This page is for discussion and organization of an awards system for The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada.
This is the third phase in my approach to organize and promote the challenge by: cleaning up the layout of the pages for easier use, promoting the challenge through targeted notices to Canadian-content creators, and giving out awards to recognize contributors and draw more attention the challenge. There's nothing new or innovative here, I've used established systems and adapted what I've seen elsewhere.
I picked November as the target month to give out awards as it marks The Challenge's anniversary, and I didn't want to set it back to December which is a busy month for many editors. I also thought it'd be nice to keep it seasonal for the Maple Leaf Awards. Although some projects have monthly award competitions (eg: GOCE, AFC), I felt it would be too much work to do this every month and that annual (or semi-annual) awards made more sense.
I chose The Maple Leaf Awards as they were already established with the WikiProject and I felt the geometric scale fit the challenge. Reds can be given to casual contributors, who might be inspired to try for the silver awards given to regulars, who in turn will know that if they stick with challenge they'll be recognized with a gold award. It can take years to earn a gold award, which nicely fit the timeframe of the challenge.
Given that contributions to the list are not equally substantial, ranging from updates and reference repair to full featured articles, recognitions shouldn't be given solely by number of list entries, yet it'd be too much work to check every article. I made a system to try to assess the overall contributions and give fair recognition. I felt that a random check of three articles per contributor was sufficient to demonstrate quality. (Additional checks may have been made to help decide when a contributor was close to an award threshold.) – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
I would greatly appreciate if someone could check over the awards page as a whole and let me know if it's reasonable or if you spot anything that you think could be changed, clarified or otherwise improved.
For article checks, I have a few areas of particular concern for which I would appreciate a second opinion:
I would greatly appreciate if someone could check the articles that I submitted to the Challenge. (One already went through AfC.)
With the new contributors who started adding to the list in October, there will be an additional 60+ articles to be checked. If one or two editors could check some of those, the work would go a lot faster. Any volunteers?
I expect to update the table's contribution numbers and add random articles to check in mid-October and again in early November. – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
The last articles from October have been added. I wouldn't mind a second opinion on awards before giving them out (soon!). Reidgreg ( talk) 15:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I've re-done a few of the barnstars as vectors (with the generous help of User:Drewmutt). I'm willing to do some tweaking if desired. Jon Kolbert ( talk) 01:31, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
|type=red1
for original, |type=red2
for new). –
Reidgreg (
talk) 16:05, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
@ OhanaUnited: Thanks for listing another article to review. The articles to check on the tables were chosen randomly, in an attempt to get a statistical sample. However, I understand this method might not detect an editor's best work. If an editor submitted 9 stubs and 1 B-class article creation, there's a relatively small chance that a random sample of 3 would include the B-class. I have tried to keep an eye out for bolded articles (i.e.: GA and FA class), but otherwise I don't see how I'd have time to be more comprehensive. I don't suppose you know of any tools that can take a list of articles and return their class, possibly along with some editing history stats? – Reidgreg ( talk) 13:18, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Awards for the second year have been distributed except for mine (Reidgreg). For anyone who would like to give me an award, so that you don't have to read through that whole page, I'm leaving some instructions here to make it easier:
Reidgreg
and there are three random articles you can check to make sure I did the work. If you want, pick other articles of mine from the
master achievement list within 1346–2275. Most of them have already been checked by WIR or DYK. One easy way to check edits is with xTools page history (
1,
2,
3) and they should be adequately referenced.{{subst:Can10k award|type=bronze2|reason=writing 54 new articles and a major expansion}}
{{subst:Can10k award|type=silver2|reason=writing 54 new articles and a major expansion}}
Much thanks in advance! – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:24, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on the Maple Leaf Award talk page about synchronizing this award and the Maple Leaf Award. Feel free to chime in here: Template talk:The Maple Leaf Award#New ribbons, and updating. - Aknell4 ( talk · contribs) 19:58, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Reidgreg, shouldn't GAs be a requirement for some of the higher reward levels? Volcano guy 17:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
a small kudos for a useful series of edits [...] or for one particularly clever edit that deserves mention, Silver is for
a major initiative, such as writing a featured article about Canada or standardising a series about one Canada-related topicand Gold is for
months or years of hard work into all aspects of Canada-related articles. I added the Bronze level at B-class, feeling that B-class was a better middle ground than GA. I felt that was a good system as almost anyone could get a Red "participation" award while the higher levels were something to really work toward. (2) Where it says
The minimum requirement would be to write a B-class article.perhaps it should be added "or equivalent contributions". e.g: expansions to five articles which would be equivalent quality content to creating a new B-class article from scratch. – Reidgreg ( talk) 05:33, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
This page is for discussion and organization of an awards system for The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada.
