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Wikipedia started in 2001 as an online encyclopedia and has grown to support more than 200 languages. There are millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia. Although when people referring Wikipedia, what they usually mean is English Wikipedia, most of Wikipedia contents were actually distributed across all different language editions.In the smaller editions of Wikipedia, there are only a handful of editors creating content for their Wikipedia edition. Despite being the largest and most populous continent (More than half of the world's population lives in Asia), Asian topics are largely underrepresented on the internet as well as on Wikipedia. Without being presented on the internet, Asia's rich culture and history are hard to be learned and known by the rest of the world. Wikipedia Asian Month can be seen as a cultural exchange across Wikipedia editions, exposing the editors to multiple perspectives across different nations and cultures.
Meanwhile, Most Asian languages Wikipedia projects and communities are relatively smaller compared to its large population base. There are 9 Wikipedia projects that have more than 5,000 active users, yet only 2 of them are Asian languages. Among 39 Wikimedia Chapters, only 7 of them are from Asia. Wikipedia Asian Month wishes to narrow these gaps. Supporting is essential for these communities to take more approaches to grow. To address this issue, Wikipedia Asian Month devotes itself to this supporter position for demands of community development, and promotes its participants to create content about Asian topics. For many Wikipedia projects, Wikipedia Asian Month is their only online event. By participating in the Asian Month, you are empowering the Wikipedia Asian Month team and make all these supporters possible and available to these communities.
Unlike some other Wikipedia events, Wikipedia Asian Month isn't paying most of its attention to outreach to new users, or highlight extraordinary active editor. Instead, we give most of our effort to praise the core forces of the Wikipedian communities, who has constantly contributed to Wikipedia for a long period of time by writing serval new articles every year, or by making a couple hundred edits once a while. By giving out an appreciation to them, it makes them feel connected and appreciated in the Wikimedia movement. This, in turn, may lead to the editors creating more content to Wikipedia and staying longer to edit Wikipedia of their language.
Objective
Along with the Wikipedia Asian Month itself, Wikipedia Asian Month User Group has missions include:
- Improve Wikipedia / Wikimedia projects content about Asia (related culture, content, and enjoyment):
- Wikipedia content about Asia are underrepresented on most Wikipedia project. In past three years, more than 20 small Wikipedia community involved in this event (less than 10k articles).
- Supporting small Wikipedia communities around the world (majorly Asian Language Wikipedia) run Edit-a-thons that otherwise wouldn't occur:
- To some of those Wikipedia, Wikipedia Asian Month is the first and only editing event. Wikipedia Asian Month also provide assistance to small / startup local communities, to encourage growth and development:
- Continuously support and maintain the community health of Wikipedia:
- We've reached and interacted with more than 500 very active Wikipedians (who are able to write 5 high quality articles in one month) around the world (from more than 50 countries or regions). To many of these Wikipedians, our postcards, buttons and certificates are the only Wikipedian souvenir they received from many years editing experience.
- Increase the collaboration, communication and cooperation among the Wikimedia communities and affiliates:
- Wikipedia Asian Month allow a chance for Wikipedians in the middle of the curve to receive cultural souvenirs from other Wikipedians around the world. The contest is a result of collaboration among all affiliates in ESEAP region, and supported by nearly 20 affiliates in many ways
Office
- Address: 4F., No. 1, Zhanqian N. Rd., Zuoying Dist., Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 813014
- Mail: info＠asianmonth.org
