Announcement : Wiki Writers Bonus Grading Options

[Andrew Cockburn]

As some of you may know if you have been following the Wiki competition - a couple of authors have written articles that are clearly better than articles already getting the maximum score. This is behavior we want to encourage!

To try and keep things reasonably fair, we will continue to use the same 1 - 5 grading on all entries, but the perception has shifteed a little. The rules stay the same, but in my mind a 5 is the standard that everyone should be aiming for, less than that will still qualify but for me, 5 represents an article that I am happy to have inthe Wiki, less than that is a work in progress that we should try and improve (outside of the competition of course).

So how to reward those who are meeting and exceeding this level? We will do the following:

All current articles will be re-read, and those of a standard higher than 5 will be regraded as "5+". For now that is the only change, and the score board will remain the same. However, at the end of the competition, all 5+ articles will be awarded an additional unlimited bonus score. This gives us room to recognise extraordinary entries when judged against the rest of the entries.

What does this mean in practice? Well as we originally intended, this isn't just a numbers game now - if you want to write 3 or 4 outstanding entries, with this scoring you could easily win. You could even win with one immense article that is full of depth and information. But, be warned! It isn;t just about lenght, it is also about quality of the information!

As an example, OrganisedConfusion's Pearl Jam article (the first of our 5+ articles) would qualify for probably an extra 3 - 5 points although the final levels will be set by taking into account the overall quality of all entries.

I hope everyone agrees that this is fair, and please note that I will not enter into discussions of the gradings of individual articles!

Regards,

Andrew

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