Europa Universalis 4 Wiki talk:Contest
9th contest
- For the full Terms and Conditions of the Paradox Wikis contest please visit here
The wiki will run a contest to celebrate the release of "Emperor" starting on 2020-06-09 at 20:00 CET till 2020-06-18 at 20:00 CET.
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span -- with various actions providing different number of tickets.
The three users with the most tickets will each get to pick their product(s) of choice from the Paradox Web Store up to the amount they won:
1st place can pick at an amount up to $60 - Won by Grotaclas (344 tickets)
2nd place can pick at an amount up to $40 - Won by UserID (296 tickets)
3rd place can pick at an amount up to $20 - Won by Capitaine Spock (283 tickets)
In addition, the winners will also receive a special forum avatar and icon (). These are unique to major wiki contributors.
Notes: Can be used for any combination of digital goods (regular retail prices) in a single occurrence, does not apply to physical goods, winner's product keys will be delivered by Paradox Wikis moderator SolSys.
Rules and guidelines
- Paradox Wikis administrator SolSys decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below.
- Members of the Paradox Wikis team (administrators, moderators, halfops) cannot enter the contest.
- The competition is open for anyone around the world aged 16 or above. Entrants under the age of 18 require parental consent to participate.
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki; anonymous edits are not counted unless they can be clearly connected to a registered user (E.G., in cases where the user was accidentally logged out).
- Any action on the list undertaken between the start and the end of the contest will earn tickets.
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email. Note that by default the Paradox Account email address is used.
- If you have changed the email address of your Paradox Account since registering on the Paradox Wikis (before the unified account), you should update your email address via the Paradox account settings from the forums. Otherwise, it may take longer than normal for you to receive your prize(s) if you were to win.
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit.
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards. Edit summaries are encouraged, but not required except where otherwise specified.
- For the full Terms and Conditions of the Paradox Wikis contest please visit here.
Earning tickets
- All tickets are provisional until the contest starts and edits made in advance can change the values below
A large variety of tasks will earn you tickets; everything from updating pages, to writing strategies, to modding information, to creating pages on new features. All tasks are listed below.
Anything that involves the creation of a new page or section assumes that the resulting page is rated B or above, and has no resulting ambox requests ({{rewrite}}
, {{cleanup}}
, {{copy edit}}
, {{expand}}
and {{stub}}
).
Any task that gives "at minimum" a number of tickets can give more than that number if the quality and/or thoroughness of the writing is higher than expected.
The first three tasks give more tickets the more outdated the page/section/infobox is. The base ticket amount is multiplied according to the following table:
Version | Multiplier |
---|---|
1.29 | 1 |
1.28 | 2 |
1.27 | 3 |
1.26 | 4 |
1.25 | 5 |
1.24 | 6 |
1.23 | 7 |
1.22 | 8 |
1.18 | 10 |
- Important: When updating an article/section/infobox do not remove versioning tags. Instead, set the version number to the updated version. This will make it stop displaying until a newer version is released. The SVersion tags should be present after each tier 2 header.
- Ensure that pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per page updated
- Ensure that page sections are up to date. See outdated sections for a list of pages with potentially outdated sections. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 0.25 ticket per section updated.
- Ensure that infoboxes are up to date. See outdated infoboxes for a list of pages with potentially outdated infoboxes. If no changes are necessary for the infobox to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per 10 infoboxes updated.
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works. This gives at minimum 2 tickets
- Write a page about an important modding concept. This gives at minimum 4 tickets
- Other improvements to the wiki give tickets based on the judgement of the person assigning tickets. Content additions, structure improvements, and grammar improvements are prime examples of contributions that'd fall under this
Mechanics pages
Mechanics pages are worth more than other pages to update, the changes and rewards are shown below.
Page | Version | Required changes | Tickets breakdown | Total tickets |
---|---|---|---|---|
Economy | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 18 for update, 1 for moving SVersions to tier 2 headers | 57 |
Tax | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 9 for update | 27 |
Production | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Trade | 1.25 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 15 for update, 4 for moving SVersions to tier 2 headers | 57 |
Development | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 15 for update | 40 |
Colonization | 1.23 | Update to 1.30 | 16 for update | 63 |
Trade goods | 1.22 | Update to 1.30 | 17 for update | 51 |
Manpower | 1.23 | Update to 1.30 | 14 for update | 42 |
Warfare | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 14 for update | 42 |
Army | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, expand reinforce costs, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 20 for update, 3 for expansion, 1 for moving SVersions to tier 2 headers | 64 |
Navy | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 10 for update | 30 |
Alliance | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, update image | 16 for update 2 for image | 57 |
Casus belli | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 9 for update | 27 |
Claim | 1.27 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 7 for update, 1 for moving SVersions to tier 2 headers | 24 |
Condottieri | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 8 for update, 1 for adding navbox | 27 |
Discipline | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 9 for update | 27 |
Force limit | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 11 for update | 33 |
Land units | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, update images | 11 for update, 5 for images | 51 |
Land warfare | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, add in Naval Barrage | 14 for update, 4 for Naval barrage | 54 |
Military leader | 1.22 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 14 for update, 4 for moving SVersions to tier 2 headers | 54 |
Military tradition | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, Update image, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 10 for update, 1 for image, 2 for moving SVersions | 39 |
Naval units | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 12 for update, 2 for moving SVersions | 42 |
Naval warfare | 1.25 | Update to 1.30 | 10 for update | 30 |
Sailors | 1.23 | Update to 1.30 | 16 for update | 48 |
War exhaustion | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 10 for update | 30 |
Power projection | 1.25 | Update to 1.30 | 7 for update | 21 |
Technology | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 (except technology list) | 15 for update, 2 for moving SVersions | 51 |
National ideas | 1.29 | Update to 1.30 | 4 for update | 12 |
Idea groups | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 7 for update | 21 |
Institutions | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 16 for update, 1 for moving SVersions | 51 |
Province | 1.25 | Update to 1.30, Move list of straits to dedicated page, Detail how winters work | 10 for update, 2 for straits, 4 for detailing winters | 48 |
Core | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Ruler | 1.25 | Update to 1.30, move Heir to tier 2 header | 13 for update, 1 for Heir section | 42 |
Monarch power | 1.28 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 4 for update, 1 for sversions | 15 |
Advisor | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, update images or remove | 7 for update, 1 per updated image | 21 |
Government | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, move all SVersions to tier 2, expand "Reform progress growth" | 15 for update, 1 for Sversions, 4 for progress growth | 60 |
Monarchy | 1.27 | Update to 1.30, add new reforms | 5 for update, 5 for reforms | 30 |
Republic | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add new reforms, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 9 for update, 5 for reforms, 1 for sversions | 45 |
Theocracy | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add new reforms | 5 for update, 5 for reforms | 30 |
Tribal government | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, add new reforms, move all SVersions to tier 2 | 8 for update, 5 for reforms, 1 for sversions | 42 |
Buildings | 1.28 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Religion | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 12 for update, 2 for Sversions | 42 |
Christian denominations | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 17 for update, 1 for Sversions | 54 |
Muslim denominations | 1.25 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 9 for update, 1 for Sversions | 30 |
Eastern denominations | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 12 for update, 1 for Sversions | 36 |
Pagan denominations | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 17 for update, 1 for Sversions | 54 |
Additional denominations | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2 | 12 for update, 1 for Sversions | 39 |
Crusader Kings II denominations | 1.23 | Update to 1.30 | 10 for update | 30 |
Culture | 1.25 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Estates | 1.22 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2, add navbox, add in new mechanics | 10 for update, 1 for Sversions, 1 for navbox, 5 for mechanics | 51 |
Base estates | 1.22 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 16 for update 1 for navbox | 51 |
Cossacks estates | 1.22 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 16 for update 1 for navbox | 51 |
Dharma estates | 1.22 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 12 for update 1 for navbox | 39 |
Autonomy | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Stability | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 9 for update | 27 |
Corruption | 1.27 | Update to 1.30, add navbox, new image | 5 for update, 1 for navbox, 3 for image | 27 |
Rebellion | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, expand harsh treatment costs | 15 for update, 5 for harsh treatment | 60 |
Disasters | 1.29 | Update to 1.30 | 4 for update | 12 |
Canal | 1.28 | Update to 1.30 | 4 for update | 12 |
Capital | 1.25 | Update to 1.30, move Fixed capitals to tier 2 | 9 for update, 1 for fixed capitals | 30 |
Factions | 1.29 | Update to 1.30 | 2 for update | 6 |
Overextension | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, update image | 10 for update, 2 for image | 36 |
Policies | 1.29 | Update to 1.30 | 2 for update | 6 |
States and territories | 1.21 | Update to 1.30, add Sversions to all tier 2 headers, update images | 25 for update, 2 for SVersions, 4 for images, quadrupled | 124 |
Native council | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 17 for update, 2 for navbox | 57 |
Steppe hordes | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, alter style to match Native council, organise Sversions, add navbox | 16 for update, 10 for style, 1 for sversions, 2 for navbox | 87 |
Events | ~ | Detail on mechanisms of triggered and pulse events | 20 for mechanisms | 60 |
Relations | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 12 for update | 36 |
Diplomacy | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, Move major diplomatic actions to their own tier 2 header | 22 for update, 3 for moving SVersions | 75 |
Regions | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 13 for update, 2 for update | 45 |
Subject nation | 1.21 | Update to 1.30, change simple sections to timeless | 10 for update, 5 for sections, quadrupled | 60 |
Holy Roman Empire | 1.28 | Update to 1.30, add Sversions to all tier 2 headers, move sversions from tier 3 headers, detail new mechanics | 10 for update, 5 for moving SVersions, 10 for mechanics | 75 |
Personal union | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move formula to math mode | 8 for update | 24 |
Diplomatic feedback | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add SVersions to all tier 2, update images | 11 for update, 1 sversions, 1 per image | 39 |
Emperor of China | 1.28 | Update to 1.30, reorganise effects of mandate below TOC, move sversions to tier 2 | 6 for update, 3 for style fixes | 27 |
Envoy | 1.24 | Update to 1.30 | 13 for update | 39 |
Espionage | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, move SVerions to tier 2 headers | 10 for update, 2 for sversions | 36 |
Papacy | 1.29 | Update to 1.30, detail new mechanics | 2 for update, 6 for mechanics | 24 |
Prestige | 1.23 | Update to 1.30 | 10 for update | 30 |
Luck | 1.29 | Update to 1.30 | 2 for update | 6 |
Nation designer | 1.24 | Update to 1.30, move SVerions to tier 2 headers, add navbox | 13 for update, 2 for sversions, 1 for navbox | 48 |
Random New World | 1.23 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 10 for update, 1 for navbox | 33 |
Score system | 1.18 | Update to 1.30, add navbox | 16 for update, quintupled | 80 |
Trade company | 1.27 | Update to 1.30, move sverions to tier 2 | 7 for update, 1 for sversions | 24 |
Personalities | 1.29 | Update to 1.30, add to mechanics page and add mechanics navbox | 2 for update, 2 for mechanics page with description, 1 for navbox | 15 |
Trade nodes | 1.28 | Update to 1.30, add to mechanics page and add mechanics navbox | 7 for update, 2 for mechanics page with description, 1 for navbox | 30 |
Ages | 1.28 | Update to 1.30, add to mechanics page and add mechanics navbox | 3 for update, 2 for mechanics page with description, 1 for navbox | 18 |
High value tasks
These tasks are of high importance to the wiki and as such are worth more than their components would be.
