Wikipedia:Contests
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Wikipedia has various contests from time to time -- for good writing, site and logo designs, or great images or media -- to encourage and recognize brilliant, unusual, or specially-targeted contributions.
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.
You can also add to Ideas for new contests if you have a good idea for a contest.
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Current and future contests[edit]
Writing contests[edit]
- Wikimania 2005:Writing contest
- A big writing contest at Wikimania, with categories for different kinds of writing, open to any work substantively begun this year. There will also be a contest for writing produced at the conference itself.
- The Tyop Contest
Media contests[edit]
- Wikimania competition
- An extended media contest, combining a contest for media gathered while at or en route to Wikimania, with a general contest for all content produced this year.
- Wikipedia:WikiSnap Challenge
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- Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout, for 5 days, starting July 18, 2009, Wikipedians are being asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles.
- Wikipedia:The Great Backlog Drive
Past and completed contests[edit]
Writing[edit]
- Wikipedia:International writing contest
- Deshipidian 2008 - arranged by WikiProject:Bangladesh
- WikiCup 2009
- The WikiCup is a championship which takes place every year on Wikipedia. The cup is played and won by skill of editing, in which the purpose of the cup is to encourage mainspace editing and to make editing fun here on Wikipedia. Entry is available for any registered user; experience doesn't matter.
- Wikipedia:Danny's contest : Two contests from late 2004, for fixing stubs and responding to article requests.
- First contest early October
- Second contest late November
- Wikipedia:The Core Contest
- Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Jumpaclass
- The Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup
Media[edit]
- meta:Mascot - "Contest" for a Wikipedia mascot
Administration[edit]
Organizing contests[edit]
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) advises [1] that although there is no problem in general with third parties running contests on Wikipedia, contest organizers should note the following:
- The contest should not be presented as if it was being organized, sponsored or endorsed by the WMF. This includes using the Wikipedia/WMF logos, which are trademarked and may only be used with the permission of the WMF (see Wikipedia:Copyrights), or implying that the WMF has any involvement beyond hosting the platform being used. (If you are unsure about your contest in this regard, please contact liaisonwikimedia.org.)
- Contributors are liable for their own contributions, which include the people running such contests.
- Organizers may wish to obtain advice on contest law before attempting to run a contest, on-wiki or elsewhere.
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