Wikimedia CEE Spring 2025/Rules

Rules on international level

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

Rules on local level

Austria

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

First three winners are awarded prizes from the Wikipedia Store, organisers can't win prizes.
Writing or improving an article with at least 2 kB is worth 1 point.
Writing or improving an article with at least 6 kB is worth 5 points (in order to encourage well written articles over smaller ones).
Articles about topics from Austria/Germany/Switzerland/South Tyrol/Liechtenstein don't count.
The articles have to be about notable topics and use sources.
The articles need to be added to the point-scoring table 4 days after the contest and no later.
The articles should consist of mostly text and not data presentation like tables or templates.

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:

they shall be created between March 21 2025 (00:00 UTC) and May 31 2025 (23:59 UTC)
at least 300 words have been added.
comply with the rules of Wikipedia, for example, notability, verifiability, and formatting rules.
are written in plain language, and not translated by automatic translators.
must not violate copyrights.

Articles about Greece do not participate in the competition.

The organizers and the jury cannot receive prizes/awards.

Romania & Moldova

Timezone: UTC+2 / UTC+3

I. Eligibility and duration
1. Any user registered at Wikipedia can participate. Organizers can participate, but cannot get prizes.
2. Articles should be written between 00:01 March 21 and 23:59 May 31, 2025. Winners' list will be published no later than July 31, 2025. Users must register here.

II. Articles
3. Articles should be written on a topic related to any country or region in Central and Eastern Europe in the contest, except Romania and Moldova.
4. Articles should follow basic standards of Romanian Wikipedia:

to be written in Romanian; automated translations are disqualified;
to describe a notable topic;
to contain verifiable information;
to follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style;
to not contain copyvio text.

5. New articles with a total of at least 200 words of prose (thus excluding infobox, footer, table of contents, tables, lists, etc.) are accepted, as well as existent articles that were extended at least ten times (in bytes). Words are counted using the XTools! counter of each article, available by navigating to "Istorie" → "autori" (History → authors).

III. Points
6. The points are counted as follows:

Every new article: 5 points + 2 points for each 100 words of prose.
Every existent (as of March 21) article that has been extended ten times in bytes: 2 points for each 100 additional words of prose.
For obvious violation of basic standards of Wikipedia (see rule 4.), all previous points are cancelled.
Proper use of {{Wikimedia CEE Spring 2025}} in an article's talk page: 1 point. Usage of this template is described in its documentation page.

7. Jury may disqualify any participants that display strong violation of fair play – this includes misleading or impeding organizers and fellow participants, mass loading of previously prepared articles at any stage, sockpuppeting, etc.

IV. Prizes
8. A participant can only get one prize, in order of their listing below. For example, winner of the Main prize cannot get any of the subsequent prizes.
9. Prize categories (if a tie occurs, lots will be drawn):

Main prize: who gets most points overall.
Special prize for diversity: who gets most points among users that wrote at least one article (not disqualified by any previous rule) about all the countries and regions participating in the contest by March 21, 2025, except Romania and Moldova.
Special prize for beginners: who gets most points among users with less than 100 contributions to mainspace at the beginning of the contest (March 21, 2025) and at least 5 submitted articles.