It is part of the Distribute Gaia Fest. Wiki Writers Challenge builds our community of Wiki Journalist towards the different events/ stages/playgrounds -> COP26 & Gaia Fest in Stockholm 2022.
# The Sprint 01: 5 May - 5 June 2021
> SOUL of HUMANITY 2021, First multimedia Wiki Writers Challenge, along 3 themes: - The Soul of the Soil - The Soul of Water - The Soul of the human heart
# Context We launch the process as part of the World Creativity and Innovation Week, 15 - 21 April 2021.
> Social Media Outreach from 15 April. We encourage people, all ages - and with a broad outreach to explore in their own way all the global activities on Earth Day, 22 April 2021 - as to team up, investigate in all direction to find the soul of humanity in the art of everyday innovation to face challenges presended around the world on Earth Day.
The Sprint closes with a presentation of outcome on World Environment Day 2021, where Pakistan is the host together with Kenya. Next year the host will be Sweden and will celebrate UNEP 50 Years, Stockholm 2022. We have by now outline 7 Sprints leading up to Stockholm +50.
> For the Sprint 01 will join our work with the NowWhat Collective of Spring 2021 , and the sprint of 01 will have a community of support in the distributed networks of NowWhat?! Collective. Inger-Mette Stenseth & David Bovill part of the Collective, and co-produced the Sonic Spring, of Spring 2020. (also Geni is part of this community and work with Ben Roberts)
The Deadline for being accepted to be part of the Sprint 01 is the setting of the Sun in Hawaii 22. April 2022 - the earth clock of humanity - to be an open and flexible opening to sign up a team to the challenge. The new dawn - as the morning of 23 April we hope to have 5 different teams with up to 5 different members interested to cocreate a story inspired by the overall theme: The Soul of Humanity.
# Wiki Writers Challenge
The Global Gaia Fest Team and the Wiki Journalists will be onboarding, and be of support and assist on Tuesdays (9pm CET/ Zim Time) and Fridays( @Five) in the period of Sprint 01, 05 May - 05 June 2021. The times will be coordinated in partnership with NowWhat?! Collective.
The SoulSpark Game will be piloted at this time.
# Laucnh 5 May 2021 There will be 3 One World Wiki Lectures according the 3 themes to kick-start and inspire. (launched as wiki-liners the 3 first days of the Wiki Writer Challenge)
> 1. Soul of the Soil - _The 40 000 the Elephants_, Zimbabwean holistic wildlife and farming, 5 May 2021 > 2. Soul of the Water - _The Waterfall that Thunders_, Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls, 6. May 2021 > 3. The soul of human hearts - _Sing for our Problems_, the Grandmother Story from Zimbawe, 7 May 2021.
# Process & Outline / Launch of the Sprint 01 Friday 7 May - Friday @Five Goal Jam Session + Five Session:
> Friday 7 / 9 pm Nite Flight Session Starting at 9pm Zimbabwe Time / CET - each 2 hrs session for the teams, but also open for others. Europe and Africa are in same Time-zones - from North - to South Cape (+ 1 GMT)
_We will organize 5 Night Flights at 9pm Zim-Time / CET zone: 9pm US WESTCOASt, 9 pm Hawaii / 9 pm Australia/ 9 pm Pakistan_ ( suggestion)
_in the dark all colors are bright_ In the dark night of the soul, we are all born anew the next morning when. The rays of the sun dries up our tears.
The One World Wiki Learning Gardens will be open around the clock for 48 hrs. One World Wiki - Goal Jam 
(This is the same zoom-lines used for Wikipedia Birthday) for the signed teams to connect.
The emotional state of participating: is like sitting beside a stranger on a night flight from desitination A to B, talking all kind of ideas, history and private dreams - and upon arriving as the sun is rising in a place you have never been; becoming of a possible new you with a radiant new SoulSpark. People can be awake the whole night if they like around the clock. Will be a very intense kick-off. Free for all the Wiki Writers Team, a paid event for others.
# Goals: - to get in touch with young people around the world who like to be awake in the late evenings, launch the SoulSPark Game in the evening session when people are up for the game. - Welcome and to guide the teams... intensive onboarding...
# Organization
The SOUL OF HUMANITY - is initiated by Zimbabwe Environmental and Climate Change Education Trust, Great Works Alliance, SDGs Academy of Pakistan, World Climate School, the small tech-team of M.i.N Produksjon, The Sound Garden Collective, ...and...?
# Background
The small team in Zimbabwe was the first Green Wiki Writers Club and took the initiative of the Green Deal Wiki - at the time, in the middle of the Covid19 in 2020 - we entered the Mission Possible 8 in partnership Black Rock Production, Athens and "CCN Studio and K-Masterpice Community in Zimbabwe.
Wikipedia's 20th Birthday 15 January kickstarted also the work of Gaia Fest, Goal Jam Vision and One World Wiki.
# See also