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Report of activities: 2021

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January

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Wikipedia 20 Celebration and Meetup

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The Wikipedia 20 is a celebration event organized on 15 January 2021 by the global Wikimedia community. As a community, we also stand to celebrate this event in Rajbiraj, Nepal. We were followedthe the guidelines of Health Ministry of Nepal amid the pandemic situation while celebrating the Wikipedia event. We were restricted to the number of maximum participants to the event is 9 persons. We also posted a notification message with an event participation link about this event on the community village pump and social media channel, and prioritize the first 9 people who submitted the event participation form.

March

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Women Edit-a-thon 2021

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Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2021 is an online Edit-a-thon competition organized on Maithili Wikipedia on the occasion of International Women's Day 2021. The competition was organized from March 7, 2021 to March 21, 2021. The main aim of the competition is to create articles about notable women on Maithili Wikipedia as well as to address the content gaps. Maithili Wikimedians is organizing Women Edit-a-thon annually since 2015 to create locally relevant and high-quality content about notable Women's in Maithili Wikipedia.

Women Day Awareness Event 2021

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We have organized a Wikipedia awareness session at Kshitiz Educational Foundation at Rajbiraj on International Women's Day 2021. This is our first offline event with such mass students after a year. As per the government instruction regarding safety measures, and health guidelines, we have followed the rules as to the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over. We have conducted 2 sessions at the educational institution. We have facilitated the students of class 11 and class 12.

Wikipedia Basic Training 2021

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We have organized a Wikipedia Basic Training at Rajbiraj with interested participants. We have organized the training event at Unique Computer Academy, Rajbiraj. A day before the training session, we have refreshed the students again with basic Wikipedia terminology, and the next day we have organized the training session.

With the help of Maithili Wikimedians User Group members, we have train the students about Wikipedia and its importance in their academic life. We have selected interested students from our past offline events.