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

This contest runs from 0:00 UTC +0 time on November 1 to 23:59 UTC +0 time on November 30.


 * All entries are to be submitted on the contest entry pages by continent and under the relevant country. While the focus is mainly on biographies, any women-related articles are welcome for the contest. If it is an organization which is difficult to count towards one country in particular pick the most relevant country. Entries may only count towards one country though you may be eligible to claim for a prize on the given field of occupation at the end of the contest and use an article submitted under a country to count towards that.


 * To be eligible to win the prizes for most general articles created and most articles for a given continent the minimum requirement for diversity is as follows:


 * Most articles created - You must demonstrate that you have created an article on a woman from every inhabited continent and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for North America - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on both American and Canadian women and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for Central, South America and Caribbean - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on a minimum of 5 different countries and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for Europe - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on a minimum of 5 different countries and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for Africa - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on a minimum of 5 different countries and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for Asia - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on a minimum of 5 different countries and at least three fields of occupation.
 * Most articles created for Oceania - You must demonstrate that you have created articles on a minimum of 2 different countries and at least three fields of occupation.


 * Articles must be in the mainspace 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 by the end of November.


 * The minimum requirement of readable prose for entries is 1000 characters or 1kB. Though this is still a stub, as long as the articles have a number of sourced facts this is permitable, though if the biographies are particularly notable with plenty of sources try to add more text. However, for articles on North America, Australia and New Zealand and Europe, try to make the articles at least 1500 characters or 1.5kB and effectively start class entries. The minimum requirement is intended more for those developing world bios where subjects might be notable but suffer from a lack of sources due to the infrastructure of the countries. If there is plenty of material to work with for certain entries done for Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, then also aim for 1.5 kB and start class, the more start class entries created and less stubs the better the contest will be and will make you more eligible to win something for quality as well.


 * 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.


 * It is important that before starting new entries you take the time to ensure that articles meet Notability guidelines and have the adequate coverage in 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.


 * 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. Please, let's avoid that.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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. If English isn't your native language, consider recruiting a few experienced editors to help copyedit your work.


 * Given that this is a contest which will depend on an English Wikipedia bot for checking length and sourcing, all entries submitted must be English Wikipedia entries.


 * No articles on fictional characters are permitted given that this is a focus on real women's inequality.


 * There are substantial prizes available for editors who also play a role in helping check entries/ overlook problems, help less experienced editors and generally demonstrate that they've spent a lot of time helping run the contest. Those will be decided by Dr. Blofeld at the end of the contest. If you want to help judge the contest or help out with running it please ensure that you add your name in the judges section on the main page. Only people who add their name there will be eligible to win prizes for judging. It is acceptable for people competing in the contest to also help assess entries of others and play a role in judging but any indication that you are intentionally hampering the efforts of others to help your own cause in winning the contest may result in being disqualified.

Competition and entry process

 * All contestants are free to work on any or all the countries or any occupation they wish. If you're not interested in the prize money but just want to contribute you may submit articles directly on the main page list which will be created at the bottom like The Africa Destubathon list was and avoid the contest entry pages. If not competing then you may submit articles of any length about women including destubbed entries and treat it as an editathon, but it's only new articles which will be eligible for prizes.
 * If competing, submit the article you created under your username against the appropriate country on one of the entries pages and sign your name. You may only list an entry under one country but on the special claims page you can also make a claim on entries for a given occupation towards the end of the contest. In cases where it is difficult to decide on one country (think sportspeople who might have been born somewhere but represented a different county), country of birth should have the strongest precedent.


 * Please make sure that your article is listed in the Article achievements section of the main page as that list is intended to be the sum of all work created for the contest and editathon if not competing.


 * The intention is that the contest also contributes towards the ongoing challenges and even launching a new 100,000 Challenge for women long term. If you do not wish your articles to be listed on challenge pages after the contest, mark (No) after your name on the participants page and your wish will be respected. If you do not mark it, it is assumed you are happy for it to be listed on the challenges.


 * The African Feminists section is being hosted by Wiki Loves Women and has some slightly different rules. The main contest page for this is here. To be eligible to win prizes for that, articles must be a minimum of 1.5 kb readable prose and unlike the main contest, expanded stubs are welcome as long as the entries are over 1.5 kb readable prose once completed. Editors contributing towards this may list an entry under a given country if it is a new article and then make a claim on the feminism prize, but if the articles are only expanded stubs you may claim on this prize and list your article on the main article achievements section of the main page but not be eligible to use it towards the main prizes claim.