Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.))
For this we create the lists with all contributions (main namespace only) for all users per project per months [2] and look if the contributions are in line with the rules (no copyright violation, vandalism etc.). Then a message on the talk page with a picture of a can and after the winner gives us his/her postal address, we send him/her the can itself :) [3] It is sweet. I can vouch for that :) [1] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E [2] https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8E/bb:%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zgushchivka_poshtoyu Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-11 22:04 GMT+03:00 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com>: > And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is > designed to be "about things going right" goes to Trilliam. > Congratulations on being the official "party pooper" of Wikimedia-l. There > will be cake tomorrow. > > To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by A > ntanana: > I learned a few months ago that in the Ukrainian Wikipedia they don't give > out "barnstars", the give out "cans of condensed milk"! Why? Because > they're sweet :-) > > https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%89%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 > > > And, please correct me if I'm wrong Antanana, but you also identify the > "best newbie" each month on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and physically send a > can of condensed milk to that person in the mail?! I think that's just the > coolest, funnest, most unique way of celebrating new contributors I've > heard of! > > -Liam / Wittylama. > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
