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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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)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:29:50 -0500 From: "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" oralofori@gmail.com To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15 Message-ID: CAKqu0z14aSG7FgWSeDDZfWvjDQ8CnF8sMDWCv6uV7LT35C09jw@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@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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