Submit your content to your submissions page including all necessary links, as well as which country you're submitting for.
Only articles closely associated with or have a demonstrable significance to a "developing" or "least developed" country qualify. Articles associated with a "least developed" country will receive a 1.5× points multiplier. Please see the list of eligible countries below.
All reviewed content must have been worked on significantly by you to receive points. "Drive-by" nominations are not permitted. This does not mean that you have to be the primary author, though it is preferable. Merely copyediting or wikifying an article does not constitute "significant work", but if you are one name on a joint nomination, you may claim points. If this is abused, the coordinators reserve the right to withhold points.
In the spirit of fair play, contestants have 7 days to nominate their work after promotion (for good and featured content), appearance on the Main Page (for Did you know? and In the news articles) or the completion of good or featured article reviews and featured list reviews, by entering it on their submissions page. Please contact the coordinators if you have a question regarding the submission of articles.
Non-sovereign territories not listed above will be considered case-by-case, such as overseas territories of France, the UK, Australia, etc. If you've got an article you're not sure about, ask on the Contest talk page!
An editor is allowed to be the sole nominator of only one article at a time at FAC; however, two nominations may be allowed if the editor is a co-nominator on at least one of them.
Generally, the picture should have been created by you (either photographed, drawn, or created in some other way) or been given significant restoration work by you or been released under a free license because of your efforts. Merely uploading a file you have found elsewhere does not constitute "significantly working on" the image.
Points are awarded per article in the topic that was worked on by you. If you would have a right to claim points for the promotion of the article to good or featured status, you have the right to claim points for its promotion as part of the topic, even if you did not nominate the topic.
Promoting an article that is already within a featured or good topic does not get additional points for the topic. Adding articles to a topic does gain points, but only points for the article added. You do not get points for articles already in a topic when a new article is added.
Featured article candidate reviews & Featured list candidate reviews[edit]
These rules are for when you are claiming points for a featured article candidate review or a featured list candidate review in which you review a candidate using the featured article or featured list criteria.
You may claim points upon the completion of your review, you do not need to wait until the candidate is promoted or the nomination archived.
Only high-quality reviews will be accepted. If the coordinators feel your review is substandard or too short, you will not be awarded points for the review.
These rules are for when you are claiming points for performing a good article nomination review, not for when you are claiming points for writing a good article.
You may claim points upon the completion of a review, that is, when the article is passed, failed or closed.
Only reviews of a sufficient length will be counted; quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. As a rough guide, no review shorter than 1000 bytes will be considered, though the coordinators reserve the right to decline other short reviews. Reviews should indicate that the reviewer thoroughly considered each criterion, including a spot-check of sourcing.
Third opinions will generally not be eligible for points. In the event that you take over a review from someone else for whatever reason, points may be claimed, provided a full review is given as usual.
Attempts to game good article nomination reviews will be looked upon particularly harshly, and, more so than with any other process, people abusing the system will be removed from the WikiContest.
These rules are for when you are claiming points for performing a peer review of an article.
You may claim points upon the completion of your review.
Only reviews of a sufficient length will be counted. There are no set criteria, but the article must be sufficiently studied to enable you to make suggestions on how it might be improved. The coordinators reserve the right to decline inadequate reviews.
Articles with at least 5 KB (that is, 5120 bytes) "readable prose size", whether expansions or new articles, are worth 10 points. Shorter DYKs are worth 5 points. The bot will calculate which category the article falls into, but a tool to help coordinator can be found here. Please report any mistakes on the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest talk page. Attempts to game this will not be looked upon favourably.
For hooks with multiple articles, every article is eligible to score points independently, provided each meets the Did you know? criteria. This does not mean you can claim for articles in the hook that you yourself did not work on.
Points are awarded for created or expanded articles appearing at DYK. No points are given for nominating an article at DYK that has been created, expanded or improved by someone else.
Only articles eligible for DYK through being newly created—including through being converted from a redirect or moved to mainspace—or expanded fivefold (not newly promoted to GA status) are eligible for 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest DYK points. It does not matter if the article becomes a GA before being featured on the main page; what matters is that it is eligible to appear on the main page due to being newly created or expanded fivefold.
These are the only cases where content may score additional points. Other than these distinctions, all content is equal. Bonus points will generally be calculated and awarded by the coordinators. Any mistakes or issues in the awarding of bonus points should be reported on the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest talk page.
Higher level articles about countries will receive extra bonus multipliers. These bonuses will be higher for countries marked as "least developed" by the UN. More examples of second-level country articles can be found at Wikipedia:Sample country outline.
In addition, DYK appearances for articles that were created during or before 2019 will be awarded at least 5 bonus points. For each additional year prior to 2019, the bonus increases by 1. For example, a DYK for an article started in 2014 will receive 10 bonus points for age.
The age bonus does not consider any period during which an article was only a redirect or a disambiguation page.
Articles that have been moved are eligible for the bonus.
