Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Rules

Rules on international level

CEE Spring 2018 is a set of local contests, however internationally coordinated.
Local contests are organized in a way to select winners before 30 June 2018.
In order to join the CEE Spring 2018 a chapter, an established or not-established user group:
1. selects one person as a coordinator; this person is ready to reveal to the Wikimedia Austria office their full name, contact address and bank account number to be used for money transfers
2. prepares the set of rules of local contest and presents them to the international organisers for acceptance.
3. prepares (preferably together with their community) a list of about 100 articles in 10 categories about their countries to translate/create before 15 March 2018.
4. decides about the method of selection of local winners, however it must be clearly defined and accepted by the international coordination committee.
5. presents to Wikimedia Austria originals or scanned copies of the invoices, for which they get reimbursed or provide an account in an online shop with a full shopping basket, so that only the payment details need be added by the payment processor. The shop must be capable of providing an invoice.

Rules on local level

Local coordinators have freedom in creating local rules, as long as they are feasible and go along with international rules.

Albania

Timezone: CET

Any user other than organizers and jury can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are only newly created articles.
Articles should be at least 2,000 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
Articles should be well referenced
Articles should not consist of machine translation

From each category will be a winner:

The best (new) article (judged by jury)
The most active contributor
Most active debutant in CEE Spring

Armenia

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+4)

Austria

(as an example, not the final rule set) Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

First three winners are awarded prizes from the Wikipedia Store, organisers can't win prizes
Writing or improving an article with at least 2 kB is worth 1 point
Writing or improving an article with at least 6 kB is worth 5 points (in order to encourage well written articles over smaller ones)
Articles about topics from Austria don't count
The articles have to be about notable topics and use sources

Azerbaijan

Timezone: CET+3

Any user other than organizers and jury can win the prize
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are only newly created articles.
Articles should be at least 2,000 bytes and a minimum of 200 words in main .
Articles should be well referenced
Articles should not consist of machine translation

From each category will be a winner:

The most active 3 contributors
The most active female contributor
- If the most active female contributor is among 3 most active contributors, then the second most active female contributor is awarded.

Bashkortostan

Timezone: UTC + 5

Any user can participate in contest.
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are newly created articles and improved articles. We will take into account the contribution of the user in bytes.
Articles should not be about Bashkortostan
Article should not be copyvio
The article should be at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
In an article should be sources
The article should not consist of machine translation
The number of points equal to the sum of all contributions of the participant and divided by 10000.

Example: Baxetle wrote 3 articles. The sum of all articles is (3717+15176 +37518) 56411 bytes. Baxetle has 5.6 points. Plus 5 points as a new participant. Total 10.6 points.

Prizes will be given to all participants who received at least 5 points.

Belarus

Timezone: UTC + 3

Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In an article should be sources
The article should not consist of machine translation
Articles about Belarus do not take part in the contest.

From each category will be a winner:

The best (new) article (judged by jury)
The most active contributor
Most active debutant in CEE Spring

Belarusian classic

Time zone: UTC + 3

Articles should be created in the period from March 21, 2018 12:00 and 31 May 2018 23:59

The article should be sources
The article should not consist of machine translation
Articles about Belarus does not participate in the competition.

Three winners will be assigned:

For the greatest number of articles created (2 winner)
For the active improvement of existing

Bulgaria

Timezone: UTC +2

be created between 21 March and 31 May 2018.
adding at least 300 words
articles are greatly improved (spelling, grammar, formatting, and other minor fixes are excluded)
be written in understandable language, not translate with online translators (but wiki extension can be used Translate to content)
not to infringe copyright
to be for countries from participating in the competition countries of the Central and Eastern Europe region
they are not for Bulgaria

Crimean Tatar

(not the final rule set)

Timezone: EET (UTC+2) / EEST (UTC+3)

Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 EET and May 31, 2018 23:59 EEST.
Any registered user can participate (organisers and jury members of the Ukrainian edition cannot win prizes).
Articles have to comply with local rules on notability, language style, non-plagiarism and have sources.
Writing or improving an article with at least 2 kB is worth 1 point
Writing or improving an article with at least 6 kB is worth 5 points (in order to encourage well written articles over smaller ones)

Awards are provided for participants with the biggest sum of points:

First three winners (in all language editions participating in the contest) are awarded prizes from Wikimedia Ukraine (organisers and jury members of the Ukrainian editio cannot win prizes)
First three winners (in Crimean Tatar) are awarded prizes from Wikimedia Ukraine (organisers and jury members of the Ukrainian edition cannot win prizes)
Small prizes for all participants who create >5 articles.