- Guides for Parliament modding, Rebel modding, Random new world tile modding, Nation designer modding, Rebel modding, Subject type modding, Particle modding, Shader modding, Empire of China modding, Holy Roman Empire modding, Institution modding, Peace treaty modding, Ages modding 10 tickets each
- Pages for the following events lists Culture and religion events, Holy Order events, Mamluk government events, Russian Principalities events, Russian Tsardom events, Siberian colonization events, Streltsy events, Trade company investment events, Tributary events, Tribal federation events, Propagate religion events, Muslim schools events, Monsoon events, Trade policy events 10 tickets each
Interface updates and controls
- Artificial intelligence - 5
- Controls - 10
- Country interface - 15
- Ingame screen - 15
- Ledger - 10
- Options - 1
- Province interface - 10
- User interface - 10
Unit packs
Build a page listing unit packs. Images are uploaded and stored in Category:Unit_packs.
Emperor/1.30
A number of features are introduced or changed in Patch 1.30. Having info on this is highly important to the wiki, and is thus highly rewarded compared to the effort involved:
Content added | Reward |
---|---|
Revolution revamp | 10 |
Hussite faith | 10 |
Hegemonies | 5 |
New Missions | 10 per set added |
Defender of Faith | 5 |
The Council of Trent and Counter-Reformation | 5 |
Provoke Rebellions | 5 |
Add any missing mechanics from the list above to the mechanics page complete with appropriate icon and description. 5 tickets per mechanic added
Develop a complete mechanics navbox and deploy it to all mechanics pages. Complete with links from any existing mechanics navbox. See the Stellaris Game Concepts navbox or the HOI4 Mechanics navbox for examples.
- New navbox: 10
- Apply Mechanics navbox to all Mechanics page 1 per 5 pages
- Identify any missing mechanics pages from the newly moved navbox and add them 1 per mechanic correctly added.
Old page updates
There are a number of very outdated pages on the wiki. The prizes for updating them are listed below. Note that mechanics pages which are outdated are instead listed above.
Page | Reward | Page | Reward |
---|---|---|---|
Base estates | 8 | Confucian events | 8 |
Cossacks estates | 8 | Cusco | 8 |
Danish events | 8 | Dharma estates | 8 |
Estates events | 8 | Fetishist events | 8 |
French events | 8 | Incan events | 8 |
Japan | 8 | Ming | 8 |
Ottomans | 8 | Permanent modifiers | 8 |
Women in History events | 8 |
Old images
These images are all outdated, replacing with an up to date version is worth 8 tickets each.
- File:Eu4demandtribute.jpg
- File:Euivminimap.jpg
- File:Expenses column.png
- File:Goods-produced-tooltip.png
- File:HRE authority tooltip.jpg
- File:Institutions province.png
- File:MapGraphics.JPG
- File:Military leaders.jpg
- File:Production-income-tooltip.png
- File:Queen.jpg
- File:Rival interface.png
- File:Ruler Personality.png
- File:Settings 1.jpg
- File:State territory.png
- File:Trade-value-tooltip.png
Image age identification
Some images do not have a version category. Add an appropriate version for any pages in the following categories. 1 ticket per image given a version category.
- Category:Charts
- Category:Interface_images
- Category:Country_interface_tabs
- Category:Macrobuilder_images
- Category:Map_images
- Category:Mission_trees
- Category:National mission trees
- Category:Region_Maps
- Category:Super-Region_Maps
Page expansion
There are several pages on the wiki which have been tagged as needing an expansion. The tickets below do not include bonuses for updating a page so an entrant will be awarded more tickets if they update the page too.
Page | Changes requested | Reward |
---|---|---|
Army professionalism events | Add missing events | 10 |
Culture modding | Country and province modifiers of cultures or culture groups | 10 |
Event modding | Default ai chance, when not all options have it specified. | 5 |
Faction modding | Custom faction names | 5 |
Japanese missions | Add in missing missions | 10 |
Korean missions | Add in missing missions | 10 |
List_of_decision_lists#Religion | Add in missing decisions | 5 |
Content verification
Verifying that content on the wiki is correct is also important. Each page checked and verified is worth 5 tickets. The unverified content is tagged with the {{Sup}}
template.
Adding categories
- Add categories to images in Special:UncategorizedFiles
Verify computer generated content
Pages in Category:Computer_generated were generated using the PDXParse suite. Verify the content and fix any transcoding errors. 1 Ticket per event verified and updated to 1.30.
Unrecognized icon strings
Pages in Category:Pages with unrecognized icon strings contain unrecognized icon strings either through typing errors or missing files. 3 Tickets per page corrected.
Flag images
Some of the flags are low resolution and high resolution (800x533 to 1000x667) ones are desired. This is not the same as stretching the image (see the history of File:Apache.png for an example of what not to do). Each flag uploaded with correct copyright is worth 1 ticket.
- File:Brunswick.png
- File:Chanda.png
- File:Chavchuveny.png
- File:Chickasaw.png
- File:Cocomes.png
- File:Corfu.png
- File:Corsica.png
- File:Crete.png
- File:Desmond.png
- File:East Frisia.png
- File:Epirus.png
- File:Garhwal.png
- File:Gondwana.png
- File:Hadoti.png
- File:Hobyo.png
- File:Ichma.png
- File:Imereti.png
- File:Itza.png
- File:Jaisalmer.png
- File:Jharkhand.png
- File:Kathiawar.png
- File:Kazan.png
- File:Kham.png
- File:Kiche.png
- File:Kong.png
- File:Lanao.png
- File:Lorraine.png
- File:Majeerteen.png
- File:Malabar.png
- File:Mazovia.png
- File:Mecklenburg.png
- File:Modena.png
- File:Moldavia.png
- File:Morea.png
- File:Multan.png
- File:Mysore.png
- File:Mzab.png
- File:Ndongo.png
- File:Nevers.png
- File:Odoyev.png
- File:Potawatomi.png
- File:Powhatan.png
- File:Pskov.png
- File:Qasim.png
- File:Rewa Kantha.png
- File:Salish.png
- File:Saxe-Lauenburg.png
- File:Silesia.png
- File:Sukhothai.png
- File:Sus.png
- File:Susquehannock.png
- File:Tirhut.png
- File:Transylvania.png
- File:Tver.png
- File:U-tsang.png
- File:Venad.png
- File:Wallachia.png
- File:Wichita.png
- File:Zaporozhie.png
- File:Zapotec.png
- File:Zunghar.png
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact the overseeing moderator about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 72 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify overseeing moderator that one is entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
If you believe you have made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that your ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:SolSys.
Earned tickets
Fractional tickets are only used for accounting progress towards an entrant's next ticket.
- Notes
- When updating content remember to also update the accompanying version tag (do not delete them).
- When updating old articles refer to changes from past patches as well (not just the last one).
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Historium365 | 1 |
Catoscar | 2 |
LeSingeAffame | 0.5 |
Stigni | 4 |
Grotaclas | 344 |
PtY | 18 |
Settra0428 | 4 |
Lomol | 50 |
Dmitriytosunov | 0.5 |
Ulmorion72 | 1 |
UserID | 296 |
KonigPanther | 1 |
Dworthy | 5 |
Tmasher | 223 |
Pinpinolo | 18 |
Rygel8472 | 215 |
Oliver H. | 1 |
Vawser | 4 |
Iferius | 0.5 |
JoseMF-14 | 1 |
Nicccky | 5 |
Prodarit | 1 |
BlazeKnight | 1.5 |
MangoMan05 | 4 |
Alfray Stryke | 1 |
Claivin | 60 |
IgnoredAmbience | 187 |
Mattz444 | 0.5 |
Temuj | 3 |
Wakerwo | 103 |
LxlTiagolxl | 2 |
NothinHappened | 1 |
Aicaeius | 3 |
ADeathbagel | 2 |
Loz88 | 1 |
Neato | 226 |
Alivanza | 30 |
ShyGuy13 | 10 |
EarlKonrad | 25 |
Cetvrtak | 17 |
MrKage | 3 |
Gumcel | 0.5 |
Drawjk12 | 24 |
Xetfield | 1 |
Royal456 | 4 |
A Yakky Yak | 2 |
Moosi312 | 3 |
Kerkus | 0.5 |
Capitaine Spock | 283 |
WestGeat | 1 |
Scythia | 1.5 |
Gasior | 2 |
Samorend | 1 |
BadlyDrawnHorse | 2 |
TroyMC | 0.5 |
Flune | 66 |
Luveha | 1 |
Gwydion716 | 1 |
Cowfish55 | 2 |
VanHart | 0.5 |
Addhawaiitoeu4 | 0.5 |
Rendiggy | 0.5 |
Question | 0.5 |
DeepFriedGlory | 0.5 |
RetlocPeck | 0.5 |
8th contest
The wiki ran a contest starting on 2016-10-11 when the Rights of Man expansion is released, and ending at 2016-10-22 at 2000 CEST.
