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Wikipedia has various contests from time to time — for good writing, site and logo designs, or great images or media — to encourage and recognize brilliant, unusual, or specially-targeted contributions.
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.
You can also add to Ideas for new contests if you have a good idea for a contest and you can use this Toolkit model to reduce the time it takes to set up your contest.
Contests
Writing
| Competition | Version | Status | Duration | About | Signup, Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International writing contest | - | Closed | ca March 2005 | A coordinated contest across a number of Wikipedias. | winners | on meta |
| Deshipidian 2008 | - | Closed | ca 2008 | arranged by WikiProject:Bangladesh | |
| WikiCup | 2007 | Closed | ca 2007 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2008 | Closed | ca 2008 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2009 | Closed | ca 2009 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2010 | Closed | ca 2010 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2011 | Closed | ca 2011 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2012 | Closed | ca 2012 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2013 | Closed | ca 2013 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2014 | Closed | ca 2014 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2015 | Closed | ca 2015 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2016 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2016 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2017 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2017 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2018 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2018 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2019 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2019 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2020 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2020 | Results | |
| WikiCup | 2021 | Closed | 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2021 | Results | |
| Bacon WikiCup | 2010 | Closed | Adding bacon-related content | Winners | |
| Bacon WikiCup | 2011 | Closed | Adding bacon-related content | Winners | |
| Bacon WikiCup | 2012 | Closed | Adding bacon-related content | Winners | |
| Awaken the Dragon | 2016 | Closed | 1 Apr - 2 May 2016 | Contest run by WikiProject Wales | |
| The West Country Challenge | 2016 | Closed | 8 Aug - 4 Sep 2016 | A contest/editathon aimed at improving the quality and quantity of coverage of Bristol, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire | |
| The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon | 2020 | Closed | March 2020 | ||
| Wiki Loves Women #15Challenge Writing Contest | 2016 | Closed | 15 Jan 2016 - 31 Jan 2016 | 15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies on notable African women | |
| Wiki Loves Women #16WikiWomen Translation Drive | 2017 | Closed | 20 Feb 2017 - 6 March 2017 | 16 days to make available biographies on 16 notable African women, in at least 16 languages | |
| Wiki Loves Women #17African feminists | 2017 | Closed | 01 Nov 2017 - 30 Nov 2017 | Biographies about African feminists | |
| Military history Contest | Ongoing | Rolling competition each month that awards points for improving articles | |||
| WikiGrail | 2012 | Closed | Competition run by WikiProject Christianity | ||
| Stub Contest | 2004 | Closed | |||
| Stub Contest | 2013 | Closed | |||
| Stub Contest | 2014 | Closed | |||
| Stub Contest | 2015 | Closed | |||
| Stub Contest | 2019 | Closed | 1 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 | Women in Red biographies | |
| Tyop Contest | 2014 | Closed | |||
| Wikimania 2005:Writing contest | 2005 | Closed | |||
| Danny's contest | 2004 | Closed | Oct 2004 | ||
| Danny's contest | 2004 | Closed | Nov 2004 | ||
| The Core Contest | 2007 | Closed | 25 Nov - 9 Dec 2007 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | Mar 2012 | Closed | 10 Mar - 31 Mar 2012 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | Aug 2012 | Closed | Aug 2012 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2013 | Closed | Apr 2013 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2014 | Closed | 10 Feb - 9 Mar 2014 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2015 | Closed | 1 Mar - 14 Apr 2015 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2016 | Closed | 15 May - 30 Jun 2016 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2017 | Closed | May - Jun 2017 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| The Core Contest | 2021 | Closed | 1 Jun - 15 Jul 2021 | Improving Wikipedia's most important articles | |
| 9th ISCB Wikipedia Competition | 9th | Closed | 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020 | Improving content relating to computational biology or bioinformatics | |
| 10th ISCB Wikipedia Competition | 10th | Closed | 1 Sep 2020 - 14 May 2021 | Improving content relating to computational biology or bioinformatics | |
| Women in Asia contest | 2020 | Closed | 1 Oct - 31 Dec 2020 | Women in Red: New biographies of Asian women | |
| 11th ISCB Wikipedia Competition | 11th | Closed | 1 Sep 2021 - 29 Apr 2022 | Improving content relating to computational biology or bioinformatics | |
| Women in Red translation contest | 2022 | Closed | 1 Apr - 30 June 2022 | Women in Red: translation of women's biographies from other versions of Wikipedia | |
| CEE Spring | 2022 | Closed | 15 April - 31 May | Central en Eastern Europe (in broader sense), subtopic: language Esperanto, related to human rights | |
| 12th ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition | 12th | Closed | 1 Sep 2022 - 5 May 2023 | Improving content relating to computational biology or bioinformatics | |
| 26 for '26 | 2026 | Ongoing | 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2026 | Writing or improving one article every two weeks in alphabetical order | |
Media
- Wikimania competition
- An extended media contest, combining a contest for media gathered while at or en route to Wikimania, with a general contest for all content produced this year.
- Wikipedia:US Banknote Contest/2019
- A contest focused on images of United States banknotes
- commons:Category:Photography competitions
- Various photography competitions on Commons, including Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth
Abandoned contests
Other related events
- Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout, for 5 days, starting July 18, 2009, Wikipedians are being asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles.
- Wikipedia:The Great Backlog Drive
Organizing contests
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) advises that although there is no problem in general with third parties running contests on Wikipedia, contest organizers should note the following:
- The contest should not be presented as if it was being organized, sponsored or endorsed by the WMF. This includes using the Wikipedia/WMF logos, which are trademarked and may only be used with the permission of the WMF (see Wikipedia:Copyrights), or implying that the WMF has any involvement beyond hosting the platform being used. (If you are unsure about your contest in this regard, please contact liaison
wikimedia.org.) - Contributors are liable for their own contributions, which include the people running such contests.
- Organizers may wish to obtain advice on contest law before attempting to run a contest, on-wiki or elsewhere.
- Organizers can save time by copying this Wikipedia:Contests/Toolkit/Template model to set up a contest, based on a successful contest which produced nearly 3000 articles in one month.
See also
- m:Learning and Evaluation/Evaluation reports/2013/On-wiki writing contests - an attempt to evaluate the impact of contests
- Wikipedia:Reward board
| Awarded by co-founder Jimmy Wales |
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|---|---|
| Awards by WikiProject | |
| Barnstars and other personal awards | |
| Awards by number of edits | |
| See also | |
