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On Jan 4, 2016 10:53 AM, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie@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@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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