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win. Fixed prizes are also given out to the top three contributors by number of tickets
The three users with the most tickets will each get a discount voucher for the Paradox Web Store. This can be used for any combination of digital goods (limited to at most one copy of each individual product) in a single transaction, but cannot be applied to physical goods:
- 1st place gets a 90% off voucher - Won by Romaoplays (425 tickets)
- 2nd place gets a 75% off voucher - Won by Philadelphus (303 tickets)
- 3rd place gets a 50% off voucher - Won by Barykker (112 tickets)
They will also receive a special forum avatar and icon (). These are unique to major wiki contributors.
Further winners will be selected using a random number generator. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning is proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained. The top three contributors by number of tickets are also entered in the raffle.
A total of 12 prizes will be raffled off:
- 4 copies of the Crusader Kings II Gold (raffled individually) - Won by Romaoplays (425 tickets), Philadelphus (303 tickets), Tr3qwerty (24 tickets), and Dj09ou (18 tickets)
- 4 copies of the Hearts of Iron 3 base game (raffled individually) - Won by Romaoplays (425 tickets), Philadelphus (303 tickets), Neondt (17 tickets), and Barykker (112 tickets)
- 4 copies of the Victoria 2 Collection (raffled individually) - Won by Romaoplays (425 tickets), Frozen Spook (24 tickets), 123e55 (66 tickets), and Barykker (112 tickets)
(Crusader Kings II Gold consists of Crusader Kings II and the following DLC: Dynasty Shields, The Mongols, Ruler Designer, Songs of Albion, Songs of Faith, Songs of Holy Land)
It is not possible to win more than one copy of each game, but it is possible to win one of each.
Rules and guidelines
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki; anonymous edits are not counted unless they can be clearly connected to a registered user (E.G., in cases where the user was accidentally logged out)
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email. Note that by default the Paradox Account email address is used
- If you have changed the email address of your Paradox Account since registering on the Paradox Wikis, you should update your email address on the wikis. Otherwise, it may take longer than normal for you to receive your prize(s) if you were to win
- Only edits after the start of the contest count
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- Paradox Wikis moderator Dauth decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below. Between the start of the contest and 23:59 CEST 2016-10-13 Paradox Wikis half-operator SolSys will be awarding tickets
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards. Edit summaries are encouraged, but not required except where otherwise specified
- Administrators and Moderators cannot enter the contest
- To prevent a conflict of interest, halfops are discouraged from editing the contest page
- Any action on the list undertaken between the release of Rights of Man and the end of the contest will earn tickets.
Earning tickets
A large variety of tasks will earn you tickets; everything from updating pages, to writing strategies, to modding information, to creating pages on new features. All tasks are listed below.
Anything that involves the creation of a new page or section assumes that the resulting page is rated B or above, and has no resulting ambox requests ({{rewrite}}
, {{cleanup}}
, {{copy edit}}
, {{expand}}
and {{stub}}
).
Any task that gives "at minimum" a number of tickets can give more than that number if the quality and/or thoroughness of the writing is higher than expected.
The first three tasks give more tickets the more outdated the page/section/infobox is. The base ticket amount is multiplied according to the following table:
Version | Multiplier |
---|---|
1.16 & 1.17 | 1 |
1.14 & 1.15 | 2 |
1.12 & 1.13 | 4 |
1.10 & 1.11 | 8 |
- Ensure that pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per page updated
- Ensure that page sections are up to date. See outdated sections for a list of pages with potentially outdated sections. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 0.25 ticket per section updated. Note that when the section is up to date the section versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.18". This will make it stop displaying until 1.19 is released.
- Ensure that infoboxes are up to date. See outdated infoboxes for a list of pages with potentially outdated infoboxes. If no changes are necessary for the infobox to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per 10 infoboxes updated. Note that when the infobox is up to date the versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.18". This will make it stop displaying until 1.19 is released.
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works. This gives at minimum 2 tickets
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines. This gives at minimum 2 tickets
- Write a page about an important modding concept. This gives at minimum 4 tickets
- Other improvements to the wiki give tickets based on the judgement of the person assigning tickets. Content additions, structure improvements, and grammar improvements are prime examples of contributions that'd fall under this
Mechanics pages
Mechanics pages are worth more than other pages to update, the changes and rewards are shown below.
Page | Version | Required changes | Tickets breakdown | Total tickets |
---|---|---|---|---|
Advisor | 1.18 | Update to 1.18, update images or remove, change formulas to latex | 3 for formulas (in example) | 3 |
Alliance | 1.18 | Update formulae and remove background, update images | 2 for formulae, 2 for images doubled | 8 |
Areas, Regions, Superregions | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets doubled | 4 |
Army | 1.16 | Update to 1.18, remove indent for formulae | 8 tickets for update, 2 for style doubled | 20 |
Canal | 1.14 | Update to 1.18 | 4 tickets doubled | 8 |
Casus belli | 1.12 | Update to 1.18 | 9 tickets doubled | 18 |
Claim | 1.14 | Update to 1.18, link to generic events/decisions/missions which give claims do not list country specific ones, fix reference error | 3 tickets, 3 for events/decisions/missions, 1 for error fix doubled | 14 |
Colonization | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 3 tickets doubled | 6 |
Condottieri | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets doubled | 4 |
Diplomacy | 1.12 | Update to 1.18 | 11 tickets doubled | 22 |
Diplomatic feedback | 1.14 | Update to 1.18 | 4 tickets doubled | 8 |
Discipline | 1.15 | Update to 1.18 | 3 tickets doubled | 6 |
Espionage | 1.18 | Update to 1.18, add in study technology | 1 tickets for example images (top bar / right list), 2 for study technology doubled | 6 |
Events | Timeless | Detail on mechanisms of triggered and pulse events | 8 tickets doubled | 16 |
Factions | 1.18 | Detail how the factions mechanics work and add tables for bonus for increasing/decreasing influence | 4 for mechanics, 4 for tables doubled | 16 |
Government | 1.13 | Update to 1.18, add new Ottoman and Prussian Governments | 19 for updates, quadrupled | 76 |
Holy Roman Empire | 1.12 | Update to 1.18 | 15 tickets doubled | 30 |
Idea groups | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 3 tickets doubled | 6 |
Land units | 1.17 | Update to 1.18, update images | 1 for update, 1 for images doubled | 4 |
Land warfare | 1.13 | Update to 1.18, correct style mistakes | 13 for update, 2 for style fixes doubled | 30 |
Military leader | 1.12 | Update to 1.18 | 12 for update doubled | 24 |
Military tradition | 1.12 | Update to 1.18, fix formulae | 10 for update, 2 for formula fix, doubled | 24 |
Naval units | 1.15 | Update to 1.18 | 6 tickets doubled | 12 |
Naval warfare | 1.18 | Update to 1.18, detail engagement width and describe setting naval missions, add formulae for target selection, hull damage and morale damage | 3 tickets for update, 4 for engagement width, 4 for naval missions, 4 for formula for target selection, 4 for formula for hull damage, 4 for formula for morale damage, tripled | 69 |
Navy | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 7 tickets doubled | 14 |
Overextension | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 6 tickets doubled | 12 |
Policies | 1.17 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets doubled | 4 |
Power projection | 1.18 | Update to 1.18, remove incorrect information | 1 tickets (for missing info), 2 for improved presentation doubled | 6 |
Production | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets doubled | 4 |
Protectorate | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets for update doubled | 4 |
Province | 1.15 | Update to 1.18, detail winters properly | Winters 2 tickets, update 6 tickets, doubled | 16 |
Raid Coasts | 1.18 | Expand with efficiency calculations and expected revenue | 2 for calculations, 2 for expected revenue, doubled | 8 |
Random New World | 1.17 | Update to 1.18, add in new tiles | 2 for update, 2 for new tiles, doubled | 8 |
Relations | 1.15 | Update to 1.18, remove you and your and put into third person, | 4 for update, doubled | 8 |
Religion | 1.14 | Update to 1.18 | 9 for update doubled | 18 |
Religions and denominations | 1.15 | Update to 1.18, add in new Coptic mechanics (describe holy sites and current owners), rearrange South American/Mesoamerican religions to match page style and describe religious reforms in dedicated section | 1 for Coptic (add holy site provinces + owners), |
36 |
Ruler | 1.18 | Update to 1.18, Queens, abdication and disinheriting | 1 tickets (for missing info) | 1 |
Sailors | 1.18 | Add in detail on sailors per province | 1 for detail on sailors per province, doubled | 2 |
Score system | 1.17 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets doubled | 4 |
Subject nation | 1.18 | Update to 1.18 add Military focus for subjects, add view subject's information, add build/develop in subjects | 1 tickets (for missing info) | 1 |
Tax | 1.14 | Update to 1.18, Move TOC above formula, removed indent and background colour from formula | 6 tickets doubled | 12 |
Territories and states | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 2 for update, doubled | 4 |
Trade | 1.12 | Update to 1.18, update images, remove background from formulae, rewrite using information on talk page | 15 for update text, 6 for rewrite, 1 for formulae, 1 for images, doubled | 46 |
Trade company | 1.14 | Update to 1.18, update image | 5 for update, 2 for image, doubled | 14 |
Triggered modifiers | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 1 ticket, doubled | 2 |
Warfare | 1.16 | Update to 1.18 | 5 tickets, doubled | 10 |
War exhaustion | 1.17 | Update to 1.18 | 2 tickets, doubled | 4 |
High value tasks
These tasks are of high importance to the wiki and as such are worth more than their components would be.
