Stoneworks MC Wiki:Edit of the month

The Edit of the month is a monthly competition to commemorate high quality contributions to the Stoneworks wiki. The competition is organized by the Stoneworks wiki team and the Stoneworks events and worldbuilding department. Its purpose is 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 are eligible to be nominated. Furthermore, seeing as the competition is 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 are eligible. This specifically excludes 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 is no theme or topic for the wiki edit of the month competition hence the subject matter of the edit is not relevant to its eligibility. Edits made by members of Stoneworks staff are not eligible for the competition. Likewise, edits made by members of the competition’s jury are not eligible for the competition. This does not extend to edits made by users which join staff after their edits were nominated.

Nominations

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Edits nominated by members of the wiki team. Each member will only be able to nominate a single edit or a single sequence of edits per month. Users are able to suggest edits for nomination to members of the wiki team through a discord channel created for this purpose. Nominations can 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 are evaluated by the jury. It is not possible to retract or change a nomination after submission. Nominated diffs should not include substantial edits made by more than a single user. Furthermore, nominated diffs may not be in conflict with wiki rules or formatting guidelines. This also applies to edits made to articles that are considered exempt from wiki rules.

Composition

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The jury consists 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 is a member of the jury in the month following their victory. A list of all jury members for the competition is published on the second day of the month following the competition.

If no article of the competition was held in the previous month or the winner of said competition is not able or unwilling to participate as a jury member, the wiki leadership can appoint an honorary member of the jury who is not part of the wiki team or the events and worldbuilding department.

Voting
The jury starts to discuss the nominated edits on the second day of the month following the competition, after the list of jury members has been published. It specifically evaluates 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 holds a vote on the nominated edits, where each jury member possesses a single vote. An absolute majority of five votes is 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 will be eliminated from the competition and no longer be discussed or voted on by the jury.

The winner of the competition is announced at the fourteenth 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 will be contacted by the wiki team to confirm their discord and in-game information. To facilitate this process, the winner will be 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 receives a unique commemorative medal on their wiki user page, denoting their status as editor of the month. They will also receive the opportunity to choose a featured article. Featured articles are advertised in the right rail on the Stoneworks wiki, the official Stoneworks wiki discord channels and the in-game Stoneworks lobby. Featured articles may not be in conflict with wiki rules or formatting guidelines. This also applies to edits made to articles that are considered exempt from wiki rules. If a winner is not able or unwilling to choose an appropriate featured article, the article edited by the edit of the month will become the featured article. The wiki moderation closely monitors featured articles to prevent destructive edits and preserve the quality of their formatting and writing.

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