Wikipiidiya:Feminism and Folklore Ghana 2022

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Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 in Ghana
Young Boy Dressed for Damba Festival in Northern Ghana
Market Women in Northern Region, Ghana

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.

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[demesego zia]

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

How to participate?[demesego zia]

Add your username in the participants' section!

Contest Rules:[demesego zia]

Photo Contest[demesego zia]

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

Wikipedia[demesego zia]

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

Wikidata[demesego zia]

Wikidata items must have the following:

  1. English Label -->
  2. English Description -->
  3. Gurene Label -->
  4. Gurene Description -->
  5. At least 4 references.
  6. Instance of (P31)

List of Articles to be created/improved[demesego zia]

  1. Rebecca Akufo-Addo
  2. Hawa Iddrisu
  3. Lordina Mahama
  4. Paulina Abayage Tangoba
  5. Franciska Issaka
  6. Rita Asobayire
  7. Sarah Abayaa
  8. Patricia Agotiba Anaba
  9. Atopunga Alice
  10. Asumbuura Tinga
  11. Margaret Marry Issaka
  12. Hilda Salsify
  13. Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School
  14. Hanna Tetteh
  15. Georgina Theodora Wood
  16. Sophia Akuffo
  17. Wesley Girls' Senior High School
  18. Ama Ata Aidoo
  19. Gladys Asmah
  20. Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira

Prizes[demesego zia]

  1. Best Photo Prize - GHS 250
  2. Best Wikipedia Article - 250
  3. Highest Photo (number) Contributor - GHS 200
  4. Highest Wikipedia (Article Volume) contributor - GHS 200
  5. 2nd Highest Photo (number) contributor: GHS 150
  6. 2nd Highest Wikipedia (Article Volume) contributor: GHS150
  • (Disclaimer: Prizes to be dispersed in gift card or voucher format.)

Timeline[demesego zia]

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

Participants[demesego zia]

Add your username below:

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

Where to ask questions?[demesego zia]

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

You can also reach out to us at Gurenewikimedia@gmail.com

Get interactive[demesego zia]

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