- Expand Movement speed for armies and navies - 2 tickets
- Add in new Achievements with images in the correct category - 6 tickets
- Populate mechanics page - group up and redistribute missing links on current mechanics page in a more sensible manner - 4 tickets
- Guides for Interface modding, Trade company modding, Estate modding, Random New World modding, Parliament modding, Rebel modding, Random new world tile modding, Trade node modding, 4 tickets each
- Update the changes made to religions and denominations in the CK2 2.6.2 patch - 4 tickets (3 for page + 1 for images upload)
Interface updates and controls
- Artificial intelligence - 5
- Controls - 3
- Country interface - 4
- Ingame screen - 4
- Ledger - 5
- Multiplayer - 8
- Options - 1
- Province interface - 6
- User interface - 3
Rights of Man/1.18
A number of features are introduced or changed in patch 1.18. Having info on this is highly important to the wiki, and is thus highly rewarded compared to the effort involved:
- Ruler personalities - 8 tickets
- Native reform mechanic - describe how reforming as a native has been changed 4 tickets
- New Culture mechanics - 8 tickets
- Queens and Queen regencies - 4 tickets
- Military focus for subjects - 4 tickets
- Coptic religion changes - 4 tickets
- Revolutionary Republic Factions - 4 tickets
- A section on the ruler page about the "abdicate" function - 2 tickets
- A section on the ruler page about the "disinherit" function - 2 tickets
- Ottoman Government mechanics - 2 tickets
- Prussian Government mechanics - 2 tickets
- View subject's information - 2 tickets
- Build and develop in subjects - 2 tickets
- Minimap updates - 2 tickets
- Bodycount feature - 2 tickets
- Strengthen Government - 2 tickets
- Abandon personal union - 2 tickets
- Ghost option in multiplayer - 2 tickets
Old page updates
There are a number of very outdated pages on the wiki. The prizes for updating them are listed below. Note that mechanics pages which are outdated are instead listed above. These values have been quadrupled from their original value.
Page | Reward |
---|---|
Mod structure | 32 |
Scopes | 68 |
Style rewrites
There are several pages on the wiki which have been tagged as rewrites. This means the page has several issues which are against the style guide. The tickets below do not include bonuses for updating a page so an entrant will be awarded more tickets if they update the page too.
Page | Reward |
---|---|
Portugal | 7 |
Raja of the Rajput Reich | 10 |
Trade | 16 |
Flag images
Some of the flags are low resolution and high resolution (800x533 to 1000x667) ones are desired. This is not the same as stretching the image (see the history of File:Apache.png for an example of what not to do). Each flag uploaded with correct copyright is worth 1 ticket.
- File:Brunswick.png
- File:Busoga.png
- File:Chanda.png
- File:Chavchuveny.png
- File:Chickasaw.png
- File:Cocomes.png
- File:Corfu.png
- File:Corsica.png
- File:Crete.png
- File:Desmond.png
- File:East Frisia.png
- File:Epirus.png
- File:Garhwal.png
- File:Gondwana.png
- File:Hadoti.png
- File:Hobyo.png
- File:Ichma.png
- File:Imereti.png
- File:Itza.png
- File:Jaisalmer.png
- File:Jharkhand.png
- File:Kanem Bornu.png
- File:Kathiawar.png
- File:Kazan.png
- File:Kham.png
- File:Kiche.png
- File:Kong.png
- File:La Plata.png
- File:Lan Na.png
- File:Lanao.png
- File:Ligor.png
- File:Lorraine.png
- File:Majeerteen.png
- File:Malabar.png
- File:Manipur.png
- File:Mazovia.png
- File:Mecklenburg.png
- File:Mewar.png
- File:Modena.png
- File:Moldavia.png
- File:Morea.png
- File:Multan.png
- File:Mysore.png
- File:Mzab.png
- File:Ndongo.png
- File:Nevers.png
- File:Nogai.png
- File:Odoyev.png
- File:Ottawa.png
- File:Potawatomi.png
- File:Powhatan.png
- File:Pskov.png
- File:Qasim.png
- File:Rewa Kantha.png
- File:Salish.png
- File:Sarig Yogir.png
- File:Saxe-Lauenburg.png
- File:Silesia.png
- File:Sukhothai.png
- File:Sus.png
- File:Susquehannock.png
- File:Tirhut.png
- File:Transylvania.png
- File:Tver.png
- File:U-tsang.png
- File:Uzbek.png
- File:Venad.png
- File:Wallachia.png
- File:Wanka.png
- File:Wichita.png
- File:Zaporozhie.png
- File:Zapotec.png
- File:Zunghar.png
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact Dauth about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 72 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
If you believe you have made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that your ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Dauth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Dauth that one is entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
Fractional tickets are only used for accounting progress towards an entrant's next ticket. In the raffle, ticket numbers are always rounded down.
- Notes
- When updating a section remember to also mark the new versioning.
- When updating old articles refer to changes from past patches as well (not just the last one).
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
123e55 | 66 |
Akmych | 4 |
AlexSSB | 4 |
Argonne | 4 |
Atwix | 8 |
Bluend | 1 |
Barykker | 112 |
Cragspyder | 2 |
Daniel060 | 4 |
DarkEnergy | 9 |
Dj09ou | 18 |
Evil4Zerggin | 6 |
Frozen Spook | 24 |
FrogCrusher | 6 |
Gonya | 4 |
Guzjohnson | 9 |
Jackoblades | 4 |
Karimjebari | 3 |
Kcraal | 9 |
Kirell | 1 |
Iannar | 2 |
Kraal Rokviente | 3 |
Leo Boon | 13 |
Mange98 | 4 |
Mengxy | 2 |
Millionsaur | 8 |
Mjang99116 | 9 |
Neondt | 17 |
Nixxquality | 1 |
Orange1861 | 8 |
Philadelphus | 303 |
Pinpinolo | 2 |
Pyroclastic | 5 |
RandomBrony99 | 3 |
Rendiggy | 10 |
Rituro | 3 |
Romaoplays | 425 |
Silver Wizard | 19 |
SirGregMac | 1 |
Superclash89 | 5 |
Thaif | 13 |
The Waycaster | 1 |
Tre3qwerty | 24 |
UserID | 16 |
Vetgirig | 109 |
Warmowed | 5 |
Yuuma | 13 |
Total | 1322 |
7th competition
The wiki ran a contest which started on 2016-04-05 when the Mare Nostrum expansion is released, and ended at 2016-04-16 at 2000 CET.
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win. Fixed prizes are also given out to the top three contributors by number of tickets
The three users with the most tickets will each get a discount voucher for the Paradox Web Store. This can be used for any combination of digital goods in a single transaction, but cannot be applied to physical goods:
- 1st place gets a 90% off voucher - Won by Ghastrakun (367 tickets)
- 2nd place gets a 75% off voucher - Won by SolSys (345 tickets)
- 3rd place gets a 50% off voucher - Won by Rygel8472 (278 tickets)
Further winners will be selected using a random number generator. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning is proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained. The top three contributors by number of tickets are also entered in the raffle.
A total of 15 prizes will be raffled off:
- 5 copies of the Crusader Kings II base game (raffled individually) - Won by Ghastrakun (367), SolSys (345), Charlesex (78), 123e55 (61), and Inei (8)
- 5 copies of the Hearts of Iron 3 Collection (raffled individually) - Won by SolSys (345), Rygel8472 (278), Tre3qwerty (156), Indigo Blue (78), and TheProCoder (51)
- 5 copies of the Victoria 2 Collection (raffled individually) - Won by Ghastrakun (367), SolSys (345), Rygel8472 (278), TheProCoder (51), and UserID (25)
It is not possible to win more than one copy of each game, but it is possible to win one of each.
Rules and guidelines
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki; anonymous edits are not counted unless they can be clearly connected to a registered user (E.G., in cases where the user was accidentally logged out)
- Only edits after the start of the contest count
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email. Note that by default the Paradox Account email address is used
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The Paradox Wikis administrator (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below. From the start of the contest until 23:59 Friday 8th April, the Paradox Wikis moderator (Dauth) will be awarding tickets.
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Moderators cannot enter the contest, halfops are eligible to enter
- To prevent a conflict of interest, halfops are discouraged from editing the contest page
- Any action on the list undertaken between the release of Mare Nostrum and the end of the contest will earn tickets.
Earning tickets
A large variety of tasks will earn you tickets; everything from updating pages, to writing strategies, to modding information, to creating pages on new features. All tasks are listed below.
Anything that involves the creation of a new page or section assumes that the resulting page is rated B or above, and has no resulting ambox requests ({{rewrite}}
, {{cleanup}}
, {{copy edit}}
, {{expand}}
and {{stub}}
).
Any task that gives "at minimum" a number of tickets can give more than that number if the quality and/or thoroughness of the writing is higher than expected.
The first three tasks give more tickets the more outdated the page/section/infobox is. The base ticket amount is multiplied according to the following table:
Version | Multiplier |
---|---|
1.15 | 1 |
1.14 | 1 |
1.13 | 2 |
1.12 | 2 |
1.11 | 3 |
1.10 | 3 |
- Ensure that pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per page updated
- Ensure that page sections are up to date. See outdated sections for a list of pages with potentially outdated sections. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 0.25 ticket per section updated. Note that when the section is up to date the section versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.16". This will make it stop displaying until 1.17 is released.
- Ensure that infoboxes are up to date. See outdated infoboxes for a list of pages with potentially outdated infoboxes. If no changes are necessary for the infobox to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. This gives a base amount of 1 ticket per 10 infoboxes updated. Note that when the infobox is up to date the versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.16". This will make it stop displaying until 1.17 is released.
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works. This gives at minimum 2 tickets
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines. This gives at minimum 2 tickets
- Write a page about an important modding concept. This gives at minimum 4 tickets
- Other improvements to the wiki give tickets based on the judgement of the person assigning tickets. Content additions, structure improvements, and grammar improvements are prime examples of contributions that'd fall under this
Mechanics pages
Mechanics pages are worth thrice as much as regular pages to update, the changes and rewards are shown below.
Page (Version) | Required changes | Tickets |
---|---|---|
Diplomacy (1.11) | Update to 1.16, | 2 for sections, 1 for study technology expansion, 2 for detailing rivals, 3 for final update of page, trebled to 36 |
Holy Roman Empire (1.12) | Update to 1.16, remove links from bold sections | 8 for sections, 1 for style fixes, trebled to 27 |
Ideas (1.11) | Update to 1.16, show new image of interface, link to events affected by ideas | 5 for sections, 1 for new image, 2 for links, trebled to 24 |
Power projection (1.12) | Update to 1.16 | 1 for sections, 2 for page, trebled to 9 |
Province (1.12) | Update to 1.16, Update continents image | 5 for sections, 1 for new image, 2 for page update, trebled to 36 |
Rebellion (1.10) | Update to 1.16, fix style problems, update images | 9 for sections, 6 for rewrite, 1 for image, trebled to 48 |
Religion (1.14) | Update to 1.16 | 4 for sections, 2 for page, trebled to 18 |
Tax (1.12) | Update to 1.16, | 2 for sections, 2 for page, trebled to 12 |
Technology (1.15) | Update to 1.16, change indented formulae to LaTeX mathematical versions (without indent), update technology groups image | 3 for sections, 1 for image, 1 for formulae, 1 for page trebled to 18 |
Trade (1.10) | Update to 1.16, style rewrite, | 6 for sections, 8 for rewrite, 3 for page, trebled to 51 |
High value tasks
These tasks are of high importance to the wiki and as such are worth more than their components would be.
