In line with the principle of honoring the diverse, beautiful, and powerful image of a Filipina, WikiPilipinas will launch a special portal, Encyclopedia of Philippine Women, inside the site which will compile and detail the achievements and triumphs of Filipinas everywhere. Its sister site, Filipiniana.net, will also have a Philippine Women Microsite containing documents discussing Filipino women, as well as selected texts from the oeuvres of Filipina writers. Through a combined effort for advocacy, WikiPilipinas partnered with Filipina Images to help promote a more empowering image of the Filipina. By having an online platform to showcase Filipina intelligence and talent, the goal of developing more empowered Filipinas becomes achievable.

Many participants, through this project, will discover that they can help bridge the digital divide and promote gender mainstreaming and gender equality.

To promulgate the advocacy, WikiPilipinas and Filipina Images websites will launch “Filipina Stories,” a writing contest with the mission of uplifting the image of the Filipina.

Check the prizes and mechanics of this contest.

Prizes at Stake

The three best essays will be selected, and their winning authors will be awarded cash prizes of:

• 1st placer – P5,000.00
• 2nd placer – P3,000.00
• 3rd placer – P2,000.00

An iPod Nano will also be raffled during the launch!

Mechanics

1. Open to Filipino bloggers of all ages.

2. Interested participants may choose to write an essay about any of these three sub-themes:

• The Iconography of the Modern Filipina;
• The Commercialization of the Filipina through the Internet

and

• The Role of Bloggers in Uplifting the Image of the Filipina.

3. Articles to be submitted should be original, previously unpublished, at least 500 words long, and written in English.

4. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Participant’s entry together with the complete name and contact details, should be sent to:

mindy@wikipilipinas.org.ph.

5. Essays must be published in the participants’ respective blogs and should contain the following links:

(5.1) a link to your entry at the WikiPilipinas or Filipiniana site

(5.2) a link to WikiPilipinas, using the code

<a href=”http://www.wikipilipinas.org” mce_href=”http://www.wikipilipinas.org”>Philippine Encyclopedia</a>

(5.3) a link to Filipinaimages.com, with the code

<a href=”http://filipinaimages.com” mce_href=”http://filipinaimages.com”>Filipina</a>

Submission of entries will be from February 1 to March 16, 2008.

Articles to be submitted will be available for public viewing in WikiPilipinas starting February 8, 2008.

Please take note that all entries will be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

All submitted article titles for the contest will be shown in the WikiPilipinas Site.

Criteria

The entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges selected by WikiPilipinas. These judges will use the following criteria for evaluation:

* Form – 20%
* Substance – 50%
* Originality – 30%

The winning essay will be announced at the launch of the WikiPilipinas Women’s Portal and the Filipiniana.net Philippine Women Microsite on March 24, 2008 in time for the celebration of Women’s Month.

Venue to be announced. The first 100 bloggers (with entries) to arrive at the venue will receive a FREE Filipina T-shirt.

(Enlarge thumbnail for the Press Release) I hope you join this contest. This contest also aims to raise awareness of the WikiPilipinas.org so that bloggers can eventually add content to the Wiki. For the contest, the WikiPilipinas staff will take charge of uploading your entry to the Wiki. After this contest, there will be a Phase 2 Workshop which is meant to teach us how to use the Wiki.

Be part in uplifting the image of the Filipina, the Knowledge base of the WikiPilipinas and meeting up with other bloggers on March 24, 2008. Remember you are not only writing about Filipino women. You will help uplift the reputation…remove the prejudice, not just against Filipino women achievers but against your mothers, sisters, daughters. Against You.

So what are you waiting for?! See you on the unveiling of the WikiPilipinas’ Encyclopedia of Philippine Women and Filipiniana.net’s Philippine Women Microsite.

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