Program/Wiki Loves the Olympics
- Format
Poster
- Keywords
- Wikipedia contest
- Wiki Loves
- Sport
- Paralympics
- When and where
- Friday 20 July, 20:00 - 21:30
- Plenary hall
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- Presenter(s)
- Ángel Obregón (User:vanbasten 23)
- User:Millars
- Topic area
- Relationship to theme
Participation & representation
Community health
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Abstract
The posters wants to sumarize the experience of combine a writing contest with a main international event. The 2018 Winter Olympics celebrated in Pyeongchang were an opportunity to organize an on-wiki activity related to them and get new content. We decided to organize a multilingual contest, with KISS rules, and with several special categories to promote the creation of articles about Paralympics, that are bad represented on Wikipedia. We want compare the results of 2018 with the contest of 2016 after the campaign on Wikipedia and social networks to get more editors and articles.
Outcomes
Attendees can get ideas and inspiration for future events and how to manage a multilingual and international contest or how to manage to check this amount of articles and what kind or prizes are better. We want compare the results of 2018 with the contest of 2016. Then, the attendees get all the numbers about this two international contest.
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