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<div style="border: 1px solid red; background-color: #cfc; padding: 10px;">'''The Contributors Award is still new. The rules may be changed to fix things that weren't initially planned, and nothing tells if this will happen again next month!'''
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The Contributors' Award was a contest offered by [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] intended as a way to divide wiki donations among contributors.
  
The concept is however really simple: share received donations between people contributing on the wiki.</div>
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It was intended to be awarded to anyone who had been contributing, except [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]], bots, and anyone helping fine-tune the scoring after the deadline for a session had been reached.
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Contributors were invited to provide their bitcoin address on their user page so they could receive their coins when awarded.
  
The '''Contributors Award''' is a bitcoin sum awarded to the contributors of this wiki!
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== Lost Funds ==
  
It can be awarded to everyone who have been contributing, except [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]], bots and anyone willing to help fine-tuning the scoring after the deadline for a session has been reached. Contributors are invited to provide their bitcoin address on their user page so they can receive their coins when awarded.
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Two sessions were run, although neither paid out.
 
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The first session collected 420 BTC total, while the second collected 86 BTC.
'''Next Contributors Award''': January 31st 2011 (also covers december). Donate on [http://blockexplorer.com/address/1AFTHqc2kqfH7JqYWRecHyE5f9SyXn2aGk 1AFTHqc2kqfH7JqYWRecHyE5f9SyXn2aGk] (click on there to see how much has been received for the next contributors award)
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All funds were presumably lost in the 2014 MtGox theft.
  
 
== Rules ==
 
== Rules ==
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=== Application ===
 
=== Application ===
  
To apply to the Contributors Award, you need to have a bitcoin address published on your user page. Only a bitcoin address you've put yourself will be used. If someone else changes the bitcoin address on your user page, the bot will look in previous revisions of your page to find one edited by you. The following format should be used on your page:
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To apply to the Contributors Award, you needed to have a bitcoin address published on your user page.
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Only a bitcoin address put there by the user himself would be accepted.
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If someone else changed the bitcoin address, the bot would look in previous revisions of the page to find one edited by the user.
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The following format was required:
  
 
  Contributors Award participant: 1....................
 
  Contributors Award participant: 1....................
  
By applying to the Contributors Award you confirm you can legally receive bitcoins in your jurisdiction and take full responsibility.
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By applying to the Contributors Award users were assumed to confirm they could legally receive bitcoins in their jurisdiction and take full responsibility.
  
=== How are winners decided ===
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=== How were winners supposed to be decided ===
  
A bot will list most active contributors and rank them based on the amount of pages/lines/etc contributed. Only contributions that were not removed will be counted. The contributions will then be quickly checked by [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] and a list of winners will be compiled and published within one week. Scoring will also be based on other parameters, see below.
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A bot would list most active contributors and rank them based on the amount of pages/lines/etc contributed.
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Only contributions that were not removed would be counted.
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The contributions would then be quickly checked by [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] and a list of winners would be compiled and published within one week.
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Scoring would also be based on other parameters, see below.
  
Once the list is published, donations will be directed to the contributors within 3 days, after making sure the listed address for each contributor is correct. Contributors can choose to have their donations directed to somewhere else by directly putting the bitcoin address of the beneficiary of their choice. Contributors who do not publish a bitcoin address will not be counted when the Contributors Award is shared between contributors.
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Once the list was published, donations were supposed to be directed to the contributors within 3 days, after making sure the listed address for each contributor is correct.
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Contributors could choose to have their donations directed to somewhere else by directly putting the bitcoin address of the beneficiary of their choice.
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Contributors who did not publish a bitcoin address were not to be counted when the Contributors Award was shared between contributors.
  
Every contributor with serious contribution, no matter how small, will receive a part of the award, except if excluded.
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Every contributor with serious contribution, no matter how small, were expected to receive a part of the award, except if excluded.
  
 
=== Sessions ===
 
=== Sessions ===
  
A session is the period of time covered by a given award. Sessions are planned to last for one month, however this may be changed in the future to reflect the amount of donations received and work required to establish a list of winners.
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A session was the period of time covered by a given award.
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Sessions were planned to last for one month, however this was subject to change to reflect the amount of donations received and work required to establish a list of winners.
  
