African-Wikimedians January 2016

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 2
by Olaniyan Olushola 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Isla and Flo, Thank you for this information. I am in support of selecting Team by country. Olaniyan Olshola Team Lead, WUGN Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 6:11 PM To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org Reply To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 2 Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15 (TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori) 2. Re: Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15 (Kangah Donatien KOFFI) 3. Re: Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15 (Samuel Guebo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:29:50 -0500 From: "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <oralofori(a)gmail.com> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15 Message-ID: <CAKqu0z14aSG7FgWSeDDZfWvjDQ8CnF8sMDWCv6uV7LT35C09jw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Do we have a panel of judges in mind to vet the scripts? Sincerely, Oral Ofori: Founder of TheAfricanDream LLC; an Information and Communication Consultancy on African Affairs --->> goo.gl/0iuyGr +12027069881 On Jan 4, 2016 10:53 AM, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Florence for the information and a very happy new year to you.I > will go for a free choice team . > > On 1/4/16, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote: > > Hello friends > > > > Isla and I thought of organizing a Writing Contest as part of Wikipedia > > 15 global celebrations and we would like your feedback (and hopefully > > support :)) on that idea. > > > > The general idea would be to organize a Contest that will be officially > > launched on the 15th of January and will have a duration of 15 days. > > The goal would be to write 15 articles on notable african women. Each > > team would work only on one article. It would operated in English and > > French. > > Two juries would decide on the best articles (probably with a "best > > quality" or "largest quantity" approach, with some bonus prizes for > > special cases such as "solo team" or best media). We should hopefully be > > able to get some little prices for the winners. > > > > One point upon which we are undecided (and will welcome very much your > > feedback ;)) is about how the teams would best form. > > > > - Should we rather do "country teams" ? eg, Team Ghana, team Ivory > > Coast, team Algeria etc. > > - or should we rather do "free choice team" where people would freely > > propose an article to create and other people would join in, whatever > > their country ? > > > > There are arguments for and against both options. Traditionnaly, most > > Writing Contest on Wikipedia are "free choice team" (for example, for > > the WikiConcours on the French Wikipedia here : > > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Wikiconcours) and allow to be > > very inclusive of everyone, but there are also arguments in favor of > > Country teams only. > > > > What do you think ? > > > > Anthere > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > African-Wikimedians mailing list > > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > > > -- > *Raphael Berchie* > Marketing Manager Farm Fresh Dairies <http://www.bioplasticsghana.com> > Wikimedian <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open > Advocate, Climate > Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/> > P.O Box CT 10469 > Cantoments Accra > Ghana > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >

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Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15
by Florence Devouard 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hello friends Isla and I thought of organizing a Writing Contest as part of Wikipedia 15 global celebrations and we would like your feedback (and hopefully support :)) on that idea. The general idea would be to organize a Contest that will be officially launched on the 15th of January and will have a duration of 15 days. The goal would be to write 15 articles on notable african women. Each team would work only on one article. It would operated in English and French. Two juries would decide on the best articles (probably with a "best quality" or "largest quantity" approach, with some bonus prizes for special cases such as "solo team" or best media). We should hopefully be able to get some little prices for the winners. One point upon which we are undecided (and will welcome very much your feedback ;)) is about how the teams would best form. - Should we rather do "country teams" ? eg, Team Ghana, team Ivory Coast, team Algeria etc. - or should we rather do "free choice team" where people would freely propose an article to create and other people would join in, whatever their country ? There are arguments for and against both options. Traditionnaly, most Writing Contest on Wikipedia are "free choice team" (for example, for the WikiConcours on the French Wikipedia here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Wikiconcours) and allow to be very inclusive of everyone, but there are also arguments in favor of Country teams only. What do you think ? Anthere

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Wiki Loves Africa update
by Florence Devouard 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hi friends Just a short note to keep you updated with the selection process. The first selection round is now over. Our 3 jury members (Habib, Céline and Sylvain) have done a great job and selected a short list of 1200+ pictures. I have asked Ilya to set up the jury tool so that we can move to the second round of selection and get our winners the earlier as possible. Cheers Anthere --

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