- Nation designer detailing the updates to the nation designer 3
- Score system updates and verification of mechanics 4
- Guides for Interface modding, Trade company modding, Estate modding, Random New World modding, Parliament modding, Rebel modding, Random new world tile modding, Trade node modding, 4 tickets each
- Updating the rebel types table in Rebellion#All_faction_types to 1.16 4
- Up to date version of File:East_Indian_Trade_Route.png 5
Mare Nostrum/1.16
A number of features are introduced or changed in patch 1.16. Having info on this is highly important to the wiki, and is thus highly rewarded compared to the effort involved:
1 tickets - Linking into the rest of the wiki, including proper category and links on other pages
5 tickets - More detail on trade leagues and proper linking within the wiki
5 tickets - Add in information requested on page
Style rewrites
There are several pages on the wiki which have been tagged as rewrites. This means the page has several issues which are against the style guide. The tickets below do not include bonuses for updating a page so an entrant will be awarded more tickets if they update the page too.
Page | Reward | Page | Reward | Page | Reward |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayutthaya | 11 | Je maintiendrai | 8 | Ruina Imperii | 8 |
Burgundy | 7 | Jihad | 10 | Ryukyu | 9 |
Castile | 9 | Ming | 11 | Teutonic Order | 9 |
Ethiopia | 5 | Nepal | 10 | The Re-Reconquista | 8 |
Genoa | 11 | Netherlands | 7 | This is Persia! | 9 |
Holy Trinity | 8 | Norway | 10 | Timurids | 10 |
Ideas Guy | 7 | Norwegian Wood | 8 | Trade strategy | 5 |
Jaunpur | 5 | Romania | 9 | United States | 7 |
Flag images
Some of the flags are low resolution and high resolution ones are desired. This is not the same as stretching the image (see the history of File:Apache.png for an example of what not to do). Each flag uploaded with correct copyright and category is worth 1 ticket.
File:Apache.png- File:Bagelkhand.png
- File:Bahmanis.png
- File:Baluchistan.png
- File:Baroda.png
File:Bengal.png- File:Berar.png
- File:Bijapur.png
- File:Blackfoot.png
- File:Bonoman.png
- File:Brunswick.png
- File:Caddo.png
- File:Champa.png
- File:Champasak.png
- File:Chanda.png
- File:Chavchuveny.png
- File:Chickasaw.png
- File:Chu.png
- File:Cirebon.png
- File:Cirebon.png
- File:Cocomes.png
- File:Corfu.png
- File:Corsica.png
- File:Crete.png
- File:Dagbon.png
- File:Dali.png
- File:East Frisia.png
- File:Epirus.png
File:Fez.png- File:Fezzan.png
- File:Friesland.png
- File:Garhwal.png
- File:Geledi.png
- File:Gondwana.png
- File:Hadoti.png
- File:Hobyo.png
File:Hormuz.png- File:Hsenwi.png
- File:Ichma.png
- File:Illiniwek.png
- File:Imereti.png
- File:Inca.png
- File:Iraq.png
- File:Itza.png
- File:Jaisalmer.png
- File:Jharkhand.png
- File:Kaabu.png
- File:Kanem Bornu.png
- File:Kathiawar.png
- File:Kazan.png
- File:Kham.png
File:Khorasan.pngFile:Khoshuud.png- File:Kiche.png
- File:Koch.png
- File:Kong.png
- File:Korchin.png
- File:Kutai.png
- File:La Plata.png
- File:Lan Na.png
- File:Lanao.png
- File:Lanfang.png
- File:Ligor.png
- File:Lorraine.png
- File:Luang Prabang.png
File:Mahican.png- File:Majeerteen.png
- File:Malabar.png
- File:Manipur.png
- File:Marehan.png
File:Maya.png- File:Mazovia.png
- File:Mecklenburg.png
- File:Mewar.png
File:Miao.png- File:Mixtec.png
- File:Modena.png
- File:Moldavia.png
- File:Morea.png
- File:Muisca.png
- File:Multan.png
- File:Mysore.png
- File:Mzab.png
- File:Navajo.png
- File:Ndongo.png
- File:Nevers.png
- File:Ning.png
- File:Nogai.png
- File:Orleans.png
- File:Ottawa.png
- File:Pegu.png
- File:Pequot.png
File:Pima.png- File:Pisa.png
File:Polotsk.png- File:Potawatomi.png
- File:Powhatan.png
- File:Pskov.png
- File:Qasim.png
File:Quito.png- File:Rewa Kantha.png
File:Riga.png- File:Rohilkhand.png
- File:Ryazan.png
- File:Sadiya.png
- File:Salish.png
- File:Sarig Yogir.png
- File:Saruhan.png
- File:Saxe-Lauenburg.png
File:Segu.png- File:Shawnee.png
- File:Shirvan.png
- File:Silesia.png
- File:Sioux.png
- File:Sukhothai.png
- File:Sus.png
- File:Susquehannock.png
File:Tapuia.png- File:Tarascan.png
- File:Ternate.png
- File:Theodoro.png
File:Tidore.png- File:Tirhut.png
- File:Tlapanec.png
- File:Tlaxcala.png
- File:Tonkin.png
- File:Totonac.png
- File:Transylvania.png
- File:Tupiniquim.png
- File:Tver.png
- File:U-tsang.png
- File:Urbino.png
- File:Uzbek.png
- File:Venad.png
- File:Verden.png
- File:Wallachia.png
- File:Wanka.png
- File:Wichita.png
- File:Xi.png
- File:Xiu.png
- File:Yao.png
- File:Yi.png
- File:Zaporozhie.png
- File:Zapotec.png
- File:Zunghar.png
New flags with patch 1.16:
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact Meneth about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 72 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
If you believe you have made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that your ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one is entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
Fractional tickets are only used for accounting progress towards an entrant's next ticket. In the raffle, ticket numbers are always rounded down.
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Skauld | 9 |
SolSys | 345 |
Holomanga | 9 |
HisArmada | 2 |
TheProCoder | 51 |
Codename 539 | 1 |
CoolSquid | 14 |
Philadelphus | 36 |
Zraith | 11 |
FrozenFeet | 5 |
123e55 | 61 |
Muffinmurdurer | 1 |
Phibs | 3 |
Erthzeid | 8 |
Charlesex | 78 |
Chrismen3 | 1 |
Silver Wizard | 35 |
BloodshotPixel | 2 |
Christopholes | 1 |
Puchacz | 12 |
Cragspyder | 45 |
Dark Kain | 6 |
Zohtun | 8 |
Moyang | 3 |
LordKvasir | 3 |
Certh | 3 |
Mario5752 | 1 |
Ghastrakun | 367 |
Rygel8472 | 278 |
BillyThePoo | 5 |
Elisakar | 2 |
Indigo Blue | 78 |
Tre3qwerty | 156 |
Illyrien | 1 |
TeutonicVodka | 1 |
Valdimar | 1 |
ZazzauBramon | 1 |
UserID | 25 |
Eclaudius | 2 |
GaryKogoyJR | 2 |
Emil2205 | 2 |
SDzv | 1 |
Vaan24 | 2 |
Inei | 8 |
JohnnyAlpha | 5 |
Guzjohnson | 6 |
Iron Magus | 2 |
Stigni | Not participating |
Total | 1699 |
6th competition
The wiki ran a contest starting on 2015-12-01 when The Cossacks expansion was released, and ending at 2015-12-12 at 2000 CET.
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win. Fixed prizes are also given out to the top three contributors by number of tickets
The three users with the most tickets will each get a discount voucher for the Paradox Web Store. This can be used for any combination of digital goods in a single transaction, but cannot be applied to physical goods:
- 1st place gets a 75% off voucher
- 2nd place gets a 50% off voucher
- 3rd place gets a 25% off voucher
Further winners will be selected using a random number generator. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning is proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained. The top three contributors by number of tickets are also entered in the raffle.
A total of 10 prizes will be raffled off:
- 5 copies of the Crusader Kings II base game (raffled individually)
- 5 copies of the Hearts of Iron 3 Collection (raffled individually)
It is not possible to win more than one copy of each game, but it is possible to win both.
Winners
Three users were awarded Paradox Webstore discount vouchers for having the most tickets:
Five users won Crusader Kings II in the raffle:
- Karimjebari (3 tickets)
- Puchacz (135 tickets)
- Uzzaman (6 tickets)
- 00CloughRN (3 tickets)
- TyberFen25 (2 tickets)
Five users won the Hearts of Iron 3 Collection in the raffle:
- Cragspyder (25 tickets)
- AlienPlanDelta (3 tickets)
- SolSys (49 tickets)
- Bl0wf1sh (58 tickets)
- Dark Kain (15 tickets)
Rules and guidelines
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki; anonymous edits are not counted unless they can be clearly connected to a registered user (E.G., in cases where the user was accidentally logged out)
- Only edits after the start of the contest count
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email. Note that by default the Paradox Account email address is used
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The Paradox Wikis administrator (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below. For the first three days (ending at 23:59 on 2015-12-03) and last two days (starting at 00:01 on 2015-12-11) of the contest, Paradox Wikis moderator Dauth will hand out tickets
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Moderators cannot enter the contest, halfops are eligible to enter
- Any action on the list undertaken between the release of The Cossacks and the end of the contest will earn tickets.
Earning tickets
A large variety of tasks will earn you tickets; everything from updating pages, to writing strategies, to modding information, to creating pages on new features. All tasks are listed below.
In the cases of below the amboxes are as follows {{rewrite}}
, {{cleanup}}
, {{copy edit}}
, {{expand}}
and {{stub}}
.
