Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Asian Month/Archive 3

Thank you for inviting me
Thanks team for having me here! Is there is list of articles that can be edited? I usually use the Women in Red page but it would be good to use a list. --Parul Thakur (talk) 13:16, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

निमंत्रणासाठी आभार. मराठी भाषेत काही भाषांतरीत करायचे असेल तर मला कळवावे. Amit ji reddy (talk) 17:55, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanx SGS (talk) 21:21, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanking all in the team for inviting me to be here. That's a great honour. Subhadeep Kumar (talk) 10:16, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Cannot submit contribution
Whenever I try to submit an article I get the 500 Internal Server Error message.--Catlemur (talk) 16:32, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Could you try again / do you still get the error? ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 18:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The issue has been resolved. I logged out, logged back in and the error disappeared.--Catlemur (talk) 18:34, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

"no copyright violations, questions of notability"
FWIW, I think these examples should be either cut or expanded. "no major issues" would be interpreted by diligent Wikipedians as meaning the articles need to comply with all our content policies and guidelines, but our listed examples give the strong implication that the only major issues are ones that could lead to an AFD.

It's too late for 2017, but I think WAM2018 should amend this.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 05:17, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Explain in brief Aparnaarpita (talk) 15:09, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

There's a bug in the submission tool
I don't know if it's fixable (is it limited to four criteria?), but while the official WAM rules say that entries must be both 300+ words and 3,000+ bytes, the tool apparently allows submission of articles that meet either one of these criteria. The majority of properly referenced and well laid-out articles will hit 3,000 bytes well before they hit 300 words, so these are not the same thing. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 08:43, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I want to know about this Aparnaarpita (talk) 15:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Details meaning about Council Bill
I want to know what is the appeared meaning about Council Bill  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.87.113.137 (talk) 06:23, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Assuming you were reading an article on someone called Council Bill, it seems you saw an advertisement for the WAM editathon. These advertisements show up for various on-wiki events all the time. If you are annoyed by them ... well, everyone is, but Wikipedia doesn't make profit by selling advertisements to third parties, which is why it's got far fewer annoying pop-up ads than a lot of the websites linked to from its articles on entertainment topics. If you don't want to create articles from WAM you can just ignore them (and if you do want to participate you'll need to create an account). Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 07:01, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon in Shanghai
I'll be arranging (within the next couple of months) some talks as described at Meta on the gender gap page as well as at Wiki-project feminism. There's also a discussion open on my talk page. I'd like to: Thanks all! Please contact me freely with ideas or any related chat! Edaham (talk) 05:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * hear from people who have run ediathons
 * see some photos if available
 * collect links to resources
 * Hear from Wikipedians based in mainland China, especially Shanghai

Requested articles list?
Does anyone know where I can find a list of article pertaining to Asia that need to be created? I would love to help contribute. SamHolt6 (talk) 17:47, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree, this would be very helpful. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:53, 14 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Asian Art Month with Metropolitan Museum of Art has plenty of requested articles! And I'll be glad to help anyone looking for a specific area or type of article, or looking to find sources or images.--Pharos (talk) 22:33, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Art Month with Metropolitan Museum of Art
I'd like to invite folks to join Wikipedia Asian Art Month; if you write or translate just one article and include one of our images, you'll get a special Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard. And if you're one of the grand prize winners, you'll get a Met guidebook or Asian art publication.--Pharos (talk) 20:10, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Questions about joining WAM
Hello

I would like to participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month. I'm currently writing an English article about an anime (a type of Japanese shows) character and I plan on translating it into Arabic.

My questions are:

1) Does writing about an anime character count as a suitable article topic for Asian Month?

2) If I write this article then translate it into Arabic, does that count as 2 articles?

3) How do I submit my article? Do I just submit it here (https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/asian-month-2017-en/add)? Or do I have to join a community or something because I read that my community or my Wikipedia has to be registered or something and honestly I did not understand that?

Also, If you can direct me to a place I can get anime pictures that I can use on Wikipedia without getting my article deleted then that would be great.

