Several replies here:-
On 20 November 2013 10:37:44, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I like your idea of the e-reader - a Kobo seems a good choice - and
perhaps
preferable to Amazon vouchers. If we scale down from an ereader for the overall winner, smaller prizes for the best of the week sounds like a nice idea. I'm not sure what thiese could be though, assuming that is a
category
which goes ahead.
I've reduced the whole period to a fortnight (partly because I am not going to have time for this closer to Christmas) so that's only two weeks. If we exempt the overall winner from winning the vouchers, that will mean two runner-up prizes of vouchers: one for the first week and one for the second. I'm not sure what value of voucher would be best but, say, £10 each?
Can I go ahead and announce that WMUK will provide a Kobo and two Amazon vouchers? (About £70 worth of prizes in total.)
There's only a few days left now. If we do this again, I will sort this out properly with much more notice.
On 20 November 2013 11:37:32, Craig Franklin <cfranklin at wikimedia.org.au> wrote:
But, I'm still not seeing any strategy for promoting this to the wider community. As it is, as far as I can tell the only entrants will be Wikisource regulars and maybe curious people poached from other WM projects. If there was a strategy for pitching this to the general public as a recruitment drive I could see a link to movement goals which might justify spending money, but I don't see that this is a focus. The excitement of the tenth anniversary shouldn't lead to us spending money without first having a good business plan and justification.
I would like it to draw in new people, and I've tried to find texts that should be easy to proofread over a range of different types and subjects to facilitate that at one end.
The contest will also be a useful learning experience. I don't know about anything similar on Wikisource. The English subdomain 10th anniversary is in 2015 and a Welsh contest might be practical in the near future too.
Of course, people can't take part if they don't know about it. I don't have many ways to promote this outside Wikisource but...
On 20 November 2013 12:51:42, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
As far as drawing people in is concerned, a central notice for Wiki
Loves
Monuments worked well and involved a lot of people who had never
uploaded
photos before. Would that be worth considering here?
Yes: given the "I would never have considered looking on Wikisource" comment which is fairly standard, on other sister projects, it would make sense.
I agree, this would help a lot.
I believe the instigators of this contest are going to try to advertise this as well. I will do what I can.
- Adam