Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/WikiGrail/Scoring



This page explains the rules for the 2012 WikiGrail, based on largely on the WikiCup rules. Note that the judges reserve the right to adjudicate in the spirit of the rules, rather than to their letter.

The most important rule is that the WikiGrail is just a bit of fun &mdash; at the end of the day, we're all here to improve Christianity articles. The second most important rule is don't be a dick. If through the WikiGrail any participants are hurting the encyclopedia (whether through abusing the rules/systems, creating a negative atmosphere, or whatever else), they will be removed from the WikiGrail.

General rules

 * All submissions must bear a Christianity-related project banner on its talkpage. See the Assessment Department of the relevant project regarding articles that have not yet been assessed.
 * Submit your content to your submissions' page including all necessary links. See this page for more information.
 * You may usually only score points for content which has been promoted, or reviews which have been completed, prior to the deadline.
 * All reviewed content must have been worked on significantly by you during the competition to receive additional points. "Drive by" nominations are not permitted. This does not mean that you have to be the primary author, though it is preferable. Merely copyediting or wikifying an article does not constitute "significant work", but if you are one name on a joint nomination, you may claim points. If this is abused, the judges reserve the right to not award points.
 * Content must have been worked on and nominated during the competition. If something was worked on or nominated in an early round, you may still claim points if it is recognised in a later round, but you may not claim points for articles you have not worked on during the competition. Again, this is to prevent abuse, not to deny you your points. As long as you are not abusing the system, you should be fine.

Featured articles

 * You must declare your WikiGrail participation if you review another WikiGrail participant's FAC.

Featured pictures

 * Generally, the picture should have been created by you (either photographed, drawn, or created in some other way) or been given significant restoration work by you or been released under a free license because of your efforts. Merely uploading a file you have found elsewhere does not constitute "significantly working on" the image.

Featured portals

 * The content featured in the portal does not need to have been created by you, only the portal design and selection itself.

Featured and good topics

 * Points are awarded per article in the topic that was worked on by you. If you would have a right to claim points for the promotion of the article to good or featured status, you have the right to claim points for its promotion as part of the topic, even if you did not nominate the topic.
 * Promoting an article that is already within a featured or good topic does not get additional points for the topic. Adding articles to a topic does gain points, but only points for the article added. You do not get points for articles already in a topic when a new article is added.

Did you know?

 * Points cannot be granted until the article has actually been featured on the main page. Merely being approved by a reviewer does not count. If a hook is being held for a specific date after the end of the round and you need to claim the points, talk to the judges.
 * For hooks with multiple articles, every article is eligible to score points independently, provided each meets the Did you know? guidelines. This does not mean you can claim for articles in the hook that you yourself did not work on.

In the news

 * To claim points for an "In the news" nomination, you must be the primary contributor of the updated article or section. You do not have to be the nominator, but diffs must be provided proving you added a significant amount of content. Judges will scrutinize ITN submissions and may remove any at their discretion.

Good article reviews

 * These rules are for when you are claiming points for performing a good article review, not for when you are claiming points for writing a good article.
 * You may claim points upon the completion of a review, that is, when the article is passed or failed.
 * Only reviews of a sufficient length will be counted; quick fails and very short reviews will not be awarded points. As a rough guide, no review shorter than 1000 bytes will be considered, though the judges reserve the right to remove other short reviews. This is not to say that such short reviews are not worthwhile, it is merely to say that they will not be recognised in this competition.
 * Attempts to game good article reviews will be looked upon particularly harshly, and, more so than with any other process, people abusing the system will be removed from the WikiGrail.

Differences with WikiCup

 * Participation is restricted to Christianity subproject members
 * Content is restricted to Christianity-related articles
 * The WikiCup is 10 months long, the WikiGrail is 4 months long
 * WikiGrail has only 1 round
 * Bonus points are not awarded
 * WikiGrail prizes are far superior to WikiCup