Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge

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Welcome! Ideas for moving forward.

How do I join I am bone123 (talk) 20:24, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

The Africa Destubathon
Due to several problems with the grant proposal for Northern Africa we're likely going to do those regional contests starting in the new year now and do a general Africa one to get started here. I've created WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. The idea will be whoever fleshes out the most stubs for each country wins a prize, and then a bonus prize for the person who expands the most women biographical articles from Africa during the month. If interested sign up on the page in the contestants/participants section but I understand if you don't want to put your name down until it is formally approved! This has already received some positive feedback from people associated with the grants though so has a good chance of going ahead this time ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:21, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposal
OK I think a general contest which benefits everybody would be the best place to start. For WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon I'm proposing the following:


 * $1060 for 53 sets of $20 prizes for the people who do the most destubs for each African country.
 * $300 into whoever destubs the most articles for the whole of Africa during the contest, with $200 for first place, $50 for second, $25 for third, $15 for fourth, and $10 for fifth.
 * $300 into whoever destubs the most geography and wildlife articles for the whole of Africa during the contest, with $200 for first place, $50 for second, $25 for third, $15 for fourth, and $10 for fifth. Wikimedia UK will hopefully put up this prize.
 * $200 into whoever destubs the most women articles for the whole of Africa during the contest, with $100 for first place, $50 for second, $25 for third, $15 for fourth, and $10 for fifth. Optionally, a request for books can be put in and we work something out where contestants can claim for books about women they want to further benefit wiki and the Wiki loves women contests at a later date.

I know Dthomsen8 has mentioned that he would be willing to put something into a contest too but that's entirely up to him!

So I think this could be quite a big contest, it might last 53 days, to allow people to work on each of the 53 countries. Participants would be asked permission on whether they would accept their articles being placed into the big 10,000 list. I've moved the Destubathon out of the 10,000 Challenge area for neutrality purposes. I'm quite open to further additional prizes or distribution for articles which benefit Wiki Loves Women, but this depends on their support. I was hoping to run something in October but it might need to be pushed back to later October until the end of the year. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  07:51, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Comments
I am a bit concerned that the focus is only on the number and not on the quality. I worry that it might favour too much quantity to the detriment of the quality. And worried that it might lead to edit war on the talk page to assess quality levels :)))) Any feedback on this ?

The other point is.... in the current scheme... there are over 60 prices. What will be exactly the nature of the price (cash, amazon voucher etc.) and who is going to do the work of collecting people name and information so that they get their price ? Anthere (talk)


 * Thankyou Anthere. The emphasis on this contest will be raw cleanup/basic improvement but to comply with the contest all entries must be of sound quality, and properly sourced/verifiable article with consistently formatted sources. I think if you look overall at the average article quality on the continent, we badly need something to improve the general basic standard and make them more consistent. So the focus I think for this is more on bulk/basic cleanup. A simple system, editors just put forward their articles with a # under each country. Whoever does the most articles for each country wins the $20 prize. Given that that amount is small and there are 53 countries I can't envisage much squabbling over that! At the end of the month, it is up to the editor then to claim a bonus prize, collect all of the articles they did in the month and rewards given out to 1st to 5th place.


 * Later contests, like the regional ones proposed, those would be the ones which focus more on the core articles and quality, but this is essentially a raw cleanup drive. Prizes will always be Amazon vouchers or books about Africa of the person's request, which will serve to further boost contest production at a later date. Somebody could ask for a book about Nigeria or something and then use that to contribute to one of the Nigerian contests etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:18, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

I personally think this is a really neat proposal. I hope it goes ahead an I'm looking forward to when it does. - Yellow Dingo&#160;(talk) 09:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Involving other language wikis
Perfectly open to this involving other wikipedias. French, Afrikaans, Arabic, Swahili and Yoruba etc are welcome to join in. But there would have to be somebody running pages on those wikis and to act as a go between and adding entries to the main content list here. The Dragon contest was a dual language one, but I see no reason why the other wikis couldn't get involved. The main problem I think is that a lot of them have lower standards for content so a lot of editors might not be up to English wiki referencing standards so we'd let down a lot of people by rejecting their entries. I think we could keep the idea open anyway, a dual one with French wikipedia definitely would work.♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Book fund
Suggestion here, this could be the first contest for editors to win resource material or editors work to donate their winnings to accumulating resources for their projects.♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:38, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm confused
Isn't this challenge undoing the removal of stubs that were destubbed in the last contest?JerrySa1 (talk) 21:42, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

No, it's an ongoing editathon/challenge which will continue beyond the contest, it started before the contest in September. The contest will be "dumped" into the the challenge once it's finished so we'll be near 3000 articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:45, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Can someone tell me how to join 😊I am bone123 (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Cape Verde
Is there a reason why Cape Verde in not included in the scope of this challenge? Cape Verde was included in The Africa Destubathon so I'm not sure why it isn't included in this challenge. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 04:31, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I took the liberty and added Cape Verde into the scope. OhanaUnitedTalk page 05:12, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Then I can add my Cape Verdan woman article I made awhile back once i get the chance. Thanks. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:16, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Talk page template?
Is there a talk-page template for articles expanded or created during this initiative, similar to WPEUR10k and WPLA10k? I can't find one. If there isn't, it would take only moments to create one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:55, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Follow up
It's almost three years to the day since I asked about this higher up this page. Rightly or wrongly, I've now gone ahead and made one – a template to place on the talk-page of any article you've worked on and listed here. It's this: WPAFR10k; it adds the article to this category. If anyone wants to ask a bot to deploy it on the 5600+ pages that have already been listed here, please be my guest! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:37, 17 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I have added a note to the project banner, so you can now just add yes to WikiProject Africa instead &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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Yeah!
Half way there!! Congrats!!† Encyclopædius  12:55, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, congratulations everyone. I have cleaned up the list and started us on a new section. —Brigade Piron (talk) 19:49, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

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Article notability for inclusion
Question: are pages without much information on them (disambigulations & surnames) premitted to be added to the count, or no? Roasted (talk) 23:59, 7 December 2023 (UTC)


 * No dab pages, thanks. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:14, 8 December 2023 (UTC)