Isla and Flo,
Thank you for this information.
I am in support of selecting Team by country.
Olaniyan Olshola
Team Lead, WUGN
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Do we have a panel of judges in mind to vet the scripts?
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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
> >
> >
> >
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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
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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