• The contest will start on the 15th of January 2016 (0:00 UTC) and will end on the 31st of January 2016 (23:59 UTC)
• Any creation or modifications done before the start of the contest will not accepted as part of the contest.
• In the sake of fairness, it is important not to start working on an article in a subpage or offline before the start of the contest. Please respect the spirit of the contest and only start working on the article from the 15th onwards.

• The Contest is organised by teams (although individual participation is also accepted);
• Accepted articles must be biographies of a notable African woman;
• The contest is bilingual English/French.
• The m:Wiki Loves Women Writing Contest page on Meta will announce the winners and coordinate communication.
• Translation of the final articles into other languages are very welcome!

Teams

Create Your Team

• Teams can be created by any wikipedian with a user account ( create an account);
• Only contributors with a user account can join a team;
• Teams can be composed of 1 to 10 members;
• All teams are in competition, but it is perfectly ok for a team (or individual team member) to help another team!
• Each team decides which notable woman they wish to celebrate and stick to that person;
• It is allowed to create a team by country (=all contributors are from the same country). This could be reflected in the name of the team.
• Every team should have a team leader, to be the contact between team and jury;
• There is no deadline for the creation of a team (it can be created even after the contest is launched);
• There is no deadline for joining a team (you can join even after the contest is launched);
• If you want to join a team that has already been created, please check with them and get their approval;
• Participants may use the user box to be created

Articles

• Each team can only work on a many articles as they want, but they can only propose one article for the best article prize;
• Articles proposed will be only biographies about of a notable African woman;
• The selection of the article to propose for the best article prize made by the team, after discussion;
• The article may be proposed by the team or picked from a list of suggestions: Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Women/Writing Contest/Articles suggestions ;
• Everyone can suggest a topic for an article. Please make sure those women are likely to be notable enough that they will stay on Wikipedia;
• At the start of the contest, the article should not exist or should be a very, very, very basic stub, allowing for significant progress;
• Please add the category Category:Wiki Loves Women Writing Contest to the articles you work on.

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Prize category

• Best team :

  Best encyclopaedic input and team work (collaboration, discussion, work sharing etc.).

• Best article :

  Well ... best written article :)

• Jury prize :

  Jury choice. Undefined number. Potentially, these prizes may distinguish :

  • best media (images added, voice record etc.) ;
  • article translated in other languages;
  • best individual team;
  • etc.