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Project Tiger Writing Contest

Project Tiger is a writing contest that aims to encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages.

After seeing the astounding participation from the Indian communities, the second iteration of the Project Tiger is happening again in this year.

Will you help?

In order to participate you must be registered as an editor.

Step 1

Join the contest

10 October, 2019, 11:59 PM IST

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Step 2

Submit your article(s)

Add your new creation or updates.

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Topic Lists

||  অসমীয়া - Assamese  ||  ‎मराठी - Marathi  ||  ‎தமிழ் - Tamil  ||  ‎ಕನ್ನಡ - Kannada  ||  ‎বাংলা - Bengali  ||  ‎తెలుగు - Telugu  ||  ‎ਪੰਜਾਬੀ - Punjabi  ||  ‎हिन्दी - Hindi  ||  ‎संस्कृतम् - Sanskrit  ||  ‎ଓଡ଼ିଆ - Odia  ||  ‎മലയാളം - Malayalam  ||  ‎ગુજરાતી - Gujarati  ||  ‎اردو - Urdu  ||  ‎ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ - Santali  ||

Rules

Create, translate or expand articles, in your own words, from a given list of topics whilst paying proper attention to sourcing requirements. The cumulative edit(s) per article shall be of 300 words and 6,000 bytes (with sources), at a minimum

The creation or content-update shall be executed between 10 October 2019, 0:00 and 11 January 2020, 23:59 (IST)

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Prizes

Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to the top three contributors from each participating community, based on their net contribution(s) for the month. The prizes will be worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR amazon gift vouchers respectively. As a token of appreciation, jury of writing contest will each recieve 800 INR worth amazon gift card.

At the end of the three-month-long contest, the community with the maximum number of articles expanded or created will win a community prize. This will be an exclusive 3-day capacity training event for the winning community.

Topics

Feel free to improve any article from any of the lists. If you want more topics from a particular category, please request on the talk page. We will try our best to add them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Onsite edit-a-thon

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Statistics

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Last updated: 19 Feb 2020 (IST)
Note:

  • Only articles written by contestants with at least one point have been counted.
  • Page views data is not updated or accurate until all the entries are evaluated.
  • Please ignore the "With marks", "Without marks" count in the fountain tool. This change is based on the number of jury members, articles yet to be evaluated for quality.
  • Individual prizes and the community prize will be decided based on the number of points earned.
Language Participants Articles New Page views
 Expanded Page views Contest articles Stats page
Sanskrit 4 19 Fountain link
Assamese 18 175 Fountain link
Santali 18 566 Fountain link
Bengali 49 1460 477 114 Fountain link
Gujarati 7 201 Fountain link
Hindi 26 253 Fountain link
Kannada 17 199 Fountain link
Malayalam 8 229 Fountain link
Odia 5 154 Fountain link
Punjabi 34 1747 Fountain link
Tamil 62 2924 Fountain link
Telugu 42 24 Fountain link
Marathi 18 97 Fountain link
Urdu 25 1376 Fountain link
Tulu 5 32 Fountain link
Total 330 12406

Fountain tool

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Instruction for jury

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  • Post successful-vetting of an article that has been created / expanded under the purview of the contest;
    • Please add the following template to a newly created page:
      • {{Project Tiger 2019|created=yes}}
    • Please add the following template to an expanded page:
      • {{Project Tiger 2019|expanded=yes}}
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