountain tool, including creating an edit-a-thon, admin approving process, changing sittings, submitting articles, judging articles process.
Some participants cannot receive their postcards smoothly and ask the progress several times.		We designed the specific report channel including all the information related to postcards and certification (e.g progress report, deliver failed list, reporting channel) for participants.
We hope to have a long lasting impact and documentation will be crucial for any future member of the team. They help ensure longevity during leadership changes for future references.		This year, we created some practices and documentation for our organizing processes and methods of Wikipedia Asian Month events, including introduction, international team process, MassMessage, CentralNotice, event page, etc. These guides could lower the barrier, and reduce the workload for organizers. We also compile guideline materials for everyone involved with Wikipedia Asian Month, especially local organizers. We hope the guides of online events and onsite events can assist local organizers in holding the Wikipedia Asian Month events smoothly.
Although Wikipedia Asian Month international team already enacted Rewarded Participants' Data Privacy Statement, some participants still worried about the safety of data collection and storage.		To protect participants' data, we will use a more trustworthy platform for data collection and try to translate to different languages for different participants.