Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Contents

Entries

The entry pages are only for those who are formally competing to win the prizes. If not "competing" for prizes just list your article in the article achievements section only. For contestants: Please submit an article under the most relevant country of a given continent. You may also claim on the same article for the field of occupation prize on the claims page but for entering the contest you only need to list an article under a given entity. Remember that there are $1200 worth prizes for both the most articles created for each continent as well as a general $1000 prize fund for most articles created in total and an additional $250 bonus for anybody who creates an article on every entity listed (which will be split if multiple people achieve it). There is also a further $250 worth of prizes to be won for work of consistent quality.

• North America: USA & Canada
• Central & South America, Caribbean, islands
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Oceania

Prizes

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Prizes

Planned prize fund: c. $4555

• $4025 - For the main prizes by continent and occupation and helping judge the contest (funded by WMF).
• $335 (£250) - for most quality Oxford Dictionary, Welsh Dictionary and British women bios (funded by WMUK).
• $200 gifts (in 3-4 prizes) will go to the most articles created/destubbed from a list of biographies related to "Women in Feminism, in Africa" (Wiki Loves Women) (funded by Wikimedia CH).
• The Five Day Feast: A $200 bonus courtesy of Ser Amantio di Nicolao for whoever creates the most articles between 0.00 on 26th November to 23:59 on 30 November.

Book Prizes

• WP:GLAM/PMML is offering 2 prizes of gently used books: 1 prize of 10 books (which includes the title Women in the Civil War) and 1 prize of 9 books (which includes the title Sisterhood of Spies: Women of the OSS) for the most articles on military women or women historians writing on war and society.

Rewards

• Amazon vouchers. I think this works best because it allows editors to buy books to further contribute to wikipedia and buy themselves some treats, without giving the impression that they're being paid directly to edit wikipedia. For those countries not elligble to receive Amazon goods I suggest cash for books to contribute to wikipedia which can be bought in their country of origin. Some people may prefer something to support them at an editathon. Both would avoid "paid editing".
• Library subscriptions, JSTOR, New York Times, HighBeam Research, British Library resources etc,.
• As potentially there would be a lot of money to be earned from the contest I think setting up a Book Fund for Women in Red would work well. People can donate any excess earnings they might not want to the WIR Book Fund. Books on demand can then be bought and handed out to editors on English wikipedia and any of the other wikis and sent to editors who need them to contribute to wikipedia. The book fund could also potentially support editors at editathons and give them working materials to be productive at the editathons and encourage them to continue contributing long term.

Claims

Prizes are to be claimed on the subpage during the contest, at any time.

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Prize claims

Rules

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Rules

• Please read the rules very carefully before the contest begins.

Missing articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Missing articles

Talkpage template

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Participants

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Participants

Judges

see Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Judging for tips on what is required.

Given that this is a contest of pure article creation with a minimum 1 kb readable prose requirement and no sourcing issues, Wikipedia:ContestBot will be coded to do most of the article checking and patrol the contest pages and will notify editors when there is an issue. Dr. Blofeld will be responsible for the general running and organization of the contest and will be standing by to ensure that everything runs smoothly and to encourage participants. For new editors participating or those who are perhaps not fluent in English, any assistance anybody can give in ironing out issues and offering guidance is warmly welcome as long as you register here that you're helping check articles. There are $250 worth of prizes available for people who show the greatest effort in checking articles and copyediting, updating the main article list with entries submitted and helping solve problems during the contest etc.

• Dr. Blofeld (I'll be responsible for the organization and general overlooking of the contest and as the grantee am not eligible to win a prize)
• JAGUAR 
• Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
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• Cwmhiraeth
• Chico Venancio (talk)
• Sturmvogel_66

Measuring tool

You can check your entries using this tool before submitting here. The article readable prose, excluding sources and lists will have to be strictly minimum 1000 bytes (1 KB) to comply with the contest.

What would make it easier on this is if everybody programs their common.js in their preferences to contain:

importScript('User:Dr_pda/prosesize.js');                // User:Dr pda/prosesize

Instructions:

1. Go into your preferences, click on the "Appearances" tab
2. Where it says "Shared CSS/JavaScript for all skins:", click "custom javascript
3. Paste the command given above into that and save.
4. Now approach an article and look in the tools section on the left. You should see "Page size". Click that for each article and you'll quickly get a reading without having to paste text all of the time and look externally.
5. Look out for where it says, for example: "Prose size (text only): 1310 B (xxx words) "readable prose size" ". That's what we're looking for on this, that has to read over 1000 B when finished.

Asian Month

This contest is also coinciding with the Asian Month contest. You can also submit Asian articles at Wikipedia Asian Month 2017, though for that contest the articles need to be 3KB and 300 words minimum in length and meet all of the guidelines. English Wikipedia rules can be found at event page. Articles which meet the criteria for both contests may be submitted for both.