The Afrosounds Edit Contest

The Afrosounds Edit Contest

Afrosounds Edit Contest E-Flier

About

The Afrosounds Project started a campaign to increase contributions of content about African music and sounds across various Wikimedia projects through this campaign tagged "The Afrosounds Edit Contest". This project was birthed out of the identified gap in knowledge, misrepresented facts and bias available on the free encyclopedia and creative commons as it concerns topics around music, sounds and related arts in Africa. We hosted two meet ups and an edit-a-thon in Lagos, Nigeria to intimate participants and volunteer contributors across Africa about our objectives at Afrosounds and how everyone is needed on board to contribute their quota to the general sum of knowledge available for free learning globally.

Goals

• Increase capacity of existing volunteers and train new volunteer editors on contributing to Wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wiki Commons, especially as it concerns content on African music, sounds and related arts.
• Create and improve articles on various discuss and topics in African music and sounds.
• Create an awareness about the impact of documenting stories about African music and sounds on open knowledge.
• Identify and partner with relevant stakeholders and partners, willing to support the project of advancing free knowledge about African music, sounds and related arts.
• Promote the contribution of content across several African countries and culture in a bid to preserve heritage and culture through music and sounds relative to each region.

How to Participate

1. Indicate an interest in African music and open source
2. Sign in or create new account on Wikipedia
3. Register for training session and project onboarding
4. Enroll on the outreach dashboard to track and collate your contributions
5. Edit and contribute!
6. Results announced and contributions listed on the project meta page

Rules

The aim is to generally promote contributions on open knowledge through Wikimedia projects - wikipedia, wikidata and wiki commons, with special attention paid to contributions about African music and sounds. The conditions of selecting winners is solely dependent on quantitative and qualitative factors, coupled with score points attributed to each task determined by the project team.

• 3 points for article edits related to African music and sounds
• 1 point for other article edits
• 1 point for every 1,000 article words added
• 1 point for every 10 wikidata item
• 0.5 points for every citation added
• 0.5 points for every wiki commons upload

Contest Timeline

• Contest Start Date: 4th February, 2023
• Contest End Date: 28th February, 2023
• Winners Announced: 10th March, 2023

Prizes

1. Top Contributor - NGN40,000 Shopping Voucher
2. Second Contributor - NGN30,000 Shopping Voucher
3. Third Contributor -NGN20,000 Shopping Voucher

Impact

The campaign which ran for 24 days had over 35 participants from 7 African countries (Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana, Guinea, Burundi, Algeria and Uganda) participate in the training session and edit contest contributing over 200+ articles, improved upon 900+ articles, over 650+ commons upload, added over 220K+ words which has gone on to gather about 650K+ article views across wikimedia projects; wikipedia, wiki commons, wikidata on promoting the documentation of music and sounds in Africa. Find access to the outreach dashboard here.

Winners

1. Top Contributor - Baah Thomas Ghana Top articles contribution
2. Second Contributor - BalukuBrian Uganda Top words added
3. Third Contributor - Ourysow92 Guinea Top commons upload

Special Recognition Contributors in Minority Language - Rwanda Wikipedia

1. TheJackNation
2. Musindi250

Participants and Score Points

1. BalukuBrian - 274.2 points
2. Ourysow92 - 163.0 points
3. Baah Thomas - 92.3 points
4. TheJackNation - 83.3 points
5. Akwugo - 37.5 points
6. Musindi250 - 23.1 points
7. B.Korlah - 22.4 points
8. Jay080 - 22.2 points
9. Tesleemah - 20.6 points
10. Ozavizel - 15.0 points
11. Accuratecy051 - 14.5 points
12. Philemon Niyomwungeli - 12.0 points
13. Cmwaura - 9.1 points
14. Adaeze Nwa'Nsukka - 9.0 points
15. Royalty34964030 - 8.5 points
16. Annick green - 7.0 points
17. Muhammed amine benloulou - 6.4 points
18. Saula1986 - 5.9 points
19. Sylvesterchukwu - 4.0 points
20. Musahfm - 2.7 points
21. NanaYawBotar - 1.12 points
22. Marviie - 0.52 points
23. Onyinyeonuoha - 0.5 points
24. NANöR - 0.23 points
25. Icyari - 0.060 points