The idea is not to document every minor edit or improvement, but to create momentum by displaying the diversity of content being improved or created for each country and make it more visible regionally, and in turn, attempt to inspire and motivate people to work on countries they might not normally work on or reinforce existing national WikiProject efforts to improve content. With that in place, eventually, there might be some contests in the format of
Wales's Awaken the Dragon,
The Africa Destubathon or regional/national contests held for Asian countries with prizes, etc to help fuel the drive but we'll see.
Some countries like India or Japan might be more interested in smaller 1000 Challenges like Nordic and Turkey, not sure, but it's possible we could work something out where people work on smaller regional challenges and feed them into a list for the entire continent.
Goals
Improve the quality of existing articles related to Asia, and encourage more editors to improve general article quality and sourcing. Try to ensure that no article created or existing is unsourced, and try to ensure that every article has no unsourced statements and that
Wikipedia: Citations are neatly drawn up and consistently formatted. The most important goal of the challenge is to try to see an overall improvement in quality for Asian countries and more consistency in articles in any category.
To encourage the creation of missing content and build a highly comprehensive coverage of every Asian country on English Wikipedia. In doing so, to develop a detailed missing article directory for Asian countries by area and topic to promote the long-term growth and view overall scope.
To create articles or improve content about underrepresented topics or underrepresented peoples of Asia.
To make existing settlement articles for Asia consistently of minimum quality, with some geographical and population information, and create new articles in the same style. Eventually aim to have a satisfactory article for every settlement in Asia.
Create a general district template for every district in Asia like
Template: Amasya District (for Turkey) as a long-term development tool and encourage more articles on buildings in localities.
Help clean up existing articles, particularly on India and Pakistan which might get a lot of traffic and IP spamming. Devise a way of maintaining article quality and getting more editors to cover different areas and more articles going on a watchlist to protect content long term and guide new editors to become quality editors themselves.
To generate strong momentum for Asia and stage contests/Edit-a-thon which fuel growth and attract people to develop those countries which might not otherwise get much attention. In the long term, try to build bridges with institutions within Asia and get them to see the potential of Wikipedia for national development. Get libraries, universities, and cultural institutions involved in hosting Edit-a-thon and forming partnerships with Wikipedia in contests, which promote growth on both English and Asian language Wikipedias.
Scope
All topics (even video games made in Japan etc) related to the following countries. Let's try to get work contributed to all Asian nations and break down barriers and let knowledge flow!
To increase editorial interest, a series of Sub Challenges, typically 1000 articles, will develop over time. The idea will be to run the 1000 Challenges as their own challenges but update this big list as the challenges progress. Eventually, if there are enough editors on board we can increase the goal for Asia to 50,000 articles.
If we can get together some editors who think they might be interested in working on something like this long-term sign up here. If I can see some sort of initial indication that there is support for this I'll start a full-blown challenge later in the month.
Dr. Blofeld 17:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC), I'll try to help when I can but already have a lot of commitments!reply
User:001Jrm - Pleased to join but I'm busy with school ATM. Most likely to start editing after this semester. Thanks!
001Jrm (
talk) 00:53, 21 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Vikram Maingi (
talk) 01:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC) Pleased to join the group. I have currently enrolled for
Wiki100 challenge, where 100 days for new artcles will end on 17-Nov-2016, but will try to sneak in time for this project too.reply
Opacitatic (
talk) 03:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC) China articles especially about Shanghai are bestreply
Nice Stranger5810 (
talk) I can really help with the Philippines, especially around my area which is Misamis Oriental, Region 10. With many pictures and schemata from my travels, I'll try to contribute because it really saddens me to see so many articles lacking details or having wrong information.
Looking forward to filling in missing articles on Taiwanese legislators, which are the focus of my otherwise paltry article creation efforts.