Croatia

Timezone: UTC + 2

Any user can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are only newly created articles.
Article should not be copyvio
The article should be at least 2,000 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
In an article should be sources
The article should not consist of machine translation
Each article receives 1 point, additional 1 point is provided for female biographies

Prizes will be awarded to the first three participants with the highest number of articles

Erzya

Timezone: FET

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2018 0:00 FET and May 31, 2018 23:59 FET.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists. Articles should not be about Erzya.
The newly created article should be at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
The existing article should be extended with at least 200 words, provided that it's initial size was less then 3,000 bytes.
Article subjects must have notability, articles should contain sources.
Articles should not consist of machine translation.

The UG EZY community decided to purchase souvenir products for user-community purposes.

Estonia

Timezone: EET/EEST

Any registered users can participate in the contest, except for the jury members
The article writing period is from March 21, 2018 at 0:00 to May 31, 2018 at 23:59 local time
Any new or significantly improved articles about the CEE region and related topics can be entered into the contest by adding them to this list
1. The CEE region, for the purposes of this contest, consists of Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine
2. Additionally, topics related to the Esperanto language and culture also qualify
The jury will assess the quality of the created and improved articles: they should be comprehensive yet understandable, properly formatted encyclopedic texts based on reliable sources, which must be cited. Plagiarized articles will not qualify for the competition.
The articles should be written and edited in the standard Wikipedia ways: it's allowed (and welcomed) to comment and improve on other users' work.

Prizes will be awarded to the following:

Best three users (awarded by jury)
Best new user (awarded by jury)
Users who write about every single country in the region

Don Region

Timezone: FET

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2018 0:00 FET and May 31, 2018 23:59 FET.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Russia and Don Region.
The newly created article should be at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
The existing article should be extended with at least 200 words, provided that it's initial size was less then 6,000 bytes.
Article subjects must have notability, articles should contain sources.
Articles should not consist of machine translation.
Each article will get from 1 to 3 points.

Prizes will be awarded the first five participants with the highest summ of points. (Don wikimedians will write the articles in Russian Wikipedia; the prizes are shared with other wikipedians writing in Russian.)

Georgia

Timezone: GET

Any user can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
Articles should be about CEE topic except for Georgia

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories (One user can win only in one category):

The most active contributor
The best new user
Best article about women from lists

All winners will receive Amazon gift cards.

Greece

Timezone: UTC+3

The contest will be held for the following categories:

Best new article
Largest number of new articles created
Largest volume of material added in bytes (including text, tables, external links, images/photos e.t.c.)
Best new entrant (less than 400 edits in the main namespace before the start of the contest)
Largest volume of material added related to notable women from the region

The best new article will be chosen by a jury. Each participant can receive a prize only in one (1) category, with the rest of his/her prizes (if any) going to the second user (or even third, if the 1st and 2nd have already received a prize) so that more users with significant contribution & effort will receive a prize. In case there is a participant whose contribution is significantly greater than the rest, and/or achieves first place in more than one categories, he/she will be awarded a "Most valuable participant" prize (second to the one already won).

