Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest/2024/Scoring

Scores

2024 points
Featured article	Featured list	Featured picture	Featured topic	Featured article candidate review	Featured list candidate review	Good article	Good topic	Good article nomination review or peer review	Did you know?	In the news
200	45	30	15 per article	5	5	35	5 per article	5	5 or 10	12

General rules

Submit your content to your submissions page including all necessary links, as well as which country you're submitting for.
Only articles closely associated with or have a demonstrable significance to a "developing" or "least developed" country qualify. Articles associated with a "least developed" country will receive a 1.5× points multiplier. Please see the list of eligible countries below.
All reviewed content must have been worked on significantly by you to receive points. "Drive-by" nominations are not permitted. This does not mean that you have to be the primary author, though it is preferable. Merely copyediting or wikifying an article does not constitute "significant work", but if you are one name on a joint nomination, you may claim points. If this is abused, the coordinators reserve the right to withhold points.
In the spirit of fair play, contestants have 7 days to nominate their work after promotion (for good and featured content), appearance on the Main Page (for Did you know? and In the news articles) or the completion of good or featured article reviews and featured list reviews, by entering it on their submissions page. Please contact the coordinators if you have a question regarding the submission of articles.

Countries eligible for points

Articles from these countries are eligible for points:

Countries designated as:

"developing"

"least developed"

Developing countries

These countries are considered "emerging and developing" by the International Monetary Fund:

Albania
Algeria
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Azerbaijan
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Chile
China
Colombia
Republic of Congo
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eswatini
Fiji
Gabon
Georgia
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nauru
Nicaragua
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
West Bank and Gaza (State of Palestine)
Zimbabwe

These non-members are considered "Small Island Developing States" by the United Nations:
American Samoa Anguilla Aruba Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Curaçao French Polynesia Guadeloupe Guam Martinique Montserrat New Caledonia Puerto Rico Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

"Least developed" countries

These countries are considered the "least developed" by the United Nations and are eligible for a 1.5× multiplier:

Afghanistan
Angola
Bangladesh
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
The Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Kiribati
Laos
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nepal
Niger
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tuvalu
Uganda
Yemen
Zambia

Other states

Some countries and territories are not represented on indices of economic development, but will nonetheless be eligible for points. These include:

North Korea/Democratic People's Republic of Korea – least developed
Western Sahara/Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic – least developed
Cuba – developing
Greenland – developing
Partially-recognized or unrecognized states not listed above: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Somaliland, and Transnistria will be considered on the same tier as their internationally-recognized 'parent' country.

Non-sovereign territories not listed above will be considered case-by-case, such as overseas territories of France, the UK, Australia, etc. If you've got an article you're not sure about, ask on the Contest talk page!

Specific rules

Featured articles

An editor is allowed to be the sole nominator of only one article at a time at FAC; however, two nominations may be allowed if the editor is a co-nominator on at least one of them.

Featured pictures

Generally, the picture should have been created by you (either photographed, drawn, or created in some other way) or been given significant restoration work by you or been released under a free license because of your efforts. Merely uploading a file you have found elsewhere does not constitute "significantly working on" the image.

Featured and good topics

Points are awarded per article in the topic that was worked on by you. If you would have a right to claim points for the promotion of the article to good or featured status, you have the right to claim points for its promotion as part of the topic, even if you did not nominate the topic.
Promoting an article that is already within a featured or good topic does not get additional points for the topic. Adding articles to a topic does gain points, but only points for the article added. You do not get points for articles already in a topic when a new article is added.

Featured article candidate reviews & Featured list candidate reviews

These rules are for when you are claiming points for a featured article candidate review or a featured list candidate review in which you review a candidate using the featured article or featured list criteria.
You may claim points upon the completion of your review, you do not need to wait until the candidate is promoted or the nomination archived.
Only high-quality reviews will be accepted. If the coordinators feel your review is substandard or too short, you will not be awarded points for the review.

Good article nomination reviews

These rules are for when you are claiming points for performing a good article nomination review, not for when you are claiming points for writing a good article.
You may claim points upon the completion of a review, that is, when the article is passed, failed or closed.
Only reviews of a sufficient length will be counted; quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. As a rough guide, no review shorter than 1000 bytes will be considered, though the coordinators reserve the right to decline other short reviews. Reviews should indicate that the reviewer thoroughly considered each criterion, including a spot-check of sourcing.
Third opinions will generally not be eligible for points. In the event that you take over a review from someone else for whatever reason, points may be claimed, provided a full review is given as usual.
Attempts to game good article nomination reviews will be looked upon particularly harshly, and, more so than with any other process, people abusing the system will be removed from the WikiContest.

Peer reviews

These rules are for when you are claiming points for performing a peer review of an article.
You may claim points upon the completion of your review.
Only reviews of a sufficient length will be counted. There are no set criteria, but the article must be sufficiently studied to enable you to make suggestions on how it might be improved. The coordinators reserve the right to decline inadequate reviews.

Did you know?

Articles with at least 5 KB (that is, 5120 bytes) "readable prose size", whether expansions or new articles, are worth 10 points. Shorter DYKs are worth 5 points. The bot will calculate which category the article falls into, but a tool to help coordinator can be found here. Please report any mistakes on the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest talk page. Attempts to game this will not be looked upon favourably.
For hooks with multiple articles, every article is eligible to score points independently, provided each meets the Did you know? criteria. This does not mean you can claim for articles in the hook that you yourself did not work on.
Points are awarded for created or expanded articles appearing at DYK. No points are given for nominating an article at DYK that has been created, expanded or improved by someone else.
Only articles eligible for DYK through being newly created—including through being converted from a redirect or moved to mainspace—or expanded fivefold (not newly promoted to GA status) are eligible for 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest DYK points. It does not matter if the article becomes a GA before being featured on the main page; what matters is that it is eligible to appear on the main page due to being newly created or expanded fivefold.

In the news

Articles appearing on recent deaths are eligible for in the news points, subject to the normal requirement for substantial work on the article.

Bonus points

These are the only cases where content may score additional points. Other than these distinctions, all content is equal. Bonus points will generally be calculated and awarded by the coordinators. Any mistakes or issues in the awarding of bonus points should be reported on the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest talk page.

From relation to developing countries

Higher level articles about countries will receive extra bonus multipliers. These bonuses will be higher for countries marked as "least developed" by the UN. More examples of second-level country articles can be found at Wikipedia:Sample country outline; as a broad guideline, the top two bullet-point levels will be considered second-level. Edge cases should be discussed on the Contest talk page.

Country relation bonus points
No.  Level	Multiplier (bonus%)	Example
Second-level country article	1.5× (+50%)	Politics of Bolivia
Main country article	2× (+100%)	Namibia
Second-level country article (least developed)	2x (+100%)	Culture of Ethiopia
Main country article (least developed)	2.5× (+150%)	Myanmar

From DYK age

In addition, DYK appearances for articles that were created during or before 2019 will be awarded at least 5 bonus points. For each additional year prior to 2019, the bonus increases by 1. For example, a DYK for an article started in 2014 will receive 10 bonus points for age.
The age bonus does not consider any period during which an article was only a redirect or a disambiguation page.
Articles that have been moved are eligible for the bonus.