Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India (WLB-NEI)
The overall purpose of Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India project is to increase the amount of free license materials regarding the butterfly species available in North-East India and related documentation and photographs in Wikipedia articles (Bengali language) in this regard and particular documentation of butterfly species of North-East India to be contributed in Wikispecies and Wikidata.
The WLB-NEI project further aims at broad spectrum of outreach program, knowledge sharing and interest generation among people about the way and means of butterfly as well as of Wikipedia, Wikimedia commons, Wikidata (the Wikimedia movement as a whole) by way of contributing quality images on butterfly related events to Wikimedia Commons and quality articles to Wikipedia involving more uses as we have done earlier in WLB project. Apart from that the Wikimedia movement and local communities will gain visibility and impetus through the success of this WLB-NEI project.
Funds
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editParticipants
editCore Team
edit| Name | Image | Role Designated for Field work | Task Allocation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ananya Mondal (talk) |  |
Mentoring, Preparing schedule, Identifying butterfly | Creating and upgrading articles and Identification of Specices |
| Sandip Das (talk) |  |
Shooting butterfly specially in Macro | Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Specices |
| Subhendu Khan (talk) |  |
Shooting butterfly, Identifying species | Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Specices |
| Tamaghna Sengupta (talk) |  |
Shooting butterfly, Identifying species | Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Specices |
Volunteer Involvement
edit| Name | Image | Role in Project |
|---|---|---|
| Dipanjali Biswas |  |
Photo uploading in Commons |
| Sourabh Biswas |  |
Photo uploading in Commons and Article creation in EnWP |
| Souvick Mukherjee |  |
Photo uploading in Commons |
Outreach
edit| Name | Image | Role in Project |
|---|---|---|
| Gayatri Dutta |  |
Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species |
| Rahul Biswas |  |
Video uploading in Commons |
| Sandex P Varghese |  |
Photo uploading in Commons specially Host Plants of Butterflies |
| Tanusri Mallick |  |
Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species |
| Mahesh Baruah |  |
Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species |
| Sarpita Bose |  |
Photo uploading in Commons specially life cycle of butterfly |
| Bias Chakraborty |  |
Photo uploading in Commons specially life circle of butterfly |
| Rajib Dey |  |
Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species |
| Ruksha Limbu |  |
Photo uploading in Commons |
Outcomes
editList of Butterfly distribution family-wise and state-wise
| State Name | Papilionidae | Pieridae | Nymphalidae | Lycaenidae | Riodinidae | Hesperiidae | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arunachal Pradesh | 17 | 13 | 76 | 36 | 4 | 28 | 174 |
| Assam | 10 | 7 | 38 | 42 | 2 | 25 | 124 |
| Meghalaya | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sikkim | 6 | 4 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 22 | 91 |
| Tripura | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Big Butterfly Month India 2020
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India has celebrated September 2020 as Big Butterfly Month. Research Institutes, Universities, Colleges, NGOs, Organisations, all over the nation came under a single banner and worked together for the betterment of butterflies. People throughout the country participated in various activities like joined in the webinar on numerous topics of butterflies, butterfly counting, documenting, butterfly photography competition, butterfly life cycle competition, butterfly drawing and origami competition for kids, butterfly essay competition, poetry on butterflies and many more. As a co-organiser of Big Butterfly Month event, Wiki Loves Butterfly organised one webinar on 15th September 2020. One hundred sixty participants all over the country registered for the talk. Sourabh Biswas delivered a session on Adult Butterflies Food Preferences as a representative of WLB. The session was also broadcasted live over WLB Facebook page. It was a grand success as participants were satisfied with the content and showed interest toward WLB and Wikimedia Commons. As an immediate effect, Ruksha Lewangh, a research scholar from Arunachal Pradesh, joined WLB.