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Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [cultural-partners] [Chapters] Featured article prize from the British Museum in any language
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mcock@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Glad to see WM-SV is interested in getting involved :-)
The deadline is the 5 prizes. After the 5 prizes have been awarded then the BM will assess whether it was a valuable exercise from their perspective and we will go from there. So, the start of the contest is "now" and the deadline is "as soon as the 5 prizes are claimed". Yes you can announce it publicly and I encourage you to place this on your respective Village Pumps. There is no documentation page on-wiki because it's quite simple: be in the first 5 to write a featured article about a BM object = claim a prize. (only 1 prize per person and only 1 prize per article.)
Determining the "winner" can sometimes be difficult if there are multiple people collaborating on an article but generally speaking it is clear who is the driving-force behind the creation of a Featured Article nomination. Two or more people can claim a prize together but they will have to share. It is here that having a Chapter to monitor the progress of a Featured Article will be helpful as the chapter can give some kind of letter of support to a person claiming the prize if they want to. To claim a prize, simply write to me and I'll work it out the logistics with the winner privately.
There are deliberately few rules or qualification criteria - this is supposed to be fun and open not a lengthy or bureaucratic process. If the subject of the article is an object in the British Museum collection then the article will definitely qualify for the prize, as will things that are "highly related" like former heads of departments. If in doubt, ask me. The qualification for the prize is whatever the local language considers to be featured article quality - i.e. worthy of display on the main page. Smaller language editions may have lower quality requirements but equally they have fewer editors, so it's fair in the end.
-Liam