New Competition : Wiki Writers Options

[Andrew Cockburn]

Wiki Writers Competition

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It gives me great pleasure to announce the latest GMC competition - a Wiki Writers Competition! This competition will run until the end of June, so we have a larger budget and some fabulous prizes!

First place will receive a:

Pandora PX5D
Awesome Effects and a recording capability

Second place will receive a:

Pandora PX4D
Just the same as Muris uses!

Third place will receive a:

Boss DD3 Digital Delay Pedal
Boost your solo sound or sound like U2!

The aim of the competition is to get as many high quality articles accepted into the Wiki as possible, so we will be emphasising quality AND quantity!

The rules and operation are as follows:

1. Each entrant can submit as many articles as he or she wants
2. When your article is complete, start a thread on the Wiki Writers board with a title like "WikiWriters Entry : <Name of your article>". Include a link to the article in the text of the first post
3. These threads can be used by others to discuss your article (thats always the fun part!)
4. Articles entered on the WikiWriters board will be judged by the seniors, and given a grade between 1 and 5
5. An article that scores less than 3 won't be considered a valid entry and won't contribute towards your competition score
6. Since we are after quality as well as quantity, each article may by request be regraded one time. If you have worked to improve your article, you may request a regrade by starting a new thread for the article and marking it "WikiWriters Regrade : <name of your article> and again include a link inthe text of the first post. If your grade is improved, the additional points will be added to your overall competition score.
7. You may elect to improve existing Wiki articles, in which case a couple of additional points apply:
   1. Make sure you call out the fact that you are improving an existing article make your thread read WikiWriters Improvement: <Name of your article>
   2. The mark you will get will be treated as a regrade - e.g. you will only get points for the improvement not the whole article. We can use Wiki facilities to see excatly what you have changed and how much you have added so that part is all above board and easy to see.
8. We will have a leaderboard in the Wiki so people can keep track of how their competition is doing, and make further efforts to improve their own score
9. Articles that duplicate entries already in the Wiki will be disqualified
10. Entries can be on any guitar related subject - Gear, Players, Bands, Theory, GMC etc!
11. Absolutely no copyright violations or plaguarism will be tolerated - any evidence of this and the perpetrator will be disqualified (we have ways to check)
12. The Judges Decision is Final
13. No Cash or alternative prizes will be offered
14. In the event of a tie, a tiebreaker activity will be emplyed to break the deadlock.

Here are a couple of examples:

This article is good enough to get a 5. A lot of info here, good structure, uese the official article layout.

This article would rate a 1. As you can see, there is no picture, bad organisation, no headings and very few facts, no discography, etc, etc, etc.

An important part of gaining a high score is the use of official article templates - there is some information on how to use them here. Articles submitted that don't use the template will be graded 2 or below!

Don't forget that 5 quality articles qualify you for a WikiWriters badge!

So lets start writing Wiki articles, and may the best Wiki:er win!

Addendum:

In order to reward exceptional articles, 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.

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