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Misplaced Pages Awards

Name

WikiProject Awards

Scope

The WikiProject Awards is a project dedicated to guiding and enhancing the Misplaced Pages award processes.

Award system overview
It is the custom to reward vigorous Misplaced Pages contributors for their hard work and due diligence by awarding them a fitting barnstar, or other award.

These awards are part of the Kindness Campaign and are meant to promote Civility and WikiLove.

Parentage

WikiProject Awards is part of the Kindness Campaign

Similar WikiProjects

Participants

Coordinator

  • Acting Coordinator - Evrik
Position still open. Discuss here.

General

Graphics

Please state if you are willing to assist with graphics design.

Braintrust

People that have made significant contributions in the past.

Structure

Being discussed here Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Awards/major_overhaul

Policy and criteria

New awards

You may talk about your idea for a new awards on the Misplaced Pages:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals subpage.

We'll be happy to review your idea and help out where we can.

Goals

  1. List all awards and related sub pages in the awards space
  2. Discuss and settle upon ways of enhancing the awards process.
  3. Discuss already created awards and determine their usability, readability, and worth.
  4. Discuss, create, and harmonise awards with their associated templates.

Projects

  1. Help critique new image proposals.
  2. Develop better guidelines for WikiProject Awards.

Awards

Barnstars

  • Barnstars It is the custom to reward Misplaced Pages contributors for hard work and due diligence by awarding them barnstars. To give the award to someone, just place the image on their talk page, and say why you've given it. Don't hesitate: be bold!

Wikiproject awards

  • A Wikiproject award is awarded for work on a wikiproject, or work of substantial interest to those members of that wikiproject

Other Related Awards

  • Other Related Awards, In addition to barnstars, there are several other awards as well. While barnstars are generally reserved for a long-standing pattern of excellence, the following awards are more often given to honor specific actions or events.

Order of the Day

The order of the day award
The order of the day award

The Order of the Day - usually awarded annually to a Wikimedia developer or technical person for exceptional service to the community. Often, but not always, awarded for a specific achievement, it was most recently awarded to Brion Vibber for numerous achievements over a long period of time.

Personal User awards

"My Award Was Eaten by a Bear" picture

In the Personal User Awards there is a wide range of awards to chose from, from the "Golden Wiki" award, for users who have made outstanding contributions, to the "Son of Jimbo" award, for users with the last name "Wales". So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else, why don't you give him/her a reward to show your gratitude?

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