Wikimania 2005 writing contest
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Sj (and sannse) are planning a writing competition to be held at Wikimania. This page is a discussion of what we need to arrange for this.
About the contest
editThere will be categories for concepts, current events, people/places/things, and collections/lists/quotes/other. There will also be two extra categories: one for content created about the conference's topics or its vicinity, and one for improv articles researched and written during a short period of time at the conference itself.
Rules
edit- Submissions can be entered for one category only.
- Submissions must be your own work (teams allowed)
- Submissions should be suitable for use on one or more Wikimedia projects
- Submissions must be licensed under the GFDL, multi licensed including the GFDL, or released into the public domain.
- Submissions must be fully copyright compliant (e.g., there should be no copyright concerns about the subject of the media)
- Submissions may not have been uploaded to a Wikimedia project prior to Jan 1, 2005
- The closing date for entries in the first categories is 1 August 2005.
- Non-text content:
- Images should be submitted as .jpg files where possible
- Photos should be suitable for printing at 20 X 30cm. Audio and video should be no more than 10 MB in size after compression
- Video should be submitted as .mpeg or any open video format
- Images should be submitted as .jpg files where possible
- Consideration will be given to the choice of subject, with unusual or difficult-to-obtain subject matter being given extra credit, but the quality of the submission will be the primary consideration