Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/September2020-BLT Contest

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SEPTEMBER RED RUSH BLT Contest

BLT's September contest is focused on engaging Wikimedians outside of the USA in a contest that celebrates the work of Black artists, especially those with connections to The Continent by working to increase information about them across Wikimedia platforms.

The contest runs:

September 1st until September 30th, 2020

What must the contestant do to generate content and win the contest?

Contestants must join as an editor on our Outreach Dashboard contest page HERE. At the end of the term we will determine who has added the most total qualifying articles for black artists who previously did not have a Wikipedia page. Questions can be emailed to contest@blacklunchtable.com or directed to Jamie Tubers (talk). At the end of the term we'll determine 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

What qualifies as a new article?

New articles should follow try to meet THESE basic good criteria
Feel free to work in draft space or your sandbox, new articles are not as intimidating as they sound, HERE is how to get started. However, articles must be in the mainspace by the end of the competition period.
Need support on writing new articles? Check out THIS guide
A good rule of thumb and minimum requirement for a qualifying article for this contest is one that registers an addition of 1000 characters or 1kB. Of course longer and well sourced articles are always welcome!

What prizes are offered?

This contest is focused on Wikimedians outside of the USA, especially Nigeria, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize will be administered as gift cards:

1st place - $100 USD
2nd place prize - $60 USD
3rd place prize - $40 USD

Winners!

We are pleased to announce our winners:

1st place-Kaizenify (talk)
2nd place-HandsomeBoy (talk)
3rd place tie- 2dmaxo (talk) and Danidamiobi (talk)

Judging

The Wikimedian who has made the most total qualifying article additions at the end of the contest period will be declared the winner. All participants should join HERE so we may determine a winner.

Possible Articles to Edit

All of the artists listed below are currently red links. We want to turn X to blue links by the end of the contest period.

Crowd-sourced list of African visual artists

Please feel free to suggest articles below, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Nigeria-affiliated artists on the focus list of Black Lunch Table

You are welcome to create articles on any black visual artists that you want across the world. Here are examples you can pick from and this list will be updated throughout the contest: be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Adaku Utah	female	healer artist	Nigeria
Ade Adekola	male	artist	Nigeria
Ayo Akínwándé	male	artist sculptor		Lagos
Dipo Doherty	male	artist
Folakunle Oshun	female	curator art director		Lagos
Gerald Chukwuma	male	artist
Ikechukwu Francis Okoronkwo	male	visual artist painter sculptor	Lagos
Kadara Enyeasi	male	photographer		Nigeria
Nengi Omuku	female	artist	Nigeria
Olu Amoda	male	artist
Oluseye	male	visual artist	Lagos	Toronto Lagos
Samson Akinnire	male	painter artist
Solomon Omolayo Omogboye	male	visual artist painter	Lagos	South Africa Johannesburg Nigeria
Stella Fakiyesi	female	visual artist photographer	Nigeria	Toronto Hampstead
Temitayo Ogunbiyi	female	artist	Lagos
Yesomi Umolu	female	curator	Lagos	Chicago London
Chukwuemeka Anthony Iweze	male	writer	Nigeria

End of auto-generated list.

Rules

Articles/edits must be published by the end of the competition period. Contestants are welcome to work on articles in AFC, draft space, their sandboxes or off-wiki in advance but the new articles have to be in the mainspace during the duration of the contest.
All entries are expected to be fully sourced, no unsourced claims or poorly formatted sources such as bare URL links or missing publisher information. Try to make the formatting consistent with dates and layout, clean, useful new entries are what the contest is about.
It is important that before starting new entries you take the time to ensure that articles meet Wikipedia:Notability guidelines and have adequate coverage in Wikipedia:Reliable sources needed to be acceptable on Wikipedia. We don't want the contest to generate non notable articles or cause WP:BLP issues. Leading up to the start of the contest there are prizes for editors who help build and refine the missing article lists for the contest with articles which are notable and make it easier for editors to select suitable articles during the contest.
Take extra care to avoid paraphrasing and copyright. If producing a lot of content it is sometimes difficult to avoid sentences at times which don't resemble something in a source but it is important that the articles are without problems and will stick around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. If editors are found to create successive articles with paraphrasing or quality issues or of dubious notability and continue to do so after being alerted of a problem, they may be disqualified from further contributing to the contest. It is very important that care is taken to avoid copyright issues and ensure that articles meet notability and content requirements as if they don't they may cause a potential nightmare for the contest and editors at a later date.
Cookie-cutter style articles which show signs of minimal text writing and simply quickly changing some facts to mass generate a lot of articles on the same subject or entries which show signs of cheating may be discounted. Though articles on the same subject (such as women athletes) may often have a similar format and facts, the articles submitted must demonstrate original text and that some time has been taken to write them. If using public domain sources this must be rewritten to comply at least if you're competing in the contest.
No automated, semi-automated tools, scripts or manual templates to mass generate content are permitted for the contest. Any indication that editors are cheating by using a cookie-cutter template or script to mass generate through lists may lead to disqualification.
To be eligible to win prizes for quantity, all articles are expected to be of a high quality, even if short. It cannot simply be "whoever produces the most articles, regardless of prose quality is the winner". All of the entries have to be satisfactory to read and be reliably sourced/reliable new entries.