Wikinews:2026 streak competition

Objective

to encourage a user to author and publish, or reviewer to review and publish
do this without burning out and with motivation and habit to resume work after having burned out once or multiple times

Ad flyer (share this with others interested users)

It is being proposed to setup [[:w:streak]] goals over a 12-week period: for example, 

* "write one story each two weeks, and [[:wikt:babysit|babysit]] it until it is published"

This could be either authoring a completely new article or taking over someone else's article and doing focused editing on it with active collaboration with others until it is published. It is like a [[:wikt:day shift|day shift]] as you are expected to remain available '[[:wikt:on call|on call]]' to address concerns from another user or reviewer.

The aim of this is to build a habit of participation with [[:wikt:outburst|outburst]]s of eyeballing the page to collaborate with others -- but not every day, to have breaks and reduce [[:wikt:burnout|burnout]]. Could you please check out '''[[Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#Streak_themed_competition_proposal|this section]]''' and let me know what you think? Parameters are subject to discussion e.g.

* once every 'two weeks' or 'week' or 'month'
* should this be same for all or each person decides for themselves
* how long total comp running for, 12 weeks or 24 or some other time
* some other ideas how to modify this

I would appreciate it if you could reply by the end of this week, it would be helpful.

Please note if you are interested you may signup at the bottom of [[Wikinews:2026 streak competition]] and you will be notified at your talk page if there are any updates or progress of this idea.

Thanks a lot!

Proposal

Points would be accumulated for working in some way (depends on contributor role on project) on at least one story every two weeks. Like a w:streak. It is proposed that 'once each two weeks' is a reasonable period for putting concentrated effort into working on a story with full attention and then having a break before starting the same effort on a next story.

Before participating select your role, and your points would be accumulated for that role. Points are only counted if the article was published.

Result

At end of a competition period, suggest for 6 months (12 fortnights), the no. of maximum consecutive fortnights would be computed for each participant. For example, if I started and was major contributor or was the major reviewer (depending on my chosen role for the streak) to an article on week 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, then my streaks are '1 and 3' (streak of 2), then '7 and 9 and 11' (streak of 3), I would score '3'.

Top 10 participant would get a T-shirt or mug or some other object with a number (i.e. 'This user archived a 6 fortnight streak in English Wikinews in 2026' worded fancily and with fancy picture.) delivered to their desired postal address.

Funding

Not sure how to fund this, this is being discussed in discussion linked at the top of the page.

Interested users

Add your desired role and signature here! Competition has not started but this is more like an expression of interest.

Roles available

reviewer: this could be pre-review if you're not full reviewer
author: article creation with substantial part of it written. event identified correctly as a fresh event.
collaborator: edit others' stories to help publish them

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Users interested in the 2026 streak competition
name and signature	reviewer?	author?	collaborator?	topic	frequency
Gryllida 23:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	Yes	Yes	Yes	tech, Australasia	2 weeks
—Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:33, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	No	Yes	Yes	Popular culture, politics/current affairs, United States	2 weeks?
Editobd (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	No	Yes	Yes	Bangladesh, Politics, Story
PieWriter (talk) 03:25, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	No	No	Yes	no preference	every month
Cheat Codes 4ever (sandbox \| CentralAuth) 20:39, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	No	Yes	No	Politics and general Australian news	2 weeks
沢庵柚希 (talk) 07:07, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	No	No	Yes	no preference	every month
HKLionel TALK 02:03, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	Yes	Yes	Yes	current events	2 weeks
Wikiwide (talk) 10:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Environment, biology, science & technology, Australasia	every month
Tenshi! (Talk page) 00:18, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]	Yes	No	Yes	no preference	every month
Heavy Water (talk) 01:02, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]	Yes	Probably not	Yes	All (if writing, US news and politics)	Two weeks

Actions log

Legend:

Created -- as author
Revised -- as collaborator
Pre reviewed (or reviewed, if with reviewer privilege) -- as reviewer

Entries

Manually add yours here like this. If you do not add entry, it will not be counted. If page gets renamed just update the entry - no need to re-insert the signature or create a new entry.

* (created OR pre-reviewed OR revised) [[name of page]] --~~~~