Wikipedia:MENA Artists Month

MENA Artists Month is an online edit-a-thon for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) artists during May 2016. This edit-a-thon aims to work on the artist articles relevant to these countries, namely artists that either don't have Wikipedia articles, or have poor articles, or are missing articles in some languages. This edit-a-thon would be held in collaboration with the Guggenheim

The core online campaign will develop articles on MENA artists, architects and designers (and related non-biographical topics) that have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries, broadly defined by an inclusive geography:


 * 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
 * 🇩🇿 Algeria
 * 🇦🇲 Armenia
 * 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
 * 🇧🇭 Bahrain
 * 🇹🇩 Chad
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus
 * 🇩🇯 Djibouti
 * 🇪🇬 Egypt
 * Georgia (country)
 * 🇮🇷 Iran
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq
 * 🇮🇱 Israel
 * 🇯🇴 Jordan
 * 🇰🇼 Kuwait
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon
 * 🇱🇾 Libya
 * 🇲🇱 Mali


 * 🇲🇷 Mauritania
 * 🇲🇦 Morocco
 * 🇳🇪 Niger
 * 🇴🇲 Oman
 * 🇵🇰 Pakistan
 * State of Palestine
 * 🇶🇦 Qatar
 * Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
 * 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
 * 🇸🇴 Somalia
 * 🇸🇩 Sudan
 * Syria
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey
 * 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
 * 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
 * 🇾🇪 Yemen

Rules
During the MENA Artists Month, an editor on any language Wikipedia who contributes at least 3 (three) articles about 20th and 21st centuries art in the MENA region, and will receive a Guggenheim postcard and Susan Hefuna-designed temporary tattoo, and Guggenheim exhibition catalogs for top contributors. These articles must meet the following criteria:
 * The article is created or substantially expanded by you before May 31, 2016 23:59 (UTC).
 * The article should be at least 3,500 bytes and around 300 words in length if a new article, or if an existing article it has grown by that length.
 * Word count is excluding infoboxes, tables, lists, references, categories, images, etc.
 * The article fulfills the article notability criteria
 * The article must have decent references; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
 * The article is not purely machine translated, and has a decent language style
 * Articles submitted by an organizer need to be checked by other organizers.
 * Notes 1: In the end, human judge(s) from the local Wikipedia will determine whether an article is accepted or not.
 * Notes 2: Local organizers can change the standard if 3,500 bytes and 300 words means too much in your language.

Participating communities
Planned with Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red and regional Wikipedia chapters/usergroups.

Africa

 * Algeria - Algeria Wikimedians UG
 * Egypt - Egypt Wikimedians (potential)

Americas

 * United States
 * New York City, NY - Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MENA @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, April 30, 2016
 * Washington, DC (potential)
 * Dearborn, MI - @ Arab American National Museum

Asia

 * Iran - Iranian Wikimedians User Group

Europe

 * Georgia - Georgian Wikimedians User Group
 * London, UK (potential)

Online

 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red / Meetup/Women in Red/13

Resources

 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East

Sign up
Sign up here, and you can fill in your three (or more!) articles related to 20th and 21st century Middle Eastern artists later:

You can format like this, if you like: * ~ :*Articles to develop: Working on X, Y, and Z.


 * Pharos (talk) 18:05, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Articles to develop: Maybe I'll start some pages on particular historical art movements


 * g. balaxaZe  ★  21:12, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:08, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Foundland
 * 2) Safeya Binzagr
 * 3) Huda Totonji
 * Armineaghayan (talk) 12:40, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Մոնիր Ֆարմանֆարմանյան
 * Շաֆիկ Աբուդ
 * Սյուզան Հեֆընա
 * Սեդա Մանուկյան
 * 1) Nune Tumanyan
 * 2) Hripsime Simonyan
 * 3) Varteni Mosdichian
 * Վարդենի Մոստիչյան
 * Լոլա Դոլուխանյան
 * Նոնա Ստեփանյան
 * Ֆլորա Բաղդասարյան
 * Daniel kenneth (talk) 13:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)


 * czar 17:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Nadia Kaabi-Linke
 * 2) 1:54
 * 3) Egyptian pavilion


 * Спасимир (talk) 06:16, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Мари Герекмазян
 * Нуне Туманян


 * Lika-Kharazishvili (talk) 12:55, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * მარი გერეკმეზიანი
 * არევ პეტროსიანი
 * ნუნე თუმანიანი
 * სუზან ჰეფუნა
 * რიფსიმე სიმონიანი
 * ვარდენი მოსტიჭიანი
 * მიჰრან აკობიანი


 * Mardetanha talk 08:34, 8 May 2016 (UTC)


 *  Nvvchar . 08:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant (talk) 05:27, 18 May 2016 (UTC
 * 1) Aya Haidar
 * 2) Dodi Tabbaa
 * 3) Sabah Naim
 * Articles to develop: from countries Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt