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 contest 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.

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