Vycl1994 (
talk) 13:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Sheriff |
911 | 13:35, 21 October 2016 (UTC) I love diversity and would love to work on diverse topics depending on how much time I have at hand.reply
Solntsa90 (
talk) 23:59, 22 October 2016 (UTC) I can definitely contribute towards improving the articles about Cambodia and Singapore, two areas I know much about.reply
Ccxlslr98 -- (
talk) 11:33, 23 October 2016 (UTC) I'll use this opportunity to really start contributing!! ^_^ exams start soon though so seeya guys in a while :)reply
Pavanjandhyala (
talk) 12:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC) -- Some good things, here and there, mostly simpler ones.reply
Though I have commitments I will be placing best efforts
Day000Walker (
talk) 14:16, 23 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Cjeongbis (
talk) 16:45, 9 July 2017 (UTC) I'll work on some Korea-related pagesreply
Parul Thakur (
talk) 12:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Happy to contribute on women specific articles, India in particular. Wouldn't say No to another country in Asia.reply
Gunkartatalk 11:34, 9 November 2017 (UTC) Well, I have such wide range of interest, from history, culture, food, science, geography, sport, transportation etc. I will concentrate mainly on
ASEAN region and especially Indonesia-related articles. Let's do thisǃreply
User: MogasTheThird I'm working on making pages for many South Korean politicians. I'm always around to update them as well.
MogasTheThird (
talk) 13:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Davidindia (
talk) Jan 2024 interested in destubbing India articles 03:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
안녕! Since I work on South Korean articles a lot, why not join this? We need more quality content about Asia on en.wp - an area that seriously needs improvement due to
systemic bias.
Prodraxis(
talk) 03:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Sure. I mean, this is almost my *entire* focus on Wikipedia ... Cheers, --
The Lonely Pather (
talk) 11:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Please list articles you have improved here, place newer entries at the bottom of the list. You are free to list any article you wish related to any country or topic in Asia. State whether it's a new article/stub/a destubbing, an article cleanup/expansion/ref improvement, Good/Featured Article, etc, and credit yourself after it. Add entries to the list below with a # so the numbers will count. See the article list on the
British 10,000 Challenge for how to list correctly. Here though, add the country in brackets that you've worked on. I hope that people can focus a lot on improving existing article quality, distubbing, and cleanup, not just new articles. Please try to ensure that all entries are sourced with formatted citations and that there are no unsourced claims. Avoid signing your name to keep the page size down and just state your username without linking.
Hello WikiProject Asia. You have been invited to join WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge, a
WikiProject dedicated to improving the
Asia-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to or within the scope of the project. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the
project page, and add your name to the
participants.
If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by:
The idea is not to document every minor edit or improvement, but to create momentum by displaying the diversity of content being improved or created for each country and make it more visible regionally, and in turn, attempt to inspire and motivate people to work on countries they might not normally work on or reinforce existing national WikiProject efforts to improve content. With that in place, eventually, there might be some contests in the format of
Wales's Awaken the Dragon,
The Africa Destubathon or regional/national contests held for Asian countries with prizes, etc to help fuel the drive but we'll see.
Some countries like India or Japan might be more interested in smaller 1000 Challenges like Nordic and Turkey, not sure, but it's possible we could work something out where people work on smaller regional challenges and feed them into a list for the entire continent.
Goals
Improve the quality of existing articles related to Asia, and encourage more editors to improve general article quality and sourcing. Try to ensure that no article created or existing is unsourced, and try to ensure that every article has no unsourced statements and that
Wikipedia: Citations are neatly drawn up and consistently formatted. The most important goal of the challenge is to try to see an overall improvement in quality for Asian countries and more consistency in articles in any category.
To encourage the creation of missing content and build a highly comprehensive coverage of every Asian country on English Wikipedia. In doing so, to develop a detailed missing article directory for Asian countries by area and topic to promote the long-term growth and view overall scope.
To create articles or improve content about underrepresented topics or underrepresented peoples of Asia.
To make existing settlement articles for Asia consistently of minimum quality, with some geographical and population information, and create new articles in the same style. Eventually aim to have a satisfactory article for every settlement in Asia.
Create a general district template for every district in Asia like
Template: Amasya District (for Turkey) as a long-term development tool and encourage more articles on buildings in localities.
Help clean up existing articles, particularly on India and Pakistan which might get a lot of traffic and IP spamming. Devise a way of maintaining article quality and getting more editors to cover different areas and more articles going on a watchlist to protect content long term and guide new editors to become quality editors themselves.
To generate strong momentum for Asia and stage contests/Edit-a-thon which fuel growth and attract people to develop those countries which might not otherwise get much attention. In the long term, try to build bridges with institutions within Asia and get them to see the potential of Wikipedia for national development. Get libraries, universities, and cultural institutions involved in hosting Edit-a-thon and forming partnerships with Wikipedia in contests, which promote growth on both English and Asian language Wikipedias.
