Wikipedia Asian Month 2024/WikiVoyage Special Edition

Wikivoyage Special Edition

In honor of Wikivoyage's 12 years as part of the Wikimedia family, we are pleased to announce that Wikimedia Small Projects and the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group are collaborating to host a special edition of Wikipedia Asian Month 2024 for Wikivoyage, titled Wikivoyage Asian Month. With the encouragement of the participating language communities, we hope this special edition will inspire increased volunteer participation and improve Asian contents in Wikivoyage.

Rules and criteria

The global rules can be found here. Furthermore, each participating language community has the option to either utilize the global awarding criteria or develop their own local criteria.

The decision to award points rests with the judges, and Wikimedia Small Projects and Wikipedia Asian Month User Group will bestow prizes based on their thoughtful deliberation.

Global rules

The articles must be about destinations geographically in Asia, Asian travel topics, Asian itineraries or language phrasebooks commonly spoken in Asia as defined by Wikivoyage's boundaries.
The contributions will be considered valid if submitted between November 20, 2024 and January 20, 2025. The judges and organizers may allow exceptions at their discretion.
Please ensure that you are logged in to your Wikimedia account. We kindly ask participants to refrain from adding lengthy sections of text sourced from unedited machine translators. Do not repeatedly insert identical contents (e.g. phone number for emergency services, telco providers in connect, etc.) in multiple articles.
It is essential to adhere strictly to copyright rules. We encourage participants to avoid copying external content that does not have a compatible license with the projects, as this could lead to copyright violations and removal of the content. If you do use external content with a compatible license, please provide proper attribution according to the terms of use and copyright policy. We highly value new and original content!
Collaborative editing is encouraged, even if another contest participant is already working on the same article. Feel free to enhance the article by fixing links, updating information, and adding listings. However, we kindly request that article styling be handled by the organizers and experienced editors from that project.
Please be aware that disqualification may occur, at the discretion of the organizing team, if any edits are perceived as sabotage.

Global awarding criteria

Note: English Wikivoyage has different criteria, so this section does not apply to them.

Travel content

7 points for filling an important content gap in the project (e.g., by creating an article on a large city or important region, or substantially expanding an empty, stub or outline article on such a destination);

5 points for creating a new article (the article will be valid if have the required basic templates, basic article structure and an introduction that briefly describes the destination). Simply stating "X is a city in region Y" does not count as a valid introduction;
3 points for improving an existing article;
1 point for each 4000 bytes added to an existing article or a new article that has a basic structure.

Images

1 point for illustrating an article;
3 points if the article is illustrated with original images taken by the participant, provided that Commons doesn't have any similar images.

Team

User:Galahad — Global Coordinator

Participating Wikivoyage communities

Community	Page	Judges
Spanish Wikivoyage	Mes de Asia en Wikiviajes	Galahad (coordinator)
Chinese Wikivoyage	維基導遊亞洲月	OhanaUnited (coordinator)
English Wikivoyage	Wikivoyage Asian Month	SHB2000 (coordinator)