Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020/Rules

Rules on international level

This is not the final version, we are currently looking into clarifying a few points to avoid misunderstandings

CEE Spring 2020 is a set of local contests, however internationally coordinated.
Everyone can write about every other country in the CEE region, just not their own
1. This year, there will also be article lists from countries that do not have a local contest
Local contests are organized in a way to select winners before 30 June 2020.
1. Based on the discussion at the CEE Meeting 2018, the funds of the local contests can also be used by the user group if the winners of the local contest decide that this would be a better use of the funds
In order to join the CEE Spring 2019 a chapter, an established or non-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 2019.
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.

extra modifier rules for #femWikiRAINBOW #checkInEditON

If you want to join #femWikiRAINBOW #checkInEditON for the rest of Spring in CEE (until June 20th) these are the extra modifier rules to follow *(no worries: inexperienced users are welcome):

Participants should show up in at least 2 check-ins during this period. Check-ins are regular coordination moments held in English or CEE languages (if there is a group) on even days at 20:20h CEST for a minimum of 20minutes! All participants should introduce themselves and discuss their proposals for activities and will approve coordination and publish on update log. Participants will agree on awards on 20th of June 2020, by avoiding competitive stress and ideally awarding all participants. Join the us at the meeting using headphones and visiting this URL: https://meet.jit.si/2020SPRING
The thematic focus is on gender-gaps via female, fem and queer/feminist biographies, knowledge and civil society culture (exceptions in mainstream and popular culture can be made if focus is not promotion of commercial activities). Ideally content making should reflect on social issues, care and self-empowerment. Article list will be developed in coordinations and mutual agreement of participants at each check-in.
The media content focus is on doing new, fixing and/or translate existing wiki pages and wiki commons media. Investigating of new models and methods of collaborative publishing will be especially addressed and supported.

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, 2020 0:00 and May 31, 2020 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

Awards:

The best (new) article (judged by jury)
10 most active contributors will receive postcards.

Austria

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/Germany/Switzerland/Liechtenstein don't count
The articles have to be about notable topics and use sources

Armenia

Timezone: CET (UTC+4)

Any registered user can participate in contest, but not jury and event coordinators.
Articles shall be created or expanded between March 21, 2019 0:00 and May 31, 2019 23:59.
Articles about topics on Armenia don't count.
Most of prizes will be books or gift cards from bookstores.
Lists, templates or categories are not within the contest.
The article should be at least 3000 bytes, must contain verifiable content and at least two reliable sources.
Points will be counted based on 1000 text bytes to one point.
Prizes will be awarded for the first ten participants with the highest sum of points.

Azerbaijan

Timezone: CET (UTC+4)

Any user can participate in contest, also jury members, but they cannot evaluate their own articles.
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2020 0:00 and May 31, 2020 23:59.
Articles about topics on Azerbaijan aren't allowed.
The article should be at least 2000 bytes and 200 words.
Prizes will be awarded for the first three participants and one female participant with the highest sum of points.
Every article will get one point.

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.As part of the contest, old articles can be improved if they are short.
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 150 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.
Начинающим участникам прибавляется 5 баллов.
Prizes will be given to all participants who received at least 5 points.
The jury receives 50 euros for the work, in addition, the jury members can write an article and participate in the competition.
Participants who receive 20 or more points should improve two articles from the List of articles every Wikipedia should have.

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.

Belarus (classical)

Time zone: UTC+3. Articles should be created between 12:00 21 March, 2020, and 23:59 31 May, 2020.

The article should have source(-s).
The article should not consist of machine translation.
Articles about Belarus do not participate in the competition.

Three winners will be assigned:

For the greatest number of articles created (2 winners);
For the active improvement of existing articles.

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

Erzya

Timezone: UTC+3

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2020 0:00 and May 31, 2020 23:59.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: meta:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020/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.

Esperanto

Timezone: UTC

Time: March 21 0:00 - April 30 23:59
Participate can every registered user except for the organisers and jury members.
The participating wiki projects are Esperanto Wikipedia and Esperanto Wikivoyage (in Incubator).
The topics accepted are the CEE region (as defined by WM CEE community) with exception for the countries whose official language is the contest language. The articles can not be lists.
1. Esperanto topics are accepted only if related to CEE region. Worldwide Esperanto topics are not permitted.
Articles must be written in good language and follow usual style and guidelines of the concerned project.
Translations, including machine ones, are accepted.
Participate can new articles and improved substubs.
For every article fulfilling the requirements, the amount of points will be calculated:
1. for Wikivoyage phrasebooks, a fixed amount of 10 000 bytes will be minused (as it is an article skeleton - non creative contribution);
2. on Esperanto Wikipedia: 1 point for every 1 000 bytes;
3. on Esperanto Wikivoyage: 2 points for every 1 000 bytes;
4. precision of calculation is 1 byte.
The winners are 3 users with most cumulative (from Wikipedia + from Wikivoyage) points.
All 3 winners will receive a gift card for service of their own choice, such as Wikimedia Store, Udemy etc. The 2 most highly positioned winners will additionally receive an Esperanto music subscription. Winners can donate their prize to the organizing affiliation.
There are 2 special categories with addition prizes (one user can gain the regular prize and additionally also the special one(s), or just one of them). Calculation of points is the same as for regular prizes.
1. Best contribution to gender gap.
2. Best contribution to Wikivoyage.
Additional prizes or categories can be set up depending on external sponsors.
The organizers and jury members, max 2, will receive an Esperanto music subscription as a thanks.

Greece

Timezone: UTC+3

The contest will be held for the following categories:

Best new article
Largest number of new articles created
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

An award will also be given to one of the participants that has written or expanded at least five (5) articles. The winner will be chosen randomly.

