WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note.   Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition:   Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted   Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to   Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example,   Casliber (submissions) and   Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 09:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #66

 
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Hi. I notice that you're the one who fully protected this template five years ago, with the stated reason of it being a "vandal target". Currently, it's transcluded to 800 pages, which normally only warrants semi-protection, not full-. I was wondering if you'd be willing to reconsider. If it weren't fully protected, there are several bold changes I'd love to make to it, and I don't think it's fair for some vandals from years ago to stop me from that. Thanks. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I've made the changes I want to, though I think it might be a good idea to leave it unprotected for a few more days, in case someone wants to revert me, or if I notice a minor false positive or negative caused by my changes, and want to fix it. (I'll also be traveling tomorrow, and starting an internship on Monday, so I might be away from my computer for some longer-than-usual stretches of time over the next 48 hours or so.)
Oh, and on the general point, I agree with you that this template is probably high risk due to the prominence of some of the articles it's used on. Then again, until yesterday any random editor could've edited Module:Authority control, transcluded to thousands upon thousands of BLPs, and not a single one thought to. (Though maybe the GNAA and Encyclopedia Dramatica guys were just too lazy to learn Lua.) — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 23:30, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

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133   Tai-Pan (novel) (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
35   King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (talk)     Merge
175   Royal Regiment of Scotland (talk)   Merge
25   39th Infantry Division (United States) (talk) Merge
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77   Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (talk)   Wikify
5   Salamanca order of battle (talk)           Orphan
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28   7th Armored Brigade (Israel) (talk)         Stub
5   160th (Wales) Brigade (talk)         Stub
3   Northumberland County Division (talk)         Stub
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89   History of the Royal Marines (talk)   Cleanup
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36   Force 10 From Navarone (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
58   4th Canadian Division (talk)           Merge
125   Line infantry (talk)         Merge
87   3rd Canadian Division (talk)     Merge
6   Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (talk)     Wikify
15   Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (talk)     Wikify
44   History of the Australian Army (talk)   Wikify
1   Order of battle for Campaign of Northern and Eastern Henan 1938 (talk)           Orphan
19   Military service by the members of the British Royal Family (talk)       Orphan
5   Alex Selsky (talk)           Orphan
9   9th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)       Stub
11   8th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)       Stub
6   Gas attack at Hulluch (talk)           Stub
6   7th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)           Stub
18   Support Command (British Army) (talk)           Stub
8   42nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)           Stub

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