Dear Wikimedians,
It has been exactly one month since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest has ended. The writing contest began on 10 October 2019 and ran till 11 January 2020. The contest witnessed 331 editors who participated from 16 communities in India :) We are happy to announce that the project saw 12406 articles from all the communities and the Tamil community stands top with 2924 articles created/expanded followed by the Punjabi (Gurumukhi) community with 1747 articles!
The list of monthly top contributors list from all the languages is published here[1]
We sincerely thank and appreciate all the Wikipedians who have contributed time and effort to create articles and increase content in their respective Indic language Wikipedias, jury members of both hardware support and article writing contest, Wikipedians who have conducted offline events as part of Project Tiger and last but not the least, User:Neechalkaran from Tamil community for creating statistics tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/neechal/tigerarticle.html?fbclid=IwAR3DtDsuJkP6J6lNV3xbPcG2pW0h5A66IBhem18jAVD5iRgmsmL0S457XwA and making it easier for everyone to understand the numbers!
We will get back to the top contributors from each community & winner and runner up communities via an IRC soon.
Overall stats: Language Articles submitted Articles Accepted Assamese 205 175 Bengali 1460 1194 Gujarathi 202 201 Hindi 417 253 Kannada 249 199 Malayalam 229 229 Marathi 220 97 Odia 155 154 Punjabi (Gurumukhi) 1768 1747 Punjabi (Shamukhi) 3216 3216 Sanskrit 19 19 Santali 566 566 Tamil 2959 2924 Telugu 416 24 Tulu 32 32 Urdu 1377 1376
Total number of articles accepted 12406
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_...
*NOTE:* Following the discussion on bulk article creation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest#Request_for_comments by different community members about using a tool and articles being evaluated by the same volunteer who has created them, we are withholding rewards to Punjabi (Shamukhi) community.