This is the third phase in my approach to organize and promote the challenge by: cleaning up the layout of the pages for easier use, promoting the challenge through targeted notices to Canadian-content creators, and giving out awards to recognize contributors and draw more attention the challenge. There's nothing new or innovative here, I've used established systems and adapted what I've seen elsewhere.
I picked November as the target month to give out awards as it marks The Challenge's anniversary, and I didn't want to set it back to December which is a busy month for many editors. I also thought it'd be nice to keep it seasonal for the Maple Leaf Awards. Although some projects have monthly award competitions (eg: GOCE, AFC), I felt it would be too much work to do this every month and that annual (or semi-annual) awards made more sense.
I chose The Maple Leaf Awards as they were already established with the WikiProject and I felt the geometric scale fit the challenge. Reds can be given to casual contributors, who might be inspired to try for the silver awards given to regulars, who in turn will know that if they stick with challenge they'll be recognized with a gold award. It can take years to earn a gold award, which nicely fit the timeframe of the challenge.
Given that contributions to the list are not equally substantial, ranging from updates and reference repair to full featured articles, recognitions shouldn't be given solely by number of list entries, yet it'd be too much work to check every article. I made a system to try to assess the overall contributions and give fair recognition. I felt that a random check of three articles per contributor was sufficient to demonstrate quality. (Additional checks may have been made to help decide when a contributor was close to an award threshold.) – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
I would greatly appreciate if someone could check over the awards page as a whole and let me know if it's reasonable or if you spot anything that you think could be changed, clarified or otherwise improved.
For article checks, I have a few areas of particular concern for which I would appreciate a second opinion:
I would greatly appreciate if someone could check the articles that I submitted to the Challenge. (One already went through AfC.)
With the new contributors who started adding to the list in October, there will be an additional 60+ articles to be checked. If one or two editors could check some of those, the work would go a lot faster. Any volunteers?
I expect to update the table's contribution numbers and add random articles to check in mid-October and again in early November. – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
The last articles from October have been added. I wouldn't mind a second opinion on awards before giving them out (soon!). Reidgreg ( talk) 15:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I've re-done a few of the barnstars as vectors (with the generous help of User:Drewmutt). I'm willing to do some tweaking if desired. Jon Kolbert ( talk) 01:31, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
|type=red1
for original, |type=red2
for new). –
Reidgreg (
talk) 16:05, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
@ OhanaUnited: Thanks for listing another article to review. The articles to check on the tables were chosen randomly, in an attempt to get a statistical sample. However, I understand this method might not detect an editor's best work. If an editor submitted 9 stubs and 1 B-class article creation, there's a relatively small chance that a random sample of 3 would include the B-class. I have tried to keep an eye out for bolded articles (i.e.: GA and FA class), but otherwise I don't see how I'd have time to be more comprehensive. I don't suppose you know of any tools that can take a list of articles and return their class, possibly along with some editing history stats? – Reidgreg ( talk) 13:18, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Awards for the second year have been distributed except for mine (Reidgreg). For anyone who would like to give me an award, so that you don't have to read through that whole page, I'm leaving some instructions here to make it easier:
Reidgreg
and there are three random articles you can check to make sure I did the work. If you want, pick other articles of mine from the
master achievement list within 1346–2275. Most of them have already been checked by WIR or DYK. One easy way to check edits is with xTools page history (
1,
2,
3) and they should be adequately referenced.{{subst:Can10k award|type=bronze2|reason=writing 54 new articles and a major expansion}}
{{subst:Can10k award|type=silver2|reason=writing 54 new articles and a major expansion}}
Much thanks in advance! – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:24, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on the Maple Leaf Award talk page about synchronizing this award and the Maple Leaf Award. Feel free to chime in here: Template talk:The Maple Leaf Award#New ribbons, and updating. - Aknell4 ( talk · contribs) 19:58, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Reidgreg, shouldn't GAs be a requirement for some of the higher reward levels? Volcano guy 17:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
a small kudos for a useful series of edits [...] or for one particularly clever edit that deserves mention, Silver is for
a major initiative, such as writing a featured article about Canada or standardising a series about one Canada-related topicand Gold is for
months or years of hard work into all aspects of Canada-related articles. I added the Bronze level at B-class, feeling that B-class was a better middle ground than GA. I felt that was a good system as almost anyone could get a Red "participation" award while the higher levels were something to really work toward. (2) Where it says
The minimum requirement would be to write a B-class article.perhaps it should be added "or equivalent contributions". e.g: expansions to five articles which would be equivalent quality content to creating a new B-class article from scratch. – Reidgreg ( talk) 05:33, 20 March 2024 (UTC)