Dear all,
We hope all are well! There is a question that has been raised by the
communities regarding Wikipedia Asian Month articles and WAM collaboration
with Project Tiger 2.0.
We want to clear the confusion regarding this. GLOW 2019 or Project Tiger
2.0 is an Indic local language contest but creating or expanding content
need not be related to India or local topics necessarily. Because in
Project Tiger, article lists provided by Google have topics related to
national and international interest too.
Project Tiger 2.0 collaborated with Wikipedia Asian Month and WWWW because
both are crucial contests for local Wikipedias. Collaboration was
necessary because we wanted to stabilize/bring together all the
communities. WAM is a big contest and if we didn't collaborate with it, the
possibility was community members breaking into two groups, one for PT2.0
and the other for WAM.
Our agenda should be to merely increase or develop content on local wikis.
In the last iteration of WAM, participants created articles on Asian
countries or anything which are related to Asia excluding one's own
country. But the WAM team decided to change its rules for Project Tiger
2.0. Now we can create local articles also under WAM and submit the same
under Project Tiger 2.0. After 30 November, 2019, those articles will be
considered which are in the lists. Further, if you have any questions
please let us know.
Thank you,
Nitesh Gill and Suswetha Kolluru