Event:Culture Connect Africa/ AfroCuisine/ 2025

Culture Connect Africa 2025: AfroCuisine

• Overview & Training schedule
• Topic List

The AfroCuisine contest aims to bridge the content gap on African locally made food as Content about these food are mostly not available on Wikipedia and other sister project.

The key goals of this project include:

Improve Wikipedia’s representation of African food ensuring the aspect of African identity are well-documented. Increase the visibility of African food on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Rules

Please read the rules very carefully before the contest commences. Articles must be in the main space 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.

Jury Process

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

• 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

• New item created: 2 points
• Statement added to an item: 1 point per statement

Indigenous Languages (Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedia)

• Translated article: 3 points
• Quality translation of articles: additional 2 points

Winning Prizes

Nigeria Participants

Wikibook Cookbook

• Top Contributor - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher

Indigenous Language Award (Top contributor across Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedia)

• Top Prize Winner - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher
• First Runner Up - NGN40,000 Gift Voucher
• Second Runner Up - NGN30,000 Gift Voucher

English Wikipedia

• Top Contributor - NGN50,000 Gift Voucher

New Editor Award

• New Editor with the highest contribution - NGN30,000 Gift Voucher

Dagbani language

• Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
• Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
• Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
• Top Female - 300GHS

Gurene language

• Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
• Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
• Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
• Top Female - 300GHS

Dagaare language

• Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
• Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
• Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
• Top Female - 300GHS

Kusaal language

• Top editor (1st) - 600 GHS
• Top editor (2nd) - 450 GHS
• Top newbie editor - 300 GHS
• Top Female - 300GHS