Grants talk:IdeaLab/Organise a competition for best article written by a female.

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Isn't wiki editing collaborative?[edit]

I feel like this focus on sole creation of articles is a bit at odds with the wiki ethos of collaborative editing. If a woman creates a page, then a number of people (of various genders) edit it, who gets the credit? How do you plan to account for this in your prize-giving? --Skud (WMF) (talk) 01:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Grants:PEG/Program Resources/Writing Competitions, Writing competition resource guide.
There are many contests and awards on Wikipedia English that could be used as a model. A few are:

Other wikis or organizations:


Rules: en:wp:WikiProject Bacon/Bacon WikiCup/2011, page with a fairly concise set of rules. I'll copy the scoring here:

New Pages Creating a new bacon-related article or meaningful page in the project, help, template or portal namespaces scores 16 points, regardless of size. Upon creating an article, the points earned for expanding articles (see below) are also additionally added to the sixteen points you get for creating that article. Creating a bacon-related disambiguation page or category scores 4 points Creating a plausible redirect to a bacon-related page scores 1 point Article Expansion Adding 300 words of prose or adding an infobox, along with information in it, to an article scores 4 points Adding a reliable source to an article scores 2 points Majorly contributing to an article and bringing it up to... Good article status scores 24 points Featured article status scores 32 points Did you know?'s A successful DYK nomination scores 12 points for both the nominator and key contributor(s). Key contributors should report their contributions separately A DYK that earns a spot at the DYK STATS will earn an additional 10 points for the nominator and key contributor(s) Images Uploading a self-made bacon-related image scores 12 points Uploading an appropriately-licensed bacon-related image authored by someone else scores 6 points Any bacon-related image that achieves featured picture, quality image, and/or valued picture status (on either the Commons or on Wikipedia) scores the creator/uploader 16 points and the nominator, if different from the creator/uploader, 4 points Other 10 copy-edits (aka correction/maintenance edits) score 1 point. The ten copy-edits can be across multiple articles. A copy-edit is described as one correction, so multiple copy-edits can occur in a single edit (see example below). Example: Fixing three typos counts as three qualifying copy-edits regardless of whether or not those changes are made all in one edit or in three individual edits. Adding a category (which includes adding stub-sort tags and WikiProject Assessments) scores 1 point Bonus Point Opportunities The first user(s) to help promote a bacon-related article to featured status will earn an additional 20 points. Bonus points are also periodically given for excellent contributions and effort. Miscellany Any contributions that don't fit under anything above are scored based on the interpretation of the score keeper. Don't worry, he doesn't pick favorites.

Hi Sönsvall, These are suggestions about how to structure a contest. I posted the information not just for you, who may already know it, but for the people who are not familiar with the previous contests and recent evaluation done about them. Since looking at the past successes and fails is a good thing to do when planning a new project, included links to a report about some past contest. Are you interested in taking it from an idea to a proposal for funding? Sydney Poore/FloNight (talk) 16:08, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Concerns[edit]

I find this idea a bit patronizing. Surely thousands of excellent articles have already been written by female users, and will continue to be regardless of whether we create an "award" like this. On a more "philosophical" level, I find the idea of segregating the community along gender lines somewhat distasteful (not to mention problematic). I don't have a problem with trying to encourage better subject-matter coverage in areas associated with one gender (e.g., female authors, female scientists, female health matters, etc.) — or, indeed, any other topic we are lacking in — but to restrict a competition (even a "fun" one) to users of one gender? Seems like a bad idea. (Consider an award for the best article written by a Muslim or Jew, or Republican or Socialist, or Native American, or Feminist. Would any of those seem like a good idea? Any of those sorts of users could, of course, contribute the finest Wikipedia article we've ever seen… but to design a competition along those lines? Hmm…) - dcljr (talk) 02:50, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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