Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Prizes

''Please note that the prize system is still not fully decided upon and may be subject to change during the contest if the mechanism isn't being effective. It is possible that a heavier focus may go into producing diversity but it should be loosely structured this way'':

WMF

 * Take the time to read the Rules as there will be minimum expectations of diversity to be eligible to win a lot of the prizes.


 * $4025
 * $850 - top prizes for most articles created during the contest (no cookie cutter style article or PD text is allowed, all articles have to demonstrate original prose, meet notability and BLP requirements and show no signs of cut and paste) - $300 1st, $200 2nd, $100 3rd, $50 4th, 4 x $25 5th-8th place, 10 x $10 for further runners up.
 * $250 - most countries of the world done during the contest, minimum of one entry per country - one prize only, only if multiple people pull off the same amount will the sum by divided and shared.
 * $250 - for the editors who produce the most consistently high quality work and take great effort to research each new entry. This will be more difficult to assess who gets what and there are no winners, so just produce great work and hope for the best!
 * $1200 - $200 prizes for most articles done for each continent. $100 1st, $50 2nd, $25 3rd, $15 4th, $10 5th. There will be a minimum requirement for diversity to be eligible for this (see the rules page), it won't be acceptable to just produce articles for one country to win it.
 * $1000 - $100 for most articles done for each of the 10 fields of occupation stated on the prize claims page: $50 1st, $25 2nd, $15 3rd, $10 4th
 * $150 of prizes for whoever manages to produce an article for every African country, and covering at least five different occupations. If only one person manages it they will get the full $150.
 * $250 of prizes - Whoever reviews the most articles during the contest, includes playing a role with judging/double checking entries, copyediting for quality, reviewing Good articles if needs be, the people who work hardest on that should get decent prizes I think. Dr. Blofeld will decide who gets what at the end of the contest on this.
 * $75 worth of books - going into the Library Prize for helping add a lot of missing articles to the missing article banks in preparation for the contest.

Other

 * c.$530
 * $330 (UK £250), most (start class (minimum 1.5 kb) articles created for women in the national dictionary lists for UK and Australia (from WMUK)
 * $200 of prizes - Most articles created (start class - minimum 1.5 kb. Gifts $50, $40, $30, $20) OR best improvement/copyediting of already existing articles (gifts $40, $20) on African feminists as part of Wiki Loves Women with support of Les sans pagEs (gifts offered by Wikimedia CH)
 * $200 worth of books of the person's choice for most articles created in last five days between 26th and 30th.

Women in the military
This prize is being put up courtesy of Teri Embrey, Chief Librarian of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library:


 * Book Prize : 2 prizes of gently used books: 1 prize of 10 books (which includes the title Women in the Civil War) and 1 prize of 9 books (which includes the title Sisterhood of Spies: Women of the OSS) for the most articles on military women or women historians writing on war and society (from WP:GLAM/PMML )

1st prize: Women in the Civil War by Mary Elizabeth Massey, Mary Chesnut's Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War by Scott Nelson & Carol Sheriff, A WASP Among Wagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II by Ann B. Carr, Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II by Jane Mersky Leder, Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, Below Stairs by Margaret Powell, Changing Course: The Wartime Experiences of a Member of the Women's Royal Naval Service, 1939-1945 by Roxanne Houston, This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust, and The First Salute by Barbara Tuchman.

2nd prize: Sisterhood of Spies: Women of the OSS by Elizabeth P. McIntosh, Mary Chesnut's Diary by Mary Boykin Chesnut, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front by Jacqueline Glass Campbell, Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 by Angela Boswell, A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War by Mercedes Graf, The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862 edited with an introduction by Elliott Ashkenazi, The Quality of Mercy: Women at War Serbia 1915-18 by Monica Krippner, Wonderful Flying Machines: A History of U. S. Coast Guard Helicopters by Barrett Thomas Beard, and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925 by John S. Haller, Jr.