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.

Articles submitted to the contest must meet the following requirements:

they shall be created between midnight (00:01) March 21, 2020 and 23:59 on May 31, 2020.
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.

Articles about Greece do not participate in the competition.

The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

Kosovo

Timezone: CET

Any user other than organizers and jury can participate in contest
Articles shall be created between March 21, 2020 0:00 and May 31, 2020 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

Awards:

The best (new) article (judged by jury)
10 most active contributors will receive postcards.

Latvia

Timezone: EET/EEST

Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes
Articles shall be created or improved between March 21, 2020 0:00 and May 31, 2020 23:59 local time
When improving existing article, its size in bytes should be at least doubled.
Articles should be about CEE topic except for Latvia
Article should meet the requirements of Wikipedia guidelines and formatting style.

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories:

Best article created during the contest (awarded by jury)
Most contributions during contest (number in characters in readable text)
Most contributions during contest by new user (400 edits or less before start of contest, number in characters in readable text)
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.

Malta

Timezone: CET/CEST

The contest is open to everyone, except for local and international organizers. The organizers may participate but not compete.
To participate you must register formally by adding your Username to the end table/list at the bottom of the language information page in the section called Parteċipanti.
It is essential to include the template {{CEE Spring 2020 | utent = isem | pajjiż = malta }} on the Talk page of every page you work on to ensure that your contributions count towards the contest. This is the only way for the organizers to really know who is taking part in the contest.

Points

2 points for every new article created
3 points for every new article created from the list of articles (a total of 5 points for the new page)
1 point for every article improved
4 points for every article improved from the list of articles (a total of 5 points for the same page)

Articles about subjects directly associated with Malta do not acquire any points for Maltese users.

Romania & Moldova

Timezone: UTC + 2 (until March 28); UTC + 3 (after March 28)

I. Eligibility and duration
1. Any user registered at Wikipedia can participate. Organizers can participate, but cannot get prizes.
2. Articles should be written between 00:01 March 21 and 23:59 May 31, 2020. Winners' list will be published no later than June 30, 2020.

II. Articles
3. Articles should be written on a topic related to any country or region in Central and Eastern Europe in the contest, except Romania and Moldova.
4. Articles should follow basic standards of Romanian Wikipedia:

to be written in Romanian; automated translations are disqualified;
to describe a notable topic;
to contain verifiable information;
to follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style;
to not contain copyvio text.

5. New articles with a total of at least 200 words of prose (thus excluding infobox, footer, table of contents, tables, lists, etc.) are accepted, as well as existent articles that were extended at least ten times (in bytes). Words are counted using the XTools! counter of each article, available by navigating to "Istorie" -> "autori" (History -> authors).

III. Points
6. The points are counted as follows:

Every new article: 5 points + 2 points for each 100 words of prose.
Every existent (as of March 21) article that has been extended ten times in bytes: 2 points for each 100 additional words of prose.
For obvious violation of basic standards of Wikipedia (see rule 4.), all previous points are cancelled.
Proper use of {{Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020}} in an article's talk page: 1 point.

7. Jury may disqualify any participants that display strong violation of fair play – this includes misleading or impeding organizers and fellow participants, mass loading of previously prepared articles at any stage, sockpuppeting, etc.

IV. Prizes
8. A participant can only get one prize, in order of their listing below. For example, winner of the Main prize cannot get any of the subsequent prizes.
9. Prize categories (if a tie occurs, lots will be drawn):

Main prize: who gets most points overall.
Special prize for diversity: who gets most points among users that wrote at least one article (not disqualified by any previous rule) about all the countries and regions participating in the contest by March 31, 2020, except Romania and Moldova.
Special prize for beginners: who gets most points among users with less than 100 contributions to mainspace at the beginning of the contest (March 21, 2020) and at least 5 submitted articles.

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, 2020 0:00 FET and May 31, 2020 23:59 FET.
Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020/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 150 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 sum of points.

Serbia

Timezone:CET/CEST

Slovenia

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

Articles about exclusively Slovenian topics don't count.
Any registered user can participate, but the organizers/judges aren't eligible for prizes.
New articles and additions to existing articles must be at least 200 words to count.
Contributions must comply with basic rules of Wikipedia (notability, verifiability, neutrality, copyright).
Points awarded:
- 1 point for 200 added words per page, if fewer than 500
- 5 points for each 500 added words per page

Awards will be given to three contestants with most points and to each contestant that contributes content about each of the participating countries/regions.

Turkey

Timezone: UTC+3

Articles about topics on Turkey don't count
Articles shall be created or expanded between March 21, 2020 0:00 CET and May 31, 2020 23:59 CET
Any registered user can participate, except for the members of the jury or the organizer
Registered users can take part during the entire competition
Each article that created or expanded during the contest must contain verifiable content, at least two reliable sources, have at least 3.000 kB and meet the Manual of Style guidelines
Lists, templates or categories are not within the contest
Top five users in the points chart will be awarded with D&R gift cards

Tatar language community

Timezone: UTC+3

The contest is open to all registered participants (registration time does not matter)
The contest accepts articles that meet following criteria:
- The article was written in Tatar from 21st March to 31st May 2019)
- The topic of the article is selected from the following list of articles (other articles are not accepted), but is not included in the lists of Tatarstan
- Article is begun by participant of this contest
- The minimum length of the article is 100 words
- The subject of the article is important, text indicates the sources of information
- The article is not an automatic translation
- Forms of warning about critical shortcomings are not in the article
- For each article that meets the criteria, 1 and 3 points can be awarded
Top five users in the points list will be awarded with money prizes