The Great 2011 MisesWiki Improvement Drive

The MisesWiki organizes a contest: the 2011 article improvement drive. During the whole month of September, contestants will be awarded points for their contributions. All participants will be honored, but the one with the most points at the end of the month will receive a sparkling $50 gift certificate for the Mises Institute Shop!

If you want to build a great resource for everyone interested in the Austrian School of Economics and the philosophy of liberty, join us! Sign in and contribute to any topic that you find interesting.

If you want to learn more about the wiki and what to do, check out the Community portal. See also the Most Wanted pages and the Bounty Board for more inspiration.

If you have any questions, please consult the Talk pages.

BUMP! September is almost here!

Update:

The contest has started off quite nicely, but there is still plenty of space - in fact, with a little effort you can easily win it - join now!

And it’s official: the user “Matthew” became the winner of the September contest after a surprising finale. Besides other updates, 33 new pages have been created thanks to the contest alone!
https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/wiki/MisesWiki:2011_article_improvement_drive/September

Of course, the improvement drive continues in October as well - see if you can do better!
https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/wiki/MisesWiki:2011_article_improvement_drive/October

Congratulation to all participants, let’s get even more of them. :slight_smile:

BUMP!

if anybody wants to make a last-minute entrance into the October contest, now would be the perfect time. With a grand total of 1 participant there is still plenty of space to take part - and win.

Is there a November Wiki improvement drive?

Why, does anybody want to take part in it? :slight_smile:

If there is interest, we can definitely start another round.

I will be busy until the end of October but should have some more time during November.

More competition is welcome!

More competition is welcome!

need to get the word out about this. I haven’t been to Mises U, but I think it would make sense to take advantage of the young kids labor to have them write/edit X number of pages for the Mises wiki as part of graduating, when they are down there. Mises wiki has great potential but isn’t much of a resource quite yet.

Well, I’m trying to get the word out every now and again, but help would be very much welcome. :slight_smile:

Good news: the October contest has been won by the undefeated champion Matthew:

https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/wiki/MisesWiki:2011_article_improvement_drive/October

And another contest has just started for November:

https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/wiki/MisesWiki:2011_article_improvement_drive/November

Congratulations to the winner! We clearly need somebody to challenge him. :slight_smile:

He obviously has a monopoly that needs to be broken up. The market entry barriers are insane

Fight the monopoly! :smiley:

We all know that history definitively tells us that it is impossible to use consumer choice and activism to break the power of the Robber Barons (™).

But alright, I shall join in the fun.

Good to see you on board!

Where do we post out November improvements on the Wiki?

Right on the November page - just make a nice little section for your stuff, we’ll take care of the points. (See here for an example.)

https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/wiki/MisesWiki:2011_article_improvement_drive/November

Hi Wheylous,

how are things going? (Should I create an entry on the page for you?)

Cheers,

P.