Wikicamp Nepal 2018/Submissions/Inspiring Young Contributors for Outreach activities

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Wikicamp Nepal 2018

Wikicamp Nepal 2018 (WCN) is a three day event for experienced and new Wikipedians of Nepal. The main objective of the event is to increase the Wikimedia offline activities in Nepal, develop skills of the new Wikipedians and bring together experienced and newbie Wikipedians. This brought together Wikipedians from Nepali, Maithili, Doteli, Newari (Nepal Bhasha), Bhojpuri, Sanskrit and Santali Community as well as 2 emerging Incubator communities - Awadhi and Marwari.
This is first event of its kind being held in Nepal and is intended to become an annual national flagship event for Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the country.

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Title of the submission

Inspiring Young Wikipedians for Outreach Activities

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Innocentbunny (Link)

Type of presentation

Talk

Abstract (in about 300 words)

I wish to give a talk about the necessity of more outreach initiatives primarily from the younger wikimedians to engage more people with the wikimedia movement, and would also speak about my experiences and thoughts.

I started my journey on Wikipedia by writing articles, very young, when I was in the 10th Standard, although I started with English Wikipedia, later on, after seeing the lack of information available in Hindi language on Wikipedia and the Internet in general, I shifted to writing articles in Hindi, and since then Hindi Wikipedia has acted as my home wiki I created around 1500+ articles on Hindi wiki and also later started writing on Maithili Wikipedia, when I came to know about it. Later on, after being inspired from other wikipedians, I realized that apart from obviously contributing actively online, I must try recruiting new editors on Wikipedia so that we get more people like me, and so I started engageing actively in more offline activities and have been part of some big endeavours like participation of Hindi Wikipedia in the World Hindi Conference and organising Hindi Wikipedia conference for engaging a diverse and widespread community to assemble together and work strategically in a planned way. What I strongly believe through my experience is that young wikipedians of my age have immense potential and energy to recruite people of their age to the Wikimedia Movement and must take up outreach initiatives themselves.

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Accepted