Thanks a bunch. Langotaku (talk) 00:00, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Langotaku, Sorry for late reply, Yes, writing articles on Anime character is totally fine, yup creating articles in English and translating the same article in Arabic is considered as 2 articles, but you have to submit it in the WAM Arabic Wikipedia tool. Thanks --Sailesh Patnaik (Questions) 10:32, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much.Saileshpat Langotaku (talk) 18:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Frequent Vandalism!
Hey, seems like we need to protect (or something) the pages that are under WP:WAM project, a lot of vandalism edits have been made in past days. I thought it'd be worth to aware the community about it. Thanks! :) Simranpreet singh (talk) 19:04, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the concern! Looks like an admin protected it after your message. Next year we'll try to set up month-long protection from the get-go. Cheers, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 14:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Asako Hirooka
I've expanded this article to 300 words, it should now be accepted but I can't figure out how to resubmit, or otherwise clear the "not accepted". Maybe this happens automatically and I'm just being impatient? Penny Richards (talk) 14:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Noted - we'll make sure it gets re-judged. Thank you! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 19:55, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

3 days left for Met's Wikipedia Asian Art Month project!
If you'd like to start a new short article for Wikipedia Asian Art Month, you have 3 days left to join in the fun. I'll be glad to collaborate with you on whatever topic you like, and we'll send you a Met postcard lovingly signed by me. Expanding an article by a significant amount works as well.--Pharos (talk) 18:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Redirect
For my submission, I expanded a redirect into Miyuki Aoyama (poet). But the WAM tool won't accept it as an original article. It tells me the article was created in 2009. Nine Zulu queens (talk) 18:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Thanks for letting us know. Please list that article over at Wikipedia Asian Month/Submissions and we'll include it in our judging. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 18:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Start end/times
I feel bad that I didn't submit more articles on time. I got busy with a bunch of things in November.

I do think for next year, I would prefer a start time that is of the first occurrence of November in any time zone (When it's around midnight in the Pacific Ocean), and ends at 11:59 PM in the final time zone for November. This gives editors in San Francisco and Honolulu extra time to finish things up before the deadline (I was in Shenzhen, though...) WhisperToMe (talk) 18:02, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Good feedback for next year - we'll also forward to the international organizers as well. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 18:38, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Postcard FAQ
Can someone help me with information about Postcards
 * 1) How and when post cards are going to be send?
 * 2) Are they going to be send by Post or Mail?
 * 3) If by post, whats the process of obtaining addresses? — Preceding unsigned comment added by IM3847 (talk • contribs) 07:56, December 21, 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi apologies for the (very) late reply, but I wanted to give you an update. Some post cards have already been sent out, others are still in the middle of being sent out. Since there's been a chance in organization leadership it's taken longer than usual to get everything coordinated. Thanks, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply and I’ve received my postcard last week.-IM3847 (talk) 14:20, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

So when do I get my certificate?
I don't care so much about the postcard this year (to the point that it's possible I already received it and immediately forgot about it), but the same is not true of the digital certificate, which I assumed would be delivered promptly as it was by email. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 06:07, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi apologies for delay. Some post cards have already been sent out, others are still in the middle of being sent out. Certificates are still in the process as well, but rest assured they will be sent out. Since there's been a chance in organization leadership it's taken longer than usual to get everything coordinated. Thanks, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

2018
Will the month be held this year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.135.8.87 (talk) 17:44, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello' nice meet to asia wiki 2018 No Pzy (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

WAM user templates
We currently have Template:WAM user, Template:WAM user 2016, and Template:WAM user 2017. Someone may try to create Template:WAM user 2018. Their purpose is the same, and two of the templates are almost exact duplicates. Can't these just be consolidated into one template? ℯ xplicit 02:23, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ by আফতাবুজ্জামান. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:43, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Contribution November 2018 Results
Hello,

Would like to know that I wrote 3 fascinating articles for the WAM Nov 2018. Out of three 1 was not able to be uploaded by the Fountain Tool which I uploaded it later to get considered on the request of a User & a Judge SuperHamster. After which also no action was taken for the acceptance? The Second Article got sadly rejected after being submitted and considered for the WAM, on which there was a fault of POV, but I corrected it earlier and on that also still nothing is known about. Please look into this matter by visiting the below-given links. Please also inform me how would I receive my Postcard? Thanks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Darna_Mana_Hai_(TV_series) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Asian_Month/Submissions (SB 20:18, 22 March 2019 (UTC))