Wiki Loves Women # 15Challenge Writing Competition on Wikipedia Information
January 15, 2016, Wikipedia was celebrating its 15 years of existence.
But ... even in 15 years ... the content on Africa in general - and African women in particular - remains limited.
Hence the idea to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia by organising a bilingual English/ French writing contest to increase the number of biographies of notable African women. We asked for 15 teams to create 15 articles on notable African women. These are the results ...
Best English team: goes to Team Women in Red. And this is probably the best moment to advertise the
w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red initiative … their objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones within the scope of women’s biographies and women’s works, broadly construed.
Best team: 'Equipe Parce-qu’elles-le-valent-bien with Cbyd and HenriDavel for writing no less than 30 articles (not counting the winning article) of very good quality.
Best individual effort: Équipe France-Afrique avec Sg7438 and his beautiful
w:fr:Makobo Modjadji
Best illustration for an article: Equipe Mboa with Geiger, Leuwec and Charlotte Pelagie, for being the only team providing an original picture to illustrate
w:fr:Kah Walla
Best effort at cooperation: Benoît Prieur, for his improvements to many of his competitors articles!
And finally ...
Best translation effort:team Armenia with User:Armineaghayan, User:El-ßäbrega, User:Garik.Khachatryan and User:Armin Karapetyan, for the 41 articles translated in Armenian language