Articles submitted to the contest must meet the following requirements:

Articles shall be created between between midnight (00:01) March 21, 2018 and 23:59 on May 31, 2018.
At least 300 words have been added.
Comply with the rules of Wikipedia, for example, notability, verifiability, and formatting rules.
Are written in plain language, and not translated by automatic translators.
Must not violate copyrights.
Article subject is in the lists of countries participating in the competition of the Central and Eastern European region.
Not from the list for Greece.
The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

Hungary

Timezone: UTC+2

Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe, except Hungary.
Central and Eastern Europe, for the purposes of this contest, consists of Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Topics related to the Esperanto language and culture also qualify.
The article has to conform to established rules regarding structure and content:
- Good spelling and wording
- Properly categorized and includes infobox (if available for topic)
- Illustrations, if available, are preferably free licenced (for use of non-free content, see: hu:WP:NEMSZABAD)
- The article contains trustworthy sources
Article text or illustrations cannot be copyright violations.
Organizer participates in the contest, but will not receive prizes.

Winners will be selected from following categories:

Editors expanding already existing articles to Featured or Good Article status
New articles
Special prize will be given to a new editor (newly registered or did not have significant contribution to Wikipedia prior to CEE Spring) for the best quality article

Kosovo

Timezone: CET

Any user other than organizers and jury can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are only newly created articles.
Articles should be at least 2,000 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
Articles should be well referenced
Article should not consist of machine translation

From each category will be a winner:

The best (new) article (judged by jury)
The most active contributor
Most active debutant in CEE Spring

Latvia

Timezone: EET/EEST

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59 local time
Articles should be about CEE topic except for Latvia
Article should meet the requirements of Wikipedia guidelines and formatting style. Dubious claims should be verifiable using references in article.

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories:

Best article created during the contest (awarded by jury)
Most contributions during contest (bytes added)
Most contributions during contest by new user (400 edits or less before start of contest, bytes added)
Most articles created from lists
Most articles created from lists by new user (400 edits or less before start of contest)
Most women biographies created
Lottery between all users who have created at least one article about each country. It would be their responsibility to register their progress in covering all countries in dedicated page.
There can be one second prize in one of categories if results are very close. The decision about this is made by jury.

Organizers reserve right to exclude participants who are creating very short articles or using lots of tables to blatantly game the system. Winners will get a chance to pick prizes from prize pool in order categories are listed.

Lithuania

Timezone: EET/EEST

Any user can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 and May 31, 2018 23:59
In the standings of the competition are only newly created articles.
Article should not be copyvio
The article should be at least 2,000 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
In an article should be sources
The article should not consist of machine translation

Prizes will be awarded to the first three participants with the highest number of articles

Macedonia

Timezone: CET/CEST

Any registered user can participate, except for the members of the jury and the organizers of the contest
Evaluation points from the jury is in the range of 1 to 10
Creation articles with bots is forbidden
Changes to and creation of articles have to comply with local guidelines

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories (one user can win in no more than 2 categories):

First place according jury points
Second place according jury points
Third place according jury points
Best article created during the contest (awarded by jury)
Best newcomer (created new account during editing contest)
Best existing user and without participation on previous editions of CEE Spring
Most new articles created during the contest
Special prize for writing articles about all of the participants

Moldova

see Romanian

Poland

Timezone:

Republic of Srpska

Timezone:CET/CEST

Any registered user can participate, except for the members of the jury.
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 CET and May 31, 2018 23:59 CET
It is not allowed to copy or in any other way transcribe articles already existing on the Wikipedia editions of related languages.
Articles not in line with the theme of the competition will not be graded.
Each article will get from 0 to 5 points, but then the sum of points will be multiplied by the number of added bytes of written or improved article (whether the articles are written in Latin/Cyrillic, they will be counted as if they were written in Cyrillic).
Jury members are comprised of three experienced Wikipedians.
Registered users can take part during the entire competition.
Awards are provided for the participants with the biggest ammount of points, and they will be announced soon.

Note: Serbia and Republic of Srpska are jointly organizing the competition on Serbian Wikipedia.

