Bridges across Cultures/Results

Bridges across Cultures
3rd edition, December 1st-31th, 2019

Results

We are pleased to announce the results of our multilingual wiki-collaboration contest, Bridges across Cultures, which took place among languages from Latin America, the Middle East & North Africa and Russia during December 2019.

The contest was organized by Wikimedia affiliates of different countries with the aim of exchanging cultural experiences and values between the three regions; as the contestants from either Latin America, Russia or MENA were asked to write and expand Wikipedia articles related to the rich and unique culture of the other regions.

In total, 769 valid articles were created or improved as part of this contest: 287 articles were written in Spanish and Portuguese, 201 in Arabic, Persian and Turkish Wikipedia, and 281 in Russian, Bashkir, Chechen and Lezgi. 57 different participants submitted at least one valid article to the contest.

As for the results, nine prizes were designated for the best performing contestants (with three being dedicated for the best participants from Latin America, Russia or MENA) and three for the best articles created for the contest (one for each regional group). The prizes will be awarded for the following users:

Latin America

  • First prize: Lilian89
    Spanish Wikipedia
    1,450 points
    Prize: A USD 250 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Second prize: Darthvader2
    Spanish Wikipedia
    780 points
    Prize: A USD 150 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Third prize: MarisaLR
    Spanish Wikipedia
    695 points
    Prize: A USD 100 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Quality prize: Zervim, Assentamento antigo de Arkhyz.
    Portuguese Wikipedia
    Prize: A USD 250 gift card, or equivalent.

Middle East & North Africa

  • First prize: MohammadHuzam
    Arabic Wikipedia
    720 points
    Prize: A USD 250 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Second prize: علاء فحصي
    Arabic Wikipedia
    645 points
    Prize: A USD 150 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Third prize: NEHAOUA
    Arabic Wikipedia
    580 points
    Prize: A USD 100 gift card, or equivalent.
  • Quality prize:: Not available yet
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    Prize: A USD 250 gift card, or equivalent.

Russia

Detailed results

Top 5 Latin America Top 5 Middle East and North Africa Top 5 Russia
User Lang. Articles Points
Lilian89 Spanish 123 1450
Darthvader2 Spanish 67 780
MarisaLR Spanish 33 695
Zervim Portuguese 31 565
Gabriel Francisco GFSW Portuguese 13 190
User Lang. Articles Points
MohammadHuzam Arabic 58 720
علاء فحصي Arabic 48 645
NEHAOUA Arabic 31 580
محمود صوفان Arabic 13 275
محـمد جـمال Arabic 13 250
User Lang. Articles Points
Юлдашева Луиза Bashkir 63 980
Villarreal9 Russian 58 730
Арсенич Russian 30 335
Alfiya55 Bashkir 19 310
Саид Мисарбиев Chechen 16 215
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