Scope
All topics (even video games made in Japan etc) related to the following countries. Let's try to get work contributed to all Asian nations and break down barriers and let knowledge flow!
To increase editorial interest, a series of Sub Challenges, typically 1000 articles, will develop over time. The idea will be to run the 1000 Challenges as their own challenges but update this big list as the challenges progress. Eventually, if there are enough editors on board we can increase the goal for Asia to 50,000 articles.
If we can get together some editors who think they might be interested in working on something like this long-term sign up here. If I can see some sort of initial indication that there is support for this I'll start a full-blown challenge later in the month.
Dr. Blofeld 17:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC), I'll try to help when I can but already have a lot of commitments!reply
User:001Jrm - Pleased to join but I'm busy with school ATM. Most likely to start editing after this semester. Thanks!
001Jrm (
talk) 00:53, 21 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Vikram Maingi (
talk) 01:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC) Pleased to join the group. I have currently enrolled for
Wiki100 challenge, where 100 days for new artcles will end on 17-Nov-2016, but will try to sneak in time for this project too.reply
Opacitatic (
talk) 03:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC) China articles especially about Shanghai are bestreply
Nice Stranger5810 (
talk) I can really help with the Philippines, especially around my area which is Misamis Oriental, Region 10. With many pictures and schemata from my travels, I'll try to contribute because it really saddens me to see so many articles lacking details or having wrong information.
Looking forward to filling in missing articles on Taiwanese legislators, which are the focus of my otherwise paltry article creation efforts.
Vycl1994 (
talk) 13:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Sheriff |
911 | 13:35, 21 October 2016 (UTC) I love diversity and would love to work on diverse topics depending on how much time I have at hand.reply
Solntsa90 (
talk) 23:59, 22 October 2016 (UTC) I can definitely contribute towards improving the articles about Cambodia and Singapore, two areas I know much about.reply
Ccxlslr98 -- (
talk) 11:33, 23 October 2016 (UTC) I'll use this opportunity to really start contributing!! ^_^ exams start soon though so seeya guys in a while :)reply
Pavanjandhyala (
talk) 12:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC) -- Some good things, here and there, mostly simpler ones.reply
Though I have commitments I will be placing best efforts
Day000Walker (
talk) 14:16, 23 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Cjeongbis (
talk) 16:45, 9 July 2017 (UTC) I'll work on some Korea-related pagesreply
Parul Thakur (
talk) 12:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Happy to contribute on women specific articles, India in particular. Wouldn't say No to another country in Asia.reply
Gunkartatalk 11:34, 9 November 2017 (UTC) Well, I have such wide range of interest, from history, culture, food, science, geography, sport, transportation etc. I will concentrate mainly on
ASEAN region and especially Indonesia-related articles. Let's do thisǃreply
User: MogasTheThird I'm working on making pages for many South Korean politicians. I'm always around to update them as well.
MogasTheThird (
talk) 13:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Davidindia (
talk) Jan 2024 interested in destubbing India articles 03:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
안녕! Since I work on South Korean articles a lot, why not join this? We need more quality content about Asia on en.wp - an area that seriously needs improvement due to
systemic bias.
Prodraxis(
talk) 03:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Sure. I mean, this is almost my *entire* focus on Wikipedia ... Cheers, --
The Lonely Pather (
talk) 11:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Please list articles you have improved here, place newer entries at the bottom of the list. You are free to list any article you wish related to any country or topic in Asia. State whether it's a new article/stub/a destubbing, an article cleanup/expansion/ref improvement, Good/Featured Article, etc, and credit yourself after it. Add entries to the list below with a # so the numbers will count. See the article list on the
British 10,000 Challenge for how to list correctly. Here though, add the country in brackets that you've worked on. I hope that people can focus a lot on improving existing article quality, distubbing, and cleanup, not just new articles. Please try to ensure that all entries are sourced with formatted citations and that there are no unsourced claims. Avoid signing your name to keep the page size down and just state your username without linking.
Hello WikiProject Asia. You have been invited to join WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge, a
WikiProject dedicated to improving the
Asia-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to or within the scope of the project. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the
project page, and add your name to the
participants.
If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by:
