African Wisdom: Films and Literature

African Wisdom: Films and Literature

The African Wisdom: Films and Literature contest aims to bridge the content gap on the quotes from African Films and Literature on Wikiquote as Content about African Films and Literature is lacking on Wikiquote.

How to participate

1. Sign in or Create a new account on Wikipedia.
2. List the articles created or improved under the Articles created/improved section.

Jury Process

In order to ensure transparency and fairness, scoring in this competition would be quantitative; keeping in mind that all articles must meet Wikiquote standards for notability, quality, and sourcing, as described in the rules declared in the following section. Any article may be disqualified at the judges’ discretion.

The scoring system for the winners would be as follows:

• One point (1.0) would be awarded for every new Wikiquote article.
• One point (1.0) for every 1000 bytes of content for the articles.
• Half a point (0.5) for every quality source or citation used in a Wikiquote article.

Results can be viewed.

Rules

• Please read the rules very carefully before commencing the contest.
• Articles must be in the mainspace 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 Wikiquote, 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.
• 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.

Participants

To participate you just need to sign up in the participant's section.