Stupidedia

So-called hammer articles were introduced in 2006. They were suggested by users, then voted on and finally awarded with a hammer. Starting in August 2012 it was also possible to award articles as gelungene Artikel (English: well written article).[4] Stupidedia's dictators were entitled to award some hammer articles as Goldpokalartikel (English literally: gold trophy article)[5] via an internal vote amongst the websites dictators. Any article that was recognized as outstanding by the community and had been added to the hall of fame[6] was then featured on the homepage.

The community regularly hosted the stupid contest.[7] The competition consisted of users having to submit articles on selected topics. The jury, which was made up of particularly active users, scored the articles in different categories like humor, language and layout. The stupid contest was typically held every two months and was meant to help create high quality articles.

Other than that, Stupidedia also hosted the Stupid Art Contest[8], where many images and photo montages were voted on. The contest tried to reach out for a big range of hobby artists for two reasons: Firstly, using their images on Stupidedia would circumvent the problem of depicting images with unknown copyright sources. And secondly, reason was to create a certain artistic uniqueness of Stupidedia.

Another contest was called Stub des Monats (English literally: stub of the month).[9] The contest used to be hosted each month. Participants had to submit an edited version of an article that was originally either too short or registered on the list of the quality campaign due to heavy content-related issues. The general participation in the stub contest was most of the time lower than in the Stupid Contest. Each monthly winner was elected by Stupidedia users.

Starting in summer 2012, a mini-contest[10] was introduced aside from the Stupid Contest, though it was not given as much attention. The mini-contest was held irregularly and each contest edition introduced a specific topic that participants had to comply with.

The article duel[11] was an opportunity for authors to compete against each other to award the best article. Two authors chose one article each, with which they wanted to compete and then determined a deadline for their work. Following this, every user of Stupidedia was able to vote for the article they liked most. The article with the most votes was nominated as the winner of the duel.

The Stupid Literature Contest was held irregularly.[12] The topic was created in a way that the authors could fill the German: Diverses-Namensraum with their articles. The contributions were later evaluated by a jury.

The first Interwiki contest was hosted from August 2012 to September 2012. In contrary to the Stupid contest, Stupidedia now allowed their competition to join - Wikis Kamelopedia and Uncyclopedia. However, this contest was stopped because of the shortage of members from other Wikis.