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The Wikimania Awards are a free content writing and media contest that takes place at Wikimania. The contest is for the best video, audio, image, and textual content created for use on Wikimedia projects over the past year. Any content that was created after August 8, 2005 is eligible for entry in the contest. A special category is set aside for content created on the way to, or at, Wikimania 2006. Submitted content must be free content, and in use, or usable, on at least one content page on a Wikimedia project.

A Wikimania film screening Friday night will also showcase some longer free-content video shorts, some of which have been turned into full documentaries.

Rules

Submissions can be entered for one category only.

Submissions must be your own work

Submissions should be suitable for use on one or more Wikimedia projects (not Commons alone)

Submissions must be licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain, the GFDL, or the Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.0 license, or multi-licensed including one of these licenses.

Submissions must be fully copyright compliant (e.g., there should be no copyright concerns about the subject of the media)

Entries should be uploaded to commons and listed at the gallery pages below

The closing date for entries for categories 1 to 6 is 3 August 2006. Entries for all sections of category 7 must be complete by August 5 2006.

File types: Audio should be submitted as .ogg files Photos should be submitted as .jpg files Video should be submitted as Ogg/Theora (w:User:Gmaxwell will perform conversions from other formats). Writing can be submitted in any open format

Photos should be suitable for printing at 20 X 30cm. Audio and video should be no more than 40 MB in size after compression

Submissions may be digitally manipulated to improve any aspect, but should remain a true and accurate representation of the subject.

Consideration will be given to the choice of subject, with unusual or difficult to obtain subjects being given extra credit, but the quality of the submission will be the primary consideration.

Content nominations

Please nominate the best Wikimedian created media or text you have encountered on a Wikimedia project for the free content contest (if created within the last year). To nominate a work, please link to it below and note the primary authors/creators (and let them know their work has been nominated :).

If you are interested in judging the contest, or have a prize to offer, please add your name further down the page. For more information, contact wikimania-info@wikimedia.org .

Text submissions

Judging criteria: Ideal submissions will be

– Entirely or mostly written / transcribed / released under a free license in the past year – Well written and educational, or good exemplars of a specific topic – Well sourced and illustrated – Available in multiple languages





Current events and Pop Culture

see News below

History & Biography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Miami%2C_Florida Self-Nom, English FA written this year, survived the main page as well. Jaranda 23:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius Self-Nomination. The Roman Emperor Claudius. Completely rewritten in November 2005, made a Featured Article in December 2005, featured on the main English page January 24, 2006. Selected for the version 0.5 release of Wikipedia and included in the 2006 Wikipedia CD selection. LaurenCole 23:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%82%AC2_commemorative_coins English FA written over the course of the past half year, written about a subject on which little information in English is available (likely due to the fact that Ireland is the only English-speaking country which has the euro). Self-nomination. — Nightstallion (?) 06:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

06:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_states_by_accession Comprehensive English FL. Self-nomination. (I'm not sure whether submitting more than one work is allowed; if not, consider the euro coins article my only entry.) — Nightstallion (?) 06:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

06:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tatum Self-nom GA there Jaranda 02:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena Self nom article F, completely rewritten, ditto Nightstallion, if more than one work is not allowed, make this my main choice Jaranda 02:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah Self nom article - comprehensively re-written in April; passed FAC in April-May, appeared on mainpage on June 7, 2006. Rama's Arrow 16:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

ja:ボツワナの歴史 (In English, the article which hanles the same theme is en:History of Botswana.) - self nomination. The first version of this article is edited on 2006-03-31 14:55 (UTC) Hareno 09:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)





Humanities, Social science, Art & Culture

Natural Science & Technology

News (summary & original reporting), Current events

w:en:Battlefield Baseball ([1]). Not featured or anything... but I think its pretty good. Can't hurt, and there are no other articles on obscure films (OMG CRUFT) here, so I'll give it a shot. --68.64.65.89 (SB) 04:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-party_talks Self-nomination. This is a mix of recent and current news about an on-going event that has still not been resolved. It is largely written by myself and is informative, detailed, to-the-point, concise and up-to-date. Jsw663 08:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Textbook modules

Quote and dictionary selections

http://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maarten_Ducrot - Nice selection of quotes of Maarten Ducrot, sportsjournalist. Entirely written since Wikimania Frankfurt. Effeietsanders 23:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Sumo - Pretty large selection of sumo terms: Quite difficult to find these terms too. --Wiktionary:User:SemperBlotto









Media submissions

Judging criteria: Ideal submissions will be

– Entirely or mostly created / developed / remixed / released under a free license in the past year – Educational, or good exemplars of a specific topic; in use on a Wikimedia project other than Wikimedia Commons – Aesthetically pleasing

All the still image entries can be viewed in the Second Life virtual world, at this SLURL location.





Unsorted submissions

Please sort the following submissions into one of the categories below.

Category: Maps and Diagrams This includes any diagram or map that is interesting, informative, or aesthetically pleasing.



For just these nominations, see Maps and Diagrams Category: Photography - Nature A specific insect, plant, animal etc. or a more general image of natural phenomena. Subjects must be accurately identified in order to make them fully suitable for the projects (i.e. "insect" is not sufficient, which species is it?).



For nominations see Photography - Nature Category: Photography - People This can be a specific person mentioned on the projects, or a more general illustration of a person (for example doing a particular job or of a particular nationality).



For nominations see Photography - People Category: Photography - Places This includes landmarks from particular places as well as more general images.



For nominations see Photography - Places Category: Photography - Objects A catch-all category. Might include an illustration of a recipe for Wikibooks, a household item for an article on Wikipedia, and so on.



For nominations see Photography - Objects Category: Audio Entries in this category should be recordings of music, speech, sounds of nature, or other audio content. For information on and help with audio formats, see meta and en.wikipedia.



For nominations see Audio Category: Animation Entries in this category should be animated gifs or shorts, or edited video of drawings, puppets, clay, etc.



For nominations see Animation Category: Video Entries in this category should be video clips, edited shorts, or other true-to-life video content. For information on and help with video formats, see meta.



For nominations see Video Category: Wikimania Content created on the way to or at the Wikimania conference - Photography, Audio, Video.

Submissions must be complete by sometime on August 5th.



For nominations see Wikimania (first submissions welcome on August 2nd)

Film screening

Any free content video is suitable for submission to the film screening, regardless of its provenance or use on Wikimedia projects. "Free content" in this context means content available for derivative and commercial use.

Video shorts

Wikimania 2005 montage , by Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter

, by Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter BBS documentary, by Jason Scott Sadofsky

Other media









Judges

Judges

Media

Writing

Other Interested

Fir0002, willing to be a judge, but not for categories with my own photos :-)

Sj

GChriss, willing to be a judge.

DamianFinol, willing to be a judge

Dante Alighieri, willing to be a judge

Gnangarra, willing to be a judge (online only)





Awards offered