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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:

• Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
• PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
• Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
• Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
• Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
• Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
• Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Grandiose (submissions), Stone (submissions), Eisfbnore (submissions), Canada Hky (submissions) and MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:07, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (August)

The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter Year IV · Issue 8 · August 1, 2011 – September 5, 2011 Previous month's issue
New users New members – LukeT222 (talk · contribs) (August 22) New recipients – Jorgenev (talk · contribs) (August 9) Pher38 (talk · contribs) (August 11) Katarighe (talk · contribs) (August 16) New editors – WikiProject news Check out Apterygial's My Insane Idea userproject, which aims to improve the 2008 Formula One season article and that season's Grands Prix to Featured Topic status. Newsletter news	Article developments Formula One articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total FA 3 3 7 13 FL 1 2 1 4 A 2 2 GA 3 6 10 6 25 B 18 30 35 47 130 C 6 28 37 79 150 Start 16 96 185 623 920 Stub 22 130 1,530 1,682 List 3 9 12 4 28 Category 380 380 Disambig 6 6 Portal 35 35 Project 67 67 Redirect 18 18 Template 149 149 NA 27 27 Assessed 50 196 419 2,289 683 3,637 Total 50 196 419 2,289 683 3,637 See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Article alerts
Editors' Comment Users are always welcome to help us with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave a message on an existing editor's talkpage or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page, and we will tell you everything you need to know and answer your questions. Current contributors – Midgrid (talk · contribs) Cs-wolves (talk · contribs) Chubbennaitor (talk · contribs) How to help WPF1 – Expand the articles in Category:Formula One stubs. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Article requests: Erich Zakowski, Daniele Coronna, Hans Fouche, Chris Radage, Giorgio Stirano, Steve Tarrant, Intertechnique, 10 Tenths, Elf Masters Copyedit: Bahrain Grand Prix, History of Formula One, Monaco Grand Prix, 2006 San Marino Grand Prix, Rob White (Formula One), Rob Smedley Expand: F1-X Dubai, Honda RA271, Paddy Lowe, Red Bull RB3, Spyker F1, Toyota TF107, BMW Sauber F1.07, Mario Theissen, Franz Tost, Chinese Grand Prix, Colin Kolles, Concorde Agreement, Formula One Constructors Association, McLaren MP4/1, Ove Andersson, Bob Bell, Korean International Circuit, Grand Prix Drivers' Association, Spyker F8-VII, Arai (company), Shoei, Schuberth Helme GmbH, Bell Racing Company, Jim Bamber, Nazir Hoosein, Formula One video games, Make Cars Green, Jonathan Legard, Michael Turner (illustrator) more Update: History of Formula One, Toyota, Robert Doornbos, Formula One regulations, 2024 Formula One season, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Super Aguri F1, Divina Galica, Grand Prix World Championship Images needed: Max Mosley, Sakon Yamamoto, Jordan Grand Prix circa 1992-1997, Paddy Lowe, 2008 Turkish Grand Prix more For more work, see this generated list or the Auxiliary list
Images Below is the F1 Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month and only from the current season. It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE. Jenson Button demonstrates a McLaren MP4-23 during a promotional event in the streets of Manchester. New images 2011 File:Fernando Alonso, looking the monitor.jpg
Article of the month – 2011 Belgian Grand Prix The 2011 Belgian Grand Prix, formally the 2011 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 28 August 2011, at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the twelfth round of the 2011 Formula One season, and the 67th Belgian Grand Prix to be held. The race, contested over 44 laps, was won by Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, the drivers' championship leader, after starting from pole position. Vettel's team-mate Mark Webber finished in second place, and Jenson Button completed the podium in third position for McLaren. As a consequence of the race, Vettel extended his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to 92 points over Webber. Fernando Alonso, fourth in the race, moved into third place in the championship, ten points behind Webber in third, and eight ahead of Button. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull extended their championship lead to 131 points over McLaren, with Ferrari a further 64 points behind in third position. (More...)
Drivers' Championship Position Driver Team Points 1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 259 2nd Mark Webber Red Bull 167 3rd Fernando Alonso Ferrari 157 4th Jenson Button McLaren 149 5th Lewis Hamilton McLaren 146 6th Felipe Massa Ferrari 74 7th Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 56 8th Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 42 9th Vitaly Petrov Renault 34 10th Nick Heidfeld Renault 34 11th Kamui Kobayashi Sauber 27 12th Adrian Sutil Force India 24 13th Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso 12 14th Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso 10 15th Sergio Pérez Sauber 8 16th Paul di Resta Force India 8 17th Rubens Barrichello Williams 4 18th Pastor Maldonado Williams 1 19th Pedro de la Rosa Sauber 0 20th Jarno Trulli Lotus 0 21st Vitantonio Liuzzi Hispania 0 22nd Bruno Senna Renault 0 23rd Jérôme d'Ambrosio Virgin 0 24th Heikki Kovalainen Lotus 0 25th Timo Glock Virgin 0 26th Narain Karthikeyan Hispania 0 27th Daniel Ricciardo Hispania 0 28th Karun Chandhok Lotus 0 Constructors' Championship Position Constructor Entered Chassis Points 1st Red Bull Racing RB7 426 2nd Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-26 295 3rd Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 150° Italia 231 4th Mercedes GP Petronas MGP W02 98 5th Lotus Renault GP R31 68 6th Sauber F1 Team C30 35 7th Force India F1 Team VJM04 32 8th Scuderia Toro Rosso STR6 22 9th AT&T Williams FW33 5 10th Team Lotus T128 0 11th Hispania Racing F1 Team F111 0 12th Marussia Virgin Racing MVR-02 0 See 2011 Formula One season for more information
Belgian Grand Prix Driver Constructor Race Time 1st Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:26:44.893 2nd Mark Webber Red Bull + 3.741 3rd Jenson Button McLaren + 9.669 4th Fernando Alonso Ferrari + 13.022 5th Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP + 47.464 6th Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP + 48.674 7th Adrian Sutil Force India + 59.713 8th Felipe Massa Ferrari + 1:06.076 9th Vitaly Petrov Renault + 1:11.917 10th Pastor Maldonado Williams + 1:17.615 Fastest Lap: Mark Webber 1:49.883, on lap 33 Belgian Grid Line up Driver Constructor Time Row one Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:48.298 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:48.730 Row two Mark Webber Red Bull 1:49.376 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:50.256 Row three Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:50.552 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso 1:50.773 Row four Bruno Senna Renault 1:51.121 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:51.251 Row five Sergio Pérez Sauber 1:51.374 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:52.303 Friday Practice 1 – Schumacher leads rain-hit Spa session Friday Practice 2 – Webber edges out Alonso Saturday Practice – Webber fastest at sodden Spa Qualifying – Vettel beats Hamilton to Spa pole Race – Vettel heads Red Bull one-two at Spa

