Newsletter compiled and written by Mikemoral. Any suggestions welcomed.
The contest so far
As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 257 articles.
Tempodivalse comments for this newsletter. He is the winner of the competition.
Well, the three-month contest has finally drawn to a close. I must admit I've been somewhat disappointed with the results. Despite advertising it heavily, we didn't have nearly as many new users or as much news coverage as I had hoped, and closer to the end it completely faltered, so I didn't have any competition for first prize. Maybe there's something we can learn from this, though: instead of doing very long competitions hosted occasionally, we should perhaps have multiple shorter (i.e., week-long) contests spread out throughout the year - which may encourage more heavy editing. One thing I think we should keep for any future comps is the scoring system - which worked really well and encouraged in-depth writing, in my opinion.
The contest was still pretty fun overall, though. Congratulations to user:Rayboy8 and user:Pmlineditor for taking second and third places, respectively. Thanks to everyone for participating, and especially to User:Brian McNeil for offering to host it and come up with most of the rules.
