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Is it too early to discuss this? I'm not 100% comfortable this idea. Feels a bit like paid editing. Plus £250 while not a huge amount of money could be better spent on other things. Why not buy some fancy paper such as [http://www.printedpaperproducts.co.uk/index.php/certificates/a4-border-certificates/blue-certificate.html| this] and then put them in a nice presentation sleeve like [http://www.printedpaperproducts.co.uk/index.php/certificates/certificate-jackets-envelopes/marine-blue-silver-embossed-a4-jackets.html| this] and give out winners and runners up certificates with maybe a box of quality street or a bottle of plonk if you really want to be generous. I've won several prizes for work in my lifetime and I have to say that the nice feeling you get is from the winning not from the actual value of whatever you win. [[User:Theresa knott|Theresa knott]] ([[User talk:Theresa knott|talk]]) 13:41, 29 May 2015 (BST) | Is it too early to discuss this? I'm not 100% comfortable this idea. Feels a bit like paid editing. Plus £250 while not a huge amount of money could be better spent on other things. Why not buy some fancy paper such as [http://www.printedpaperproducts.co.uk/index.php/certificates/a4-border-certificates/blue-certificate.html| this] and then put them in a nice presentation sleeve like [http://www.printedpaperproducts.co.uk/index.php/certificates/certificate-jackets-envelopes/marine-blue-silver-embossed-a4-jackets.html| this] and give out winners and runners up certificates with maybe a box of quality street or a bottle of plonk if you really want to be generous. I've won several prizes for work in my lifetime and I have to say that the nice feeling you get is from the winning not from the actual value of whatever you win. [[User:Theresa knott|Theresa knott]] ([[User talk:Theresa knott|talk]]) 13:41, 29 May 2015 (BST) | ||
:Ok here's the thing. The prizes are for amazon vouchers ''(sorry forgot to add that - was in a hurry and doing stream-of-consciousness writing)''. I think books for learning are better than awards or a bottle of plonk. And speaking of personal experience, I spent several years in my early teens shit-broke....and would have really appreciated a book voucher or two more than decorative awards. I'll get back to filling this one out. [[User:Casliber|Casliber]] ([[User talk:Casliber|talk]]) 16:00, 29 May 2015 (BST) | :Ok here's the thing. The prizes are for amazon vouchers ''(sorry forgot to add that - was in a hurry and doing stream-of-consciousness writing)''. I think books for learning are better than awards or a bottle of plonk. And speaking of personal experience, I spent several years in my early teens shit-broke....and would have really appreciated a book voucher or two more than decorative awards. I'll get back to filling this one out. [[User:Casliber|Casliber]] ([[User talk:Casliber|talk]]) 16:00, 29 May 2015 (BST) | ||
:Yes, this is a different take on what WMUK has been doing for some years, sponsoring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Core_Contest "The Core contest"], which Cas also runs. Most of the prize-winners are usually not in the UK, so physical prizes such as bottles of plonk etc aren't practical. Personally I think the outcomes of that have clearly made it well worthwhile, though as a winner in the past some might say I'm biased. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 17:28, 6 June 2015 (BST) | |||
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Update?
Hi Casliber, is this grant application still live, or could it be closed? You will see from the Grants page that grants can be paid only to members of the charity, so you'd either need to join or include in the grant proposal a member who would receive the funds. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:30, 28 May 2015 (BST)
- For the record, Casliber have never personally received any funds. The office have always directly paid any prizes to the eventual winners. If Wikimedia UK would like a member to be a "sponsor" of such competition grant application, I'll be happy to be such a member for this, Core, Stub, and/or GAN contest that Casliber would like to run. -- KTC (talk) 09:04, 29 May 2015 (BST)
- Thx Katie, I sorta dobbed you in on the other pages before I saw this (chuckle). Casliber (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2015 (BST)
- Thanks Katie, that would be perfect. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2015 (BST)
- Thx Katie, I sorta dobbed you in on the other pages before I saw this (chuckle). Casliber (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2015 (BST)
Is it too early to discuss this? I'm not 100% comfortable this idea. Feels a bit like paid editing. Plus £250 while not a huge amount of money could be better spent on other things. Why not buy some fancy paper such as this and then put them in a nice presentation sleeve like this and give out winners and runners up certificates with maybe a box of quality street or a bottle of plonk if you really want to be generous. I've won several prizes for work in my lifetime and I have to say that the nice feeling you get is from the winning not from the actual value of whatever you win. Theresa knott (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2015 (BST)
- Ok here's the thing. The prizes are for amazon vouchers (sorry forgot to add that - was in a hurry and doing stream-of-consciousness writing). I think books for learning are better than awards or a bottle of plonk. And speaking of personal experience, I spent several years in my early teens shit-broke....and would have really appreciated a book voucher or two more than decorative awards. I'll get back to filling this one out. Casliber (talk) 16:00, 29 May 2015 (BST)
- Yes, this is a different take on what WMUK has been doing for some years, sponsoring "The Core contest", which Cas also runs. Most of the prize-winners are usually not in the UK, so physical prizes such as bottles of plonk etc aren't practical. Personally I think the outcomes of that have clearly made it well worthwhile, though as a winner in the past some might say I'm biased. Johnbod (talk) 17:28, 6 June 2015 (BST)