Wikimedia Australia/Activities/Editors Challenge

An Editors Challenge is a friendly competition/contest for creating and improving Wikimedia content.

How it might work:

• Challenge Topics are developed
• A small group of people organise the selection and announcement of topics, and evaluate the submissions at the end
• A Challenge runs for one week, and they are held once every four-to-eight weeks
• Entrants should sign their intention before the start of the Challenge, and at the end, submit diffs/indicate which article(s) they worked on for the Challenge
• Winner(s) are sent a small prize by WMAU (if they want!) (e.g.: t-shirt, book, voucher, sticker prize, free sock admin account)

Interested?

In helping organise

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In participating

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Things to decide

• Who can participate? Anyone, only Australian editors, or only WMAU members?
• How should submissions be evaluated? What factors should be considered most highly?

Possible topics

Add your suggestions here.

Australian politics

With politicians editing Wikipedia it's a good time to make sure our own house is in order by improving material on Australian politics! Looking for inspiration? Start at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics. Your submission might be:

• Improving Wikipedia biographies of Australian politicians (living and dead)
• Improving Wikipedia articles on Australia's various electoral systems
• Improving Wikipedia articles on Australian political parties and historically important elections
• Write articles on news in Australian politics for Wikinews (can you get an interview? esp. see n:Portal:Australia/Federal politics project)
• Finding/making free/creating freely licensed media of politicians and political artefacts on Wikimedia Commons
• Working on Wikibooks Australian History or Australian Government, or starting a new book
• Place historically significant public domain political documents on Wikisource (check out s:Category:Australia)
• Starting a module on Wikiversity:
• Creating a comprehensive set of Australian political terms on Wiktionary
• Expanding, arranging and sourcing some memorable zingers on Wikiquote (q:Category:Australians)

In all cases... remember to cite your sources!

Australian town/suburb

"Best improvement to an Australian town/suburb article."

Brand new article

"Best brand new article developed within 2 weeks".

MediaWiki.org

"Best improvement to MediaWiki.org documentation"