User:Tempodivalse/Competition

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This is a proposal for a writing competition that goes in a cycle. The idea is that, because long competitions tend to peter out quickly as people lose energy, a series of shorter competitions held at more frequent intervals would encourage more writing in the long run. Rules and ideas presented here are still tentative.

Rules

 * Each competition - henceforth referred to as a round - starts at the beginning of every month and lasts for three weeks. Dates and times to be used are UTC. During that time, the object is to collect as many points as possible by writing articles. At the end of each round, points are tallied, and the top three users are presented with medals. The goal is to encourage a focus on writing articles and create a friendly competition between users for who can accumulate the most medals.


 * Scoring


 * You receive 1 base points for writing an article, and 1 point for every 500 characters in the article (as counted by the Character Review tool found in special:preferences). If the article contains at least 500 characters of original reporting material, a bonus of 4 points is awarded. Note that the points are only received when the article has been published: an unpublished article subsequently deleted will receive no points; neither will an article that has been substantially rewritten (minor copyedits by other users are acceptable).
 * You receive 1 bonus point for every original image (i.e. that you took yourself) inserted into the article, up to 20 points. This is intended for photoessays.
 * For every featured article you write, you receive an extra 15 bonus points.


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 * Users can sign up at any time for either the current round, if it is ongoing, or for the next one. Any registered user is eligible for the competition.

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 * 1) BarkingFish (talk) 22:34, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 2)  Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:37, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Δεν δοδγε  t\c 18:14, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) C628 (talk) 18:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) Maybe Diego Grez return fire 18:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 6) — Mike  moral  ♪♫  18:44, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 7) theMONO 23:50, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 8) Bobby122   Contact Me   (C)  22:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 9) Not too late. :) Kayau (talk &middot; contribs) 03:23, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 10) Hopefully not too late. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 23:47, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Judges
If you don't wish to participate in the competition itself, but don't mind overseeing it and responding in case of disputes or questions regarding the rules, please contact Tempodivalse for a position as a judge.