Wikipedia:Writing contests/Ideas for new contests/Archive1

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1. I personally hope that the next context will be a diagram contest (non-photographic illustrations for articles). Pleeeeease! :-) — David Remahl 07:58, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
   • I like this idea. — mark ✎ 21:41, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
   • Good idea. Neutrality^talk 00:20, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
2. An Extreme article deletion contest. — Kate Turner | Talk 01:57, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
3. Best VfD save, i.e. fix an article that has been listed for deletion (by someone else) so that it is inconceivable that anyone would still want to see it deleted. — David Remahl 02:06, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
   • I like this idea a lot. On any day we're pushing 50 VfD nominations, so over 3 weeks thats perhaps 1000 potential targets. Plenty of nominations are made because the article is so bad as to be percieved useless, or with supposedly no potential beyond a dicdef, or because the topic googles poorly. Cool Hand Luke 09:51, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
4. Best translation of an article from another Wikipedia. English version should be non-existent or stub prior to the competition. — David Remahl 02:52, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
   • Yes, yes! +sj +
5. Best Tree of Life article: User creates or improves a stub of a phylogenic classification, such as Maxillopoda (the class including barnacles), Homo ergaster (a species of human ancestor), or Thylacosmilus (a bizarre marsupial saber-toothed cat) — ClockworkTroll 06:07, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
6. I propose to transfer the contest temporarily to meta-wiki and award the best essay about wikipedia --Elian 00:53, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
   • Good for a longer-term contest
7. How about a contest to remove articles from the "needs attention" list? EagleFalconn 16:14, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
8. a contest for writing "missing" articles red-linked on at least five pages? (must have the red-links before the contest starts). Grutness 12:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
9. or best save from the Cleanup list? Rules as for the VfD save one listed by David Remahl. Grutness 12:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
10. Best collaboration between three of more editors on a (?new) article. Or some other sort of collaboration. -- Solipsist 16:09, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • I like this idea a lot. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 17:16, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • ditto. +sj +
    • Nice one! — mark ✎ 09:48, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I like it. 00:20, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
11. Best redeeming of a long messy article by one or more editors. Filiocht 13:08, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
12. Most FAC fixes - person who guides most articles through FAC fixing all actionable objections. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 17:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
13. Maybe less spectacular, but well worth a try: adapting an entry from one of the public domain encyclopaedias (1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, Catholic Encyclopedia, whatever)—wikifying, NPOVing, updating, adding an image/images, reasonably linking the new article from as many other pages as possible. <KF> 18:37, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
14. Best stub-to-feature from WP:Bias. (but I'm biased) - Xed 00:31, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Yes. +sj +
15. Making a CIA data dump of a geography of... article into a featured article. Neutrality^talk 00:18, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
    • Wow — If we're looking for a real challenge, this is it. — mark ✎ 00:41, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • <selfpromotion>Not that hard. Look what I did with Geography of Côte d'Ivoire</selfpromotion> Neutrality^talk 03:43, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

1. Istarted the idea of an international writing contest on meta meta:International writing contest, pleas join -- de:Benutzer:Achim Raschka 149.225.56.90 08:31, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)