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Hi everyone, this is a proposal to promote wiki culture among the student community of Bangladesh and recruit new Wikipedians to work for Wikiproject Bangladesh.
The idea is - there will be a competition of improving Bangladesh related articles among all HSC+ students of Bangladesh. Interested participants will first submit their names and educational institution details by email to a "Competition committee". The committee will assign them articles to work on (each competitor a different article randomly choosen from Category:Bangladesh articles needing attention). They will be assigned 3 months to raise the assigned articles to GA status. After 3 months the successful performers will be required to submit proof of their actual identity and educational details. Then the second round will commence when they will be assigned different Top/High important B-class articles and they will be asked to improve those articles to FA status.
After these two rounds are complete, a third round may be arranged among the top 5 performers, in which, they work on their articles of choice (Article must be Bangladesh related) on next 3 months.
The selection committee will have the sole discretion in short-listing and finally selecting the winner.
After the completion the winner will be given a reasonable award (I propose monetary value of BDT 5,000/-) and another 4 good candidates would be given consolation prize (worth Tk. 1,000/- each). Prizes may be given in cash or "books".
The promotional expenditure of this project should be minimum, as the announcement of the competition should be via email and website only.
Here's the good part: if active wikipedians in Bangladesh are willing to organize the whole event (which I don't think will be a huge undertaking anyway), I can promise to personally sponsor the prizes (to the amount I mentioned). Of course, if there are other willing donors, we can increase the number / value of prizes.
I know giving out cash for writing on Wikipedia is usually discouraged. I'm not sure whether this would violate any policy on Wikipedia or not, but I strongly believe if we can do this, that will immensely help Wikiproject Bangladesh.
Please share your views on this. Arman ( Talk) 01:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
A very nice idea. Involving the student community might actually provide the needed boost Bangladesh articles need here. But, we still probably need to sort a few kinks in the plan:
I would strongly recommend that this wonderful idea goes through either a discussion with a bureaucrat (may be Nichalp, he comes from South Asia) or a presentation to the foundation. Let's not kill off this fantastic proposal for a few odd kinks. Aditya( talk • contribs) 07:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Something related: Wikipedia:The_Core_Contest. -- Ragib ( talk) 05:36, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
I think its a good idea to promote Wikipedia and articles in Bangladesh but I have some concerns and thoughts:
Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
That should be easy. Let's see:
A couple of additional ideas:
Other minor problems can be solved as the process moves forward. May be I can be of some help as well. Good luck. Aditya( talk • contribs) 11:06, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Great! Looks like the idea is being appreciated by everyone. So, I guess, it's a "Go"!
However, before we jump start we still need to discuss about it a lot more. To do so, I'm creating a new page at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Competition. This is not the final page for the competition, it will be the initial discussion page. I'll organize the page with sub-sections, so that all comments on a specific point can be at the same location. I'll gradually try to summarize points from this page into the new page. Please feel free to comment there. Arman ( Talk) 03:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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Deshipedian Main page |
Deshipedian Noticeboard |
Deshipedian Help desk |
Deshipedian Organizers' discussion | Bangladesh Outreach |
The outreach department of the Bangladesh WikiProject is a centralized workgroup for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. Ideas are always welcome!
Hi everyone, this is a proposal to promote wiki culture among the student community of Bangladesh and recruit new Wikipedians to work for Wikiproject Bangladesh.
The idea is - there will be a competition of improving Bangladesh related articles among all HSC+ students of Bangladesh. Interested participants will first submit their names and educational institution details by email to a "Competition committee". The committee will assign them articles to work on (each competitor a different article randomly choosen from Category:Bangladesh articles needing attention). They will be assigned 3 months to raise the assigned articles to GA status. After 3 months the successful performers will be required to submit proof of their actual identity and educational details. Then the second round will commence when they will be assigned different Top/High important B-class articles and they will be asked to improve those articles to FA status.
After these two rounds are complete, a third round may be arranged among the top 5 performers, in which, they work on their articles of choice (Article must be Bangladesh related) on next 3 months.
The selection committee will have the sole discretion in short-listing and finally selecting the winner.
After the completion the winner will be given a reasonable award (I propose monetary value of BDT 5,000/-) and another 4 good candidates would be given consolation prize (worth Tk. 1,000/- each). Prizes may be given in cash or "books".
The promotional expenditure of this project should be minimum, as the announcement of the competition should be via email and website only.
Here's the good part: if active wikipedians in Bangladesh are willing to organize the whole event (which I don't think will be a huge undertaking anyway), I can promise to personally sponsor the prizes (to the amount I mentioned). Of course, if there are other willing donors, we can increase the number / value of prizes.
I know giving out cash for writing on Wikipedia is usually discouraged. I'm not sure whether this would violate any policy on Wikipedia or not, but I strongly believe if we can do this, that will immensely help Wikiproject Bangladesh.
Please share your views on this. Arman ( Talk) 01:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
A very nice idea. Involving the student community might actually provide the needed boost Bangladesh articles need here. But, we still probably need to sort a few kinks in the plan:
I would strongly recommend that this wonderful idea goes through either a discussion with a bureaucrat (may be Nichalp, he comes from South Asia) or a presentation to the foundation. Let's not kill off this fantastic proposal for a few odd kinks. Aditya( talk • contribs) 07:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Something related: Wikipedia:The_Core_Contest. -- Ragib ( talk) 05:36, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
I think its a good idea to promote Wikipedia and articles in Bangladesh but I have some concerns and thoughts:
Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
That should be easy. Let's see:
A couple of additional ideas:
Other minor problems can be solved as the process moves forward. May be I can be of some help as well. Good luck. Aditya( talk • contribs) 11:06, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Great! Looks like the idea is being appreciated by everyone. So, I guess, it's a "Go"!
However, before we jump start we still need to discuss about it a lot more. To do so, I'm creating a new page at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Competition. This is not the final page for the competition, it will be the initial discussion page. I'll organize the page with sub-sections, so that all comments on a specific point can be at the same location. I'll gradually try to summarize points from this page into the new page. Please feel free to comment there. Arman ( Talk) 03:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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