Setswana Wikipedia Challenge 2011
The Setswana Wikipedia Challenge 2011 is an effort to boost content creation in the seTswana language using a prize-bearing writing (and translation) competition. The challenge takes place in Botswana. It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and Google Inc.
A detailed timeline, contest rules, etc., are available in the Challenge's home page, by Google.
Scope
[edit]This Challenge solicits original or translated Wikipedia articles in Setswana. The list of articles to be written or translated was provided and approved by the organizers and judges.
Wikimedia's Involvement
[edit]Training
[edit]Mr. Oscar Limoke, a volunteer Wikimedian from Kenya and a veteran of the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge of 2009, has traveled to Gaborone to deliver two one-day training sessions, one for the judges who will be evaluating submissions and selecting the winners, and one for the participants.
Trademark permission
[edit]The Wikimedia Foundation has granted Google permission to brand the competition with Wikimedia's trademarks.
Prizes
[edit]- The grand prize is an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. to attend Wikimania 2012. It is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact
[edit]- For general inquiries about this program, please write to Asaf Bartov at asaf@wikimedia.org.