Punjabi Wikipedia Categorython
Local Page on Punjabi Wikipedia
Punjabi Wikipedia Categorython was organized during 1 February 2017 to 28 February 2017. The idea to have a categorython orginated from a similar edit-a-thon on Hindi Wikipedia proposed by User:Anamdas.
Statistics
edit- +136% growth in Edits per Month
- +8% Active Editors
- +40% Active Editors
| S. No. | Before the edit-a-thon | After the edit-a-thon | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncategorized Pages | 1539 | Uncategorized Pages | 644 |
| 2 | Uncategorized Categories | 1288 | Uncategorized Categories | 1251 |
| 3 | Uncategorized Files | 404 | Uncategorized Files | 403 |
| 4 | Uncategorized Templates | 3001 | Uncategorized Templates | 3035 |
Paritcipants
editOut of the total 15 participants who signed up for the event, 3 were non-Punjabi.
- Gurbakhshish chand did the most of number of edits and played a major role in categorizing pages.
- Jagvir Kaur completed her 500 edits during the event.
- Jashan1994 had only about 60 Global contributions before the event and now she has 229 edits.
- Wikilover90 became active after an inactivity of one month.
Learnings
edit- We got to learn that many Wikipedians did not know that they can contribute in a number of ways rather than just creating new articles. While creating articles requires a substantial amount of time, it takes very less time to make small yet meaningful contribution of categorizing pages.