5th Year Santali Wikipedia Anniversary

  




The santali wikipedia was launched on 2nd August 2018 after collective efforts of santali wikipedians of India , Bangladesh and Nepal. Since then it is trying to expand its content and grow. In the past year it has conducted workshops, outreach programmes and arranged its own anniversary edit-a-thon to promote and aware the readers about the Santali Wikipedia.

Events edit

The event comprises of three days online virtual workshop and three months edit-a-thon.

Organizer edit

Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group

Co-ordinator edit

  1. R Ashwani Banjan Murmu
  2. Manik Soren

Virtual Event edit

The community conducted three days virtual workshops from 02/08/2023 to 04/08/2023. The 1st day and 2nd day was general workshop for everyone, and 3rd day was a dedicated workshop for female participants. On each day we had invited two wikimedians from other communities as distinct guest and speakers. On the 1st day the speakers motivated through their input to the participants and shared their experience of Wikipedia. On the second day the speakers shared their collaboration experience of Santali Wikipedia and their vision of Santali Wikipedia. On the 3rd day we had Female Wikimedian as guest and speaker. Both the speaker shared their experience as female contributor and scope and opportunities for the female in Wikipedia. Besides the organizing members the participant of the workshop were female only. On each day one of the user from our community conducted the workshop as a resource person for the participant except the last day session was completely conducted by one our female user Shakuntala Marndi. On these three days' workshop we focused on the basic of the Wikipedia and attended the different queries of the participant.

Day 1 edit

02/08/202 Guest Speaker

  1. Satedeep Gill -Senior Programme Officer Culture and Heritage from Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Tanveer Hasan-Executive Director Centre for Internet Society

Resource Person

  1. Prasanta Hembram
  2. Bijendra Hansda

Day 2 edit

03/08/2023 Guest Speaker

  1. Shabab Mustafa from Wikimedia Bangladesh
  2. Subhashish Panigrahi from Odia Wikimedia

Resoursce Person

  1. Ramjit Tudu

Please find the link of complete video of the event.

Day 3 edit

04/08/2023 Guest Speaker

  1. Christel Steigenberger Senior Program Officer, Peer Support, Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Nitesh Gill , Punjabi Wikimedian and Programme Officer, Centre for Internet Society and Access to Knowledge

Resoursce Person

  1. Bodi Baski

Please find the complete video link of the event

Three months edit-a-thon was conducted to achive the content of the santali wikipedia with an objective of reaching 10000 article. We also conducted some social media campaigns to make people aware about the wikipedia. The edit-a-thon is a part of anniversary celebration. the objective of the event is:

  1. To make Santali Wikipedia more popular
  2. Create awareness about santali Wikipedia
  3. Create opportunity for the new users.
  4. Create friendly and healthy competitive environment among the users.
  5. Increase the content of the Santali Wikipedia.

Time edit

  • 2nd June 2023 -9th September 2023

Rules and Regulation edit

  • Minimum words of a article must be of 300 words.
  • Article must be created between 2nd June to 9th September 2023
  • Topic for the articles are open.
  • Article should not have any copy rights and should have appropriate reference and citation.

Rewards and Social media Campaign edit

  • At the end of every week the story of top three contributors of the edit-a-thon was shared in our Wikipedia Facebook page
  • The photo of top contributor of the week of the edit-a-thon was be kept as cover picture of of Wikipedia Facebook page
  • At the end of 1st month the story of top five contributors of the edit-a-thon was shared in our Wikipedia Facebook page
  • At the end of the edit-a-thon the story of top five contributors of the edit-a-thon was shared in our Wikipedia Facebook page and its twitter handle and the photo of top five contributors of the edit-a-thon will be kept as cover picture of of Wikipedia Facebook page and its twitter handle for a month.

List of Participants in Edit-a-thon edit

  1. Rocky 734
  2. ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗
  3. ℝ𝕒𝕞𝕛𝕚𝕥 𝕋𝕦𝕕𝕦
  4. Premchand murmu thakur
  5. MT731
  6. Bijendra Hansda Purudhul
  7. Maina Tudu
  8. ᱜᱚᱲᱚᱢ ᱦᱟᱲᱟᱢ
  9. Fagu Baskey
  10. Shibu Murmu
  11. ᱤᱧ ᱢᱟᱛᱟᱞ
  12. ProfessorOffl
  13. R Ashwani Banjan Murmu

Jury of the Event edit

  1. Albetus Tudu from Bangladesh
  2. Shibu Murmu from Nepal
  3. Maina Tudu from India
  4. Fagu Baskey from India

Outcome edit

Viirtual Workshop edit

From the virtual workshop 46 interested have been connected with the community and 4 users have started contributing in Wikipedia

On Line Edit-a-thon edit

Though we had set the goal of 10000 articles through this edit-a-thon, the community could reach 9292 articles at the end of the edit-a-thon and during the edit-a-thon 764 articles were added to the Wikipedia through this edit-a-thon. The outcome of the edit-a-thon could be seen in this Fountain Tool

Resolution edit

The community happy with the successful conduct of the event and outcome of the event. The community will shortly start a workshop for newly connected participant. We are planing for the regular similar event to keep engaging the existing user as well as the new user.