WikiAwards is a project that attempts to organize the award-giving articles in Ireland Information Guide. (What is an award-giving page?). These awards are similar to the Academy ones but on different subjects. Here the users become the Academy Members.

The WikiAwards articles are considered Articles because of its statistical interest and information about Ireland Information Guide users opinion in categories such as History, Arts or Sports, and it is also a great way of exploring the other articles.

Example: First, a question is posed like: "For you, what was/is the greatest civilization ever?". Then the participants vote in whatever they think are the five potential greatest civilizations ever and the 5 with more votes are through to the next phase. In this second phase the 5 civilizations are voted again in a point-basis and the winner is determined.

Every award given has also a parallel goal, so that with the voting procedures, some articles, lists or projects may be expanded/created.

This page's objectives are:

• present the current existant categories
• explain the basics of WikiAwards
• post the results of the votings of each category

Note: My English is not as good as I would like it to be. So, I'd appreciate it if someone corrected this page

Current Categories

• History - awards for personalities, wars, historic periods, quotations, civilizations, etc
• Arts - awards for writing, music, theatre, movies, painting, architecture, etc
• Sports - awards for players, teams, competitions, athletes, etc

Note: More categories are expected in the future

Participants

Note: You must be a participant if you want to nominate/vote. Feel free to join.

• Gameiro Pais
• Eequor
• Tuf-Kat

If you have time, advertise this project...

Results

History

Nominations started 26th August 2004, in an experimental phase. So, please, go there and vote.

Arts

Nominations starting soon.

Sports

Nominations starting soon.

Rules

Creating a category/award

• If you want to create a category you should propose it in this page's Discussion. If the discussion turns positive the category is added.

• If you want to create an award you should propose it in the chosen category's Discussion. The rest is the same applicable to the categories. There's a maximum of 10 awards at the time per category.

How to nominate/vote

The number of phases to define the award winner is 3:

• Nomination - The participants (and only them) vote for the 5 options they think are the best to win the award (anything that corresponds to the award objective in no particular order). To do this, simply state the names of the options and sign. The period of nomination is the first week after the award was posted. Please do not state your opinion on your and others votes. Use the Discussion room for that. The 5 options more chosen go to the next phase.

• Voting - In the voting phase we only have 5 options. Now the participants should give 10 points to the one they think is the best option an 5 points to the second best. The period of voting is the first week after the end of the nomination phase (2nd week after the award was posted).

• Results - After the end of the voting phase the votes are counted and the results are presented in this page and in the respective category page.

Organization

CATEGORY

The name of the category must be: WikiAwards: Name of the category and, to prevent great discrepancies on the pages structures the presentation should be like this:

EXAMPLE

Introduction of the category

A link to this page is recommended.

Latest results

Awards

Award number 1

Specification of the Award's objectives

Nominations

• I vote for A, B, C, D and E Tom
• I think I’ll go for B, C, F, H and J John
• In my opinion is A, B, J, K and L Jack

In the end, the name of the 5 nominees and the the sentence The nomination phase is over should appear.

Voting

• J - 10 points; A - 5 points John
• A - 10 points; B - 5 points Jack
• A - 10 points; J - 5 points Tom

In the end the sentence The voting phase is over should appear.

Results

Final classification

Sentence: And the WikiAward for greatest name of the award goes to: Winner of the award

If you want, a conclusion would be perfect.