Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Rick Riordan task force/RREA18
Due to lack of interest, the 2018 Edit-A-Thon has been cancelled. No prizes will be awarded.
Welcome! You have reached the contest page for the Rick Riordan Task Force's Rocco-Riordan Edit-A-Thon. The event lasts for five weeks beginning June 23, 2018. This page covers the rules, ways to participate, and current entrants. It will be updated with the winner(s) by July 31, 2018.
If you came here to enter the contest, please click here.
Background
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This Edit-A-Thon is hosted by the Rick Riordan Task Force, a small subproject of WikiProject Novels. Our mission is to improve pages related to the works of author Rick Riordan. Riordan has written over 30 bestselling novels, including the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which has also been turned into a film and musical. John Rocco, this event's other focal point, has been the illustrator for most of Rick Riordan's books, noted especially for his cover art and full-page illustrations in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods. Rocco is also a children's book author himself; his most famous works are Blackout and Swim that Rock.
This Edit-A-Thon is the sequel to RRTF's John Rocco Edit-A-Thon of July 2017, which garnered a lot of positive attention for our small task force. In particular, we liked seeing things from an outsider's point of view during the Edit-A-Thon, and decided to host a larger event this year. Our winner last year was member 22mikpau.
Blurb
[edit]Announcing RRTF's second annual Edit-A-Thon! The event is being held June 23 through July 28 in honor of author Rick Riordan's June birthday and author/illustrator John Rocco's July birthday. The focus of the edit-a-thon will be on expanding Wikipedia's coverage of these two authors in an encyclopedic manner.
The Edit-A-Thon is open to all Wikipedia users - you do not need any experience with Riordan, Rocco, or RRTF! Help is needed in a variety of areas, including referencing, copyediting, and new page creation. Prizes will be given for first, second, and third place and will consist of a barnstar and Amazon gift card. To enter, please visit this page. The winners will be announced by July 31.
More information on rules and scoring can also be found on the contest page. Questions about the subject material should be left on the RRTF forums. Questions about the contest should be left on the contest Q&A. Good luck and happy editing! -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 22:34, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Rules
[edit]Eligibility
[edit]All Wikipedia users in good standing are eligible to enter. In order to have your points counted, you must follow the instructions under the Entrants section below. Users do not need to be members of RRTF or WikiProject Novels to enter, and preference will not be given to those who are members.
RRTF reserves the right to disqualify editors who violate Wikipedia policy (via sockpuppetry, harassment, or the like) while working on the Edit-A-Thon. A warning will be given first.
Scope
[edit]Only edits made to pages within the scope of this contest will be counted.
- Any pages covered by the Rick Riordan task force scope. (Listed here)
- Any pages relating to Rick Riordan Presents or the work of John Rocco
- Pages relating to the publishers of Riordan and Rocco's novels
- Biographical pages for other notable members of Riordan and Rocco's publishing team, including other illustrators, co-authors, and narrators.
Yes, we count edits on other language wikis!
Scoring
[edit]Scoring will follow the points system outlined below.
- 5 points - page creation, successful GA nomination, GA or AfC review of relevant page, new file upload, new template
- 4 points - content addition over 300 words (incl. to Drafts), copyedit to a section that is over 500 words long, misc. page improvements that raise the page quality one level
- 3 points - adding one new quality reference, copyedit to section 200-500 words long
- 2 points - vandalism undo, successful recruitment of one new member or supporter for RRTF
- Note: Undoing your own vandalism does not earn points. You may earn points for joining RRTF, but only once.
- 1 point - a small edit such as a grammar correction, small copyedit, formatting fix, assessing a page with the RRTF article template, or filling in empty parameters in an infobox.
Edits made or links posted after the July 28 deadline will not be counted. RRTF also reserves the right not to count edits deemed as vandalism, fancruft, or otherwise nonconstructive.
If you don't think your edit fits into one of these categories or would like to contest its classification, please message the WP:NV coordinator. They are flexible and happy to award points where points are due.
Prizes
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First prize will consist of a barnstar and a $15 Amazon gift card
Second prize will consist of a barnstar and $10 gift card
Third prize will consist of a barnstar and $5 gift card
First place will be awarded to the editor who scores the most points, followed by a second and third place. In the event of a tie, the winners will split the sum of the first- and second- (or second- and third-)place prizes. Winners will be announced July 31. Prizes will be distributed after the July 31 deadline. Gift cards will be sent via email.
Entrants
[edit]To enter, add your username in a new row of the wikitable below. Each edit you wish to have counted must be posted in the corresponding right-hand column with a hyperlink to the "difference between revisions" page. See below for an example. Editors are encouraged to group edits into one "difference" page if many small edits were used to earn points for one large section.
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Q&A
[edit]Resources
[edit]See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Rick Riordan task force#Resources for help with sourcing, fact-checking, etc.
Tasks
[edit]Users and members: feel free to add things to the to do list to help the project focus on areas in need.
Maintenance of task-force
[edit]WP:RRTF is always looking for ways to make its pages more user-friendly -- you can help!
- Participate in the Outreach Program:
- Inform other editors and projects of your membership and what the task-force does.
- Send a
{{subst:RRinvite}}to Wikipedians you think might have an interest in the project. - Make sure every new or returning member gets a
{{subst:RRwel}}on their personal talk page.
- Send a
- Inform other editors and projects of your membership and what the task-force does.
- Article style and oversight:
- Develop a standard format for articles, and create project pages to describe this formatting. (Use WP:NV's pages as a starting point.)
- Develop a quality and importance classification guideline, and appropriate project subpages, similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Assessment.
- Consider creating a Rick Riordan portal. (Keep in mind this previous attempt and these guidelines, and remember to start a discussion.)
Maintenance of articles
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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