Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Events/Women Edit-a-thon 2017

Women Edit-a-thon 2017
महिला सम्पादनथन २०१७
Women Edit-a-thon 2017; महिला सम्पादनथन २०१७
	Women Edit-a-thon 2017 logo
Status	inactive (ended)
Genre	International Women's Day
Begins	March 6, 2016
Ends	March 8, 2016
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Rajbiraj, Saptari District
Coordinates	Coordinates: 26.32°, 86.44°
Country	Nepal
Coordinator	Nilam Karn; Babita Shah
Participants	Maithili speaker from all over the world.
Organised by	Maithili Wikimedians

Women Edit-a-thon 2017 is a local online as well offline Edit-a-thon competition organized by Maithili Wikimedians in Maithili Wikipedia on the auspicious occasion of International Women's Day to acquire specially the women's participation in the creative works.

Organizers

The following is the name of Coordinator of this event :-

Nilam Karn - Coordinator
Babita Shah - Coordinator

Volunteers

The following are the name of Volunteers of this event who gonna help online as well offline:-

Aims

The following are the project aims :-

To increase women's participation in Maithili Wikipedia,
To create or modify notable women's articles in Maithili Wikipedia,
To develop level of Maithili Wikipedia,
To increase maithili native speakers in Maithili Wikipedia,
To promote the contribution of local contents in Maithili Wikipedia,
To increase women's involvement in community projects,
Establish and consolidate the existence of the Maithili Wikimedians in Nepal.

Rules

The following are the rules to be followed during the event :-

The new article must be created between 0:00 UTC on 06 March 2016 and 23:59 UTC on 08 March 2016.
The article must be Women's related title.
Creation/Expansion rule: If you are creating a new article the new article must have a size of at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum length of roughly 60 words (the word count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.), If you are expanding an existing article, you need to expand this article by at least 3,500 bytes, (the word count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.)
The articles should not be copyvio content and should follow verifiability and other important policies of Wikipedia.
The articles should have decent references;

Participants

The complete list of participants can be seen here locally in Maithili Wikipedia.

S.No.	Participants Name	Username
1.	Nilam Karn	Nilamkarn (talk • contribs • email)
2.	Tulsi Bhagat	Tulsi Bhagat (talk • contribs • email)
3.	Zeetendra Shah	Zeetendra (talk • contribs • email)
4.	Biplab Anand	Biplab Anand (talk • contribs • email)
5.	Kiran Kumar	Kay Kay (KK) (talk • contribs • email)
6.	Pankaj Kumar Deo	PANKAJ DEO (talk • contribs • email)
7.	Bijay Chaurasia	Bijay chaurasia (talk • contribs • email)
8.	Babita Shah	Babita shah (talk • contribs • email)
9.	Krishna Kumar Deo	Krishna Kumar Deo (Munna) (talk • contribs • email)

Achievements

The Women Edit-a-thon shows solid impact on Maithili Wikipedia. During the Edit-a-thon competition 89 women related new articles were created and 15 articles were modified. In aggregate, 9 Maithili Wikipedians takes part to success the event.

Global metrics

S.N.	Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Number of active editors involved	8	All the users who had at least 5 or more edits during the three day Edit-a-thon.
2	Number of new editors	3	These were editors who created usernames during the three day Edit-a-thon.
3	Number of individuals involved	9	All new and active editors who attended, plus volunteers who organized the event.
4	Number of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	104	89 new article + 15 article improved
5	Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	Computing..	Computing..

Winners

Winners are likewise :-

Nilam Karn (26 New articles)
Pankaj Deo (19 New articles)
Biplab Anand (12 New articles)

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