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/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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
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/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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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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@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/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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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"Free choice team" can be "country team". So I have any problem with "free choice team"...
Happy new year Isla and Flo!
Best,
2016-01-04 16:29 GMT+00:00 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori oralofori@gmail.com:
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@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/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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 Flo and everyone,
The Writing Contest itself a brilliant thing. Although I have nothing against the "free choice team" option, I would go for "country team". Making that Writing Contest exclusive to the country teams (eg.Ghana, Algeria, or Côte d'Ivoire) might draw new editors towards local country teams.
Happy new year!
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Kangah Donatien KOFFI < donatien.kanga@gmail.com> wrote:
"Free choice team" can be "country team". So I have any problem with "free choice team"...
Happy new year Isla and Flo!
Best,
2016-01-04 16:29 GMT+00:00 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori <oralofori@gmail.com
:
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@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/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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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No we do not. But to be fair... I think that should not be a big problem. I can not say for en.wikipedia but fr.wikipedia, my strategy would be to go to previous jury members of WikiConcours and to ask them whether they would agree to do that.
I know they are seasoned wikipedians, I know they are willing to be judges and I know no one hugely complained when they volunteered to do it. Good to me.
Flo
Le 04/01/16 17:29, TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori a écrit :
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 http://goo.gl/0iuyGr +12027069881
On Jan 4, 2016 10:53 AM, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie@gmail.com mailto: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 <mailto: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 <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia: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@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:African-Wikimedians@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@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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