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Contents 1 German writing contests 2 Prizes/Awards? 3 Recognition 4 I'm not sure if I qualify for the contests, but...= 5 Review

[edit] German writing contests

(The German wiki has a long tradition of writig contests. While our systems are generally similar, they have a jury that creates a ranking of the winners. The clue is that other registered users do promise prizes for the participants. The first placed is the first to choose from these donations (can be anything, material or else, like a DVD or coedit help in the next article), the second next and so on. This way editors do have some non-virtual feedback. Some prizes are offered uder conditio that an article has to be written about a certain topic to get the prize. Naturally we are spread appart all around the globe, making these donations a bit more expensive to deliver, but on the other hand we reach a lot more wealthy donators than a bunch of 100 million German speaking people from Central Europe. Wandalstouring 20:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

So basically it's something closer to, say, Wikipedia:Danny's contest than to a rolling point model, yes? Kirill Lokshin 21:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prizes/Awards?

I was wondering if we would come up with some kind of award for the winner each month. Mabey a variation on the WikiChevrons or another sort of award. Any ideas? Cheif Captain 02:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Aside from the central recognition, you mean? We can always hand out WikiChevrons, I suppose. (I wouldn't be surprised if the longer-term winners would receive the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves, for that matter.) Kirill Lokshin 04:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recognition

You know, it would have been nice if you had credited us... Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 02:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I was assuming nobody really cared about such things (seeing as our developments have been silently "borrowed" by, well, just about everybody); but, if you insist... ;-) Kirill Lokshin 02:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Generally not when lesser projects take stuff. WP:BAY has directly copied most of our pages (their founder is a member), but it's nice when a bigger project pilfers ideas from smaller ones to credit them, I reckon. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 03:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I'm not sure if I qualify for the contests, but...=

As some of you know, I've taken on a task, which has been defining itself as I move along, of writing or improving a number of articles on intelligence and related areas, which have military components but are not strictly military. I would like to share the big picture of what I'm working on, as well as where I'm struggling with structure.

In the list below, !! indicates in-process but not published (not to say that any published article can't be improved), and ++ means that I am trying to reconcile ideas spread across several existing articles or drafts that I am considering. Indentation shows hierarchy:

Intelligence Cycle Management--includes tasking

Intelligence Collection Management

SIGINT

Historical and current, likely to need splitting

SIGINT by Alliances, Nations and Industries

SIGINT Operational Platforms by Nation for current collection systems (organized by ground, sea surface, submarine, aircraft and satellite--may need to split

SIGINT in Modern History for World War I to the present (probably needs to split)

Techniques ++ including ELINT/COMINT split, EOB, and where this fits vis-a-vis EW

MASINT (all of these have analysis as well as collection components)

Electro-optical MASINT

Radar MASINT

Materials MASINT

Geophysical MASINT

Nuclear MASINT

Radiofrequency MASINT

HUMINT (challenge of how CI operations, espionage, special recon fit); currently working on analyzing human networks, which might split

OSINT (working on existing article)

Intelligence Analysis Management

Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence Dissemination Management (the gaming and net assessment might split)

Intelligence cycle security!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcberkowitz (talk • contribs) 14:37, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Review

Is there someone with an assigned job of reviewing these? It is already May 2 and they haven't been reviewed yet. --ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ ^{Drop me a line}§ 13:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the poke. Woody (talk) 15:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ ^{Drop me a line}§ 16:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)