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Event:Culture Connect Africa/African Film & Cinema/2025
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Culture Connect Africa/African Film & Cinema/2025
Organized by: Linason Blessing, Bukky658
Start and end time
15:22, 1 April 2025 to 15:22, 30 April 2025
Location
Online event
The link will be made available by the organizers.
Topics
Africa, Entertainment, TV and film
Culture Connect Africa Project is a WikiProject by African & Proud (AP) that aims to improve Wikipedia’s content on African culture. It is more than just adding information it is about telling African stories, celebrating traditions, and sharing creativity with the world.
This project includes different sub-projects, each focusing on a unique part of African heritage, such as arts, languages, and history. By working together, we can make sure African culture is well represented and easily accessible to everyone.
Culture Connect Africa is open to all who want to contribute and help make Wikipedia a more diverse and inclusive platform.
The key goals of this project include:
- Improve Wikipedia’s representation of African film, cinema, and notable Film industry, ensuring these aspects of African identity are well-documented.
- Increase the visibility of African filmmakers, actors, directors, and films on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Rules
[edit]- Please read the rules very carefully before the contest commences.
- Articles must be in the mainspace by the end of the competition period.
- All entries are expected to be fully sourced, with no unsourced claims. Try to make the formatting consistent with dates and layout; clean, useful new entries are what the contest is about.
- It is important that before starting new entries, especially on the English Wikipedia, you take the time to ensure that articles meet notability guidelines and have the adequate coverage in reliable sources needed to be acceptable on Wikipedia.
- Articles should comply with the Quick contribution guide and Wikibooks:Welcome to be acceptable on Wikibooks.
- Take extra care to avoid paraphrasing and copyright. While producing a lot of content, it is sometimes difficult to avoid sentences that do not resemble something in a source but it is important that the articles are without problems and will stick around on Wikipedia for a long time.
- No automated, semi-automated tools, scripts or manual templates to mass generate content are permitted for the contest. Any indication that editors are cheating by using a cookie-cutter template or script to mass-generate through lists may lead to disqualification.
Winning Prizes
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Nigeria Participants
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Indigenous Language Award (Top contributor across Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedia)
[edit]- Top Prize Winner - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher
- First Runner Up - NGN40,000 Gift Voucher
- Second Runner Up - NGN30,000 Gift Voucher
English Wikipedia
[edit]- Top Contributor - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher
Wikidata
[edit]- Top Contributor - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher
New Editor Award
[edit]- New Editor with the highest contribution - NGN30,000 Gift Voucher
Ghana Participants
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Dagbani language
[edit]- Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
- Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
- Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
- Top Female - 300GHS
Gurene language
[edit]- Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
- Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
- Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
- Top Female - 300GHS
Dagaare language
[edit]- Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
- Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
- Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
- Top Female - 300GHS
Kusaal language
[edit]- Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
- Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
- Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
- Top Female - 300GHS
Jury Process
[edit]To ensure transparency and fairness, the competition will adopt a quantitative scoring system. However, it's important to note that all articles must adhere to Wikimedia platform's standards for notability, quality, and sourcing, as outlined in the subsequent rules section.
The judges reserve the right to disqualify any article that doesn't meet these criteria. This approach balances objective evaluation with the necessary quality controls to maintain the integrity of the competition.
The grading criteria across different Wikimedia platforms will be as follows:
English Wikipedia
[edit]- Creating a new article: 10 points
- Creating a stub article: 7 points
- Article improvement (up to 1500 bytes): 3 points
- Adding reliable references: 1 point
- Adding categories: 1 point
Wikidata
[edit]- New item created: 2 points
- Statement added to an item: 1 point per statement
Indigenous Languages (Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedia)
[edit]- Translated article: 3 points
- Quality translation of articles: additional 2 points
Training Schedule in Nigeria
[edit]| Date | Type of event | meeting link and passcode | Venue/Time | Recording & Slides | Details |
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| Saturday 05/04/2025 | Virtual Global Launch | Link to Zoom Meeting | Zoom & 3:00PM - 5:00PM WAT | Launch Recordings | Moderator: Linason Blessing
Support: Creative Kay |
| Sunday 06/04/2025 | Wikipedia Training | Zoom Link | Zoom 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Training Link | Moderator: Linason Blessing
Trainer: [Muib Shefiu] Facilitators: Linason Blessing,
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| Tuesday 22/04/2025 | Wikidata Training | To Be Updated | To be Updated | to be Updated | Moderator: Linason Blessing
Trainer:James Rhoda Facilitators: Linason Blessing, Support: |
Training Schedule in Ghana
[edit]| Date | Type of event | meeting link and passcode | Venue/Time | Recording & Slides | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 05/04/2025 | Virtual Global Launch | [Zoom Link | Zoom & 3:00PM - 5:00PM WAT | To Be Updated | Moderator: Linason Blessing
Support:Creative Kay |
| Saturday 12th April 2025 | Wikipedia Editing | Zoom Link | Zoom & 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC | To Be updated | Moderator:
Trainer: To Be Updated Facilitators: , Support: |
| Sarturday 26th April 2025 | Wikidata Training | To Be Updated | To be Updated | to be Updated | Moderator:
Trainer: Facilitators: , Support: |