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Nepali Wikipedia updates as of today, May 29 2020

Tulsi Bhagat — Fri, 29 May 2020 02:52:43 +0000

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 96,521 pages including redirect pages, talk pages, etc. As of today, it has 1,094 media files.

As you may know, it only features free content and all the text are available under creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. It doesn’t feature any commercial ads and is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

As of today, it has 48,280 registered users and 144 active users. Out of which, there are 8 administrators and 2 bureaucrats who are responsible for administrative actions. Moreover, there are 8 bots, 16 autopatrol users, 5 reviewers, 3 rollbackers and 5 template editors.

As of April 2020, Nepal and Provinces of Nepal is the most viewed page of this project. Nepali Wikipedia has 809,658 total edit counts by it’s volunteer, and the daily average views count is 23,288.

Apart from that, 175 articles are nominated for speedy deletion. Hurry up slowly and contest those speedy deletion nomination before it’s deleted.

Originally published on tulsibhagat.com by Tulsi Bhagat, May 29, 2020

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Introducing Wiki Awareness Campaign in Nepal

Tulsi Bhagat — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:32:28 +0000

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 campaign

Improve recognition of Wikimedia projects in Nepal
Engage new readers
Promote Wikimedia projects in Nepal
Promote different language wiki-communities of Nepal
Encourage people of Nepal to freely share in the sum of all knowledge

Projects

The Billboards Initiative: In this project, we had focused on installation of static and digital billboards around two major cities of Nepal and shared the entire project data via social media sites.
The Calendar Initiative: In this project, we will be distributing Wiki-informative Calendars to the students of different universities, educational institution and professionals.

Contact

Facebook: wacnofficial
Instagram: wacn.official
Twitter: wacnofficial

Tulsi Bhagat, an open source and free knowledge enthusiast is the coordinator of this project. Follow him on Twitter, @Genesis2Rise.

Originally published on Medium.com by Tulsi Bhagat, March 16, 2020

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Maithili Wikipedia turns one year old

Tulsi Bhagat — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 02:20:43 +0000

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 on Maithili Wikipedia, which started on 1 October and lasted to 19 November. During the online edit-a-thon, 999 articles were created and modified—out of a total of 1,557 articles on the site.

Seven Maithili Wikipedians took part on the edit-a-thon competition, whose main purpose was to grow participation among Maithili speakers and editors. After the end of the competition Wikimedians of Nepal and Rajbiraj Wikimedia Community members organized an event to reward the winner of the competition and commemorate the anniversary.

The event and prize distribution was organized at Neta Chowk, Rajbiraj. In the programme, Maithili Wikimedians, Maithili linguists, and Maithili journalists spoke about the need for a Maithili Wikipedia and its importance. The winners of the edit-a-thon are Tulsi Bhagat (1st), Nilam Karn (2nd), and Bijay Chaurasia (3rd) and received awards from the Maithili Sahitya Parishad President Subha Chandra Jha. During the programme, the participants discussed:

To expand the articles base.
To improve the quality of the articles.
To upload images showcasing Maithili culture and heritage.
To Plan editathons and other outreach events.
To extend support to Maithili as well as Wikipedias in other languages of Nepal.

The event ended with an informal session in which each of the participants was part of a ceremonial cake party. The event was reported in the Rajbiraj Today, News Today and Aajko Waatawaran newspapers of Nepal as well as the online Saptari Jagaran.

Biplab Anand and Tulsi Bhagat, Wikimedians of Nepal

Source: Wikimedia Diff

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