Wikimedia CEE Spring 2023/Rules

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Rules on international level

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

• The top ten participants in CEE Women and the top ten participants in CEE for Human Rights 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 and on topics related to human rights in CEE for Human Rights
• One participant can win prizes in both CEE Women 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, 2023 0:00 and May 31, 2023 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 three participants and one female participant with the highest sum of points.
• Every article will get 1-5 points based on their size and wikification level.

Belarus (classical)

Time zone: UTC+3

• Any user can participate in contest, also jury members, but they cannot be awarded.
• Articles should be created between 00:00 21 March, 2023, and 23:59 31 May, 2023.
• Articles should have sources.
• Article should not consist of machine translation.
• Articles about Belarus do not participate in the competition.

Three winners will be assigned for the greatest number of articles:

• created — 2 winners;
• improved with over 500 bytes per article — 1 winner.

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 2023 (00:00 UTC) and May 31 2023 (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.

Malta

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

• First three winners are awarded prizes as follows, along with an optional Solidarity Prize for a user who goes above and beyond to work with the Malta community.
• Anyone can take part in the contest, except for the local and international organizers. Organizers can participate without competing.
• To compete you must formally register. To register for the contest enter your name on the contest's page (on mt.wikipedia.org) as indicated in the Participants section. The organisers will check your contributions as listed there to determine the top three winners.
• It is essential to use the Template {{CEE Spring 2023 | user = your name | country = country of article}} on the discussion page of each page you work on so that your contribution counts in the contest. This is the only way for the organizers to know that you are taking part in the contest. Also see/use the models of other languages if you choose to write in them apart from Maltese.

Points system

• For each article you create you get two points
• For each article you create from the official list you get three more points (five points in total)
• For each article you improve you get a point
• For each article you improve from the official list you get four more points (five points in total)
• Pages on subjects directly linked to Malta do not count towards the points you can win in this contest if you are a Maltese user.

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, 2023. Winners' list will be published no later than June 30, 2023.

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 2021}} in an article's talk page: 1 point.

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, 2023, 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, 2023) and at least 5 submitted articles.

Tatar

Timezone: UTC+3

Articles submitted to the contest must meet the following requirements:

1. they shall be created/improved between March 21 2023 (00:00 UTC) and May 31 2023 (23:59 UTC)
2. comply with applicable Wikipedia policies and guidelines (no tags questioning notability, verifiability, neutral point of view, copyright violation, etc.)
3. are part of Central or Eastern Europe category tree
4. are not part of Tatars category tree
5. at least 2500 characters of text added.
6. not bot-created articles
7. tagged by contest template

Prizes are points-based:

• Two new and two improved articles of the participant are randomly evaluated in line with standard 17-point article assessment criteria.
• Averages for both categories used to calculate overall earned points. Newbies with accounts under 12 and 6 months old per contest start date get their points doubled or tripled.
• Awarded in form of Ozon.ru gift certificates
  • amount based on share of total points earned by all participants
  • max. 4000 rubles per person, to avoid inclusion into taxable income, requiring additional paperwork
  • min. 500 rubles per person, minimal available
• The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

Additional non-material recognition measures include:

• userboxes and printable certificates (English Russian Tatar) for all participants, usernames reflected in the assessment table and participant category
• finalist diplomas for all creating 4 or more qualifying articles - usernames additionally mentioned in the results page, marked in the contest participant userbox
• top-3 included in the local contest Hall of Fame
• leader by points named CEE Ambassador in Tatar Wikipedia, marked in the contest participant userbox
• leaders by the number of articles per country/people - respective ambassadorships, marked in the contest participant userbox