Image by Syced / CC0 1.0 The 2020 Summer Olympics which was postponed; kickstarted with an opening ceremony in Tokyo on Friday, 23 July 2021. With this, the third edition of Wiki Loves Sport has started till 5th of September 2021 to improve and extend the content related to sport in general (Olympic & Paralympic Games in particular). Wikipedians from…
2020 was a year that gave anxiety, suffering, despair and many such negative emotions. It was the year COVID-19 affected many lives throughout the world. It changed the way people live, work, think, learn and socialize. The pandemic forced entire events, celebrations, offline projects, gathering to be limited to screens. When the director-general of the World Health Organisation proclaimed that…
In February, Wiki Loves Folklore 2020—an international photographic contest—with the unique theme and first event of its kind was held. It was organized by the Wikimedia community for the very first time to document folk cultures of different regions of the world at Wikimedia Commons. However, It is continuation of Wiki Loves Love 2019. Over 118 countries across the globe has participated in…
Screenshot of Nepali Wikipedia Main page / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Nepali Wikipedia is the Nepali edition of Wikipedia, launched on 3rd of June 2002. As per Alexa, Wikipedia is one of the 11th most popular websites in Nepal, as of May 2020. Nepali Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia in Nepali language. Currently, it has 34,168 articles and a total…
Image by Tulsi Bhagat / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A campaign to improve recognition of Wikipedia and understanding of its uses among the different communities of Nepal. This campaign is initiated and coordinated by Tulsi Bhagat and his team. It aims to increase awareness of Wikipedia across the country, Nepal. What are we trying to accomplish with this…
Happy first birthday, Maithili Wikipedia. Image from Bijay chaurasia, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Maithili Wikipedia completed its first year on 6 November 2015. To celebrate, Wikimedians of Nepal and Rajbiraj Wikimedia Community team members have organized an event to facilitate the winners of first Maithili editathon and the anniversary celebration. Community members have organized a 45-day-long editathon to expand and create new articles…
