An editathon/contest to be held for each region of Africa to reinforce and increase the speed in which the ultimate article target is reached. This will mainly involve English Wikipedia and potentially French Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia and possibly any other language Wikipedia, though there are obstacles of course towards judging contests in a lot of languages which would have to be overcome. The idea is that we do something to target one of Wikipedia's weakest areas and do a lot to counteract systematic bias and improve general quality and coverage. We encourage articles to be written and researched properly and then translated into other languages to benefit a lot of people across Africa and the wider world. With greater funding, potentially we could attract new contributors towards contributing to African topics, something which the encyclopedia has long needed. It is also possible that African educational institutions could be contacted on this and we could possibly give something to benefit African students in education in return for contributing to Wikipedia. A way Wikipedia and the foundation can directly impact upon education in the developing world...

The Africa Destubathon

A general destubbing contest which will target the entire continent, aiming purely to reduce the number of stubs we have. This contest is badly needed, we have over 37,000 African stubs!! All that will be required is ensuring that stubs are expanded and properly sourced with minimum 1.5 kb readable prose.

Regional contests

If we can get the funding these will be held starting in the new year:

Northern Africa

Includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Participants

1. Divex ( talk)

Western Africa

Includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Participants

1. Jamie Tubers ( talk) 04:04, 24 July 2016 (UTC) reply
2. Eruditescholar ( talk) 08:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC) reply
3. Darreg ( talk) 20:01, 26 July 2016 (UTC) reply
4. RubyALG ( talk) 14:54, 31 July 2016 (UTC) reply
5. Robevans123 ( talk) 09:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC) reply
6. —M@sssly ^✉ 09:26, 3 September 2016 (UTC) reply
7. All the best: Rich  Farmbrough, 18:49, 3 September 2016 (UTC). reply
   
8. [[D-free]] ( talk) 23:21, 8 September 2016 (UTC) reply
9. mjsmith5 ( talk) 5:07, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
10. Velvet Mamba ( talk) 21:14, 17 December 2016 (UTC) reply
11. Cmo910 ( talk) 00:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC) reply
12. Wikimedia Ghana UG - sandiooses ^TextMe 11:14, 2 June 2017 (UTC) reply
13. Tbiw ( talk) 12:10, 12 April 2021 (UTC) reply
14. User: Gayobah13

Central Africa

Includes Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern Africa

Includes Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

1. Divex ( talk)
2. Dthomsen8 ( talk) 18:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC) reply
3. Ainebyonasamuel

( talk)

1. Munci ( talk) 12:45, 5 August 2016 (UTC) reply
2. Ninafundisha ( talk) 13:13, 5 August 2016 (UTC) reply
3. User:Pritish.Seeboo ( talk 21:25, 19 August 2016 (UTC) reply
4. Icem4k ( talk) 14:09, 21 July 2016 (UTC) reply
5. User:Fsmatovu ( talk) 22:34, 20 July 2016 (UTC) reply
6. User:Zotezangu ( talk) 20:08, 9 September 2016 (UTC) reply
7. Sputink ( talk) 21:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC) reply
8. Velvet Mamba ( talk) 21:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC) reply
9. Redolta 📱 ^Contribs 17:37, 24 December 2016 (UTC) reply

Southern Africa

Includes Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius

Participants