Greetings to all,

The celebration of the 8th birthday of Wikidata has already started and as part of it several events are currently happening online and offline across the world. As part of it, a 5 days long data-thon is planned to improve India-specific Wikidata Properties and celebrate Wikidata's Birthday by contributing to the free open data movement.

The primary objective of this "data-thon" is to add / improve the usage of Wikidata Properties related to India in Wikidata. Currently there are 76 India-specific properties available in Wikidata. But most of the properties are used less in numbers in the statements. So this data-thon is organised to improve the usage of those properties in items and improve the structured data in Wikidata. 

We hope to encourage participation from other Wikidata communities.

Please have a look at the event page[1] and please consider joining the editathon.

Regards,