Microgrants/Core Contest (prizes)

Overview

• An amount of money for vouchers as prizes for a three week contest in early 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 in January. All done by early february.

Expected outcomes

• Hopefully some improvement in core/broad/vital articles on the English wikipedia, much of which needs a good buffing.

Who I am

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

Discussion

I think this is an excellent idea myself, but I will wait for the board's opinions on whether or not we should fund this. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)