No discussion at enWS, though we generally are continually running with something, though not heard anyone mentioned 11th anniversary.
The thought that I did had that may be of interest was a coordinated xwiki transcription of the same work in multiple languages, and if one work is finished at one wiki, we could encourage that work to be completed at other wikis. Regards, Billinghurst On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > are you preparing for the contest? > Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many contests > will be there? > > It would be nice if we could coordinate, or at least use shared scripts and > tools. > Maybe it's better to have an overview of what is needed to run the contest. > > WHAT DO YOU NEED > * a collection of books to be proofread > this is really easy :-) > > * a Wikisource contest page > like this one: > https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Undicesimo_compleanno_di_Wikisource > > * some social media coverage > you can use social media etc., we always try to convince the it.wikipedia to > use their SiteNotice... Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource > sitenotice. > > * some awards > if you have a national Wikimedia chapter, it's good to ask for few bucks. In > Italy, we awarded 3 prizes with just 100 euros (50 euros worth book voucher > as a 1st prize, 30 and 20 for 2nd and 3rd). > > * a way to count validated and proofread pages. > If I'm not mistaken, the code is here: http://pastebin.com/Vk6ikCUg > > WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE > > * time > In Italy, we wanted to go from 24 November at 00.01 till 1st December at > 23.59. > > * scoring > In it.source, we will probably award 3 points for every proofread page and 1 > point for every validated page. > > * awards > Last year, it.source only allowed to validate pages (and not to proofread). > We awarded the first prize to the "user who validated more pages". > The second and the third prizes instead were randomly extracted from the > others: but the more pages a user validated, the more chances he had. > Every validated page (or point) counts as a lottery ticket: the more I have, > the more chances too. > > Cristian Cantoro made also this awesome tool to pick the 3 winners, we > should adapt it for every contest: http://balist.es/wscontest/ > > I believe everything can be easily adapted if you both allow to proofread > and validate at the same time > > I really hope many Wikisources will be present this year :-) > > Aubrey > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
