Bharatpedia:WikiProject India/Events/Edit-a-thon

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Bharatpedia team is organizing an edit-a-thon. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create India-related articles. The event will start on July 6, 2021 at 23:59 IST and will run for complete 30 days.

Expectations

It is announced that User that adds the most number of words or bytes during this edit-a-thon will be awarded a trophy and prize money of $100 We expect that if you participate in this edit-a-thon, you'll create at least 10 articles. However, you may work on as many articles as you want.

Who can join?

Any registered user with or without autoconfirmed user right can join. If your account is 5 days old and you have made a minimum of 20 edits you can post articles directly to the article namespace, but if you do not have the autoconfirmed user right yet, you can post a page in draft space and submit it for a review using the template {{submit}} please see Bharatpedia:New user landing page for more.

Rules

For an article to be considered as part of this India Edit-a-thon, it must adhere to the following rules

1. Creation rule: If you are creating a new article the new article must have a minimum length of 200 words (the prose count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.)
2. The articles should not copyright violation content and should follow verifiability.
3. We strongly recommend you create your own content, but if you copy articles from Wikipedia you must add {{Source Wikipedia}} tag at the end of the article.

Points that you will earn per article

• Creating a new article: 10
• Copying article from Wikipedia: 5
• Expanding existing article: 3

Participants

Please add four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically add your name:

• Simba (talk) (Articles: Surjit Patar, Sukhvinder Amrit, Satyapal Anand ‎, Daya Singh Arif, Bawa Balwant, Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Harbans Bhalla, Chaman Lal Chaman, Amarjit Chandan)
• Hembram Bakhul (talk)
• ( Top performer) Ajay Kumar (talk) 11:31, 3 July 2021 (IST) (Articles: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Deputy Prime Minister of India, Rao Inderjit Singh , Prahlad Singh Patel, Santosh Gangwar, Bhupender Yadav, D. V. Sadananda Gowda, R. K. Singh, Raj Kumar Singh, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Hardeep Singh Puri)
• Marvel(talk) 11:35, 3 July 2021 (IST)
• ( Top performer) Khan786 (talk) 12:12, 3 July 2021 (IST)
• SonOfZeus 12:21, 3 July 2021 (IST) (Articles: Pakhangba, Meitei mythology, Loktak lake, Shija Laioibi, History of Manipur, Prehistory of Manipur, Medieval Manipur, History of modern Manipur, Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba, List of dance forms included in Lai Haraoba festival, Bishnupur district, Phumdi, Sangai, Keibu Keioiba, Keibul Lamjao National Park, Ningthoukhong, Meitei language, Diwali, Kartikeya, Shiva, Indra, Rishi, Indian languages, Sanskrit language, Valmiki, Indus, Indus Valley Civilization, Ancient India, Ramayana, Vaishnavism, Districts of Manipur, Thoubal, Thoubal district, Jiribam, Jiribam district, Bishnupur, Bishnupur district, Kakching district)
• Ahimang (talk) 16:51, 3 July 2021 (IST)(Articles: Rana Kharkongor,Shillong)
• VF814324 (talk) 16:59, 3 July 2021 (IST)
• Botaviq (talk) 23:41, 3 July 2021 (IST)
• ( Top performer) Pradip89 (talk) 17:12, 5 July 2021 (IST) (Articles: 14th Dalai Lama, Life as the Dalai Lama)
• WikiJoy (talk) 13:12, 12 July 2021 (IST)

Coordinator

1. WikiDwarf

Article suggestion

You can create any article directly related to India. It may be—

1. a place (town, village)
2. an educational institution (high school, college, university anywhere in India)
3. Creations (book, movie, music album)
4. any notable event
5. anything else related to India

In brief write on anything that a is a) notable and b) connects India

Prize

• 1st position: A trophy and $100
• 2nd position: $50
• 3rd position: $30
• 4th position: $20

Result

Thank you everyone for your tireless work. We're happy to announce that after a long time of counting contributions we have finally got our Top 4 winner selected among 10+ participants, this decision was very hard and we want to say that all of you did an amazing job. All the winners will be awarded the prize money as well as a certificate of achievement and we will be providing a certificate of participation to all the participants, please click here to claim.

1. Ajay Kumar
2. Pradip89
3. Khan786
4. This position is tied between two participants:
   1. WikiJoy
   2. SonOfZeus

Articles created as part of this event

• Links pointing to their talk pages

So far, the following articles were created as part of this editathon:

Statistics on the accomplishments of the event

This will be provided in due time.