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Project Tiger Writing Contest

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination
with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and
user groups are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create
locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will
(a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of
laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest
that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The participating Indian language Wikipedia communities would compete for three
months on a writing contest focused on content gaps. Besides individual prizes for
top contributors, the winning community will be supported to get an exclusive
capacity building training event to improve their skills for contributing to
Wikipedia.

Rules
In a nutshell: Create or expand articles from the given list of topics. 3,000 bytes
and 300 words minimum, with sources, between March-May 2018.

The article should be from the list of topics given. If you want more topics from a
particular category, please request on the talk page. We will try our best to add
them.
The article should be edited between March 1, 2018, 0:00 and May 31, 2018, 23:59
(IST).
The article should be at least 9,000 bytes and at least 300 words in length. For
English, it should be at least 3000 bytes and at least 300 words in length.
(exclude Infobox, template etc.)
The article must have decent references; doubtful or controversial statements in
the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
The article must not be purely machine translated and should be properly
copyedited.
There must be no major issues with the article (no copyright violations, questions
of notability, etc.)
The article should be informative.
Articles submitted by an organizer need to be checked by other organizers.
Judge(s) from each language Wikipedia will determine whether an article is accepted
or not for their language Wikipedia's contest.
Prizes
Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each participating community
based on their contribution for the month. The prizes will be worth 3,000 INR, 2000
INR, and 1,000 INR respectively.
At the end of the three-month-long contest, the community with the maximum number
of articles expanded or created will win a community prize. This will be an
exclusive 3-day capacity training event for the winning community. This training
can include up to 40 users and will be organized by CIS-A2K and WMF.
Considering the disproportionate strength of English Wikipedia community in India
when compared to other Indian language Wikipedia communities, the English Wikipedia
community will not be counted for the Community Capacity Development prize.
However, English Wikipedians can compete for the individual prizes.
Wikimedians all over the world are welcome to participate in this initiative and
improve the topic list identified. However, only users residing in India will be
eligible to receive the individual prizes.
Participating communities
Communities participating in the contest are listed below. Please click your
language name to start writing articles in your own language. Please leave comments
on the talk page if you need help or have questions. Or, contact organizers for
your language community.
Bengali
English
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Malayalam
Marathi
Odia
Punjabi
Tamil
Telugu
Onsite edit-a-thon
As part of the contest, we welcome communities and user groups to play an active
role in outreach.

One way we see this happening is to conduct onsite edit-a-thons in various cities
inviting the local communities to gather for a day or two and write articles for
the Project Tiger Writing Contest. We hope that face-to-face onsite edit-a-thons
might be a good way for the community members to meet and work on this contest. If
you are planning to have an onsite edit-a-thon for Project Tiger, we would be glad
to financial and programmatic support. We would be excited to learn more creative
ways of encouraging participation in this contest.

Please create a new section on the talk page here to request support. You may also
contact tito@cis-india.org for details.

You can find the list of edit-a-thons conducted already below for inspiration:

Bhopal Edit-a-thon for Hindi Wikipedia


New Delhi Edit-a-thon for Punjabi Wikipedia
Tirupathy Edit-a-thon for Sanskrit Wikipedia
Statistics
Last updated: 11:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Language Participants Articles Page views


(created since March 01, 2018) Page views
(expanded since March 01, 2018

Stats page
Bengali 8 78 4397 Fountain link
English 53 88 1599 152285 Fountain link
Gujarati 8 41 Fountain link
Hindi 22 54 3208 Fountain link
Kannada 10 37 799 Fountain link
Malayalam 24 156 7268 2297 Fountain link
Odia 3 19 Fountain link
Punjabi 15 304 2963 485 Fountain link
Tamil 21 280 12230 19429 Fountain link
Telugu 8 64 Fountain link
Marathi 6 8 Fountain link
Total 172 1121 32464 174496
FAQ
1. What is the role of Wikimedia Foundation and Google in this project?

Google and the Wikimedia Foundation are interested in increasing the content
available in Indian languages online and see each other as valuable partners in
supporting this. Google is aiding this project by supporting the cost of the pilot
program through a grant. They are also providing useful information on topics that
the Indian language internet users are seeking.
2. What will be the role of CIS, Wikimedia India chapter, user groups and
communities in this contest?

The respective language Wikipedia communities will coordinate this contest based on
the model of Wikipedia Asian Month, Punjab edit-a-thon, Women’s history month.

CIS-A2K will facilitate the distribution of prizes and execution of the capacity
training event for the winning community.

Wikimedia India chapter and user groups will play an active role in outreach
engaging communities and individuals to participate in the contest.

The communities will coordinate among themselves to design and conduct the contest.
They may also lead outreach events and edit-a-thons encouraging the communities to
participate in the article writing contest.

3. Is participation in this contest mandatory/limited/conditional?

No. However, if you are interested in participating, we encourage you to take the
lead and coordinate the contest for your community. You can start by creating a
similar page on your Wikipedia. If you need help, leave a message on the talk page.

4. Can we create articles of our interest?

This program has a special focus to create articles that are most sought out by
users online but not yet present in Indian language Wikipedias. By this focus, we
hope to serve as many people with free knowledge. Therefore, we encourage you to
choose topics of interest from the suggested list of articles.

5. Why is this called Project Tiger?

This project was inspired by and named after a project in India to save tigers.
Similar to the ecosystem view taken by the Project Tiger, this pilot also aspires
to understand and nurture the context in which locally relevant content is created
in Indian language Wikipedias.

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