The Tyop Contest is a contest on Wikipedia, the goal of which is to remove any spelling or grammatical errors on Wikipedia. The 1st annual Tyop Contest ran from February 1st to March 1st, and was a great success, with thousands of typos fixed! The contest was organized by Newyorkadam, who envisions a Wikipedia where typos do not exist. Jeffrd10 is co-judging the contest!
Please see this page for typos to correct and this page for typos not to correct :)
The Tyop Contest will follow the following scoring breakdown:
Note: Fixing the same error 10 times on the same article will get you 10 points, as stated above. However, you will only get one more point added per the next 50 corrections. So, for example, if you were to correct the same typo 60 times on the same page, you would get 11 points (the original 10 plus the added point for correcting 50 other corrections). However, if you correct the same error 59 times, you would get 10 points. This is because the same word may incorrectly be written hundreds of times on a page and a quick find-and-replace could correct all of these errors in seconds.
Please note that if you correct something worth more than one point (for example, "then/than" for three points) ten times you'd get 30 points. However, if you were to correct it 60 times, you'd get 33 points (because you get three added points for the fifty corrections).
You can view the list of entries for the 2014 contest at the Entries page!
Contestant | Total Score | +1 | +2 | +3 | +5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AddWittyNameHere | 49 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Buffbills7701 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Casliber | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris857 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Faizan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
GoingBatty | 88 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jamesmcmahon0 | 257 | 255 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
John of Reading | 299 | 293 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Ramaksoud2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roberticus | 52 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ryan115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Triple M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TheOriginalSoni | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The following entries were not counted as they did not meet the standardized format.
Prizes* will be awarded as follows:
As well as a bonus:
* All prizes will be awarded in the form of an electronic store voucher.
The Tyop Contest is a contest on Wikipedia, the goal of which is to remove any spelling or grammatical errors on Wikipedia. The 1st annual Tyop Contest ran from February 1st to March 1st, and was a great success, with thousands of typos fixed! The contest was organized by Newyorkadam, who envisions a Wikipedia where typos do not exist. Jeffrd10 is co-judging the contest!
Please see this page for typos to correct and this page for typos not to correct :)
The Tyop Contest will follow the following scoring breakdown:
Note: Fixing the same error 10 times on the same article will get you 10 points, as stated above. However, you will only get one more point added per the next 50 corrections. So, for example, if you were to correct the same typo 60 times on the same page, you would get 11 points (the original 10 plus the added point for correcting 50 other corrections). However, if you correct the same error 59 times, you would get 10 points. This is because the same word may incorrectly be written hundreds of times on a page and a quick find-and-replace could correct all of these errors in seconds.
Please note that if you correct something worth more than one point (for example, "then/than" for three points) ten times you'd get 30 points. However, if you were to correct it 60 times, you'd get 33 points (because you get three added points for the fifty corrections).
You can view the list of entries for the 2014 contest at the Entries page!
Contestant | Total Score | +1 | +2 | +3 | +5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AddWittyNameHere | 49 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Buffbills7701 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Casliber | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris857 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Faizan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
GoingBatty | 88 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jamesmcmahon0 | 257 | 255 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
John of Reading | 299 | 293 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Ramaksoud2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Roberticus | 52 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ryan115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Triple M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TheOriginalSoni | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The following entries were not counted as they did not meet the standardized format.
Prizes* will be awarded as follows:
As well as a bonus:
* All prizes will be awarded in the form of an electronic store voucher.