I'm so happy to hear that the contest is happening - and it's great to see so many great folks involved so far!
We can (try) to post about the contest from the Wikimedia social media accounts - please let me know if this is something you are interested in. Also, let us know when the grant is ready for review. Best, Kacie On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello gals and guys > > > In case you missed it, I wanted to inform you of the forthcoming Africa > Destubathon > > > What ? > > The idea is simple: blast away as many of our 37,000 + Africa stubs as > possible! There will hopefully be a prize to the editor who fleshes out the > most stubs from every country of Africa. > All that is required for this is basic article expansions and > improvements. To "destub" an article all you have to do is ensure it's > minimum 1.5 kb (1500 characters) readable prose in total > The existing text and text you add is expected to all be verifiable and > adequately sourced to reliable sources, with the expected > Wikipedia:Citations drawn up. Whoever "destubs" the most articles for a > given country wins a prize, and whoever wins the most "destubs" for the > most countries will be crowned the overall winner. > > > Where ? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/ > The_Africa_Destubathon > > > When > > Starting Oct 15 > > > Anything special ? > > There will be special prizes for whoever destub the more African Women > articles > > > *We need your help NOW* > > Advices (on the talk page) and endorsement (on the grant page) are welcome > *(if > you feel like it is a good idea of course)* > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/The_ > Africa_De-stubathon > > > Anthere > > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- ---- Kacie Harold Program Officer Wikimedia Foundation
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