 
=== Donations ===
 
=== Donations ===
  
The Contributors Award fund is made only of donations from bitcoin users. Donations will be held by Tibanne Co. Ltd. until winners have been decided, at which points the received amount will be split between contributors proportionally to their score.
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The Contributors' Award fund was made only of donations from bitcoin users.
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Donations were to be held by Tibanne Co. Ltd. until winners had been decided, at which points the received amount was supposed to be split between contributors proportionally to their score.
  
Employees of Tibanne Co. Ltd., their family, relatives, dogs and cats are explicitly denied participation in the Contributors Award.
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Employees of Tibanne Co. Ltd. and their relatives were explicitly denied participation in the Contributors Award.
  
 
=== Direct donations ===
 
=== Direct donations ===
  
If you have a personal preference for a given contributor or feel this contributor is doing a great job, you are strongly encouraged to donate directly to this contributor. Donations to the Contributors Award will be distributed between contributors of the wiki using specific rules. Donating to the contributors award doesn't mean you get to choose who gets your coins.
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If users had a personal preference for a given contributor or felt this contributor is doing a great job, they were strongly encouraged to donate directly to the contributor.
  
 
=== Abuse ===
 
=== Abuse ===
  
The wiki will be monitored at all time. Anyone trying to artificially improve his own score, or artificially reduce someone else's score will be excluded from the Contributors Award. The goal of this award is to improve the community work around bitcoin, and not make this wiki a war zone. Should abuse become uncontainable, the contributors award will be stopped, scoring will be computed up to the date the abuse started and bitcoins shared between honest members.
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The wiki was to be be monitored at all time, so that anyone trying to artificially improve his own score, or artificially reduce someone else's score would be excluded from the Contributors Award.
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The goal of this award was to improve the community work around bitcoin, and not make this wiki a war zone.
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Should abuse become uncontainable, the contributors award was to be stopped, scoring computed up to the date the abuse started and bitcoins shared between honest members.
  
 
=== Scoring ===
 
=== Scoring ===
  
The scoring for each contributor will be made based on the following rules.
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The scoring for each contributor was to be made based on the following rules.
  
 
==== Text ====
 
==== Text ====
  
Of course, text contributions take an important place in the scoring calculation. The following parameters will be taken in account for each contribution:
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Of course, text contributions were to take an important place in the scoring calculation.
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The following parameters would have been taken in account for each contribution:
  
* Insertion of bulks of text will be scored based on the amount of text submitted. The ratio will be reduced if the text is found on other sites via a search engine (ie. not original text) and based on the number of afterward corrections. If the text is completly removed (and not restored afterward) then it won't be counted. Off-topic inclusions will also be ignored.
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* Insertion of bulks of text should be scored based on the amount of text submitted. The ratio would be reduced if the text is found on other sites via a search engine (ie. not original text) and based on the number of afterward corrections. If the text is completly removed (and not restored afterward) then it wouldn't be counted. Off-topic inclusions would also be ignored.
* Corrections (typo, etc) will be counted based on the volume of text they apply to, minus the amount of corrections made by other people afterward.
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* Corrections (typo, etc) should be counted based on the volume of text they apply to, minus the amount of corrections made by other people afterward.
* Adding links to existing bulks of text will only count if the ratio of links is kept low (only the first link to a page on a given page will be counted)
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* Adding links to existing bulks of text would only count if the ratio of links is kept low (only the first link to a page on a given page would be counted)
  
 
==== Templates ====
 
==== Templates ====
  
Templates are an important part of the life of a wiki. Templates are scored on the following elements:
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Templates are an important part of the life of a wiki. Templates were to be scored on the following elements:
  
* The template must be original. Templates copied from other sites will not be counted.
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* The template must be original. Templates copied from other sites would not be counted.
* The template must be widely used. Scoring will be based on the number of other contributors using a given template.
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* The template must be widely used. Scoring would be based on the number of other contributors using a given template.
  
New uses of a template from a previous session will still be awarded to the original contributors of that template.
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New uses of a template from a previous session would still be awarded to the original contributors of that template.
  
 
==== Talk pages ====
 
==== Talk pages ====
  
Modifiers will be given to contributors based on the feedback their receive from users on talk pages. Remember to be courteous at all time for best effect. Those modifiers will be manually collected and only applied to the most notable contributors in order to avoid any abuse.
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Modifiers would be given to contributors based on the feedback they receive from users on talk pages.
 