Multiple ticket contributions
The tasks below are highly specific tasks that provide a solid number of tickets compared to the effort involved due to being especially important to the wiki.
Late contest bonus tickets
Event mechanisms:
6 tickets (doubled from 3) for an accurate and up to date description of both MTTH (currently outdated) and Pulse (no current information) event mechanisms
10 tickets (up from a total of 7) for updating the Espionage page and adding information about the new Study Technology and Agitate for Liberty actions.
10 tickets (up from a total of 7) for updating the Production page and all figures shown on the page.
8 tickets (increased from 5) to fully improve this page
Especially old pages:
The wiki has three especially old pages that we'd like updated. This is mentioned in the "generic" section, but is repeated up here for visibility. The tickets will only be counted once despite being in both sections. The ticket numbers listed are the # received from making sure all sections and the page as a whole is up to date.
The pages:
- Army - 12 tickets (tables that are fetched by template are not expected to be updated)
- Land warfare - 6 tickets (tables that are fetched by template are not expected to be updated)
Mapuche - 3 tickets
2 tickets for writing a section detailing the threaten war diplomatic action, along with the factors used to come to a decision
2 tickets for detailing the general mechanics of victory cards
2 tickets for listing all victory card types and how they function
Map:
3 tickets for detailing the new random new world mechanics, including tiles and scenarios
2 tickets for detailing the dynamic province names and trade nodes in the random new world
3 tickets for detailing the new area and region system
1 ticket for describing the new map modes
3 tickets for a table describing each colour on each map mode and what they mean
3 tickets for detailing the updates to the nation designer
3 tickets for detailing the new culture change mechanics
2 tickets for solving all issues down to but not including Ingame screen, this means no outstanding ambox requests
3 tickets for solving all remaining issues from Ingame screen and below except Country interface, this means no outstanding ambox requests, this does include the Province interface section, this includes the new macrobuilder improvements
4 tickets for new Class A page on country interface, with a section for each tab and a short descriptive table on the User interface page. This means no outstanding ambox requests (3 tickets for class B + table)
3 tickets for solving all issues down to but not including Forts
3 tickets for solving all issues from Forts onwards, this includes the new Zone of control mechanics
Event mechanisms:
3 tickets for an accurate and up to date description of both MTTH (currently outdated) and Pulse (no current information) event mechanisms
2 tickets for a section about acquiring temporary claims from missions/events/decisions, with a list of all non-country specific missions/events/decisions that provide temporary claims.
4 tickets for writing a page detailing how to edit the user interface
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new trade companies and modify existing ones
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new casus belli and modify existing ones
1 ticket for also having a short section on editing war goals
2 ticket for writing a page detailing how to modify defines, including how to override defines from the defines folder rather than editing defines.lua directly
1 tickets for every 40 defines listed and explained in the defines table
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new estates and modify existing ones
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new RNW tiles
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new government types and modify existing ones
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new parliamentary issues and modify existing ones
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new rebel types and modify existing ones
Random new world tile modding:
2 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new tiles, using Poh's file for reference
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new trade nodes and modify existing ones
4 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new modifiers (triggered, static, opinion, and event) and modify existing ones
Modding navbox:
2 tickets for creating a modding navbox and adding to all modding pages
Finished tasks
Tasks that have been completed in their entirety are moved here for posterity.
2 tickets for writing a section detailing the horde unity mechanic
2 tickets for writing a section detailing the razing mechanic
2 tickets for writing a section detailing the syncretic faith mechanic
3 tickets for detailing the general mechanics of revanschism
4 tickets for detailing the mechanics of provinces of interest, attitude, trust, and favors
3 tickets for writing a section detailing the grant province and grant core/claim actions for subject nations
2 tickets for detailing the differences between claims and permanent claims
2 tickets for updating the Espionage page and adding information about the new Study Technology and Agitate for Liberty actions.
2 tickets for detailing the new Distribute spoils mechanism
2 tickets for detailing the new native polices
3 tickets for detailing the general mechanics of estates
3 tickets for listing all estates and their direct effects and interactions
3 tickets for creating an estates events page with all estate-related events, using the {{event}}
for each event
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new cultures and modify existing ones
3 tickets for writing a page detailing how to add new policies and modify existing ones
3 tickets (combined) for adding sections on scripted effects and triggers
4+ ticket contributions
All pages in this list will award a minimum of 4 tickets for pages fixed up to at least B standard with no outstanding ambox requests
Aragon- Austria
- Ayutthaya
- Bosnia
- Brittany
- Burgundy
Byzantium- Castile
CherokeeColonizationCuscoCyprus- Diplomacy
- England
Ethiopia- Events
- France
- Genoa
- Holy Trinity
- Hungary
- Huron
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jaunpur
- Je maintiendrai
- Jihad
KongoKorea- Luck of the Irish
Manchu- Milan
- Ming
- Muscovy
MutapaNajd- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Norwegian Wood
- Novgorod
Oman- Ottomans
- Pagarruyung
- Perm
Personal Union- Poland
- Provence
- Prussia
- Rebellion
- Relations
- Romania
- Ryukyu
- Serbia
Sweden- Teutonic Order
- The Knights
- Theodoro
- This is Persia!
- Timurids
- Trade
- United States
- Uzbek
- Venice
- Vijayanagar
2+ ticket contributions
Specific
- Add a guide for any of the Hard, Very Hard or Insane Achievements, which is assessed as B-class or above without any outstanding ambox requests
Generic
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
One ticket edits
Specific
- Properly describe two conditions in the "unsorted" section of the conditions page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "type" and "description"
- Add two missing scopes to the scopes page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "new scope", "type" and "description"
- Add two missing commands to the commands page. This includes filling out "effect", "how to use", any caveats, and "scope" for commands that go in "other scopes"
- 1 ticket per 5
{{Event}}
,{{Mission}}
or{{Decision}}
templates added to the Computer generated pages.
- 1 ticket per 4 pages. Updating an Events, Missions or Decisions page to use the
{{Box wrapper}}
template.
- 1 ticket per 10 infoboxes versioned from Category:Pages with infoboxes without versioning
Generic
- Ensure that two pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. If the page is versioned for 1.10 or 1.11, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 4 pages will give 3 tickets). Updating a page for 1.9 or older is worth 300% more (updating 1 page will give 2 tickets).
- Update four outdated page sections. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. Most of these are versioned by section. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. If the section is versioned for 1.10 or 1.11, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 8 sections will give 3 tickets). If the section is versioned for 1.9 or older, updating it is worth 300% more (updating 1 section will give 1 ticket). An outdated image is worth the same as an outdated section of the same age. Note that when the section is up to date the section versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.14". This will make it stop displaying until 1.15 is released.
- Update 10 infoboxes. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. Many of these include versioned infoboxes. If no changes are necessary for the infobox to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. If the infobox is versioned for 1.10 or 1.11, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 20 infoboxes will give 3 tickets). Note that when the infobox is up to date the infobox versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.14". This will make it stop displaying until 1.15 is released.
- Correcting 5-10 (depending on rework needed) spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing a 192x128 flag with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. The replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution. You can see all flags here at the size normally used on the wikis. If it doesn't look bad on there, replacing it will not give a ticket. Note that only users with at least one edit that have been registered for at least 10 minutes can upload images
- Verifying a piece of uncertain info on a page that needs verification
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact Meneth about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 72 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes has to be reported to Meneth. This can be done at User talk:Meneth. Simply state that you believe you've fixed enough issues, and Meneth will check your edit history.
If you believe you have made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that your ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one is entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
Fractional tickets are only used for accounting progress towards an entrant's next ticket. In the raffle, ticket numbers are always rounded down.
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
00CloughRN | 3 |
123e55 | 1 |
65001 | 1.5 |
Ailure | 1 |
AlexSSB | 6 |
AlienPlanDelta | 3 |
Alphathon | 1 |
Basileios Makedon | 6 |
Bigboyfc5 | 8 |
Bl0wf1sh | 58 |
Bloneapart | 0.5 |
BourbonKid | 0.5 |
Cragspyder | 25 |
Cousjath | 6 |
Christopholes | 3 |
DaDerpyDude | 0.5 |
Dark Kain | 15 |
D0ct0rJ | 0.25 |
Docfrance | 6 |
Dragon6534 | 6.75 |
Erthbison | 0.5 |
Erthzeid | 2 |
Eset | 2 |
Gnostek | 1 |
Guzjohnson | 13 |
Hairy Dude | 26 |
Hellio | 3 |
Hiimnotcrazy | 1 |
Isaios | 1 |
Johnny0964 | 1 |
Karimjebari | 3 |
KiwisFly13 | 2 |
Kraal Rokviente | 1 |
Loves Muffins | 1 |
Moyang | 1 |
Nixxquality | 5 |
Orange1861 | 1 |
Morosaurus | 0.5 |
Oscree | 1 |
Phibs | 3.5 |
Politic Revolutionnaire | 13 |
ProCivili | 1 |
Puchacz | 135 |
Pyroclastic | 3 |
Raefniz | 2 |
Rendiggy | 2.5 |
Richyard | 1 |
Rho | 4 |
Runtyrebel | 1 |
SDzv | 6 |
SolSys | 49 |
Spacefire | 0.5 |
Stigni | 81 |
Todenpuhuja | 9 |
Tre3qwerty | 35 |
TyberFen25 | 2 |
Uzzaman | 6 |
Vaximillian | 3.5 |
Vetgirig | 8 |
Xyloz | 19 |
Zashline | 1.5 |
Zraith | 13 |
Zerosius | 1 |
Total | 618.5 |
5th competition
The wiki ran a contest starting on 2015-06-09, coinciding with the release of Common Sense. The competition ended on 2015-06-20 at 20:00 CET.
(Everything below is written in present tense, but the contest is over. A new contest will likely happen next expansion)
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win. The top three contributors will be guaranteed prizes (see below).
Further winners will be selected using a random number generator. A single entrant cannot win more than one prize in the raffle. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning is proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained. The top three contributors by number of tickets will not be entered in the raffle.
In total, 15 copies of Crusader Kings II (CKII), 15 copies of Hearts of Iron III Collection (HoI3), and a copy of Victoria II will be awarded as prizes. The CKII and HoI3 Collection prizes will be paired together.
