Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/WLM Ireland 2016 Writing Contest

As part of the annual Wiki Love Monuments contest, the Wikimedia Community Ireland will host three writing contests to take place through the months of September and October 2016. The aim is to expand a create articles in three categories: Irish Monuments, People and Places of 1916, and articles on Vicipéid.

Rules

edit

The purpose of this contest is to engage more participants in Ireland's Wiki Loves Monuments contest in actually creating and editing articles on Wikipedia. All of the entries must fall under one of three categories: Irish Monuments, People and Places of 1916, and Vicipéid.

  • Articles must be worked on between 1 September and 31 October 2016.
  • Participants must list the articles they want to be considered with their username below.
  • Participants may work alone or in a team.
  • Participants may work on as many articles as they would like.
  • Only editing completed by 11:59 UTC on 31 October 2016 will be considered for scoring.

Prizes

edit

Prizes will be awarded for the following in each category:

  • Best new article
  • Best expanded article
  • Best 'newbie' contributor

Each winner will receive a certificate, a barnstar on their user page, and a book related to the category they won in.

Scoring

edit

Points will be awarded as follows:

New article 3 points
1,000 bytes 1 point
Image added 3 points
Infobox added 3 points

Participants

edit

Add your username and the articles you would like to be judged on below.

Articles:
  1. Roscrea Castle,
  2. St. Cronan's Church, Roscrea (Church of Ireland),
  3. St. Cronan's Church, Roscrea (Roman Catholic),
  4. St. Cronan's Church, Tuamgraney


Articles:
  1. Brigid Foley
  2. Bríd Dixon
  3. Cloyne Round Tower
  4. Innishannon Tower
  5. Skiddy's Almshouse
  6. Huguenot Cemetery, Cork
  7. Shee Alms House
  8. Southwell Gift Houses

Results

edit

The winning articles are:

  1. Brigid Foley
  2. Roscrea Castle
  3. St. Cronan's Church, Tuamgraney
  4. Bríd Dixon
  5. Skiddy's Almshouse

With a special prize awarded to a new editor for the draft article on Patrick Whelan.

Editing Workshop-NUI Galway

edit

We will be holding an editing workshop at NUI Galway on 28 September 2016 from 5-8pm at the James Hardiman Library, Nursing and Midwifery PC Suite. We will show newbies how to edit Wikipedia and help experienced editors with references, images, formatting, ect. All articles editing during the workshop are eligible for the writing contest. All are welcome. If you are already a registered Wikipedia user, please sign in below.

  1. Sameichel (talk) 09:47, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Smirkybec (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Feargaelach (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Sharonlflynn (talk) 17:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. 0026025s (talk) 17:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Kieran Hoare (talk) 17:06, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Frongoch1 (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1916 Wikipedia Writer's Workshop-Dublin

edit

We will be holding a writer's workshop at the Science Gallery in Dublin on 18 October 2016 from 6:30pm-8pm in the Paccard Theatre. We will show newbies how to edit Wikipedia and help experienced editors with references, images, formatting, ect. All articles editing during the workshop are eligible for the writing contest. Please bring a laptop or tablet to work on. If you are already a registered Wikipedia user, please sign in below.

  1. Sameichel (talk) 09:47, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Frongoch1 (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Smirkybec (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Helen Larkin (talk) 14:30, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
edit

Monuments: New articles

edit
Sorted by county:
County Carlow
County Cavan
County Clare
County Cork
County Galway


County Laois
County Leitrim
County Limerick
County Longford
County Louth
County Mayo
County Meath
County Monaghan
County Offaly
County Roscommon
County Sligo
County Tipperary
County Waterford
County Westmeath
County Wexford
County Wicklow

Monuments: Articles to be expanded

edit
Sorted by county:
County Carlow
County Cavan
County Clare
County Cork
County Galway
County Laois
County Leitrim
County Limerick
County Longford
County Louth
County Mayo
County Meath
County Monaghan
County Offaly
County Roscommon
County Sligo
County Tipperary
County Waterford
County Westmeath
County Wexford
County Wicklow

People and Places of 1916

edit

New articles

edit

Articles to be expanded

edit

Vicipéid

edit

New articles

edit

Articles to be expanded

edit

Questions?

edit

If you have any questions please post them on the talk page or email info@wikilovesmonuments.ie