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A datathon organized as part of International Mother Language Day 2025 from February 21, 2025 to February 28, 2025. The members of WikiProject India in collaboration with Indian communities and user group to celebrate "International Mother Language Day" in 2025 and contribute to Wikidata.

This event is designed for participants interested in improving more than just labels, descriptions, and aliases on items and contribute the languages. The focus will be on providing basic instructions to attract new editors and encourage them to contribute to Wikidata. Specifically, the datathon will focus on improving the content and the topic of language (Q34770) in India.

If you would like to take part in the datathon, feel free to add your name below.

Event Details

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The International Mother Language Day 2025 datathon is officially over. Special thanks to the 21 participants who contributed during the datathon.

Goals

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  • Add/Improve the the labels and descriptions in your mother tongue for
    • Wikidata properties
    • places in India
    • notable Indian people

Tasks

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Adding labels and descriptions

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Click on the language code below to add the labels and descriptions using the TABernacle tool. After clicking the link click on log in button if you haven't login to the tool and start contributing.

Wikidata Properties

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Add labels and descriptions in Indic-languages for India-related properties
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions in Indic-languages to other properties
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy

Places

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Add labels and descriptions for district of India
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions for village in India
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions for Gram Panchayats in India
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions for Lok Sabha Constituencies in India
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions for Metro stations in India
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy

People

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Add labels and descriptions to Padma Bhushan recipient
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Vir Chakra recipient
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian cricketer
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian football player
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian field hockey player
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian kabaddi player
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian chess player
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions to Indian singer
(label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Add labels and descriptions for author with IDs:
Rupa Publications author ID: (label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
Penguin India author ID: (label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
DC Books author ID: (label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy
GujLit person ID: (label stats) - as bn gu hi kn ks-arab gom-deva gom-latn mai ml mni mr ne or pa sa sat sd ta te ur anp awa bho ks-deva lus pi pnb tcy

Participants

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(Add your name below by using # ~~~~. If you are part of any Wikimedia community, please list those communities below and sign up beneath them.)'

  1. Dev Jadiya (talk) 05:06, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Nizil Shah (talk) 05:53, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 06:24, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. King ChristLike (talk) 07:30, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Ashay vb talk📩 08:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. ᱤᱧ ᱢᱟᱛᱟᱞ (talk) 08:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Arijit Kisku (talk) 09:06, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. --Ranjithsiji (talk) 10:09, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. 21GauriGuptaa (talk) 12:04, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 17:59, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Stalinjeet Brar (talk) 00:56, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Snehrashmi (talk) 05:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Hridyesh Gupta (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. AvartiRastogi01 (talk) 13:39, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. 511KeV (talk) 13:49, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Varghesepunnamada (talk) 18:08, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Anupamdutta73 (talk) 02:34, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  18. ❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ 11:42, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Koshur (talk) 15:40, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Senator Choko (talk) 16:56, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Zblace (talk) 17:16, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Kasyap (talk) 17:29, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Manojk (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:10, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Balajijagadesh (talk) 11:45, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Obaid Raza (talk) 05:16, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  27. --Rajasekhar1961 (talk) 04:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  28. --SijiR (talk) 12:47, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Info-farmer (talk) 15:14, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Supporting Communities and User Groups

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Report

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A huge thank you to all the participants who actively contributed during the International Mother Language Day Datathon.

The International Mother Language Day Datathon 2025 was organized by members of WikiProject India in collaboration with various Indian Wikimedia communities and user groups from February 21 to February 28, 2025. The event aimed to enhance language-related content on Wikidata, focusing on improving structured data beyond basic labels and descriptions. Specifically, the datathon targeted language-related items in India, encouraging both new and experienced contributors to participate.

A total of 29 people signed up, with 21 actively contributing during the event. Participants made significant contributions, including 2.89K new descriptions, 2.53K new labels, and 40 label updates, resulting in improvements to 4.81K unique items and 62 unique properties. In total, 4.85K unique items were updated. The datathon successfully provided a platform for contributors to engage with structured data in their native languages, promoting linguistic diversity and accessibility on Wikimedia platforms. This initiative reinforced the importance of open knowledge and multilingual data contributions, setting the stage for future collaborative efforts.

The datathon successfully enhanced linguistic diversity on Wikidata and provided a platform for contributors to engage with structured data in their native languages. By focusing on language-related items, the event contributed to better representation and accessibility of Indian languages on Wikidata.

Usernames of users who haven't contributed during the event has been omitted from the below table. If you do not want your username in the list, please replace your username with "Placeholder".

See also: https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/91231

Username Labels Added Description Added Unique Items Updated Unique Properties Updated
Adithyak1997 9 9 12 -
Anupamdutta73 1 1 6 -
Arijit Kisku 7 3 27 -
Ashay vb 336 335 684 -
Balajijagadesh 2 4 16 -
Gnoeee 39 500 3 48
Info-farmer - 8 22 -
Kasyap 9 17 35 14
King ChristLike 218 231 430 -
Koshur 3 - 8 -
Nizil Shah - - 1 -
Obaid Raza 1 0 3 -
Rajasekhar1961 70 44 217 -
Ranjithsiji 4 8 20 -
Senator Choko 1 1 6 -
SijiR 388 360 412 -
Snehrashmi 1409 1346 2631 -
Stalinjeet Brar - - 91 -
Varghesepunnamada 19 12 25 -
Zblace 16 12 55 -
ᱤᱧ ᱢᱟᱛᱟᱞ - - 113 -