Wikimedians of Nepal/Annual Report 2016

Wikimedians of Nepal Annual Report 2016

Wikipedia15 , Kathmandu , 16 Jan 2016

Wikipedia has completed historical 15 years and Kathmandu Celebrated the happiness ! Wikipedians, Mozillians, FOSSians and Open Activists gathered and cherished the incredible moment the human civilization has made together .

Project page

Wikipedia 15

Participants

Saroj Dhakal
Nirmal Dulal
Nabin Sapkota
Surit Aryal
Shuvam Joshi
Pratit Raj Giri
Sanjog Sigdel
Manish Jung Thapa
Rhoit Amatya
Shalil Awale
Ashmita Adhikari
Spandan Pradhan

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Media Coverage

Outreach

1. Sagarmatha Engineering College

Outreach/Sagarmatha Engineering College

Short outreach session was organized in Sagarmatha College of Engineering , Sanepa . Students from first year and second year B.Sc. CSIT took part . Students were around 70 in number and were eager to know more about wikipedia .

Date/Venue

Date:17 Jan 2016
Sagarmatha College of Engineering , Sanepa, Lalitpur

Participants

Yankee Maharjan
Swojeet Kayastha
Mukesh K. Karn
Solar Kiranti
Amogh Shakya
Salina Maharjan
Samreen Maharjan
Prasamsha Pandey
Shristi Lohani
Saroj Khadka
Pratikshya Maharjan
Alisha Acharya
Aditi Shrestha
Saigal Amatya
Ameerit Pokharel

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Outreach/Sagarmatha Engineering College

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2. Peoples' Campus

Outreach program was organized for BBA 7 semester students in Peoples Campus ne:पिपल्स क्याम्पस Kathmandu.

Outreach program was organized for BBA 7 semester students in Peoples Campus. Number of participants was around 60 and 4 Wikipedians have facilitated the program.

Date/Venue

Date: 29th December, 2016
People's Campus, Kathmandu

Facilitators

Participants

60 student of BBA 7th Semester of People's Campus

Project Page

Outreach project page

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Meetups

Nepali Wikipedia Admin Meetup/January

Nepali Wikipedia Admins Meetup

This is first Meetup of Nepali Wikipedia Sysops (Administrators). It's high time we meet (online and offline) and discuss about the project and it's progress. We also talk about Wiki technology, MediaWiki, Local Wikipedia policies, articles base and other tasks. Feel free to join the discussion.

Participants and Project Page

Nepali Wikipedia Admin Meetup 2016

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Nepali Wikipedia Admin Meetup/March

User:Saroj Kumar Dhakal (left), User:Nabin Sapkota (center) and User:Nirmal Dulal (right) during Nepalese Wikipedia admin meetup in 2016-03-12 at Siddartha Cottage, Tinkune, Kathmandu

This is second Meetup in 2016 of Nepali Wikipedia Sysops (Administrators). We discuss here about the annual felicitation program, its preparation, create a task force and fix date and venue for the event. Feel free to join the discussion.

Date and Time:March 13, 2016

Venue: Siddhartha Cottage, Tinkune, Kathmandu

Participants and Project Page

Nepali Wikipedia Admin Meetup 2016/March

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Wiki Women Edit-a-thon

An editing competition that planned to organize by Wikimedians of Nepal with the aim to creating awareness about gender related issues and value the being of women .

Date

Feb-8 to Mar-8

Output

428 women related articles created or improved
Engaged 26 participants
Online and offline article writing competition organized

Full list of articles created during Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016

Project Page

Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016

Wikiproject Data-a-thon 2016

Wikiproject Data-a-thon 2016 is online as offline Wikidata editing competition which is organized by Wikimedia Nepal in order to link the as much as data of Nepali Wikipedia with Wikidata which is the repository that provides a link to the wiki contents. This was organized during April 15, 2016 to May 15, 2016. and this program was first time launched on 1st April 2015.

Date

April 15, 2016 to May 15, 2016

Output

1284 articles were linked and added
Engaged 25 participants
Online and offline edit-a-thon organized

Full list of participants

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Wikimedians of Nepal/Events/Wikiproject Data-a-thon 2016

Wiki-a-thon-5

Wiki-a-thon 2016 is an in-house edit-a-thon competition organize by Wikimedians of Nepal during the biggest festival of Nepal Dashain Tihar and Chhath to acquire the youth participation in the creative works rather than gambling and bad practices.

Date

Oct-1 to Nov-6

Output

2500+ valid edits and 69 new articles were created by 20 participants during the competition
Rise of new active users

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Wiki-a-thon 2016

Wiki Loves Monuments 2016-Nepal

Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote cultural monuments around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Starting from the Netherlands in 2010, organized on a European level in 2011 and went global in 2012.

Date

1st Sept, 2016 - 30th Sept, 2016

Output

8608 photographs were been uploaded by the 163 contributors during the competition.
15+ photowalk around Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Panauti, Rajbiraj, Janakpur etc

Project Page

Wiki Loves Monuments Nepal 2016

Top 10 Photographs

Outreach/Photowalk

Outreach Program

Media Coverage

Wiki-Wistar(Wikipedia Outreach Program)

Wiki-Wistar(Wikipedia Outreach Program) conducted in Pratibha Community Library at Attariya, Kailali. This was the first Wiki-Wistar program at Attariya, Kailali i.e. Farwest part of Nepal.

Wikipedia volunteer Janak Bhatta presented about the Wikipedia and Wiki movement in Nepal.

Venue

Pratibha Community Library Attariya, Kailali, Nepal
Time: 19th Oct. 2016 (3 pm to 5:30 pm)
Coordinator/Presenter: Janak Bhatta
Organizer: Pratibha Community Library Attariya

Discussions

About Wikipedia and Wiki movement in Nepal.
Incubation project(i.e. Doteli Wiki)
Commons

Participants

Participants at Wiki-Wistar(Wikipedia Outreach Program)

Lekhraj Joshi
Lal Bahadur Bam
T R Pathak
Khagraj Bhandari
Khem Batas
Tankeshwor Khadka
Abhaya Chaube
Krishna Paneru'Banchit'
Nirmal Kumar Bhandari
Bam Bahadur Malla
Karna B.K.
Rabin Bista
Taranath Bhatta
Liladhar Joshi
Khagendra Ojha
Ramesh Bhatta

Wikipedia Asian Month- Nepal

Wikipedia Asian Month is an online Edit-a-thon aimed at promoting Asian content in Wikipedia. Each of the participating communities runs a local Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on their own language Wikipedias, which promotes the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about Asia except their own country. The participating community is not limited to Asia.

Date

1st Nov, 2016 - 30th Nov, 2016

Output

86 new articles were been created during the event related to famous personalities, books, culture, food, history and places.

Project Page

Wikipedia Asian Month- Nepal

BBC 100 Women Editathon

An edit-a-thon organized by BBC in collaboration with Wikipedia with the aim to creating awareness about gender related issues and value the being of women .