Wikipedia:Contests

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Wikipedia has various contests from time to time -- for good writing, site and logo designs, or great images or media -- to encourage and recognize brilliant, unusual, or specially-targeted contributions.

Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.

You can also add to Ideas for new contests if you have a good idea for a contest.

Current and future contests

Writing contests

• The Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Women/Writing Contest

• The Wikipedia:WikiCup

• The WikiProject Military history Contest Department

• The WikiProject Christianity WikiGrail contest

• Wikimania 2005:Writing contest

  A big writing contest at Wikimania, with categories for different kinds of writing, open to any work substantively begun this year. There will also be a contest for writing produced at the conference itself.

• Casliber's Stub contest

• The Tyop Contest

Media contests

• Wikimania competition

  An extended media contest, combining a contest for media gathered while at or en route to Wikimania, with a general contest for all content produced this year.

• Wikipedia:WikiSnap Challenge

Other related events

• Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout, for 5 days, starting July 18, 2009, Wikipedians are being asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles.
• Wikipedia:The Great Backlog Drive

Past and completed contests

Writing

• Wikipedia:International writing contest

  March, 2005 The first international writing contest is a coordinated contest across a number of Wikipedias.

  Results: winners | on meta

• Deshipidian 2008 - arranged by WikiProject:Bangladesh
• WikiCup 2009

  The WikiCup is a championship which takes place every year on Wikipedia. The cup is played and won by skill of editing, in which the purpose of the cup is to encourage mainspace editing and to make editing fun here on Wikipedia. Entry is available for any registered user; experience doesn't matter.

• Wikipedia:Danny's contest : Two contests from late 2004, for fixing stubs and responding to article requests.

  First contest early October

  Second contest late November

• Wikipedia:The Core Contest
• Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Jumpaclass
• The Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup

Media

See also: Wikipedia:Featured pictures

• meta:Mascot - "Contest" for a Wikipedia mascot

Administration

• Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest

Organizing contests

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) advises [1] that although there is no problem in general with third parties running contests on Wikipedia, contest organizers should note the following:

• The contest should not be presented as if it was being organized, sponsored or endorsed by the WMF. This includes using the Wikipedia/WMF logos, which are trademarked and may only be used with the permission of the WMF (see Wikipedia:Copyrights), or implying that the WMF has any involvement beyond hosting the platform being used. (If you are unsure about your contest in this regard, please contact liaisonwikimedia.org.)
• Contributors are liable for their own contributions, which include the people running such contests.
• Organizers may wish to obtain advice on contest law before attempting to run a contest, on-wiki or elsewhere.