Wikipedia Asian Month 2018

WAM 2018

Online Edit-a-thon

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About the event Wikipedia Asian Month is an annual Wikipedia contest 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 Wikipedias and create new content about Asia except their own 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 20,500 high qualities articles have been added in more than 50 language Wikipedia by more than 2000 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. Get ready to be surprised! You never know which Wiki community will be sending you postcards!

Contact Contact persons Sailesh (Talk Page) (WAM Chief Co-ordinator) Kevin (Talk Page) (WAM Co-ordinator, Financials) Josh (WAM Co-ordinator) Le Loi (Talk Page) (Judging Tool / Tech) Wikilover90 (Talk Page) (Head of Media Team) Butch (WAM Promotion and Outreach Co-ordinator) Userbox This user contributes to Asian Month.

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How to Participate

As an Editor

• Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to edit below,(on participation)
• 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(s)

1. Albanian Wikipedia – Liridon
2. Arabic Wikipedia – Mahmood
3. Azerbaijani Wikipedia – White Demon
4. Bangla Wikipedia – Organizers: Moheen, S Shamima Nasrin, Waraka Saki, Sumita Roy Dutta, Che12Guevara
5. Bashkir Wikipedia – ZUFAr
6. Belarusian Wikipedia – Artificial123
7. Bikol Wikipedia – Filipinayzd, FroyAgta
8. Bulgarian Wikipedia – Спасимир
9. Catalan Wikipedia – Kippelboy
10. Czech Wikipedia – Patriccck, OJJ
11. Chinese Wikipedia – Theodore Xu , 理查
12. Classical Chinese Wikipedia – 孔明居士, 關山, 丁子
13. Croatian Wikipedia – Fraxinus
14. Danish Wikipedia – EileenSanda
15. English Wikipedia – Alex Shih, RHcosm, Sky Harbor, SuperHamster,Jwale2
16. Erzya Wikipedia – Erzianj jurnalist (Organizer), Vaija, Kaftaj, EliasMelteme
17. Faroese Wikipedia – EileenSanda
18. Finnish Wikipedia – Lentokonefani, PtG
19. French Wikipedia – Daxipedia, Pierre André, Cbyd
20. German Wikipedia – Sebastian Wallroth, Yanikor, and J. Patrick Fischer
21. Georgian Wikipedia – David1010, Mehman97
22. Gujarati Wikipedia – અર્જુન સિંહ હરધ્રોલ, Agyani
23. Hausa Wikipedia – The Living love
24. Hebrew Wikipedia – Ofek Jerassi
25. Hindi Wikipedia – J ansari (Organizer), Suyash Dwivedi (Organizer), Sushma_Sharma
26. Indonesian Wikipedia – Rachmat04
27. Japanese Wikipedia – Takot and ネイ
28. Javanese Wikipedia – Notanotheramy (Organizer), Wirjadisastra (Organizer), Danangtrihartanto (Organizer)
29. Kannada Wikipedia – Sangappadyamani, Gopala Krishna A
30. Konkani Wikipedia – Fredericknoronha
31. Korean Wikipedia – Motoko C. K.
32. Maithili Wikipedia – Pankaj Deo
33. Malay Wikipedia – CyberTroopers, Tofeiku, Zulfadli51
34. Malayalam Wikipedia – Ranjithsiji (Organizer), Sidheeq (Organizer), KannanVM (Organizer), Ambadyanands (Organizer), Mujeebcpy (talk) (Organizer)
35. Marathi Wikipedia – Tiven2240 (Organizer), सुबोध कुलकर्णी (Organizer)
36. Mazandarani Wikipedia – محک
37. Min Dong Wikipedia – Davidzdh, Yejianfei
38. Minangkabau Wikipedia – Muhraz (organizer)
39. Myanmar Wikipedia – Zawthet
40. Nepali Wikipedia – Nirjal Shrestha (organizer), Janak Bhatta (organizer)
41. Odia Wikipedia – Aliva Sahoo (organizer)
42. Persian Wikipedia – Mardetanha
43. Punjabi Wikipedia – Wikilover90 & Nitesh Gill
44. Portuguese Wikipedia – DarwIn, Athena in Wonderland, Teles, Mesocarpo, Conde Edmond Dantès
45. Romanian Wikipedia – Gikü (organiser), NicolaS961 (organiser)
46. Russian Wikipedia – Ле Лой (Organiser)
47. Sanskrit Wikipedia – Suyash Dwivedi
48. Santali Wikipedia – Manik Soren Sohagini Hasdak and Ramjit Tudu
49. Simple English Wikipedia – Auntof6 and Hiàn
50. Sindhi Wikipedia – JogiAsad (Organizer), Arslan Ali and BukhariSaeed
51. Sinhalese Wikipedia – Sameera
52. Slovak Wikipedia – Lišiak, Jetam2
53. Spanish Wikipedia – Millars, ProtoplasmaKid,
54. Swedish Wikipedia – Deryni (also a subcontest) and Bairuilong
55. Tagalog Wikipedia – Sky Harbor
56. Tamil Wikipedia – Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (தினேஷ்குமார் பொன்னுசாமி), Balajijagadesh, Nandhini Kandhasamy
57. Tatar Wikipedia – Timerkhan
58. Telugu Wikipedia – Pavan Santhosh, Rahmanuddin (రహ్మానుద్దీన్)
59. Tetun Wikipedia – BJ Sinaga (talk)
60. Thai Wikipedia – B20180
61. Tulu Wikipedia – Lokesha kunchadka, BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU, Kishorekumarrai
62. Ukrainian Wikipedia – Ата
63. Urdu Wikipedia – Obaid Raza and BukhariSaeed
64. Vietnamese Wikipedia – Tuanminh01

Supporting affiliates

Affiliates

Postcard affiliates WMBD, UG-CN, WMID, WMTW, UG-HK, UG-KO, UG-Odia, UG-PA, WG-Kansai Supporting affiliates WMIN, WMID, WMES, WMMX, WMPT, WMUA, WM-NYC, UG-MYS, UG-PH-WC, UG-TH, UG-AZ, UG-GE, UG-BAK, UG-BG, UG-ELiSo, UG-USOH, WM-CAT Other organizations CIS-A2K