Wikipedia:Writing contests/Ideas for new contests/Archive1

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 * 1) I personally hope that the next context will be a diagram contest (non-photographic illustrations for articles). Pleeeeease! :-) &mdash; David Remahl 07:58, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) * I like this idea.  &mdash; mark &#9998; 21:41, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) * Good idea. Neutralitytalk 00:20, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) An Extreme article deletion contest.   &mdash; Kate Turner | Talk 01:57, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
 * 5) Best VfD save, i.e. fix an article that has been listed for deletion (by someone else) so that it is inconceivable that anyone would still want to see it deleted. &mdash; David Remahl 02:06, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) *I like this idea a lot. On any day we're pushing 50 VfD nominations, so over 3 weeks thats perhaps 1000 potential targets. Plenty of nominations are made because the article is so bad as to be percieved useless, or with supposedly no potential beyond a dicdef, or because the topic googles poorly. Cool Hand Luke  09:51, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Best translation of an article from another Wikipedia. English version should be non-existent or stub prior to the competition. &mdash; David Remahl 02:52, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) * Yes, yes! +sj +
 * 9) Best Tree of Life article: User creates or improves a stub of a phylogenic classification, such as Maxillopoda (the class including barnacles), Homo ergaster (a species of human ancestor), or Thylacosmilus (a bizarre marsupial saber-toothed cat) &mdash; ClockworkTroll 06:07, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) I propose to transfer the contest temporarily to meta-wiki and award the best essay about wikipedia --Elian 00:53, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) * Good for a longer-term contest
 * 12) How about a contest to remove articles from the "needs attention" list? EagleFalconn 16:14, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) a contest for writing "missing" articles red-linked on at least five pages? (must have the red-links before the contest starts). Grutness 12:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) or best save from the Cleanup list? Rules as for the VfD save one listed by David Remahl. Grutness 12:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) Best collaboration between three of more editors on a (?new) article. Or some other sort of collaboration. -- Solipsist 16:09, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) * I like this idea a lot. J OHN C OLLISON [ Ludraman] 17:16, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) * ditto. +sj  +
 * 18) * Nice one!  &mdash; mark &#9998; 09:48, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) * I like it. 00:20, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * 20) Best redeeming of a long messy article by one or more editors. Filiocht 13:08, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) Most FAC fixes - person who guides most articles through FAC fixing all actionable objections. J OHN C OLLISON  [ Ludraman] 17:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) Maybe less spectacular, but well worth a try: adapting an entry from one of the public domain encyclopaedias (1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, Catholic Encyclopedia, whatever)&mdash;wikifying, NPOVing, updating, adding an image/images, reasonably linking the new article from as many other pages as possible.  18:37, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * 23) Best stub-to-feature from WP:Bias. (but I'm biased) - Xed 00:31, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 24) * Yes. +sj  +
 * 25) Making a CIA data dump of a geography of... article into a featured article. Neutralitytalk 00:18, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * 26) * Wow &mdash; If we're looking for a real challenge, this is it.  &mdash; mark &#9998; 00:41, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 27) ** Not that hard. Look what I did with Geography of Côte d'Ivoire Neutralitytalk 03:43, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)


 * 1) Istarted the idea of an international writing contest on meta meta:International writing contest, pleas join -- de:Benutzer:Achim Raschka 149.225.56.90 08:31, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)