Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual Challenge

Welcome to the writing challenge from the Teyler's Museum, a subproject of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Teylers, which in turn is a subproject of Wikipedia:GLAM. The writing challenge ran from 21 January until 3 June 2012. Everybody could help in any language to collaborate on writing articles related to the Teylers Museum and their collection. The Teylers Museum kindly provided some appropriate prizes to be awarded, and you could also earn Wikipedia:Barnstars, which you can view here.

Teylers Museum would like to thank all participants of the Teylers Challenge for their marvellous work!

Prizes have been won by:

• 1)Effeietsanders - (129+? points)
• 2)Davidpar - 102 points
• 3)Jane - 69 points
• 4)Istvánka - 60 points
• 5)CarlesMartin - 33 points
• 6)PieterJanR - 24 points
• 7)KRLS - 16 points
• 8)Tambuyser - 15 points

At the end of the challenge there were over 600 articles on Teylers related subjects in 13 different language wikipedias: en (203), nl (141), ca (103), hu (40), fr (36), es(19), it (19), de (17), ru (6), uk (6), fy (5), pt (4), eo (2). See the table below for a grid of article types per language (with more than 10 articles). The Catalan Wikipedia easily earns the prize for largest percentage of articles written in relation to their start position. The user User:Davidpar created the ca:Museu Teyler article in March and seems to have mobilized an entire army of volunteers. An honorable mention goes to User:Istvánka who managed to create 32 of the 40 articles on the Hungarian Wikipedia.

Strangely, the artists in the Teylers collection seemed to have the most popular following. Though Wikimedia Commons has a large array of images for Teylers' scientific instruments and fossils, the paintings seem to trigger Wikipedians to write the most. For more lessons learned, please see the talk page. Prizes will be awarded by Teylers on June 16th.

Any Wikipedian with a named account (on any wiki) could participate. Two Wikipedians could form a team and participate jointly: this meant you didn't have to be multilingual!

To participate you had to sign up on the Participants page: you had to include a link to your talk page (it could have been on any Wikipedia, but the link needed to work from the Participants page!)

The challenge was (loosely!) based on a point system, with the goal for each participant to gain as much points as possible. These were the rules:

• a new Good or Featured Article counts 8
• a new short article (500 words of text, with internal and external links, inline ref and image) counts 5
• a new stub (100 words of text, with internal and external links) counts 1
• a short article improved to Good or Featured Article counts 3
• a stub improved to short article counts 4
• all articles must contain a blue in-text link to the Teyler's Museum article in the same language. This means that if the museum article doesn't yet exist in that language, you need to create it (and that article can be part of the contest as well).
• all articles in the challenge should have talk pages with the {{WikiProject Teylers}} added for tracking purposes. PLEASE NOTE: We need volunteers to assess articles!

If you have any questions about the writing challenge, please add them to the talk page (and questions about the Teylers WikiProject go here, and questions about GLAM go here). If you would like to ask for help with your article or request a photo or a fact-check from a Teylers curator, ask your question on the collaboration page.