2019:Growing Wikimedia's Readership/Wikipedia awareness campaign in Nepal

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Growing Wikimedia's Readership/Wikipedia awareness campaign in Nepal

Title

Wikipedia awareness campaign in Nepal

Description

There is always a challenge for active contributors and readers in small language Wikipedia's. English Wikipedia is very popular and widely use to read the articles and it has good number of visitors and readers than the local language Wikipedia's. To fulfill the challenges, We have initiated a campaign to bring and engage new readers to Wikipedia via different local level activities. The lightening talk session will attempt to show the audience about New readership campaign activities conducted in Nepal. We will discuss about the outcomes and activities organized during Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia and Wiki Awareness Campaign in Nepal.

Relationship to the theme

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:

The lightning talk will bring some key results on readership and context representation. This relates to the sustainable development goals with improving education quality SDG 4.

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

• How to engage new readers in developing countries and least developed countries.
• Planning and collaboration work.

Session leader(s)

• Biplab Anand, Member, MWUG

Session type

Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

• Lightning talk

Requirements

The session will work best with these conditions:

• Room:

• Audience:

• Recording: