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The West Country Challenge
a contest/editathon for 8 August – 4 September 2016....

A contest/editathon aimed at improving the quality and quantity of coverage of Bristol, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The format will be based on Wales's successful Awaken the Dragon which saw over 1000 article improvements and creations and 65 GAs/FAs. As with the Dragon contest, the focus is more on improving core articles and breathing new life into those older stale articles and stubs which might otherwise not get edited in years. All contributions, including new articles, are welcome though.

There is a budget of £250 ($330) in Amazon vouchers being put up for this. The idea will be to split most of it into 7, £30 for each county, with £10 awarded to the most productive editor who scores the most points each day. So for this if you produce a lot on one day you can instantly win something for your effort. If prizes aren't your thing, you can still contribute whatever you want anyway.

Though the main county contest is closed, I'll offer £70 worth of books (to be used ideally for future articles) as a bonus to anybody who makes a decent effort to promote two or more of the following to GA by the end of this month. Gloucester, Geography of Somerset, Clifton, St Ives, Exeter, Dorchester, Trowbridge. If multiple people make an effort to promote two the vouchers will be split accordingly as there's only £70 available in total (two people doing it would get £35 each), but the minimum requirement is 2 articles promoted. Collaboration is permitted of course and the winnings may be split (but multiple people will have had to have made significant contributions to claim) but the offer is there. Anybody who promotes two or more will be proclaimed one of the winners at the end of the month. The deadline is September 30 for nominating an article for GA. Claims for prizes below. If you're going to start working on an article please reserve it with your name in brackets to avoid edit conflicts:


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