Ballotpedia:The Wikiteer Award
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The Ballotpedia Wikiteer award is one of nine Sammies awards given annually by the Sam Adams Alliance.
Sponsored by the Sam Adams Alliance, the Sammies is a contest awarding thousands of dollars - divided among nine different categories - to exceptional activists who live by Adams' notion that, "all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought."
The 2009 Wikiteer Award for Ballotpedia was presented to John Wynne Jr..
Award categories
The nine award categories in the Sammies include awards for:
- Bloggers
- Filmmakers
- Open records champions
- Microbloggers
- Wiki Writers
- Grassroot Activists
- Other government watchdogs committed to liberty.
Wikiteer awards
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In 2009, the Sammies honored wiki writers with...<drumroll please>...the Wikiteer Award. The winners of the three different Wikiteer awards each receive a cash prize of $1,000.
There are three different Wikiteer awards, one for each of the wikis sponsored by the Sam Adams Alliance:
Qualifications
So, what does that mean for Ballotpedia writers? Here's what gets noticed.
- Quantity: high amount of wiki pages created/edited
- Accuracy: creation of error-free pages, fixing existing errors, and correct category use
- Comprehensiveness: contributions that help make the wiki authoritative (i.e. adding internal/external links, images, tables, graphs, etc.)
More information
- Watch this space for 2010 deadline information.
- Here's where to submit an application. Under the section in the application that says, "Describe the work and achievements in the selected category", include your Ballotpedia user name and information abodut the content you've focused on building here. Be sure to include links to particular wiki pages you've heavily contributed to and are proud of.
