Bharatpedia:WikiProject India/Events/India Edit-a-thon (August 2024)

The Bharatpedia team is organizing an edit-a-thon. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to improve India-related articles. The event will start on August 1, 2024 and will run for complete 30 days.

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Expectations

It is announced that User that makes the most number of edits during this edit-a-thon will be awarded a certificate of participation and a gift of their choice from the Bharatpedia Store. We expect that if you participate in this edit-a-thon, you'll make at least 500 edits.

Who can join?

Any registered user with or without autoconfirmed user rights can join. If your account is 4 days old and you have made a minimum of 10 edits you can post articles directly to the article namespace, but if you do not have the autoconfirmed user right yet, you can post a page in draft space and submit it for a review using the template {{submit}} please see Bharatpedia:New user landing page for more.

Rules

For edits to be considered as part of this India Edit-a-thon, they must adhere to the following rules

1. Creation rule:
   1. If you are creating a new article the new article must have a minimum length of 200 words (the prose count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.)
   2. The articles should not have copyright violation content and should follow verifiability.
2. Edit rule:
   1. Only 2 edits per article will be counted as a valid entry.
   2. Undo/revert edits will not count.
   3. Edits should be limited to the main namespace.

Participants

Please add four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically add your name:

1. 🍁Bharatwiki Socrates🍁(📩) 13:15, 18 July 2024 (IST) (Articles created: Mahasthana Inscription, Sudarshana Lake, Couplets of Kabir, Archishman Sarker, Rampran Gupta and Ramachandran: A Retrospective).
2. Muskit_Gergous^Talk 05:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
3. BellaCH (talk) 23:53, 18 July 2024 (IST)
4. Devanam (talk) 16:21, 21 July 2024 (IST) (talk) (Articles created: Devapala's Campaign against Pratiharas, Conquests of Devapala)

Article suggestion

You can create or update any article directly related to India. It may be—

1. a place (town, village)
2. an educational institution (high school, college, university anywhere in India)
3. Creations (book, movie, music album)
4. any notable event
5. anything else related to India

In brief write on anything that a is a) notable and b) connects India

Prize

The winner can choose a gift from the Bharatpedia Store which has a wide range of products such as T-shirts, hoodies, backpacks, caps etc.

• All winners will receive a certificate of participation +

1. 1st position: A gift of their choice from the Bharatpedia store
2. 2nd position: Premium Bharatpedia cotton t-shirt
3. 3rd position: ₹500 Bharatpedia gift voucher to spend on the Bharatpedia Store.

The winner will be announced on September 1st via a press release on prominent news portals, with the opportunity for an interview and feature on leading news websites.

Result

TBA

Articles created as part of this event

• Links pointing to their talk pages

So far, the following 8 articles were created as new in the Bharatpedia, as part of this editathon:

Articles created as part of India Edit-a-thon (August 2024)

Talk:Archishman Sarker

Talk:Conquests of Devapala

Talk:Couplets of Kabir

Talk:Devapala's Campaign against Pratiharas

Talk:Mahasthana Inscription

Talk:Ramachandran: A Retrospective

Talk:Rampran Gupta

Talk:Sudarshana Lake

Statistics on the accomplishments of the event

This will be provided in due time.