Forum:Mainspace editing contest?

First things first: Do not misread me here. I am NOT starting a contest, and you may NOT sign up for it. Or at least not yet.

My incredibly stupid idea of deleting all the user images certainly didn't work, so I'll take a more positive approach to the "edit-the-articles" problem. I propose that we create a contest where contestants must edit each and every one of the mainspace articles (not the Main Page unless they happen to find it necessary) and this editing must be done over a period of...say...a few months. The judges check how well and how helpfully the users edited the articles, and give a number of clicks/Items/whatever in proportion to how well the user did. Note I said how helpfully, not how quickly. Quality, not quantity, is the key word here.

To avoid confusion from creating new articles, we may have to select the "stalest" articles (it's on one of the special pages) or the articles that need the most attention to make things shorter.

Naturally, this is probably just another demented idea that popped up in my head, but before I jump to conclusions, let's see what you think. 18:11, January 26, 2010 (UTC)