Microgrants/Stub Contest (prizes)

Overview

• An amount of money for vouchers as prizes for a two week contest in sometime between late November and January outlined here. The idea is that there would be (say) a £75 voucher for first prize, £50 for second, and £25 for a number of "honorable mentions". Vouchers could be for some worldwide digital organisation, such as Amazon, I-tunes or something similar. Amazon is probably the easiest.

Budget

• See above - I guess it depends - £250 would give me a first, second and five "honourable mentions" as outlined above. The rationale for using vouchers is to distance the idea from paid editing.

Timeline

• Three weeks for the contest, all wound up after its completion and judging.

Expected outcomes

• To chip away at the huge number of stubs, and assist in recategorising some stubs which have since been expanded without labels being removed...and have some fun in doing so. I have also run the Core Contest, but think that the presence of some high calibre editors there might have driven away some folks - maybe a comeptition like this is less threatening and will attract a wider range of competitors.

Who I am

• I am Casliber on english wiki, and admin, ex-arb and content editor, and very familiar with content in mainspace, which is why I am thinking this is a good idea.

Discussion

• This sounds like a great idea to me. It's probably something that would appeal to a much larger fraction of editors than the core contest competition, and also potentially new editors, so it's probably worth advertising it much more as well, both on- and off-wiki (mention in members newsletter, blog, etc.?). It might be worth thinking about having it last a bit longer (a month perhaps?) to encourage more contributions and give less active editors more of an opportunity to enter it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:25, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

That was my original thought - other folks thought shorter, but I think longer gives more bang for one's buck so to speak. I dont' think feelings are too strong any which way. Casliber (talk) 11:22, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Cas, just so you know: Katie Chan will be handling this contest this time round, rather than me - I'm too busy :-( Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 19:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Great! Ummm...is it greenlit yet? Happy to run over four weeks. If all good, will get to work on promoting it. Cheers, Casliber (talk) 09:29, 6 November 2013 (UTC)