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Wikipedia has various contests from time to time -- for good writing, site and logo designs, or great images or media -- to encourage and recognize brilliant, unusual, or specially-targeted contributions.  

Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners. 

You can also add to ''[[Wikipedia:Writing contests/Ideas for new contests|Ideas for new contests]]'' if you have a good idea for a contest and you can use this [[Wikipedia:Contests/Toolkit|Toolkit]] model to reduce the time it takes to set up your contest.

== Contests ==
=== Writing ===
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! Competition !! Version !! Status !! Duration !! About !! Signup, Results
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| [[Wikipedia:International writing contest|International writing contest]] || - || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca March 2005 || A coordinated contest across a number of Wikipedias. || [[Wikipedia:International writing contest#Winners|winners]] | [[m:International writing contest#English Wikipedia: International writing contest|on meta]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Deshipidian 2008|Deshipidian 2008]] || - || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2008 || arranged by [[WP:BND|WikiProject:Bangladesh]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2007 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2007 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2007|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2008 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2008 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2008|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2009 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2009 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2009|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2010 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2010 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2011 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2011 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2011|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2012 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2012 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2012|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2013 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2013 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2013|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2014 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2014 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2014|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2015 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || ca 2015 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2015|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2016 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2016 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2016|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2017 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2017 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2017|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2018 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2018 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2018|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2019 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2019 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2019|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2020 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2020 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2020|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]] || 2021 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2021 || || [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2021|Results]]
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| [[Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup|Bacon WikiCup]] || 2010 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || Adding bacon-related content || [[Wikipedia:Bacon_WikiCup#Positions|Winners]]
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| [[Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup|Bacon WikiCup]] || 2011 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || Adding bacon-related content || [[Wikipedia:Bacon_WikiCup#Positions|Winners]]
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| [[Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup|Bacon WikiCup]] || 2012 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || Adding bacon-related content || [[Wikipedia:Bacon_WikiCup#Positions|Winners]]
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon|Awaken the Dragon]] || 2016 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Apr - 2 May 2016 || Contest run by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales|WikiProject Wales]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge|The West Country Challenge]] || 2016 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 8 Aug - 4 Sep 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 ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon|The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon]] || 2020 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || March 2020 ||  ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Women/Writing Contest|Wiki Loves Women #15Challenge Writing Contest]] || 2016 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 15 Jan 2016 - 31 Jan 2016 || 15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies on notable African women ||
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| [[m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon|Wiki Loves Women #16WikiWomen Translation Drive]] || 2017 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 20 Feb 2017 - 6 March 2017 || 16 days to make available biographies on 16 notable African women, in at least 16 languages ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/African feminists|Wiki Loves Women #17African feminists]] || 2017 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 01 Nov 2017 - 30 Nov 2017 || Biographies about African feminists ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest|Military history Contest]] || || {{active|Ongoing}} || || Rolling competition each month that awards points for improving articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/WikiGrail|WikiGrail]] || 2012 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || Competition run by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity|WikiProject Christianity]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Stub Contest|Stub Contest]] || 2004 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Stub Contest|Stub Contest]] || 2013 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Stub Contest|Stub Contest]] || 2014 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Stub Contest|Stub Contest]] || 2015 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Stub Contest|Stub Contest]] || 2019 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 ||[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/140|Women in Red biographies]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:2014 Tyop Contest|Tyop Contest]]|| 2014 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[m:Wikimania:Writing contest|Wikimania 2005:Writing contest]] || 2005 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest|Danny's contest]]|| 2004 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || [[Wikipedia:Danny%27s contest/Danny%27s contest_1|Oct 2004]] || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest|Danny's contest]] || 2004 ||{{eliminated|Closed}} || [[Wikipedia:Danny%27s contest/Danny%27s contest_2|Nov 2004]] || ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2007 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 25 Nov - 9 Dec 2007 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || Mar 2012 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 10 Mar - 31 Mar 2012 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || Aug 2012 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || Aug 2012 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2013 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || Apr 2013 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2014 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 10 Feb - 9 Mar 2014 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2015 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Mar - 14 Apr 2015 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2016 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 15 May - 30 Jun 2016 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2017 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || May - Jun 2017 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] || 2021 || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Jun - 15 Jul 2021 || Improving Wikipedia's most important articles ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Computational Biology/9th ISCB Wikipedia competition announcement|9th ISCB Wikipedia Competition]] || 9th || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020 || Improving content relating to [[computational biology]] or [[bioinformatics]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Computational Biology/10th ISCB Wikipedia competition announcement|10th ISCB Wikipedia Competition]] || 10th || {{eliminated|Closed}} || 1 Sep 2020 - 14 May 2021 || Improving content relating to [[computational biology]] or [[bioinformatics]] ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/178|Women in Asia contest]] || 2020 ||  {{eliminated|Closed}} ||1 Oct - 31 Dec 2020 || Women in Red: New biographies of Asian women ||
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| [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Computational Biology/11th ISCB Student Wikipedia competition announcement|11th ISCB Wikipedia Competition]] || 11th || {{active|On going}} || 1 Sep 2021 - 29 Apr 2022 || Improving content relating to [[computational biology]] or [[bioinformatics]] ||
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===Media===
* [[m:Wikimania:Media competition|Wikimania competition]]
*: An extended media contest, combining a contest for media gathered while at or en route to Wikimania, with a general contest for all content produced this year.
* [[Wikipedia:US Banknote Contest/2019]]
*: A contest focused on images of [[Banknotes of the United States dollar|Unites States banknotes]]
* [[commons:Category:Photography competitions]]
*: Various photography competitions on Commons, including [[c:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments|Wiki Loves Monuments]] and [[c:Commons:Wiki Loves Earth|Wiki Loves Earth]]

==Abandoned contests==
* [[Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiSnap Challenge]]

==Other related events==
* [[Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout]], for 5 days, starting July 18, 2009, Wikipedians are being asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles.
* [[Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Backlogs|Wikipedia:The Great Backlog Drive]]

==Organizing contests==

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) advises [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mdennis_%28WMF%29&diff=546331916&oldid=546265883] that although there is no problem in general with third parties running contests on Wikipedia, contest organizers should note the following:

* The contest should not be presented as if it was being organized, sponsored or endorsed by the WMF. This includes using the Wikipedia/WMF logos, which are trademarked and may only be used with the permission of the WMF (see [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]]), or implying that the WMF has any involvement beyond hosting the platform being used. (If you are unsure about your contest in this regard, please contact liaison{{@}}wikimedia.org.)
* Contributors are liable for their own contributions, which include the people running such contests.
* Organizers may wish to obtain advice on contest law before attempting to run a contest, on-wiki or elsewhere.
* Organizers can save time by copying this [[Wikipedia:Contests/Toolkit/Template]] model to set up a contest, based on a successful contest which produced nearly 3000 articles in one month.

==See also==
* [[m:Learning and Evaluation/Evaluation reports/2013/On-wiki writing contests]] - an attempt to evaluate the impact of contests
* [[Wikipedia:Reward board]]

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