The prize fund for the contest has now been fully approved. The fund is coming from Wikimedia, Wikimedia UK and Dthomsen, which combined is $2380 (about £1945). With Amazon voucher prizes (rather than cash), there's a strong emphasis on encouraging editors to buy books with the prizes they win to further contribute to Wikipedia, so this will hopefully prove to be a sort of investment in content building in the long term. The prizes will be sent in e-voucher form by email to the winners at the end of the contest. Though the potential prizes to win are high, I hope that there'll be lots of winners for different countries being rewarded here for different areas of work on this.

In terms of prizes though, I'm going to keep it open for the individuals who win larger amounts. Some editors may prefer annual subscriptions to resources like the British Library, JSTOR etc as a prize rather than vouchers. I'm not certain how much a lot of these subscriptions are, except the British one which I know is about £80, but I think we can permit that if editors win enough to cover the costs of the subscription, and any in excess can just be topped up with Amazon vouchers. As it's all towards the content improvement cause and further research it should be fine.

The prizes and funds are as follows:

Score bonuses[edit]

The following articles will be worth either triple or quintuple for Good Articles given their level of importance. If you've promoted any article on the list or any which qualifies under any of the criteria please state so when listing the nomination on the entries page. The triple ones will be worth 3 normal GAs and the quintuple ones which are among the central core articles will be worth 5 GAs when promoted. There may be some entries on the quintuple list whose topics are covered in the triple section, such as Robert Mugabe, Kofi Annan and Zebra. Watch out for the exceptions, but there shouldn't be many of them.

Triple point score GAs

Women

For obtaining a triple point score for GAs, all you have to do is promote any existing African woman article to Good Article status rated Top/High/Mid importance listed below. Promote any woman on the list and it will count as 3 normal Good Articles in the GA tally scores.

This list includes any woman currently in a government/political position in Africa or any woman who has received notable awards for her contribution to any field who might not be mentioned here or currently rated as top to mid importance, and includes new articles on women in political positions, past and present too. No doubt there's many other articles which should qualify for mid importance or higher not currently rated as such, but I hope people understand that this is a rough spotlight on at least some of the more notable ones.

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Administrative divisions

Any article promoted on a first or second level administrative division of a country. First-level will usually be the largest areas the whole country is divided into, usually Regions, states or provinces. Second-level will usually refer to the divisions those regions or provinces are divided into, usually departments and counties but names may vary across Africa. All will qualify for triple GA scoring.

General overview articles

Any country overview of an important general topic qualifies for triple GA scoring. Examples: History of Ghana, Geography of Benin, Economy of Togo, Sport in Eritrea, Transport in South Africa, Women's Rights in Nigeria, Media in Sierra Leone, Wildlife of Zambia, Politics of Burundi etc. This doesn't include national teams at Olympics though, it has to be for broader general topic articles.

Presidents, political parties, coups and wars

Any African president, national or administrative (e.g of an African organization) past or present , any African political party/revolutionary/military group/leader, past or present, or any historical coup d'état or war promoted qualifies for triple GA scoring.

Olympians

Any gold medal-winning African Olympian or Paralympian.

Wildlife

Any article which currently has a top or high importance rating for Wildlife projects/WP Protected Areas/the national WikiProject, so can include the highest importance National Parks too. A few animals though have quintuple scoring offered, see below.

Quintuple point score GAs

This feature might prove useful to anybody who wants to win the $150 for most GAs and defeat other contestants with a quintuple GA score with just one article. The following articles are considered of vital importance to Africa and are worth 5 times a normal GA. Please consider working on one if interested in that aspect of the contest. Again as with the women list this is a rough basic list of some of the articles we'd most like to see promoted to GA status. Apologies if there's an important article you might want to promote which isn't on here, but it's just intended to be a spotlight on some select core articles which would be very valuable if promoted.

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