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Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Hello again. I see that you aren't very active anymore, so I don't know if you forgot that we would nominated Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) for TFA for October 14. I went ahead and nominated it, feel free to edit the blurb. 117Avenue (talk) 21:54, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) I had forgot - we had our second child 10 weeks ago and that's been taking up most of our time. I don't get on here much because of that any more. Matthewedwards :  Chat  07:11, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

That's understandable. 117Avenue (talk) 19:37, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

In the next couple of days we should go through the online references and make sure they all work. Those that don't we will have to see if archive.org has archives of them. Refs 12 and 44 are dead. Refs 36 and 37 don't seem to verify the information any more. If you can think of another legitimate alternative to imdb, they should be switched out (Hollywood.com is owned by Hollywood Media Corp, a NASDAQ company so they were a RS over IMDB). Perhaps Hollywood Reporter or Variety will work. I seem to recall one of them having a filmography. Checklinks shows ref 24 not working, but it does. Also, all the www.degrassi.tv urls now redirect to http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/degrassi so hopefully archive.org has them backed up, or we can find them on the new site, or for the press releases, find them elsewhere. Ref 4 might be gone forever, it was the forum post by Stephen Stohn at the old degrassi.tv. Also, the Funimation website doesn't have any Degrassi listings any more. Matthewedwards :  Chat  07:59, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. 117Avenue (talk) 19:37, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate

Greetings,

My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.

I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?

With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.

I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.

Thank-you,

John-Paul Mcvea
University of Alberta
jmcvea@ualberta.ca

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 22:18, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

I'd be happy to participate. Best, Matthewedwards :  Chat  04:52, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I appreciate it.

As I indicated before, here are five questions that I would like you to answer. Please be as brief or as thorough as you like. Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead (jmcvea@ualberta.ca).

Thank you again : )

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 23:30, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

5 QUESTIONS

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?

INDICATING CONSENT

By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements:

• That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study.

• That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”).

• That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study.

• That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study.

• That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request.

• That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”).

• That you agree to participate.

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Background

• I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree.

• I am asking you because you have created a user page in Wikipedia that other people can use to learn about you.

Purpose

• My research is about how people present themselves online.

• I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Wikipedia community.

Study Procedures

• With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on.

• I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet,

• I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me.

• Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm

Benefits

• There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online.

• I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society.

• There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research.

Risk

• There is no direct risk for participating in this research.

Voluntary Participation

• You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary.

• You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you. Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw.

• If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request.

Confidentiality

• This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree.

• A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website.

• Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you.

• Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data. It will be password protected. I will not be sent by email or stored online.

• I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards.

• If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask.

Further Information

• If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators.

Thank-you again!

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