Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024/Rules

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Rules on international level

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

• The top ten participants in CEE Women, CEE Youth and CEE for Human Rights each will be awarded prizes.
• Participants will be ranked based on the number of points won from writing or improving articles.
• The number of points equals the number of words added in the written or improved articles.
• Articles have to be on topics related to women in CEE Women, on topics related to youth in CEE Youth and on topics related to human rights in CEE for Human Rights.
• One participant can win prizes in CEE Women, CEE Youth and CEE for Human Rights.

Rules on local level

Austria

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

• First three winners are awarded prizes from the Wikipedia Store, organisers can't win prizes.
• Writing or improving an article with at least 2 kB is worth 1 point.
• Writing or improving an article with at least 6 kB is worth 5 points (in order to encourage well written articles over smaller ones).
• Articles about topics from Austria/Germany/Switzerland/Liechtenstein don't count.
• The articles have to be about notable topics and use sources.
• The articles need to be added to the point-scoring table 4 days after the contest and no later.
• The articles should consist of mostly text and not data presentation like tables or templates.

Azerbaijan

Timezone: CET (UTC+4)

• Any user can participate in contest, also jury members, but they cannot evaluate their own articles.
• Articles shall be created between March 21, 2024 0:00 and May 31, 2024 23:59.
• Articles about topics on Azerbaijan aren't allowed.
• The article should be at least 2000 bytes and 200 words.
• Prizes will be awarded for the first four participants with the highest sum of points.
• Every article will get 1-5 points from Jury members, based on their size and wikification level.

Russia (Don)

Timezone: CET (UTC+3)

• Any user can participate in contest, also jury members, but they cannot evaluate their own articles.
• Articles shall be created between March 21, 2024 0:00 and May 31, 2024 23:59.
• All participants of the contest (regardless of language and country) who have written three articles from the dictionary will receive memorable thematic prizes from the Don user group.

Greece

Timezone: UTC+3

The contest will be held for the following categories:

• Best new article
• Largest number of new articles created
• Best new entrant (less than 400 edits in the main namespace before the start of the contest)
• Largest volume of material added related to notable women from the region

An award will also be given to one of the participants that has written or expanded at least five (5) articles. The winner will be chosen randomly.

The best new article will be chosen by a jury. Each participant can receive a prize only in one (1) category, with the rest of his/her prizes (if any) going to the second user (or even third, if the 1st and 2nd have already received a prize) so that more users with significant contribution & effort will receive a prize.

Articles submitted to the contest must meet the following requirements:

1. they shall be created between March 21 2024 (00:00 UTC) and May 31 2024 (23:59 UTC)
2. at least 300 words have been added.
3. comply with the rules of Wikipedia, for example, notability, verifiability, and formatting rules.
4. are written in plain language, and not translated by automatic translators.
5. must not violate copyrights.

Articles about Greece do not participate in the competition.

The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

Romania & Moldova

Timezone: UTC+2 / UTC+3

I. Eligibility and duration
1. Any user registered at Wikipedia can participate. Organizers can participate, but cannot get prizes.
2. Articles should be written between 00:01 March 21 and 23:59 May 31, 2024. Winners' list will be published no later than June 30, 2024. Users must register here.

II. Articles
3. Articles should be written on a topic related to any country or region in Central and Eastern Europe in the contest, except Romania and Moldova.
4. Articles should follow basic standards of Romanian Wikipedia:

• to be written in Romanian; automated translations are disqualified;
• to describe a notable topic;
• to contain verifiable information;
• to follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style;
• to not contain copyvio text.

5. New articles with a total of at least 200 words of prose (thus excluding infobox, footer, table of contents, tables, lists, etc.) are accepted, as well as existent articles that were extended at least ten times (in bytes). Words are counted using the XTools! counter of each article, available by navigating to "Istorie" -> "autori" (History -> authors).

III. Points
6. The points are counted as follows:

• Every new article: 5 points + 2 points for each 100 words of prose.
• Every existent (as of March 21) article that has been extended ten times in bytes: 2 points for each 100 additional words of prose.
• For obvious violation of basic standards of Wikipedia (see rule 4.), all previous points are cancelled.
• Proper use of {{Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024}} in an article's talk page: 1 point. Usage of this template is described in its documentation page.

7. Jury may disqualify any participants that display strong violation of fair play – this includes misleading or impeding organizers and fellow participants, mass loading of previously prepared articles at any stage, sockpuppeting, etc.

IV. Prizes
8. A participant can only get one prize, in order of their listing below. For example, winner of the Main prize cannot get any of the subsequent prizes.
9. Prize categories (if a tie occurs, lots will be drawn):

• Main prize: who gets most points overall.
• Special prize for diversity: who gets most points among users that wrote at least one article (not disqualified by any previous rule) about all the countries and regions participating in the contest by March 21, 2024, except Romania and Moldova.
• Special prize for beginners: who gets most points among users with less than 100 contributions to mainspace at the beginning of the contest (March 21, 2024) and at least 5 submitted articles.

Slovenia

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

• Articles about exclusively Slovenian topics don't count.
• Any registered user can participate, but the organisers aren't eligible for prizes.
• New articles and additions to existing articles must be at least 200 words to count.
• Contributions must comply with basic rules of Wikipedia (notability, verifiability, neutrality, copyright).
• Points awarded:
  • 1 point for 200 added words per page, if fewer than 500
  • 5 points for each 500 added words per page
  • 25 extra points for promoted featured articles
  • 3 extra points for new articles every Wikipedia should have (expanded) or promoted to a higher class
  • 3 extra points for articles every Wikipedia should have promoted to a higher class
  • half of the points deducted for articles tagged with cleanup templates
• Words are counted including infoboxes and image captions but excluding references, "See also", external links, navigation templates and other technicalities.

Awards will be given to three contestants with most points and to each contestant that contributes content about each of the participating countries/regions.