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The International writing contest is a simultaneous contest held on many language Wikipedias. The English contest was shorter than the others, running for only a week at the end of the month, but the basic rules are the same. Please see the meta page about the contests for the combined results in all languages.

Rules

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The nomination phase is now closed! Judging will be based on the last version of the article from March.
  1. Articles must nominated before the end of March 31 (PST).
  2. Any article can be nominated if it has been newly written in March, or if it had fewer than 2000 characters on the revision before the start of the month.
  3. Self nominations and more than one nomination from the same author are allowed. Teams of authors can also nominate their projects; collaboration is encouraged!
  4. All themes are allowed. There are no restrictions about the topic of the article. But no copyvios, please.
  5. Contest observers: please feel free to comment on the articles below.
  6. The judges will decide on a list of top articles. A final list will be released on Monday, April 18.

Judges

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+sj +, Dysprosia, Jmabel, sannse

Judging

Winning articles

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The top six articles have been announced. They are:

  1. Apollo 8
  2. Reformation in Switzerland
  3. Spring Heeled Jack
  4. Kreutz Sungrazers
  5. Oakland Cemetery
  6. Automatic number plate recognition

Honorable mention:

  • Diamond (excellent work; didn't quite meet the qualifications)

Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest!

Nominated entries

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Nominated articles are listed below. Link to the title, and list date significant work was started and primary authors (if appropriate). Note: relevant dates/times are PST.

Discussion of a Supreme Court case.

My my... I'm quite flattered by this nomination since this article was just something I viewed as of local interest and a nice thing to write in my spare time one week. I just wanted to comment on the obvious lack of images in my article. I realize that this contest is more about the prose than the media content, but I'm the first to recognize the value of some well-placed photos. I've talked to a local photographer Wikipedian who thereafter took several photos at Oakland. He then dropped off Wikipedia for a couple of weeks but seems to be back now, so I'm just waiting for him to ready the results. The related dialogue can be found on User_talk:Autiger -- uberpenguin 00:46, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
Just got in contact with Autiger again and am working on the images now -- uberpenguin 05:07, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)

Article too long as of March 1.

  • Initial version: lost through history moves, only salvaged eligible version March 31
  • Main contributors: many.

No significant change this month

under 2000 chars as of March 1; now well developed.

created March 23.

Lots of tabular/template data; right around 2000 chars as of March 1; totally changed since then.

1925 characters before March 7, 2005

significant rewrite (to say the least) on March 20 by Dozenist

Was a one-sentence stub until completely rewritten on March 27. (self nomination)

  • Initial version: March 14; last eligible version: March 28
  • Main contributors: RickK 08:24, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

New article (27th/28th) with newly created images. Self nomination. violet/riga (t) 18:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Interesting article, well written. (self-nomination - you work out who I am) 203.35.154.254 23:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

sadly disqualified. <explodes>

Was large before, but was totally rewritten over the last month beginning March 3 [1]. I don't believe 2000 characters remain from that version of the article we started with. Partial self-nom; significant contributions also from Jasper and Hadal. - Bantman 00:26, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC) (<-- still Mar 31 PST)