Wikipedia:WAM 2018

Wikipedia Asian Month

Wikipedia Asian Month is an online Edit-a-thon aimed at enhancing understanding among Asian Wikipedia communities. Taking place through November 2018, the purpose of Asian Month at [your language] Wikipedia is to improve the quantity and quality of articles about Asian countries except [your country]

As a symbol of friendship between Wikipedia's Asian communities, each participant who creates at least 4 articles that fulfill the criteria will receive a specially designed Wikipedia postcard from other participating countries.

Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors".

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Rules

In a nutshell: New Article, about Asia, good quality, 3,000 bytes and 300 words minimum, created during November, 2018 and not a list.

In specific:

• The article is newly created by you (i.e. not expanding stubs) between November 1, 2018 0:00 (UTC) and November 30, 2018 23:59 (UTC).
• The article should be at least 3,000 bytes and around 300 words (or characters in some language) in length.
• The article shall fulfill notability criteria
• The article must have decent references coverage; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
• The article is not machine translated, and has a decent language style
• There are no issues (no tags) in the article
• The article is not a list
• The article which made to Feature List counts. (Optional, only applied in those Wikipedia which has Feature List.)
• The article is informative
• The article is about an Asian Country or region except [your language speaking country(s)]
• Articles submitted by an organizer need to be checked by other organizers.

Notes:

• In the end, human juror(s) from local Wikipedia will determine whether an article is accepted or not.
• When you created 4 articles fulfill the criteria, you will receive a WAM postcards from one of the Asian community.
• Wikipedia Asian Ambassador will receive a signed Certificate from Asian Affiliates, and an additional postcard. See Q&A for more information.

Organizers

• User:BJ Sinaga
• User:J. Patrick Fischer

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Useful Link

• Pilot page on Meta
• Onsite edit-a-thon

Affiliation

Wikimedia User Group China • Wikimedia Taiwan • Wikimedia India • Wikimedia Indonesia • Wikimedians in Kansai • Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong • Wikimedia Bangladesh • Wikimedians of Nepal • Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka • Punjabi Wikimedians User Group • Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group • Wikimedians of Korea User Group • Iranian Wikimedians User Group • Wikimedians of the Levant User Group • Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group • Wikimedians in Thailand • Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia • Vietnam Wikimedians User Group • West Bengal Wikimedians • Wikipedia Asian Month User Group