Anybody can participate in this, contestant or editathon participant! It will run again next weekend from Saturday 30th - Sunday 1 May, with a focus on diversity and scope of Wales. The goal is to increase the number of articles for Wales we have on wikipedia!
Wales in Red. So far there has been a strong focus on core content and quality, as that's the primary goal of the contest, getting stale older articles up to decent status. However, so far a low number of points have been given for new article creations, and stubs have been prohibited. This is to change on the weekend of Friday 15th -Sunday 17th April. Over the weekend you will have a chance to create as many new articles and stubs as you like, on anything and everything. Red link removal is the name of the game. There are no rules except that the new articles have to be minimum 0.75 kb (750 char) of readable prose, have some sourced facts, and meet notability/minimum quality requirements. The emphasis is more on missing listed buildings and settlements, but all entries are welcome. Set bonus points don't apply to Wales in Red. You will get 5 points for a stub under 1.5 kb, 10 points for a minimum 1.5kb new article. However, at the end of each day I will award 250 points to whoever produces the most articles on the given day, regardless of length/quality. There is a further bonus of 500 points to the person who can create 50 stubs on anything or 30 1 kb entries on missing listed buildings over the three days. So if you work hard on blue linking articles over the weekend there's a chance to win well over 1000 points on this in addition to the basic scores for each new entry. The emphasis on this is bulk, though the stubs are expected to be reasonably useful, clean starter entries, even at 750 char with some sourced facts. Later in the month I will reopen Stub Obliteration and there may be further points to be obtained from destubbing entries created during this. But this is a power exercise, you have the chance here to earn heavily. It depends on how much effort you can put into the mass creation to get that 250 bonus at the end of each day.
You can create a new article on anything you fancy. They just have to meet notability requirements. The emphasis is on missing listed buildings and settlements, but if they don't interest you you're free to produce anything else, whether it be rivers or biographies from the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
All new entries are expected to be minimum 0.75 kb (750 char) of readable prose, have a couple of sourced facts with no unsourced claims or paragraphs, and meet notability requirements. They are further expected to have properly formatted sources, stub tags if appropriate and be categorized. For an example of what is expected for stubs see St Daniel's Church, Pembroke. That's currently 840 char, and contains a number of sourced, useful facts.
As long as the new entries by the end of the day are no less than 0.75 kb prose, use of semi-automated tools to create entries to fill out is permitted, providing that they're accurate and meet content guidelines. It would be quite possible to work through lists of missing listed buildings for instance and find a way that they can be quickly generated with some basic facts. While eventually we want to rid of all of our stubs, it is also important that new content is created well and accurately, even if on the short side.
Place all of your new stubs/articles in the contestants section below.
Declare the readable prose count you've left it at, see this to measure
Try to add the Wales project and any other relevant tags to the talk page by the end of the day. Though not compulsory, it will help the project later.
A full day will be counted from 0.00 to 23:59 GMT on Friday 15th, 16th and 17th respectively. Articles submitted between those times on a given day will count towards the one day only, after which a bonus 250 points will be given to the winner. Be careful to only enter entries created on a particular day in GMT into the relative Day section in the contestants section.
If you're creating articles on listed buildings or any buildings or places, if you don't add the coordinates remember to add {{coord missing|Wales}} at the bottom of the pages.
A new stub, minimum 750 char of readable prose - 5 points
A new article, miniumum 1.5 kb of readable prose - 10 points
A new article minimum 3kb in length - 25 points
No existing bonus points apply to this even if they're listed on the missing articles page. You won't get 10 for tackling one on the missing list, doing one on a woman, or for any of the bonuses you see in the main rules and scoring page. Only the two editors to date who accepted taking on the central core articles will get double the basic score for every entry. So if you're creating start class articles on women, you'll likely earn more points from doing it generally than as part of this unless you create a lot of entries.
The main focus here is quantity, and aiming for higher scores from your low basic scoring by sheer output. So aim to produce high and monitor each other's progress to grab that 250 point bonus, or 100 point bonus for coming second and 50 point bonus for coming third at the end of the day. After three days this exercise could make a considerable difference to your overall score.
Whoever produces 50 clean starter stubs over the weekend on anything, or 30 minimum 1 kb entries on listed buildings will get a 500 point bonus.
The scores will be totted up on this page for convenience and will be added to the main contest score at the end of each day. Remember though that it isn't the score which matters for winning this daily, it's how many articles you produce. The winner will receive 250 points at the end of each day, the runner-up 100 points, and the third place 50 points. Obviously though if you produce say 10 3kb minimum new articles over the weekend you can still get a healthy 250 points from this through quality creation (25 x 10) even if you don't come close to winning by article count.
Please list your name below and articles. Remember to declare the readable prose count using this so scores can quickly be assessed. After the end of the three days the entries will be copied over to the main entries page.
Gordon Jackson Rees (about 2800 characters) new article=+10 @Penny Richards: Add a little more for 3000 and it's worth 25 points rather than 10 :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC) Done!--PLRY =25 points.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ellis Pierce (about 1100 characters) stub=+5 OK. Y
the last three were slightly after midnight GMT but as you won this round and got the 500 bonus with at #13 anyway I'll include them!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
