Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Nov-BLT BINGO

November



BLT BINGO!
BLT's November Contest is a national contest that celebrates the work of Black artists by working to increase information about them across Wikimedia platforms and create opportunities for new editors familiarize themselves with Wiki.


 * The contest runs:
 * Through November 30th, 2020


 * What must the contestant do to generate content and win the contest?
 * Contestants must fill out the bingo card by adding qualifying edits to the existing Wikipedia pages or creating new articles for 5 artists of their choice on Wikipedia choosing from artist's on the bingo card. Once you’ve completed a BINGO, submit your filled out card alongside your Wikipedia username to contest@blacklunchtable.com. From there, we’ll verify your edits. If everything checks out, you win! First come, first serve for the grand prize of a BLT goodie bag.


 * What qualifies as a new article?
 * New articles should follow try to meet THESE basic good criteria
 * Work in draft space of your sandbox, new articles are not as intimidating as they sound, HERE is how to get started
 * Need support on writing new articles? Check out THIS guide
 * A good rule of thumb for starting a qualifying one is that registers an addition of 1000 bytes


 * What qualifies as an edit?
 * Adding a paragraph with proper citations (250 words minimum) to the page;
 * Adding an image that you own the rights to, more on image rights and how to HERE;
 * Reorganizing the existing information on pages to increase readability,i.e., making long lists into succinct paragraphs,etc.

What prizes are offered?
First place BLT Bingo winner:
 * A $50 giftcard to be used towards any title at Mahogany Books.
 * BLT tote bag
 * BLT stickers
 * BLT patch

Second and third place BLT Bingo winners:
 * BLT tote bag
 * BLT stickers

Judging
We will receive BINGO submissions until November 30th, 2020 by email. At that point, we will verify submissions in the order received and announce a first, second, and third-place winner.

Winners
To be announced December 1st.

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

BINGO Cards
The center square is free and participants are working to complete five squares in a row diagonally, horizontally, or vertically. November's card focuses on autodidacts.



Rules

 * 1) Articles/edits must be published by the end of the competition period. Contestants are welcome to work on articles in AFC, draft space, their sandboxes or off-wiki in advance but the new articles have to be in the mainspace during the duration of the contest.
 * 2) All entries are expected to be fully sourced, no unsourced claims or poorly formatted sources such as bare URL links or missing publisher information. Try to make the formatting consistent with dates and layout, clean, useful new entries are what the contest is about.
 * 3) It is important that before starting new entries you take the time to ensure that articles meet Wikipedia:Notability guidelines and have adequate coverage in Wikipedia:Reliable sources needed to be acceptable on Wikipedia. We don't want the contest to generate non notable articles or cause WP:BLP issues. Leading up to the start of the contest there are prizes for editors who help build and refine the missing article lists for the contest with articles which are notable and make it easier for editors to select suitable articles during the contest.
 * 4) Take extra care to avoid paraphrasing and copyright. If producing a lot of content it is sometimes difficult to avoid sentences at times which don't resemble something in a source but it is important that the articles are without problems and will stick around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. If editors are found to create successive articles with paraphrasing or quality issues or of dubious notability and continue to do so after being alerted of a problem, they may be disqualified from further contributing to the contest. It is very important that care is taken to avoid copyright issues and ensure that articles meet notability and content requirements as if they don't they may cause a potential nightmare for the contest and editors at a later date.
 * 5) Cookie-cutter style articles which show signs of minimal text writing and simply quickly changing some facts to mass generate a lot of articles on the same subject or entries which show signs of cheating may be discounted. Though articles on the same subject (such as women athletes) may often have a similar format and facts, the articles submitted must demonstrate original text and that some time has been taken to write them. If using public domain sources this must be rewritten to comply at least if you're competing in the contest.
 * 6) No automated, semi-automated tools, scripts or manual templates to mass generate content are permitted for the contest. Any indication that editors are cheating by using a cookie-cutter template or script to mass generate through lists may lead to disqualification.
 * 7) To be eligible to win prizes for quantity, all articles are expected to be of a high quality, even if short. It cannot simply be "whoever produces the most articles, regardless of prose quality is the winner". All of the entries have to be satisfactory to read and be reliably sourced/reliable new entries.