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First day of competition saw lots of success. We had an even 30 articles published today (with quite a few more pending review. 29 of the published articles appear to be contest related). To compare, on day 2 of the first international wikinews writing contest (september 2, 2005) we had our previous record [to my knowledge] of 24 articles. There was some initial confusion about where to record the scores, but they are now being recorded at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings/log and http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings . The top 3 at the end of day one: Rank User pts articles 1 Tempodivalse 31 10 2 Bencherlite 27 5 3 Dendodge 21 3 (full list: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings ) With a ~4 points pending for tempodivalse depending on how a combined effort is divided up. Also congratulations to Blood Red Sandman for opening the competition with the article http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Osama_to_Obama%22:_Bin_Laden_addresses_US_Pr… Good luck to all the competitors p.s. Its not too late to join see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010 for details -- - Bawolff Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 21:00 -0400, bawolff wrote: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings I was disappointed to see a focus on doing the absolute bare minimum to write an article that qualifies for points. However, 30 articles is a good tally for one day. Tris should've shaken people up a little bit - I published his one entry so far, an interview with the PRS. 26 points for a single article. So far the niggles are: put {{review}} at the top; write more than the minimum; find some pictures and correctly put them in articles per the [[WN:SG]] (or be mocked on twitter). -- Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> Wikinewsie.org _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l