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
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