WACN/Activities/The Calendar Initiative

Wiki Awareness Campaign in Nepal

WACN (Wiki Awareness Campaign in Nepal) is a campaign to improve recognition of Wikipedia and understanding of its uses among the different communities of Nepal. It aims to increase awareness about Wikipedia. If you have appreciation(s) or feedback on our activities, please share it on discussion page.

WACN Part 2: The Calendar Initiative will be the most fascinating and innovative idea to raise awareness about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. In this project, we will be distributing Wiki-informative Calendars to the students of different universities and professionals. Wiki-informative Calendar will offer year-round exposure of Wikimedia projects to the students of different universities and professionals who are unaware about Wikimedia projects.

What is our goals?

Awareness about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects:
The distribution of Wiki-informative Calendars will raise awareness about Wikipedia and various Wikimedia projects among the students of different universities and professionals.
Engaging new readers:
Raising awareness about Wikipedia will ultimately lead to increment in the number of new readers.
Online promotion of the project:
As we are in the world of technology and internet, we will be sharing the entire project via social medias such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

What is our plans?

Here in Nepal, people use printed form of calendar to check holidays, keep track of appointments, festivals and note a vacation. Looking at this, we got the idea of Wiki-informative Calendar. This will be an updated version of Hindu calendar. It will not only include the normal calendar things, but also interesting facts and photographs taken from featured/good articles and files of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons respectively.

Communities have been notified of our project by

Message on maiwiki village pump
Message on newiki village pump
Mass message(s) on-wiki
Bulk sms
Message(s) on social media(s)
E-mail(s) etc.

What is our post-promotion plan?

After project ends, we will follow-up interested people through offline meetups, social media(s), group chat(s), hangouts and email(s).

Team Members

Main article: WACN/Members

Coordinator — Tulsi Bhagat (talk · contribs)
Adviser — Biplab Anand (talk · contribs)
Management Head — Bijay chaurasia (talk · contribs)
Communication Head — Sandeep Raut (talk · contribs)
Organizational Partner — PANKAJ DEO (talk · contribs)

Impact

Increment in pageviews/siteviews of Wikipedia
Number of reached people: 750
Reach on social media
Media coverages

Timeline

Here is a rough schedule of Calendar Initiative. This is subject to change.

June 01 - August 01, 2019: Project date
June 01 - June 15, 2019: Calendar Designing
June 15 - June 30, 2019: Printing of Wiki-informative Calendars
July 01 - July 20, 2019: Distribution of Wiki-informative Calendars
July 20 - July 25, 2019: Media coverage(s)
July 25 - July 31, 2019: Follow-up interested participants
August 01 - August 25, 2019: Preparation of report

Supporting Affiliates

Contact

Main article: WACN/Contact


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