Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/Contests

An editathon/contest to be held for each region of Africa to reinforce and increase the speed in which the ultimate article target is reached. This will mainly involve English Wikipedia and potentially French Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia and possibly any other language Wikipedia, though there are obstacles of course towards judging contests in a lot of languages which would have to be overcome. The idea is that we do something to target one of Wikipedia's weakest areas and do a lot to counteract systematic bias and improve general quality and coverage. We encourage articles to be written and researched properly and then translated into other languages to benefit a lot of people across Africa and the wider world. With greater funding, potentially we could attract new contributors towards contributing to African topics, something which the encyclopedia has long needed. It is also possible that African educational institutions could be contacted on this and we could possibly give something to benefit African students in education in return for contributing to Wikipedia. A way Wikipedia and the foundation can directly impact upon education in the developing world...

The Africa Destubathon
A general destubbing contest which will target the entire continent, aiming purely to reduce the number of stubs we have. This contest is badly needed, we have over 37,000 African stubs!! All that will be required is ensuring that stubs are expanded and properly sourced with minimum 1.5 kb readable prose.

Regional contests
If we can get the funding these will be held starting in the new year:

Northern Africa
Includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Participants

 * 1) Divex (talk)


 * 1) ♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:30, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Fsmatovu - Fsmatovu (talk) 22:34, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Penny Richards (talk) 00:36, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Rosiestep (talk) 01:30, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Johnbod (talk) 02:01, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:11, 21 July 2016 (UTC), I'd like to assist any way I can
 * 7) — Esquivalience (talk) 02:57, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 8)  IgnorantArmies  (talk)  03:23, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:31, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) AbstractIllusions (talk) 05:24, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Ninafundisha (talk) 05:56, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) OussDB (talk) 06:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Munci (talk) 06:27, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Sputink (talk) 06:35, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Славянский патриот (talk) 06:47, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Leutha (talk) 07:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 17) Maher27777 (talk) 09:12, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 18) —M@sssly ✉ 09:21, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 19) Fudpukker (talk) 16:01, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 20) →Enock 4 seth  (talk) 11:23, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 21) MeegsC (talk) 14:05, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 22) Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 15:57, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 23) CMD (talk) 16:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 24) Rich Farmbrough, 17:56, 21 July 2016 (UTC).


 * 1)  Versace1608   Wanna Talk? 21:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Iopensa (talk) 10:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:54, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Darreg (talk) 11:23, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Fitzcarmalan (talk) 13:11, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Jamie Tubers (talk) 04:03, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Aymatth2 (talk) 11:23, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Al Ameer (talk) 21:30, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Warofdreams talk 13:01, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) —azuki (talk · contribs · email) 05:00, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) RubyALG (talk) 13:31, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) David Moussa (talk) 12:08, 01 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) --Dthomsen8 (talk) 18:46, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 14)  Innisfree987 (talk) 22:52, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Eartha78 (talk) 17:30, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) User:Pritish.Seeboo (talk 21:25, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 17) Dzlinker \,,/(*_*)\,,/ 09:10, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 18)  czar  07:32, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 19) Proscribe (talk) 09:48, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 20) North America1000 11:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 21) Prburley (talk) 23:37, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 22) Velvet Mamba (talk) 21:14, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Western Africa
Includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Participants

 * 1) Jamie Tubers (talk) 04:04, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Eruditescholar (talk) 08:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Darreg (talk) 20:01, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) RubyALG (talk) 14:54, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Robevans123 (talk) 09:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) —M@sssly ✉ 09:26, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:49, 3 September 2016 (UTC).


 * 1) &#91;&#91;D-free&#93;&#93; (talk) 23:21, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) mjsmith5 (talk) 5:07, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Velvet Mamba (talk) 21:14, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Cmo910 (talk) 00:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Wikimedia Ghana UG - sandioosesTextMe 11:14, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Tbiw (talk) 12:10, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 7) User: Gayobah13

Central Africa
Includes Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern Africa
Includes Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

(talk)
 * 1) Divex (talk)
 * 2) Dthomsen8 (talk) 18:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Ainebyonasamuel
 * 1) Munci (talk) 12:45, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Ninafundisha (talk) 13:13, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) User:Pritish.Seeboo (talk 21:25, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Icem4k (talk) 14:09, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) User:Fsmatovu (talk) 22:34, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) User:Zotezangu (talk) 20:08, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Sputink (talk) 21:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Velvet Mamba (talk) 21:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 9)  Red  olta 📱 Cont ribs 17:37, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Southern Africa
Includes Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius

Participants

 * 1) (talk) 11:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Ninafundisha (talk) 08:59, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Miltonlouw (talk) 10:51, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Sothomensch (talk) 11:38, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Fudpukker (talk) 16:02, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Darouet (talk) 17:38, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Iopensa (talk) 10:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Ethansmith (talk) 11:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Darreg (talk) 11:39, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) RubyALG (talk) 14:53, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Pgallert (talk) 20:31, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Velvet Mamba (talk) 21:13, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 13)  Lefcentreright  Discuss   21:09, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 14) ꧁ Zanahary ꧂ 21:04, 19 June 2024 (UTC)