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From: Florence Devouard <anthere@anthere.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:26 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>


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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