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Remember to be courteous at all time for best effect.
==== Vote for your contributor ====
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Those modifiers will be manually collected and only applied to the most notable contributors in order to avoid any abuse.
 
 
We might try to allow contributors who have earned points in one session to vote for another contributor in the next session.
 
 
 
=== Rules change ===
 
 
 
These rules may be changed should the need arise. If you wish to suggest a change, please use the [[Bitcoin Talk:Contributors Award|discussion page]].
 

Latest revision as of 01:00, 6 April 2014

The Contributors' Award was a contest offered by MagicalTux intended as a way to divide wiki donations among contributors.

It was intended to be awarded to anyone who had been contributing, except MagicalTux, bots, and anyone helping fine-tune the scoring after the deadline for a session had been reached. Contributors were invited to provide their bitcoin address on their user page so they could receive their coins when awarded.

Lost Funds

Two sessions were run, although neither paid out. The first session collected 420 BTC total, while the second collected 86 BTC. All funds were presumably lost in the 2014 MtGox theft.

Rules

Application

To apply to the Contributors Award, you needed to have a bitcoin address published on your user page. Only a bitcoin address put there by the user himself would be accepted. If someone else changed the bitcoin address, the bot would look in previous revisions of the page to find one edited by the user. The following format was required:

Contributors Award participant: 1....................

By applying to the Contributors Award users were assumed to confirm they could legally receive bitcoins in their jurisdiction and take full responsibility.

How were winners supposed to be decided

A bot would list most active contributors and rank them based on the amount of pages/lines/etc contributed. Only contributions that were not removed would be counted. The contributions would then be quickly checked by MagicalTux and a list of winners would be compiled and published within one week. Scoring would also be based on other parameters, see below.

Once the list was published, donations were supposed to be directed to the contributors within 3 days, after making sure the listed address for each contributor is correct. Contributors could choose to have their donations directed to somewhere else by directly putting the bitcoin address of the beneficiary of their choice. Contributors who did not publish a bitcoin address were not to be counted when the Contributors Award was shared between contributors.

Every contributor with serious contribution, no matter how small, were expected to receive a part of the award, except if excluded.

Sessions

A session was the period of time covered by a given award. Sessions were planned to last for one month, however this was subject to change to reflect the amount of donations received and work required to establish a list of winners.

Donations

The Contributors' Award fund was made only of donations from bitcoin users. Donations were to be held by Tibanne Co. Ltd. until winners had been decided, at which points the received amount was supposed to be split between contributors proportionally to their score.

Employees of Tibanne Co. Ltd. and their relatives were explicitly denied participation in the Contributors Award.

Direct donations

If users had a personal preference for a given contributor or felt this contributor is doing a great job, they were strongly encouraged to donate directly to the contributor.

Abuse

The wiki was to be be monitored at all time, so that anyone trying to artificially improve his own score, or artificially reduce someone else's score would be excluded from the Contributors Award. The goal of this award was to improve the community work around bitcoin, and not make this wiki a war zone. Should abuse become uncontainable, the contributors award was to be stopped, scoring computed up to the date the abuse started and bitcoins shared between honest members.

Scoring

The scoring for each contributor was to be made based on the following rules.

Text

Of course, text contributions were to take an important place in the scoring calculation. The following parameters would have been taken in account for each contribution:

  • Insertion of bulks of text should be scored based on the amount of text submitted. The ratio would be reduced if the text is found on other sites via a search engine (ie. not original text) and based on the number of afterward corrections. If the text is completly removed (and not restored afterward) then it wouldn't be counted. Off-topic inclusions would also be ignored.
  • Corrections (typo, etc) should be counted based on the volume of text they apply to, minus the amount of corrections made by other people afterward.
  • Adding links to existing bulks of text would only count if the ratio of links is kept low (only the first link to a page on a given page would be counted)

Templates

Templates are an important part of the life of a wiki. Templates were to be scored on the following elements:

  • The template must be original. Templates copied from other sites would not be counted.
  • The template must be widely used. Scoring would be based on the number of other contributors using a given template.

New uses of a template from a previous session would still be awarded to the original contributors of that template.

Talk pages

Modifiers would be given to contributors based on the feedback they receive from users on talk pages. Remember to be courteous at all time for best effect. Those modifiers will be manually collected and only applied to the most notable contributors in order to avoid any abuse.