About:The Hippo Roller Challenge

Join the Hipporoller Challenge

Help the Travel Guide reach 20,000,000 characters and we'll donate 63 hipporollers worth over $6000. Read more.

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• dr.pepper (90%)
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Introduction

The Hippo Roller Challenge is a wiki travel guide challenge designed to raise funds to buy hippo rollers for rural impoverished communities with limited access to water.

What is a Hippo Roller?

The hippo roller is a large drum that can hold 90 litres (24 gallons) of water and can be pushed along the ground, making it much easier to transport clean drinking water. It's a simple technology that has the capacity to make a huge difference in places where water is scarce.

For more information about hippo rollers, see the official website.

Milestones

The way this challenge works is very simple: The more people contribute to our wiki travel guide, the more hippo rollers we will donate. There are six milestones along the way, and whenever we reach a milestone, we'll donate a designated number of hippo rollers. Here's how it breaks down:

• When we reach 15 million characters in the guide, we will donate 1 hippo roller
• When we reach 16 million characters, we will donate 2 hippo rollers
• When we reach 17 million characters, we will donate 4 hippo rollers
• When we reach 18 million characters, we will donate 8 hippo rollers
• When we reach 19 million characters, we will donate 16 hippo rollers
• When we reach 20 million characters, we will donate 32 hippo rollers.

The challenge will run from November 2 to February 28. If we've reach 20 million characters in the wiki travel guide, we will have donated 63 hippo rollers! At US$ 105 each, that's a total donation of US$ 6615!

Getting Started

So you want to get involved, right? If you're not sure how to get started, here are a few good starting points:

• Write about your hometown or nearest tourist attraction.
• Write about the last place you went to on holidays.
• Start an article about one of the popular places that don't have an article yet
• Write about the events and festivals in your country or city
• Write an article about family-friendly activities in your city
• Write a guide to eating out in your hometown
• Put together a language phrasebook
• Or check out some of our other ongoing guide projects

If you've never written for the wiki travel guide before, here are some great guides to help you get started:

• Getting started in the wiki
• Wiki coding for dummies