- The #1 contributor will receive 3 CKII/HoI3 pairs and a copy of Victoria II
- The #2 contributor will receive 2 CKII/HoI3 pairs
- The #3 contributor will receive 1 CKII/HoI3 pair
- 9 CKII/HoI3 pairs will be individually raffled off
Winners
Three users won based on having the most tickets:
- Rasvyydas (60 tickets) won 3 CKII/HoI3 pairs and a copy of Victoria II
- Stigni (57 tickets) won 2 CKII/HoI3 pairs
- CaptainFlaggot (33 tickets) won a CKII/HoI3 pair
Nine users each won a CKII/HoI3 pair in the raffle:
Silver Wizard (8 tickets)(Forfeited their prize)- UnknownUser123 (28 tickets)
- Chocolatnave (14 tickets)
- Jlonghurst (11 tickets)
- Tiggurix (7 tickets)
- Pioco56 (1 ticket)
- Brosov (2 tickets)
- Zenphoenix (29 tickets)
- Phalanx300 (4 tickets)
- Glopping Noise (10 tickets)
Rules
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki
- Only edits after the start of the contest count
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email. Failure to register an email address will mean that you'll be excluded from the prize drawing
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The Paradox Wikis admin (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Moderators and halfops cannot enter the contest
Earning tickets
The following actions earn entrants a single raffle ticket:
General:
- Correcting 5-10 (depending on rework needed) spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing a 192x128 flag with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. The replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution. You can see all flags here at the size normally used on the wikis. If it doesn't look bad on there, replacing it will not give a ticket. Note that only users with at least one edit that have been registered for at least 10 minutes can upload images
- Verifying a piece of uncertain info on a page that needs verification
- Ensure that two pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. If the page is versioned for 1.10, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 4 pages will give 3 tickets). Updating a page for 1.9 or older is worth 100% more (updating 1 page will give 1 ticket).
- Update four outdated page sections. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. Most of these are versioned by section. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. If the section is versioned for 1.10, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 8 sections will give 3 tickets). If the section is versioned for 1.9 or older, updating it is worth 100% more (updating 2 sections will give 1 tickets). Note that when the section is up to date the section versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.12". This will make it stop displaying until 1.13 is released.
Specific:
- Properly describe two conditions in the "unsorted" section of the conditions page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "type" and "description"
- Add two missing scopes to the scopes page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "new scope", "type" and "description"
- Add two missing commands to the commands page. This includes filling out "effect", "how to use", any caveats, and "scope" for commands that go in "other scopes"
The following actions earn a varying number of raffle tickets. Usually two or more:
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Significantly improving an A-class or FA-class article
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Rewrite an existing strategy guide or page to conform with the style guidelines
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
Specific:
- Write sections on the user interface page detailing the province interface and country interface (the one that pops up when you click a country shield)
Any action on the list undertaken between the release of Common Sense and the end of the contest will earn tickets.
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact Meneth about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 24 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes has to be reported to Meneth. This can be done at User talk:Meneth. Simply state that you believe you've fixed enough issues, and Meneth will check your edit history.
If you believe you have made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that your ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one is entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Atwix | 4 |
Adusak90 | 7 |
Alexander | 1 |
Andreib14 | 1 |
Arms Spaghetti | 2 |
BoxofPresents | 1 |
Brosov | 2 |
CaptainFlaggot | 33 |
Carterup | 1 |
Chocolatnave | 14 |
Christopholes | 6 |
Doomd | 2 |
Eklyth | 1 |
Fabyom | 2 |
FrenchOdyssey | 1 |
Freger | 1 |
Flipp | 2 |
Fuego65 | 1 |
Gendalf | 2 |
Giveit55 | 2 |
Glopping Noise | 10 |
Grifen88 | 5 |
Guzjohnson | 3 |
G-ZeuZ | 1 |
Hunter | 2 |
HoboMcJoe | 3 |
Jlonghurst | 11 |
Jruderman | 1 |
Littlefinger | 3 |
Lobberlot | 1 |
Luminar | 1 |
Matador09 | 4 |
Maxo 0 | 2 |
Mordekai99 | 7 |
Moyang | 15 |
Mvm900 | 1 |
Nakki | 1 |
Neondt | 12 |
Nixx | 13 |
Perses | 6 |
Phalanx300 | 4 |
Pioco56 | 1 |
Psychoguineapig | 5 |
Pyroclastic | 5 |
RandoomJD | 1 |
Rasvyydas | 60 |
Razza | 1 |
Screwface | 1 |
Sian | 1 |
Silver Wizard | 8 |
Stigni | 57 |
Straputsky | 2 |
Sub-woofer | 4 |
Tiggurix | 7 |
Tkamin | 2 |
Unknownuser123 | 28 |
Xylozi | 1 |
Zara1709 | 7 |
Zenphoenix | 29 |
Zraith | 1 |
Total | 413 |
4th competition
The wiki ran a contest which started on 2015-02-26, coinciding with the release of El Dorado. The competition ended on 2015-03-14 at 20:00 CET. A combined total of €309 worth of prizes were awarded to the winners.
Winners
Mapleyy earned the most tickets, at 407, getting the €40 voucher.
Five winners were drawn for CKII:
- Rump (5 tickets)
- Mapleyy (407 tickets)
- TheWinner (266 tickets)
- Certh (25 tickets)
- Stigni (45 tickets)
Three winners were drawn for HoI3:
- Chrras (24 tickets)
- Curbon7 (5 tickets)
- Snickersnak (3 tickets)
Prizes
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki during that time span. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win. Whoever gains the most tickets will receive €40 in credit for the Paradox web shop, and can potentially win a prize in the raffle. Note that this credit cannot be spent across multiple orders, but a single order may contain multiple games.
Further winners will be selected using a random number generator. A single entrant cannot win more than one prize in the raffle. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning is proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained.
- Crusader Kings II (value €37)
- Crusader Kings II
- Crusader Kings II
- Crusader Kings II
- Crusader Kings II
- Hearts of Iron III Collection (value €28)
- Hearts of Iron III Collection
- Hearts of Iron III Collection
Rules
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki
- Only edits after the start of the contest count
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The Paradox Wikis admin (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below
- Entrants should read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Moderators and halfops cannot enter the contest
Earning tickets
The following actions earn entrants a single raffle ticket:
General:
- Correcting 5-10 (depending on rework needed) spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing a 192x128 flag with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. The replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution
- Verifying a piece of uncertain info on a page that needs verification
- Ensure that two pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. If the page is versioned for 1.7 or older, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 4 pages will give 3 tickets). Updating a page for 1.1 or 1.2 is worth 100% more (updating 1 page will give 1 ticket). Updating from 1.10 to 1.11 once 1.11 is released will only be worth half as much.
- Update four outdated page sections. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. Most of these are versioned by section. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page. If the section is versioned for 1.7 or older, updating it is worth 50% more (updating 8 sections will give 3 tickets). If the section is versioned for 1.2 or older, updating it is worth 100% more (updating 2 sections will give 1 tickets). Note that when the section is up to date the section versioning should not be removed, but rather set to "1.10". This will make it stop displaying until 1.11 is released. Updating from 1.10 to 1.11 once 1.11 is released will only be worth half as much.
Specific:
- Properly describe two conditions in the "unsorted" section of the conditions page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "type" and "description"
- Add two missing scopes to the scopes page. This includes putting them in the appropriate table(s) and filling out "new scope", "type" and "description"
- Add two missing commands to the commands page. This includes filling out "effect", "how to use", any caveats, and "scope" for commands that go in "other scopes"
The following actions earn a varying number of raffle tickets. Usually two or more:
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Significantly improving an A-class or FA-class article
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Rewrite an existing strategy guide or page to conform with the style guidelines
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
Any action on the list undertaken between the release of El Dorado and the end of the raffle will earn tickets.
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough. Please only contact Meneth about tickets if you've got any complaints about the # of tickets given, if 24 or more hours after your actions you've yet to receive any tickets, or for the circumstances described below. Questions about anything else are welcome at any time and will be answered as soon as possible.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes has to be reported to Meneth. This can be done at User talk:Meneth. Simply state that you believe you've fixed enough issues, and Meneth will check your edit history.
If users believe they had made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that their ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one was entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Aldwoni | 5 |
Alexssb | 2 |
Atwix | 2 |
Bartonar | 3 |
Bobtron | 1 |
Certh | 25 |
Christopholes | 5 |
Chrras | 24 |
Curbon7 | 5 |
DarthRacerF1 | 2 |
DieGOlivares | 2 |
DominusValum | 2 |
Esarhaddon | 1 |
Gbear605 | 7 |
Guzjohnson | 4 |
ImperialProletariat | 1 |
Joror | 2 |
Klisz | 1 |
Mapleyy | 407 |
Mercury | 3 |
Moyang | 3 |
Neondt | 52 |
NicDonalds | 1 |
Panther296 | 2 |
Phoenixfire180 | 6 |
Poom3619 | 1 |
Pyroclastic | 3 |
Raefniz | 1 |
Rump | 5 |
Rygel8472 | 3 |
SaintDaveUK | 12 |
SargontheGreat2 | 1 |
Silver Wizard | 9 |
Shavanna | 1 |
Snickersnak | 3 |
Stigni | 45 |
TheSpawner | 4 |
TheWinner | 266 |
Thrake | 3 |
Thrawcheld | 5 |
Tuxi | 2 |
Vaximillian | 3 |
Xylozi | 2 |
Yxklyx | 1 |
Zanaikin | 12 |
Total | 950 |
3rd competition
The wiki ran a contest, which started on 2014-10-30 and ended on 2014-11-15 20:00 CET.
Users could enter the contest by contributing to the wiki. Various actions gave raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one was to win. Whoever gained the most tickets was also guaranteed to win a prize.
Winners
TheWinner, having obtained the most tickets (76) will be given Art of War, or any other Steam game of their choice costing as much as Art of War.
Further winners were selected using a random number generator. A single entrant could not win more than one prize (not including the prize for most tickets). The prizes were be drawn in the order listed below. An entrant's chance of winning was proportional to the number of tickets they've obtained.