Romanian

Timezone: UTC + 2 (until March 25); UTC + 3 (after March 25)

Any user registered at Wikipedia can participate. Organisers can participate, but cannot get prizes.
Articles should be written between 00:01 March 21 and 23:59 May 31, 2018.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe, like those listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Romania and Moldova.
Articles should follow basic standards of Romanian Wikipedia:
1. to be written in Romanian; automated translations are disqualified;
2. to describe a notable topic;
3. to contain verifiable information;
4. to follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style;
5. to not contain copyvio text.
New articles with a total of at least 200 words of prose are accepted, as well as existent articles that were extended at least ten times (in bytes).
The points are counted as follows:
1. Every new article: 5 points + 2 points for each 100 words of prose.
2. Every existent (as of March 21) article that has been extended ten times in bytes: 2 points for each 100 additional words of prose.
3. Outstanding formatting or orthographic issues in an article: cancelling all previous points.
4. Proper use of {{Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018}} in an article's talk page: 1 point.
Prize categories:
1. Overall winner: who gets most points.
2. Special prize for beginners: who gets more points among users with less than 100 contributions to mainspace at the beginning of the contest (March 21, 2018).
3. Special prize for diversity: who gets more points among users that wrote at least one article about all the countries and regions participating in the contest: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Romania and Moldova.
4. Special prize "Women in Red": who wrote most articles on women biographies of any of the countries and regions participating in the contest: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Romania and Moldova.
5. Special prize "1918": who wrote most articles on World War I of any of the countries and regions participating in the contest: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Romania and Moldova.

Russia

Timezone: FET

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2018 0:00 FET and May 31, 2018 23:59 FET.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/Article Lists, except Russia and Don Region.
The newly created article should be at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
The existing article should be extended with at least 200 words, provided that it's initial size was less then 6,000 bytes.
Article subjects must have notability, articles should contain sources.
Articles should not consist of machine translation.
Each article will get from 1 to 3 points.

Prizes will be awarded the first five participants with the highest summ of points.

Serbia

Timezone:CET/CEST

Any registered user can participate, except for the members of the jury.
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 CET and May 31, 2018 23:59 CET
It is not allowed to copy or in any other way transcribe articles already existing on the Wikipedia editions of related languages.
Articles not in line with the theme of the competition will not be graded.
Each article will get from 0 to 5 points, but then the sum of points will be multiplied by the number of added bytes of written or improved article (whether the articles are written in Latin/Cyrillic, they will be counted as if they were written in Cyrillic).
Jury members are comprised of three experienced Wikipedians.
Registered users can take part during the entire competition.
Awards are provided for the participants with the biggest ammount of points, and they will be announced soon.

Note: Serbia and Republic of Srpska are jointly organizing the competition on Serbian Wikipedia.

Slovakia

Timezone:

Tatarstan

Timezone: FET

Turkey

Timezone: UTC + 2

Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017/Article Lists, except Turkey.
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2017 0:00 CET and May 31, 2017 23:59 CET
Any user can participate in contest, except the jury and the organizers.
Applications are opened during the entire competition.
Articles should contain verifiable information and follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
Prizes will be awarded the first five participants with the highest points.
New articles well as existent articles that were extended are accepted; the scoring will be as follows:

**Scoring**
30 points for each new article created/extended
30 points for each 3.000bytes contribution after the first 3000bytes
4 points for adding relevant info box
4 points for each additional source after the first 3 sources
1 point for each category added

Ukraine

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Timezone: EET (UTC+2) / EEST (UTC+3)

Articles shall be created between March 21, 2018 0:00 EET and May 31, 2018 23:59 EEST.
Any registered user with knowledge of Ukrainian can participate, except for the organisers and jury members.
Participants cannot edit articles of each other.
Articles about Ukraine do not take part in the contest.
Articles have to comply with local rules on notability, language style, non-plagiarism and sources.
The jury will take into account completeness, structuring, verifiability of the articles and do not take mark-up.
Articles should have 3500 bytes at minimum with coefficient "0,8" for 3500-5000 bytes (or if a list), "1" for 5000-10000 bytes, "1,1" for more than 10000 bytes.
Each article will get from 0 to 2 points, then the sum of points will be multiplied by the (number of bytes written or amended article)/1000 and the size coefficient. If the article belongs to the proposed articles list, its points will be multiplied by 2.
Jury are composed from experienced Wikipedians (at least 3).

Awards are provided for participants with the biggest sum of points:

Prizes (certificates for books) for winners of the 'countries' and article categories
Small prizes for all participants who create >5 articles.