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Belarus (classical)

Time zone: UTC+3. Articles should be created between 00:00 21 March, 2022, and 23:59 31 May, 2022.

• Articles should have sources.
• Article should not consist of machine translation.
• Articles about Belarus do not participate in the competition.

Three winners will be assigned for the greatest number of articles:

• created — 2 winners;
• improved with over 500 bytes per article — 1 winner.

English

Timezone: UTC

1. Time: April 15, 2025 0:00 to May 31, 2022 23:59 UTC (included).
2. Topic: Central and Eastern Europe (Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro , Northern Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine, the territories of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan and Don region, the language communities of Erzya, Crimean Tatar and Sorbian and the territories with disputed status Abkhazia, Transnistria, Kosovo, Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia).
   • Subcategory Esperanto: topics related to Esperanto in the region; or general aspects of the language or its community. Articles specifically about manifestations of the Esperanto community (like speakers, organizations, events etc) from outside of the region are not accepted.
3. Wiki criteria: articles meet usual criteria; specifically in Wikipedia it is about notable topics and with reasonable citation of sources.
4. Language level: language style is natural and fluent, does not contain many grammatical, spelling and similar errors.
5. Translations: accepted (including revised machine translations).
6. Lists: not accepted.
7. Points :
   • 1 point for 1 000 bytes.
   • If an article partially fails to meet any of the above criteria, an organizer will award points based on a percentage of an article that meets the criteria (according to its estimate).
   • Contributions for the High Priority Esperanto prizes will be considered qualitatively on a one-by-one basis.
8. Organizers: right to participate; does not right to receive a prize.
9. Prizes:
   • Gift card for service of their own choice. 1st prize in the main category and the Esperanto subcategory have additional Esperanto music subscription. Winners can donate their prize to the organizing affiliation.
   • Additional prizes can be set up in collaboration with external sponsors.
   • The organizers and jury members, max 3, will receive an Esperanto music subscription as a thanks.

Erzya

Timezone: UTC+3

• Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
• Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2022 0:00 and May 31, 2022 23:59.
• Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: meta:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2022/Article Lists. Articles should not be about Erzya.
• The newly created article should be at least 2,500 bytes and a minimum of 200 words.
• The existing article should be extended with at least 150 words, provided that it's initial size was less then 3,000 bytes.
• The participant must add at least 5 lines of text to existing articles.
• Article subjects must have notability, articles should contain sources.
• Articles should not consist of machine translation.
• The UG EZY community decided to purchase souvenir products for user-community purposes.

Greece

Timezone: UTC+3

The contest will be held for the following categories:

• Best new article
• Largest number of new articles created
• Best new entrant (less than 400 edits in the main namespace before the start of the contest)
• Largest volume of material added related to notable women from the region

An award will also be given to one of the participants that has written or expanded at least five (5) articles. The winner will be chosen randomly.

The best new article will be chosen by a jury. Each participant can receive a prize only in one (1) category, with the rest of his/her prizes (if any) going to the second user (or even third, if the 1st and 2nd have already received a prize) so that more users with significant contribution & effort will receive a prize.

Articles submitted to the contest must meet the following requirements:

1. they shall be created between March 21 2022 (00:00 UTC) and May 31 2022 (23:59 UTC)
2. at least 300 words have been added.
3. comply with the rules of Wikipedia, for example, notability, verifiability, and formatting rules.
4. are written in plain language, and not translated by automatic translators.
5. must not violate copyrights.

Articles about Greece do not participate in the competition.

The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

SerboCroatian (SH) Wikipedia

Timezone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2)

• New article translations should be translated in full (exceptions only if exceptionally justifiable).
• New articles and additions to existing articles must be at least 200 words to count.
• The participant must add content to existing articles to the level of one in EN, DE or other big Wikipedia.
• Articles about exclusively SerboCroatian language or former postYugoslav countries don't count.
• The contribution will judged by relative quality (the richness of content and correct grammar) + work efforts (the word count, rich media use and structure), but also choice of a article filling gaps (women, LGBTIQ, ethnic minorities, racial minorities, ability, neuro-diversity, legal status and last but not least class!). This year articles on Human Rights will be especially appreciated.
• Any registered user can participate, but the organizers/judges aren't eligible for prizes.
• Contributions must comply with basic rules of Wikipedia (notability, verifiability, neutrality, copyright).

Awards will be given to contestants with most points earned in quality and gap bridging, also to each contestant that contributes content about each of the participating countries/regions and special lists. Jury might decide not to award quantity of contributions if related user account was used in compromising Universal Code of Conduct on Wikimedia projects.

Russia

Timezone: FET

1. Any user can participate in contest, jury and other organizers are not entitled to prizes.
2. Articles should be created or extended between March 21, 2022 0:00 FET and May 31, 2022 23:59 FET.
3. Articles should be written on a topic related to any country in Central and Eastern Europe listed here: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020/Article Lists, except Russia and Don Region.
4. The newly created article should be minimum of 150 words.
5. The existing article should be extended with at least 120 words, provided that it's initial size was less then 8,000 bytes.
6. Article subjects must have notability, articles should contain sources.
7. Articles should not consist of machine translation.
8. Each article will get from 1 to 3 points.

Prizes will be awarded the first five participants with the highest sum of points.

Kazakhstan

1. Any registered participant can participate in the competition (time of registration is not important).
2. Only articles that meet the following requirements will be included in the contest:
3. The article should be written in the Kazakh language, between March 21 and May 31, 2022.
4. The article title should be taken from the list of articles below (articles with other titles are not included).
5. You must be the author of the article.
6. Article size should be at least 2500 bytes and 200 words.
7. The article is of high importance and the given information should be confirmed by reliable sources.
8. The article should not be a machine translation.
9. If the above requirements are met, 1 or 3 points will be added.