International Roma Day/Guide for participants

International Roma Day (or known as International Roma Day Edit-a-thon) is an international editing contest organised on the occasion of April 8^th, which is celebrated as International Roma Day. This year, activities towards this day will be held in between April 1^st and April 15^th.

Every country and/or community which participated in the International Roma Day needs to publish a separate project page on their Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikiquote), where they will inform participants about the duration of the contest, which can be held in a shorter period of the international editing contest.

How can you participate?

Participation is open to all interested editors on Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikiquote) with or without any prior knowledge and experience into editing on Wikimedia from the organising country and/or community.

First step: Find the programme page of the editing contest on the language version of Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikiquote) that you want to participate in for the contest.

How?

1. Check on the the project page for the international editing contest, if your Wikimedia project/community is organising the contest: Participants list for the International Roma Day;

1. Additionally, please add your username under Individual participants on the page as well;

1. Check your local Village Pump and/or contact your local coordinator (organiser of the local contest); and
2. Find out if the editing contest is announced through general banner notification on your Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikiquote).

Second step: Register for the local contest on respective Wikimedia project.

How?

Register account

1. You need to log in with your Wikimedia account. If you don't have any Wikimedia account yet, then you need to create a new account. These buttons/links you can find in the upper right corner of your screen on any Wikimedia project;
2. After you are logged in, then usually you need to register your name and/or username on the project page of the local contest on your Wikimedia project; and
3. Some local contests have separate pages where you can track your edited pages, so you have to create such page as well.

Third step: Read all rules of the contest, where local coordinators (organisers) explain in further detail what you need to do during the contest. Also, you can be informed about any prizes that local organisers are having on their local contest.

Fourth step: During the contest, participants are expected to:

1. create new articles and improve existing ones;
2. add credible external links to articles; and
3. add images to articles to make them more vivid.