Wikisource Bootcamp 2025

The Wikisource Bootcamp organised by Free Knowledge Africa present a series of training on editing on Wikisource, from importing public domain works on Wikisource, transcribing pages, proofreading, validating, and transcluding them.

Activities

Week	Topic	Activity	Outcome	Challenges
1	Introduction to Wikisource: Basic Editing Skills	Orientation Session Hands on training on how to edit and format texts on Wikisource Introduction to copyright and public domain	Participants will be able to edit basic texts and understand the importance of public domain	Basic editing tasks like fixing formatting errors
2	Advanced Editing Techniques: Including OCR and digitization	Training on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools Hands on session on digitizing texts	Participants will be able to use OCR toolds and digitize texts accurately	Digitize a set number of pages using OCR
3	Completion of a Significant digitization project, Recognition and Certification	Final editing and quality checks Presentation of completed works	Participants will have contributed to a sustantial digitization project and receive a certificate	Complete a full newspaper/book digitization

How to Participate

1. Sign in or Create a new account on Wikipedia
2. Enroll on the Free Knowledge Africa's Program Outreach Dashboard to track your contributions.
3. Sign up in the Participants section of this page
4. Attend the 3 weeks trainings hosted on Zoom. Join the Whatsapp community for more information and assistance during the contest

Jury Process

In order to ensure transparency and fairness, scoring in this competition will be quantitative, keeping in mind that all indexes must meet Wikisource standards for importing, transcribing, proofreading, validating and transcluding. Any index or contribution may be disqualified at the judges’ discretion

• Proofreading a page attracts three (3) points
  
• Validating a page attracts one (1) point

Category to work on

• Week 1 - PD-Nigeria-Books Category on wikimedia Commons
• Week 2 and 3 - PD-Nigeria-Newspaper Category on wikimedia Commons

Contest Timeline

Start for entries: 30th August 2025
Deadline for entries: 15th September 2025
Result announcemenent: 30th September 2025

Benefits and Awards

To reward outstanding contributors, we’re offering a range of incredible prizes:

• Overall Best Contributor: A brand new Laptop
• Second Place Winner: A Tablet
• Third Place Winner: A Smartphone
• Special Category Prizes: Headphones, power banks, exclusive FKA merchandise, and more.
• Certificates of Excellence: Public recognition and a special certificate for all top-performing participants.

Participants

To participate, you need to sign up in the participant's section.

To add your name, edit this section and add '#~~~~' without quotes to the bottom of the list, then publish changes.

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