Wikipedia:The Core Contest
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Herewith, I announce the 2012 revival of the Core Contest, a noble pursuit organised by Danny (talk · contribs) in the year 2007 CE (or AD). Watch this space for the rules and timing. Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:15, 2 December 2011 (UTC) It will take place from midnight March 10 to midnight March 31 Sydney time. The best chunks of article improvement by an editor or editors to an article belonging to the bones/core of wikipedia will win some real prizes :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:31, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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[edit] Background
As Wikipedia has evolved and become more detailed and polished, so have its criteria for Featured and Good Article status become more rigorous. I do think this is a good thing as after eight years of these processes we are now producing an ever expanding portfolio of material that actually looks like it could appear in a published tome. However, one side effect is the rigour of the process favours the production of more esoteric/narrow/specialised Good and Featured Content. What to do? Me I have always preferred sticks to carrots, and so have thought up the following competition:
[edit] Rules
The aim of the contest is to encourage a short, sharp burst of activity and article improvement in the vital or core articles. Editors are also welcome to improve and nominate an improvement to a broad or important article which lies outside these two lists as long as they can provide a rationale as to why their article should be considered.
- The article improvement process takes place over 21 days (three weeks) in March 2012, during which time an editor or editors knuckle down and improve an article, and submit a diff of their work at Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Entries (scroll down to Wikipedia:The_Core_Contest/Entries#List_of_contest_entries to get an idea). People don't enter themselves, but submit entries.
- During this period, prizes will be awarded to the best article improvement of a large/broad/important article. Improvement will be quantified and compared - in cases of similar levels of improvement, articles in a worse state to begin with will be deemed more valuable, all other parameters being equal. Thus an article that has gone from (say) 10% to 50% sourced with reliable sources, will be valued more highly than one from (say) 50% to 90% sourced.
- As judges review entries, they will post feedback on the improvements and areas still to improve before future Good Article nomination or Featured Article Candidacy.
- Current Featured Articles are not eligible. Good Articles are but one might have a tough time showing radical improvement in one, which might outweigh the massive improvement of a Start-class article. (Note that the Good and Featured Article process are not considered part of this, which is judged independently.)
- The judges will weigh up the improvement of the article combined with its "core-ness" to come up with a "best additive encyclopedic value" to wikipedia.
- Panel of judges consists of Casliber (talk · contribs), Brianboulton (talk · contribs) and Sue Gardner (talk · contribs).
- If we get little interest (less than ten entries), the contest will be postponed to a later date or reworked.
[edit] Prizes
The winners will be announced one week after the closing of the competition, at Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Winners. Depending on the outcome of a grant I'm looking into currently, there are likely to be online vouchers of varying sizes awarded to first and second prizes, and some honourable mentions. Two editors can share a prize and receive a half value voucher each.
[edit] See also
- Core Topics Collaboration, with a similar goal but no cash prize.
- Other cash lures
