User:rst20xx/Contributions and Awards

Contributions

Articles

The sole article primarily written by me is the completely unsourced Marvel Masterworks. This was back in 2005!

Templates

I have created many templates in my time at Wikipedia. These include the following:

• Tennis tournament templates:
  • {{TennisEventInfo}}, currently used in about 450 articles, was adapted by me from {{GrandSlamInfo}} for use in non-Grand Slam tennis tournament articles
  • {{TennisEventInfo2}}, a variant of {{TennisEventInfo}}
  • {{GrandSlamEvents}} (okay, I didn't create this one) looked like this before I started with it. It is used by over 150 articles
  • {{TennisEvents}}, used in about 150 articles
  • {{TennisEvents2}}, a variant of {{TennisEvents}}, used in over 300 articles
  • {{TennisEvents3}}, a second variant
  • {{Draw key}}, used in over 500 articles
  • Various minor templates, such as {{Hamburg Masters tournaments}} and countless others (I lose track)

• Oxfordshire locality templates:

The great WikiProject Tennis tagging spree

One of my projects was to tag every tennis article on Wikipedia as being part of WikiProject Tennis (as well as give importance levels to all non-players and classes to all non-articles), as tennis articles were woefully undertagged. If you can't even see what articles are within the scope of your WikiProject, how are you meant to improve them?!? The tagging spree took WP:Tennis from this:

Tennis articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA			1			1
	B	3	22	19	7	4	55
	Start	7	12	29	41	83	172
	Stub		2	15	66	112	195
	Assessed	10	36	64	114	199	423
	Unassessed	1	17	7	2	888	915
	Total	11	53	71	116	1087	1338

to this:

Tennis articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA			1	1		2
	B	4	24	16	8	4	56
	C			1			1
	Start	11	13	33	53	62	172
	Stub	1	5	24	72	92	194
	List	5	50	3	14		72
	Assessed	21	92	78	148	158	497
	Unassessed	54	121	1024	2367	1927	5493
	Total	75	213	1102	2515	2085	5990

And, additionally:

• NA-importance = 0 -> 1918

and:

• Image-Class = 0 -> 56
• Template-Class = 0 -> 343
• Project-Class = 0 -> 27
• Category-Class = 0 -> 1314
• Disambig-Class = 0 -> 145
• NA-Class = 70ish -> 0 (all went to Template-Class or Category-Class)
• Portal-Class = 0 -> 36

I'd call that successful! 4652 articles newly tagged, and before I tagged the players, Unknown-importance was down to 327 articles, so I gave importance levels to most of the articles originally in there.

See also User:Rst20xx/Tennis.

Good topics

I was the proposer and implementer of Good topics. Featured topics require a certain percentage of the content contained within them to be featured. As of writing, this is currently 25%, however it has a history of increasing, and this looks set to continue. As a result, there is a recurring trend of topics getting pushed out of WP:FT every few months, when the criteria goes up.

I originally proposed Good topics to help deal with this problem, envisioning that the good topic criteria would be more static (at around 25% say), and then the featured topic criteria would be more free to jump to 50%. Cirt had the bright idea of setting the good topic criteria to 0%, i.e. requiring no featured content at all, and brought forth a straw poll to this effect. The poll passed, and so next came the implementation plan.

The implementation of good topics is the most complicated piece of editing I have ever done. As the only difference between good and featured topics is the percentage of articles that need to be featured, I was able (using categories and templates) to set good topics up such that promotions and demotions between the two would be automatic. This involved writing the subsidiary templates {{FeaturedTopicSum}} and {{TopicTransclude}}, as well as heavily modifying {{ArticleHistory}}, {{Featured topic box}} and {{Featuredtopictalk}}. It also involved setting up a dummy WikiProject so we can easily monitor the promotions/demotions of articles involved in good and featured topics, and make sure everything is running as it should be (so far, it has been).

Awards

Recieved

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For designing a simple system that will let us keep track of the quality of all articles in Featured Topics and paving the way for Good Topic promotions. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I, Cirt (talk), award this Barnstar of Diligence to Rst20xx, for excellent work with getting Wikipedia:Good topics on track, and an admirable demeanor in dealing with the myriad users with questions about its rollout. Cirt (talk) 08:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

(In the unlikely event you want to give me an award, please do so on my talk page!)

Given

• To Tenebrae:

"I award you this Comics Star personal user award for your extensive work on Golden Age and Atlas Era Marvel. Good job :)" - rst20xx 22:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• To Bencherlite:

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Writing 312+ biographies to ensure comprehensive coverage of the alumni of Jesus College is a real labour of love. It's truly gobsmacking. It shows that you are editing not simply for merit badges (like the one I'm now giving you!) or shiny stars, but because you truly care about what you are working on, and you want to make sure it is covered in depth and in great quality - and that makes you the best type of editor on this Wiki. A fully deserved barnstar then! rst20xx (talk) 15:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)