Wikipiidiya:Feminism and Folklore Ghana 2022

Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to document folk cultures and women in folklore in different regions of the world on Wikipedia. This project is the Wikipedia edition of the photography campaign Wiki Loves Folklore (WLF) that is organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore traditions around the world.The basic aim of the competition is to collect articles on human cultural diversity in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. This year we focus on folk culture around the globe, with a particular attention to closing the gender gap, as we are partnering with other affiliates and groups across the world.

Theme

This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.Folklore – around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.

Women in folklore – includes but is not limited to, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more).

Timeline

1 February 2022 00:01 UTC – 31 March 2022 11:59 UTC

How to participate?

Add your username in the participants' section!

Contest Rules:

Photo Contest

Capture images or videos of any Folklore related topic from Ghana.
Images must be of high quality.
You must be the copyright holder or have the permission to upload the image for the contest.
Upload images on or before February 28 2022.

Wikipedia

Create/Expand an article to minimum of 3000 bytes.
The article should not be machine translated
The Article should be created or expanded between 1st February to 31st March, 22022
The article should be within the theme Feminism and folklore
The article should not violate any copyright per Wikipedia policies
The article must be of readable prose of about 100 words or roughly 3 sentences.
The Gurene Wikipedia incubator article must have at least 4 references.

Wikidata

Wikidata items must have the following:

English Label -->
English Description -->
Gurene Label -->
Gurene Description -->
At least 4 references.
Instance of (P31)

List of Articles to be created/improved

Prizes

Best Photo Prize - GHS 250
Best Wikipedia Article - 250
Highest Photo (number) Contributor - GHS 200
Highest Wikipedia (Article Volume) contributor - GHS 200
2nd Highest Photo (number) contributor: GHS 150
2nd Highest Wikipedia (Article Volume) contributor: GHS150

(Disclaimer: Prizes to be dispersed in gift card or voucher format.)

Jury

Timeline

Contest Starts: February 01, 2022 00:01 (UTC). Contest Ends: March 28, 2022 23:59 (UTC) Results Declaration: Declared on April 5, 2022,

Participants

Add your username below:

Dnshitobu (talk) 21:57, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
Uprising Man (talk)

Where to ask questions?

The primary place for questions or suggestions is the Talk page.

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