Forum:Contributor contest/promotion

I am an admin on PathfinderWiki, and we're looking to get more members of our fanbase involved in the project by offering some incentives for people to contribute to the wiki. Paizo Publishing, who publishes the Pathfinder source material, has offered to provide some prizes, most likely gift certificates for free product, but have said that we at the wiki need to handle the administration and judging of the contest itself.

So my question is, how do people suggest we conduct such an incentive? I'm worried that edit count alone will result in floods of either vandalism or useless edits like adding carriage returns and spaces to articles. We've decided it would be best to have tiered prizes, so that people don't just give up if they see a clear frontrunner. Is counting the most non-stub new articles a sufficient metric? Does that leave out expanding existing stubs or leave room for people to create only orphaned pages? What about people who are really good at copy editing?

As you can see, there are a lot of things to discuss, so anyone who has experience with this sort of thing or insight into how to run this smoothly, I'd love to hear your perspective. Thanks! —yoda8myhead 04:45, January 29, 2010 (UTC)