Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Events/Mother Language Edit-a-thon

Mother Language Edit-a-thon
मातृभाषा सम्पादनथन
Mother Language Edit-a-thon; मातृभाषा सम्पादनथन
Status	inactive (ended)
Genre	International Mother Lanuage Day
Begins	February 21, 2018
Ends	February 23, 2018
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Rajbiraj, Saptari District
Coordinates	Coordinates: 26.32°, 86.44°
Country	Nepal
Coordinator	Biplab Anand (Online)
Participants	Maithili speaker from all over the world.
Organised by	Maithili Wikimedians

Mother Language Edit-a-thon

Mother Language Edit-a-thon is an online Edit-a-thon competition organized on Maithili Wikipedia on the occasion of International Mother Language Day 2018. The competition was organized from February 21, 2018 to February 23, 2018. The main aim of the competition is to create articles about languages, linguistic and cultural diversity on Maithili Wikipedia as well as to promote multilingualism. The competition is solely online and organized for the first time on Maithili Wikipedia.

Quick Links

Main Page
Participants
Competition Statistics
Winners

Project Lead

Biplab Anand - Coordinator
Volunteers of MWUG

Aims

The following are the project aims :-

To increase the user participation in Maithili Wikipedia,
To create articles about languages, linguistic and cultural diversity on Maithili Wikipedia,
To promote multilingualism.
To increase Maithili native speakers users in Maithili Wikipedia,

Participants

The complete list of participants can be seen here locally in Maithili Wikipedia. The top contributors of the Edit-a-thon is listed below.

Competition Statistics

Global metrics^[1]

S.N.	Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Number of editors (involved)	11	User signed up for the Edit-a-thon.
2	Number of editors (article created)	7	User created articles during the Edit-a-thon.
3	Number of articles added on Maithili Wikipedia	36	36 new article
4	Number of good articles	13	13 good article