Activities/Proposals/Article writing competitions

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Article writing competitions

Outline

Incentivise the writing of important articles on Wikipedia by running a competition, with the winners getting some sort of prize. Examples of appropriate collections would be wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vital articles, meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have, wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2, wikipedia:Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics, ... Running a competition over the summer, when people generally have more time, would be good.

Benefits

These are the "most important" articles for an encyclopaedia, so Wikipedia should have good articles on them. A competition is a good way to encourage the writing of these articles.

Financial requirements

Prizes would be required, of nominal values. These could either be supplied by the chapter, or by external donors.

Volunteering

Needs organizing and advertising, and some judges to decide who's won. Interested people in doing this:

Discussion