Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Events/Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia

Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia is an awareness campaign to promote Maithili Wikipedia to the students, writers and peoples of different backgrounds of Rajbiraj. The main aim of the campaign is to engage and make new readers of Maithili Wikipedia. The campaign started in May 2018 and ended in October 2018.

Activities

To engage new readers for Maithili Wikipedia, the members of MWUG initiated Rickshaw announcement to inform the local people of Rajbiraj about Maithili Wikipedia. The announcement was done in all the 16 wards of Rajbiraj in 4 successful stages. Apart from the Rickshaw announcement, we have fixed the Maithili Wikipedia Content's related Hoarding boards at the most important places of Rajbiraj as well as in 7 e-rickshaw to promote the campaign. We also arranged an orientation class at Galaxy Higher Secondary School to give our Wiki related knowledge to students of 10+2 of science and management stream. At last, we arranged meetup with interested people of Rajbiraj which includes students, writers, journalists and socially aware people.

Rickshaw Announcement

The Rickshaw announcement helped us to reach among peoples of Rajbiraj to introduce them with Maithili Wikipedia. The campaign most important task is to complete this announcement.

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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia

Orientation class

We also tried hard to get students into the campaign. That's why we included students of Galaxy Higher Secondary School, Rajbiraj to give them knowledge and usage of Maithili Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects.

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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj
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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj
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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj

Posters at different places

We managed to fixed the Maithili Wikipedia Content's related Hoarding boards at the most important places of Rajbiraj as well as in more than 7 e-rickshaw to promote the campaign.

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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards

Meetups

We have successfully organized the Meetups regarding Maithili Wikipedia and this promotional campaign. We meet with different students and peoples of Rajbiraj. We also managed to meet with a group of writers, journalist and socially aware people.

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Participation at Wikimania 2018

I participated in a session about Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers at Wikimania 2018 as a part of panel. I talk about the promotional campaign of Maithili Wikipedia in Nepal.

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  During panel discussion

Siteviews Analysis

Comparison of siteviews of Maithili Wikipedia during the promotional campaign siteviews and normal siteviews is as follows-

Maithili Wikipedia Siteviews comparison. Normal siteviews (L) and During the promotional campaign siteviews (R).

Statistics

S.N.	Duration	Siteviews	Daily Average	Notes
1	10 January 2018- 10 May 2018	522,087	4,315	Normal view
2	10 May 2018- 12 October 2018	813,463	5,215	During the promotional campaign.

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