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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
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  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
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• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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British overseas territories at the same geographic scale as the UK

Dear Wikipedian,

I was studying British Overseas Territories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories) and, in particular, the graphic "British overseas territories at the same geographic scale as the UK" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories#/media/File:British_Overseas_Territories_(at_the_same_geographic_scale).svg). I'm very grateful that you should have contributed such a graphic as I was very interested to understand the size of these territories with respect to familiar sizes of UK geographic features.

The intent of the graphic appeared to be to permit easy visual comparison of equivalent geographic areas. That is the reason why I'm making contact. I have a concern that the graphic has significant shortfalls in its accurate presentation of equivalent geographic area.

To illustrate one example; the Isle of Wight off the South coast of the UK has an East-West size of approximately 36.5km. The island of Saint Helena has East-West size of approximately 16.7km. In crude terms, the East-West size of roughly half that of the Isle of Wight. However, on the graphic it appears substantially smaller (by a factor of at least 3 studying the vector graphic).

As a quick check , I have used the site thetruesize.com and, while the vectored boundaries of the shifted country are a little crude, it confirms the basic expectation detailed above. The following link would appear to recreate the comparison I'm studying: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!NzQyNzE2Mw.NzM1NjEwNw*MTc0ODQ1OTI(MTczNTM5MjM~!GB*NzQyOTkyMw.NDA2NTky)NA.

A quick review of the Falkland Islands suggests they may be represented as too large. One plausible explanation may be the the territorial outlines have been taken from a Mercator (or similar) projection of the globe and placed adjacent to one another without compensation for the distortion introduced by the Mercator projection at different latitude (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection). This would create the result observed that territories with lower latitude than the UK appear small and higher latitude than the UK appear large. Note the thetruesize.com website appears designed specifically to adjust for this projection discrepancy.

Do you agree the graphic might ideally be refined to better represent the information it seeks to convey? I'm very happy to participate in producing an improved version. I note that another Wikipedian appears to have refined your original version but I don't anticipate a problem in producing the super-set of the graphic's information.

Sincerely, James Metamorbius (talk) 12:26, 6 May 2024 (UTC)