Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-61022-20170602041047

As a decade-long contributor and admin over at the Marvel Database, the one problem we are always facing are finding contributors that are devoted to filling the gaps in information. For example, right now most people are fine adding categories and creating blank templates which leave a lot of pages that only the most devoted contributors will fill with information.

I was thinking we could give contributors an incentive to make valued contributions. The concept for "Most Valuable Contributor" competitions would be an event where contributors compete to be the best.

Basically, Fandom would select key wikis and obtain prizes from sponsors to give out to.

The idea would be simple:

- The admins of the chosen wikis would review "blank" pages (pages with templates and not a whole lot else) and determine what are the most important areas that need information filled.

- A global post would be made to all users inviting people to sign up for the competition. The admins would outline the criteria (words per article, references, categories, images, SOE, fair use tags, summaries etc.) and ask people to sign up.

- Give a week for people to sign up for the competition. After a week or x-amount of users have signed up, close the sign-up. Only those who agreed to sign up would be entered into the competition.

- For the set period of time (a month? two? I guess whatever seems practical) those competitors would spend that period of time trying to fill as many gaps as possible.

- At the end of the month, the contributors would have their work reviewed by the admins of the Wiki. A score would be tabulated based on their scoring criteria. The winner with the highest score is identified to Fandom and the prize is mailed out to that user.

What do you think? 