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, 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. Persian Wikipedia – Arash.pt, Mardetanha
16. Finnish Wikipedia – Lentokonefani, PtG
17. French Wikipedia – Daxipedia, Pierre André Leclercq, Cbyd
18. Gujarati Wikipedia - Hardhrol
19. Hausa Wikipedia – The Living love, Anasskoko
20. Hebrew Wikipedia – Ofek j
21. Hindi Wikipedia – अनिरुद्ध!, Raju Jangid, हिंदुस्थान वासी
22. Hungarian Wikipedia – Teemeah, Ogodej, Tao Kai
23. Indonesian Wikipedia – Rachmat04
24. Mon Wikipedia - Ninjastrikers
25. Italian Wikipedia – Camelia
26. Japanese Wikipedia – Takot
27. Georgian Wikipedia – Mehman97, David1010
28. Latvian Wikipedia – Papuass
29. Maithili Wikipedia – PANKAJ DEO, Tulsi Bhagat
30. Minangkabau Wikipedia – Ardzun
31. Malayalam Wikipedia – Ranjithsiji, Mujeebcpy, Ambadyanands, KannanVM,Meenakshi nandhini
32. Marathi Wikipedia – Tiven2240
33. Malay Wikipedia – Tofeiku, PeaceSearcher
34. Myanmar Wikipedia – Zawthet
35. Erzya Wikipedia – Erzianj jurnalist
36. Nepali Wikipedia – Saroj Uprety, पर्वत सुबेदी, हिमाल सुबेदी
37. Odia Wikipedia – Ssgapu22
38. Punjabi (Gurmukhi) Wikipedia – Nitesh Gill, Gaurav Jhammat
39. Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Wikipedia – Abbas dhothar, Hammad
40. Pashto Wikipedia - Ainty Painty
41. Português Wikipédia - Conde Edmond Dantès, Tuga1143
42. Romanian Wikipedia – Gikü
43. Russian Wikipedia - Томасина, MBH, Ле Лой
44. Santali Wikipedia – Manik Soren, Bijendra Hansda Purudhul, Albetudu, Maina Tudu, Sohagini Hasdak
45. Sindhi Wikipedia – JogiAsad,
46. Simple English Wikipedia – Wei4Green Ainty Painty BRPever
47. Slovak Wikipedia – Luky001
48. Swedish Wikipedia – Deryni, Dan Koehl, Bairuilong
49. Tamil Wikipedia – Dineshkumar Ponnusamy
50. Telugu Wikipedia – రహ్మానుద్దీన్
51. Tetun Wikipédia – BJ Sinaga
52. Thai Wikipedia – B20180
53. Tagalog Wikipedia – Jojit fb
54. Ukrainian Wikipedia – Ата
55. Urdu Wikipedia – BukhariSaeed, Faismeen
56. Uzbek Wikipedia – Malikxan, Nataev
57. Classical Chinese Wikipedia – Itsmine, Davidzdh, 丁子君
58. Chinese Wikipedia – Rowingbohe, Theodore Xu, 游魂

Subcontests:

1. Swedish Wikipedia's Asian Week 2019 – Deryni
2. Swedish competition Food and beverages III – Zquid

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.