Stoneworks MC Wiki:Edit of the month

The Edit of the month was a monthly competition to commemorate high quality contributions to the Stoneworks wiki. It ran from May to September 2023. The competition was organized by the Stoneworks wiki team and the Stoneworks events and worldbuilding department. Its purpose was rewarding high quality wiki articles and promoting the visibility of the wiki in the Stoneworks community.

Eligibility
Only edits made within the month of the competition were eligible to be nominated. Furthermore, seeing as the competition was intended to incentivize users to refine their wiki abilities, only encyclopedic articles on entities and events within or related to the canon worlds of Stoneworks were eligible. This specifically excluded edits made to articles representing pieces of in-universe literature as well as edits made to articles concerning the entities and events within or related to the Stoneworks hub. There was no theme or topic for the wiki edit of the month competition hence the subject matter of the edit was not relevant to its eligibility. Edits made by members of Stoneworks staff were not eligible for the competition. Likewise, edits made by members of the competition’s jury were not eligible for the competition. This did not extend to edits made by users which joined staff after their edits were nominated.

Nominations
Edits were nominated by members of the wiki team. Each member was only able to nominate a single edit or a single sequence of edits per month. Users were able to suggest edits for nomination to members of the wiki team through a discord channel created for this purpose. Nominations could be submitted to wiki leadership until the second day of the month following the competition and a link to the specific diff page of the edit or sequence of edits. Only the contents of said diff page were evaluated by the jury. It was not possible to retract or change a nomination after submission. Nominated diffs could not include substantial edits made by more than a single user. Furthermore, nominated diffs could not be in conflict with wiki rules or formatting guidelines. This also applied to edits made to articles that are considered exempt from wiki rules.
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Composition
The jury consisted of four members of the wiki team, appointed by wiki leadership, and four members of the events and worldbuilding department, appointed by the leadership of the events and worldbuilding department. Furthermore, the latest winner of the previous competition was be a member of the jury in the month following their victory. A list of all jury members for the competition was published on the second day of the month following the competition.
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If no article of the month competition was held in the previous month or the winner of said competition was not able or unwilling to participate as a jury member, the wiki leadership could appoint an honorary member of the jury who was not part of the wiki team or the events and worldbuilding department.

Voting
The jury started to discuss the nominated edits on the second day of the month following the competition, after the list of jury members had been published. It specifically evaluated the quality of the formatting, encyclopedic writing style, accuracy of history, coherence of lore as well as the relationship to the worlds of Stoneworks as a whole.

Each day, the jury held a vote on the nominated edits, where each jury member possessed a single vote. An absolute majority of five votes was required for a nominated edit to win the competition. Should no nominated edit reach an absolute majority in a vote, the edit or edits with the least votes was eliminated from the competition and could no longer be discussed or voted on by the jury.

The winner of the competition was announced at the fourteenth day of the month following the competition, regardless of how often the jury had to vote to determine a winner.

Verification
To prevent impersonation, the winner of the competition was contacted by the wiki team to confirm their discord and in-game information. To facilitate this process, the winner was required to add their discord username to their Fandom account and confirm their identity to the wiki team through a wiki ticket.

Wiki rewards
The winner of the competition received a unique commemorative medal on their wiki user page, denoting their status as editor of the month. They were also receive the opportunity to choose a featured article. Featured articles were advertised in the right rail on the Stoneworks wiki, the official Stoneworks wiki discord channels and the in-game Stoneworks lobby. Featured articles could not be in conflict with wiki rules or formatting guidelines. This also applied to edits made to articles that were considered exempt from wiki rules. If a winner was not able or willing to choose an appropriate featured article, the article edited by the edit of the month would become the featured article. The wiki moderation closely monitored featured articles to prevent destructive edits and preserve the quality of their formatting and writing.

In-game rewards
The winner of the competition received a unique in-game artifact as well as a special in-game prefix denoting their achievements as editor of the month.