Oh, Liam, you are right :)
We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.))
For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3]
It is sweet. I can vouch for that :)
[1] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%... [2] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%... [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu
Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine
2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is designed to be "about things going right" goes to Trilliam. Congratulations on being the official "party pooper" of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake tomorrow.
To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A ntanana: I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give out "barnstars", the give out "cans of condensed milk"! Why? Because they're sweet :-)
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%...
And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the "best newbie" each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've heard of!
-Liam / Wittylama.
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