Wikipedia:WikiProject AfroCreatives/FESPACO edit-a-thon

AfroCreatives WikiProject +film is the inaugural effort of AfroCreatives WikiProject. By mobilizing African film creatives, professionals, and film enthusiasts, ACWP +film aims to measurably enhance information on Wikipedia about the art and industry of African film, including:




 * The history of African cinema
 * Biographies of notable African creatives and professionals that span the industry
 * Notable African movies and television series
 * African studios, streaming platforms, awards, festivals, guilds, film schools, and other institutions that form the industry ecosystem
 * Developments in animation, AR, VR, and other technologies shaping the African film industry
 * Film financing, government policies, skills development, and other key industry issues.

FESPACO Edit-a-thon
Date: Saturday, May 18 - June 17, 2024

AfroCreatives WikiProject is partnering with FESPACO, Africa’s largest film festival, in a continent-wide Edit-a-thon.

In the lead-up to the campaign, participants are encouraged to join online and/or in-person training sessions to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, or if already familiar with editing Wikipedia, to refresh their skills. To accommodate as many people as possible, the following is scheduled:
 * Two “global” online training sessions in each of 3 languages (English, French, Arabic).
 * A series of local online and in-person training sessions led by local Wikipedia organizers around the continent.

In addition to a general training session focused on Wikipedia:

 Online Wikipedia training sessions The agendas are the same for each session. Online Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons training sessions
 * A training session (in French, Arabic, and English) focused on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, two affiliated projects within the Wikimedia family. For participants within the film industry with rights to images, here’s why Wikimedia Commons is especially relevant to you.
 * English
 * Dates: Saturday 11th May, Wednesday 15th May AND Saturday 1st June 2024
 * Times: 11:00 UTC,16:00 UTC AND 09:00 UTC
 * Links: TBA
 * French
 * Dates: Saturday 11th May, Thursday 16th May AND Saturday 1st June 2024
 * Times: 10:00 UTC, 16:00 UTC AND 12:00 UTC
 * Links: TBA
 * Arabic
 * Dates: Thursday, 16th May AND Saturday, 1st June 2024
 * Times: 16:00 UTC AND 12:00 UTC
 * Links: TBA
 * Dates: Saturday, 18th May 2024
 * Times: 10:00 UTC (EN), 12:00 UTC (FR) AND 16:00 UTC (AR)
 * Links: TBA
 * Languages: EN/FR/AR

 Local training sessions 
 * Date: Starting Friday, 17th May 2024
 * Times: TBA
 * Where: Locations across Africa-TBA
 * Language: Based on local context

Why participate

 * 1) Your contributions will increase African-generated content about the continent’s film sector on Wikipedia and the web.
 * 2) You will help create awareness and interest among the general public about the project and create visibility of the African film on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
 * 3) You will help build the capacity within the film industry to contribute knowledge to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
 * 4)  Help propagate the need to create more content about the film industry in Africa that promotes the culture, history, and heritage of our people.

New to editing Wikimedia?
If you are new to contributing to Wikimedia projects, we strongly encourage you to sign up for training session when you register to participate in the campaign. The sessions, led by experienced Wikimedians, will provide basic and essential editing know-how that will make it easy for you to participate in the campaign.

Watch this space for more information on training sessions that will take place online and in person in cities throughout Africa in May as part of the FESPACO campaign.

Campaign rules

 * All participants must create a Wikimedia account and be signed in before making any edits.
 * All Wikipedia edits made must have #ACWPFESPACO2024 in the edit summary to be considered for any prize
 * If you’re a Wikimedian, make sure you are registered on your local Wikimedia community dashboard if your community is organizing, and if you’re a film professional, sign up to the global ACWP+film dashboard so your edits can be tracked as part of the campaign.
 * All contributions as part of the campaign must follow or be related to the theme of the campaign, African film and television. Editing Articles outside this scope will not count.
 * Double/multiple performances of one task as several edits on an article count as one edit. For example, fixing two different typos over two different edits on an article counts as one edit, not two.
 * Points are not given when an edit is made to correct a previous edit by the same participant.
 * Responses to messages on talk pages and reverted edits do not count as an edit.

Link to FESPACO resources to help you create/expand FESPACO related articles
As part of the Fespaco edit-a-thon, we are undertaking a special initiative to expand and create new content about the festival on Wikipedia. Here you will find FESPACO resources to facilitate your contributions. How exactly can you contribute? Every film festival of note should have a main article, as well as an individual article for each edition that has taken place. This is FESPACO’s main article that you can edit however you deem necessary and here is the article for the 28th Edition, its most recent edition held in 2023, which you can also enhance. All the other editions, held bi-annually dating back to 1969, require a new article to be created (as of April 2024). In addition to information that is widely available, you can access here resources provided by FESPACO and categorized by edition.