Wiki Loves Women # 15Challenge Writing Competition on Wikipedia

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 ...

The final statistics

At the end of the contest,

15 English speaking teams (27 participants)
18 French speaking teams (24 participants)
and 1 team (4 participants) from Armenian (completely unexpected ... but so very welcome!)

produced no less than ...

This result is way beyond our expectations! And so incredibly great!

The jury

The tireless jurors in English were Jane023, FloNight, Smirkybec, and Isla Haddow, and the French Jurors were Vikoula5, Laurent Jerry and Anthere

Winners

The winning teams in the English contest

Best English article:Malouma from Team Women in Red (User:Ipigott, User:Megalibrarygirl, User:Rosiestep, User:SusunW, and User:1bandsaw). This article already reached a Good Article status!

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 work by newbies: Team Queer Mbokodo Lead (User:LameOlebile, User:DMailosi, User:mugothescribe – all newbies), who wrote an article on South African activist and academic Zethu_Matebeni

Best African team effort: goes to Team Ghana (User:Rberchie, Utilisateur:B, User:Celestinesucess, User:Sandiooses) who wrote 16 articles (mostly just above stub class)

Best individual effort: goes to Team Adrienne de La Fayette with 32 articles written by user:duckduckstop

The winning Francophone teams

Best article: w:fr:Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge de Cbyd et HenriDavel (Equipe Parce-qu'elles-le-valent-bien)
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