- Crusader Kings II - Sol717 (38 tickets)
- Crusader Kings II - Phriyion (46 tickets)
- Hearts of Iron III Collection - Amberkilloran (25 tickets)
- Hearts of Iron III Collection - Pyroclastic (6 tickets)
- Europa Universalis 4 Deluxe Edition + Conquest of Paradise - Czone (1 ticket)
Rules
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The admin (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below
- Entrants must read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Administrators and halfops cannot enter the contest
Earning tickets
The following actions earn entrants a single raffle ticket:
- Correcting 5-10 (depending on rework needed) spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing a 192x128 flags with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. Note that the replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution
- Verifying a piece of uncertain info on a page that needs verification
- Ensure that two pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page
- Update four outdated page sections. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. Most of these are versioned by section. If no changes are necessary for the section to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on the page's Talk page
The following actions earn a varying number of raffle tickets. Generally two or more:
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Significantly improving an A-class or FA-class article
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Rewrite an existing strategy guide or page to conform with the style guidelines
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
Any action on the list undertaken between the release of Art of War and the end of the raffle will earn tickets.
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes has to be reported to Meneth. This can be done at User talk:Meneth. Simply state that you believe you've fixed enough issues, and Meneth will check your edit history.
If users believe they had made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that their ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one was entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Alejandro | 2 |
Amberkilloran | 25 |
Applecar18 | 2 |
Armistice | 4 |
Blaster | 5 |
Bloodmech21 | 5 |
Carterup | 9 |
Casus Belli | 2 |
Christopholes | 20 |
CompositeGNR | 5 |
Crew4man | 3 |
CrusaderOfDestruction | 2 |
Czone | 1 |
DarthRacerF1 | 3 |
DCatcher | 1 |
Dicentis | 1 |
Docteur | 5 |
Doomd | 1 |
Dwighty | 2 |
Esper | 1 |
Ferret | 1 |
Frankenwolf | 5 |
GaiusOctaviusII | 13 |
Geello | 4 |
General Killjoy | 1 |
GNozaki | 1 |
Guzjohnson | 17 |
G-ZeuZ | 1 |
IIWW | 2 |
Jzheng05 | 1 |
Langdon0630 | 2 |
LePadeaux | 2 |
Lollity | 6 |
Lyckosam | 1 |
Matador09 | 3 |
Mblum | 2 |
Mgoetze | 17 |
Micks Ketches | 1 |
Mrbrutka | 1 |
Namington | 1 |
Noah11101 | 1 |
Owilde | 10 |
Phoenixfire180 | 4 |
Phriyion | 46 |
Pyroclastic | 6 |
Radiatoren | 2 |
RedSilver | 3 |
Rickinator9 | 2 |
Rihispp | 2 |
Roaringjohn | 1 |
Rpcunnin | 3 |
Science77 | 2 |
Shaldengeki | 3 |
Silver Wizard | 25 |
Sol717 | 38 |
Speakercontext | 4 |
Snipahar | 2 |
Speedicus | 3 |
Sunstridr | 1 |
SweetHalcyHS | 68 |
TheDecider | 3 |
Tjayharvey | 3 |
TheWinner | 78 |
TiröllüDoruk | 6 |
Toncig | 1 |
Vizier One | 1 |
Vyn | 47 |
Wilddingoes | 3 |
Uishax | 3 |
XxTerrorxX2 | 1 |
Zocke1r | 1 |
Total | 554 |
2nd competition
The wiki is ran a raffle from 2014-05-29 to 2014-06-14 at 2000 CET. The prizes were drawn at 2100 CET.
Users can enter the contest by contributing to the wiki. Various actions give raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one is to win.
Winners
- LePadeaux (3 tickets) - Wealth of Nations, or any other Steam title costing at most €10
- Toverbeck95 (8 tickets) - Crusader Kings II
- Bloodmech21 (6 tickets) - Crusader Kings II
- Yahiko (12 tickets) - Crusader Kings II
Rules
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The admin (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below
- Entrants must read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Administrators and halfops cannot enter the contest
Earning tickets
The following actions earn entrants a single raffle ticket:
- Correcting 5-10 (depending on rework needed) spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing a 192x128 flags with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. Note that the replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution
- Verifying a piece of uncertain info in a page that needs verification
- Ensure that two pages are up to date. See outdated pages for a list of potentially outdated articles. If no changes are necessary for the page to be considered up to date, a justification must be written in the edit summary or on its Talk page. If significant rewriting is necessary, that on its own will earn the user a raffle ticket
The following actions earn a varying number of raffle tickets. Generally two or more:
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Significantly improving an A-class or FA-class article
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Rewrite an existing strategy guide or page to conform with the style guidelines
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
Any action on the list undertaken between the release of Wealth of Nations and the end of the raffle will earn tickets.
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action is necessary. A descriptive edit summary is enough.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes has to be reported to Meneth with a link to each error fixed. This can be done at User talk:Meneth
If users believe they had made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that their ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this can be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There is no need to notify Meneth that one was entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it is assumed everyone wants a chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
AllenY | 8 |
Armistice | 1 |
Arms Spaghetti | 2 |
Bloodmech21 | 6 |
Bovell | 15 |
Carterup | 22 |
Chimichanga | 6 |
Ckalaycioglu | 1 |
Darklancer | 1 |
DarthRacerF1 | 3 |
Docfrance | 4 |
DoggedSpy | 2 |
Drmaster123 | 2 |
Fabbyrob | 2 |
FiahOwl | 4 |
Freedomsaver | 8 |
Fufie | 11 |
Galguibra | 1 |
Gbear605 | 7 |
Gnostek | 2 |
Goralt123 | 6 |
Ius | 4 |
John69Doe | 4 |
Kainazzo | 9 |
KeoniPhoenix | 1 |
Kingluc517 | 2 |
Konterfei | 2 |
LePadeaux | 3 |
Muffim | 2 |
Panther296 | 1 |
Pizzaraider | 2 |
Rebi | 3 |
Rpcunnin | 1 |
Speakercontext | 5 |
TiröllüDoruk | 3 |
TheAustrianEmporer | 2 |
Toverbeck95 | 8 |
Vodkaand | 4 |
Wilfred grasse | 3 |
Yahiko | 12 |
Golladan | Not participating |
Total | 185 |
Prizes
Winners will be selected using a random number generator. A single entrant cannot win more than one prize. The prizes will be drawn in the order listed below.
- Wealth of Nations, or any other Steam title costing at most €10
- Crusader Kings II
- Crusader Kings II
- Crusader Kings II
1st competition
The wiki ran a raffle for Conquest of Paradise, Europa Universalis 4, and Crusader Kings II. This contest ran for approximately two weeks, from 2013-11-15 to 2013-12-01.
Users could enter the contest by contributing to the wiki. Various actions gave raffle tickets; the more tickets one amassed, the more likely one was to win.
Winners
The winners were as follows:
- DeciusR, who earned 5 tickets, won Conquest of Paradise
- Medibee, who earned 1 ticket, won Europa Universalis IV
- Hunter, who earned 3 tickets, won Crusader Kings II
Rules
- All entrants must register an account on the wiki
- The entrant must have access to the email address they've defined for their account, as prizes will be sent via email
- Any vandalism will cause all raffle tickets earned by the entrant to be forfeit
- The admin (Meneth) decides whether a raffle ticket has been earned based on the guidelines below
- Entrants must read the style guidelines in order to ensure their edits are up to the wiki's standards
- Administrators and halfops cannot enter the contest
Earning tickets
The following actions earned entrants a raffle ticket:
- Improving an article by such an extent that it is reassessed at a higher level. See Category:Articles by quality for information on how assessment works
- Significantly improving an A-class article
- Adding a strategy guide to a page in Category:Needs strategy guide. Note that the strategy guide must either be your own work, or another person's work used with permissions and significantly reworked to comply with the wiki's style guidelines
- Rewrite an existing strategy guide to conform with the style guidelines
- Correcting 10 spelling, grammar, or minor factual mistakes on the wiki. Note that British vs. American English does not count
- Replacing two 192x128 flags with 800x533 versions or above, to a max of 1000x666. Note that the replacement must not be upscaled, and must be similar to the in-game flag. Note that only flags that have emblems or similar will count, as simple geometric shapes do not see any real improvement from higher resolution
- Verifying two pieces of uncertain info in a page that needs verification. If the page only has one piece of uncertain info, verification will still give a full ticket
- Write a page about an important modding concept
- Other significant improvements to the wiki
Reporting completion
For most of the above, no report of the action was necessary. A descriptive edit summary was enough.
Correction of spelling/grammar mistakes had to be reported to Meneth with a link to each error fixed. This could be done at User talk:Meneth
If users believed they had made a significant contribution ("Other significant improvements to the wiki"), or that their ticket-earning contributions have been missed, this could be reported at User talk:Meneth.
All earned tickets are be listed below on a per-user basis. There was no need to notify Meneth that one was entering the contest (except for the specific contributions mentioned above); it was assumed everyone wanted to get the chance at winning a prize.
Earned tickets
User | Tickets earned |
---|---|
Asdmaster | 4 |
BBerger | 2 |
Chronicdiscord | 1 |
Conquistador803 | 1 |
DeciusR | 5 |
Fiacha77 | 1 |
FlyingSpaghettiMan | 8 |
Fraser | 1 |
John69Doe | 3 |
GeneralVonGelre | 3 |
Golden Kumquat | 1 |
Harvest277 | 2 |
HenryPouet | 1 |
Hunter | 3 |
Lundensaren | 1 |
Madjar | 1 |
Mailman9 | 1 |
Medibee | 1 |
Mindcorrosive | 1 |
Neanderthal | 1 |
Noxvenator86 | 1 |
Strijdheld | 2 |
Wdavidfrost | 3 |
Ys99116 | 1 |
Total | 49 |
Prizes
Winners will were selected using a random number generator. A single entrant could not win more than one prize. The prizes were drawn in the order listed below.
- 1 copy of Conquest of Paradise
- 1 copy of Europa Universalis 4 Digital Deluxe Edition
- 1 copy of Crusader Kings II
apologies
Browsing on phone and accidentally reverted. Can you fix and I'll try not to break it again. Dauth (talk) 16:16, 20 June 2015 (CEST)