TheDeveloping Countries WikiContest is a competition with a focus towardsdeveloping countries, played and won by skill of editing. The purpose of this contest is to encourage content creation and improvement in an areaoften underlooked by editors.

The 2025 contest ran from1 July 2025 until30 September 2025. This year's competition has ended, but look out for next year!

If you're looking for articles to work on or have ideas, see thesuggested articles andeligible reviews pages. If you're in need of a review, list it at thereview requests sidebar.

For the full rules clarifying what points can be awarded for, see thescoring page. However, the spirit of the rules is more important than the letter, and the coordinators reserve the right to deny points to anyonegaming the system, as well as to remove persistently problematic users from the contest. If you believe another contestant is deliberately abusing WikiContest processes, please contact one of the coordinators:Arconning (talk ·contribs ·email),sawyer777 (talk ·contribs ·email), andTechnoSquirrel69 (talk ·contribs ·email).

1. BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 946 points
2. simongraham (submissions) – 763 points
3. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 692 points
4. PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 624 points
5. Spookyaki (submissions) – 622 points
6. TheNuggeteer (submissions) – 480 points
7. Yue (submissions) – 459 points
8. Grnrchst (submissions) – 447 points
9. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (submissions) – 284 points
10. Pangalau (submissions) – 280 points

The top three scorers in the Contest will be given the gold, silver, and bronzeDCWC Belt Buckle.

All contestants with over 100 points will receive theAnti-Systemic Bias Barnstar.

The participant with...

• themost countries covered will receiveThe Global Barnstar.
• themost submissions for any one country will receive athemed barnstar for that country.
• themost article reviews will receive theContent Review Medal.
• themost articles about women will receiveThe Women's History Barnstar.
• themost good or featured articles will receiveThe Completionist Barnstar.

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