If you have ideas along these lines, add a comment here.
I don’t love the idea of themed prizes like the creative writing contest. But if you’re going to do them, I’d like to see something for taxonomies/trees. I think high-quality taxonomies, like this, can have great analytic value. And taxonomies are rare and not widely appreciated, so a contest—making the format visible and highlighting good examples—would result in people being aware of the format and using it in the future when it would be useful, in addition to creating content that they otherwise wouldn’t have thought to.
Edit: importantly, taxonomies/trees have a very high idea-to-length ratio, since the taxonomy/tree itself is essentially just a list of relations. I would happily read every taxonomy/tree produced in a contest, and likely learn something or gain a new perspective from each.
I don’t love the idea of themed prizes like the creative writing contest. But if you’re going to do them, I’d like to see something for taxonomies/trees. I think high-quality taxonomies, like this, can have great analytic value. And taxonomies are rare and not widely appreciated, so a contest—making the format visible and highlighting good examples—would result in people being aware of the format and using it in the future when it would be useful, in addition to creating content that they otherwise wouldn’t have thought to.
Edit: importantly, taxonomies/trees have a very high idea-to-length ratio, since the taxonomy/tree itself is essentially just a list of relations. I would happily read every taxonomy/tree produced in a contest, and likely learn something or gain a new perspective from each.