Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Contest/Decemberween

Welcome to the first annual Tree of Life Decemberween contest.

This contest is similar to the successful Halloween contest, but for December-ish holidays including but not limited to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Krampusnacht, Yule, Saturnalia, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, Saint Stephen's Day, Las Posadas, Advent, Festivus, Wren Day, Epiphany, Eid il-Burbara (St. Barbara's Day), Winter solstice, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Night of the Radishes, Ōmisoka, Saint Sylvester's Day, {see more at Winter solstice), etc..  Sorry, it's too late for Diwali, maybe next year.  It would be fun to take over the DYKs for these holidays like we did for Hallowe'en.

Contest structure
The Tree of Life Decemberween contest will run until 6 January 2019 (Epiphany/Three Kings Day/12th day of xmas), with the winner announced the following week. All entrants will receive a barnstar, but the winner will receive a better barnstar.

The rules are basically cribbed from Halloween's contest, but with points for incoming links as well. Improving article class will be rewarded with points, with bigger improvements and higher classes rewarded more points. You can update classes of articles you improve, but please do so honestly.
 * Participants will get an extra 3 points for each DYK that appears on the main page (for new and expanded articles or recent GAs)
 * You will also get 3 points for reviewing someone else's contest GA
 * There will also be a bonus system for page views
 * Every new image added to an article that did not have one is worth 1 point.
 * Every manual taxobox converted to an automated taxobox is also worth 1 point
 * If you collaborate with another editor for an article, you can each claim points

Note that you don't need to limit yourself to taxa. Articles like The Festivus and Christmas tree pests and weeds are fair game. If you find a botanist named Holly J. Christmas or something, go for it.

Contestants
If you would like to participate, please copy the blank table below into a new subsection of this section with your username as the title.

Festive taxa list
Please add to this list, even if you don't enter the contest. It will be reused for future contests. You can also find more using a search like this.

Past contests

 * Spooky Species Contest