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To increase participation in Wikimedia projects and improve quality of content
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'''Punjabi Wikipedia Article Writing Contest'''
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[[File:Punjabi-tshirt-mockup-design.jpg|thumb|WMIN custom designed and produced Punjabi Wikipedia T-Shirts]]
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An Article Writing Competition was organized by Punjabi Wikipedia during the month of November 2014. The competition was a great success with the number of active editors (at least 1 edit in 30 days ) going above 100 for the first time in the history of Punjabi Wikipedia. Wikimedia India supported the contest through its microgrants program. Our Program Director also helped the community in program design and arranging logistics for a custom made Punjabi T-Shirt design and production. A total of [[Punjabi Wikipedia Article Writing Competition|22 participants took part in this contest improving 458 articles]] during the month.
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* '''Bengali Wikipedia photography Contest'''
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Bengali Wikipedia community organized a [[c:Bangla Wikipedia Photography Contest (India)|photography contest]] on the occasion of its 10 years celebrations. This campaign collected [[c:Campaign:bwpcin|1179 images]]. Some [[c:Commons:Bangla Wikipedia Photography Contest (India)/Winning photos|prize winning photographs]] are shown below.
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File:Chaou.jpg |[[Image:Gold medal_icon.svg |20px |link=]] [[:en:Chhau dance|Chhau dance]], [[:en:West Bengal|West Bengal]], India.
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File:Fishing Time.jpg |[[Image:Silver medal_icon.svg |20px |link=]] Fishing in Sundarban inhabitants, West Bengal, India.
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File:Suneset in Desert.jpg |[[Image:Bronze medal_icon.svg |20px |link=]] Sunset in Desert, India.
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File:Heaven.JPG |[[File:4 green.svg |20px |link=]] Bagbazar Ghat of Kolkata.
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* It was decided that a T-Shirt will be given to everyone who creates 30 articles. It turned out that 30 articles was perceived as a tough target out for new Wikipedians. So, in the end it was decided to give T-shirts to each editor who has created at least 4 new articles with a total of 8,000 bytes. On the other side, an editor who participated with great enthusiasm during the competition created 30 new articles (almost all above 4,000 bytes) said that he would not have created 30 articles if it had not been the target. One veteran editor edited at least 132 articles during the month with around 100 new articles in them. This shows that setting a reasonably high target motivates editors to achieve it by contributing more.
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* Language communities feel excited to design and use Wikipedia T-Shirts and other swags in their own languages. Having found a reliable supplier, we will create similar material for other interested communities too in future when we have sufficient funding.
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* Analysis of the photography contest can be produced once the organizers submit a report.
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