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[edit] German writing contests

(The German wiki has a long tradition of writig contests. While our systems are generally similar, they have a jury that creates a ranking of the winners. The clue is that other registered users do promise prizes for the participants. The first placed is the first to choose from these donations (can be anything, material or else, like a DVD or coedit help in the next article), the second next and so on. This way editors do have some non-virtual feedback. Some prizes are offered uder conditio that an article has to be written about a certain topic to get the prize. Naturally we are spread appart all around the globe, making these donations a bit more expensive to deliver, but on the other hand we reach a lot more wealthy donators than a bunch of 100 million German speaking people from Central Europe. Wandalstouring 20:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

So basically it's something closer to, say, Wikipedia:Danny's contest than to a rolling point model, yes? Kirill Lokshin 21:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prizes/Awards?

I was wondering if we would come up with some kind of award for the winner each month. Mabey a variation on the WikiChevrons or another sort of award. Any ideas? Cheif Captain 02:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Aside from the central recognition, you mean? We can always hand out WikiChevrons, I suppose. (I wouldn't be surprised if the longer-term winners would receive the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves, for that matter.) Kirill Lokshin 04:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recognition

You know, it would have been nice if you had credited us... Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 02:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I was assuming nobody really cared about such things (seeing as our developments have been silently "borrowed" by, well, just about everybody); but, if you insist... ;-) Kirill Lokshin 02:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Generally not when lesser projects take stuff. WP:BAY has directly copied most of our pages (their founder is a member), but it's nice when a bigger project pilfers ideas from smaller ones to credit them, I reckon. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 03:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)