WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is   The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

  1.   The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
  2.   Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
  3.   Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
  4.   Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
  5.   Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
  6.   BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
  7.   Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
  8.   Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Ecolojovem for deletion

 
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Kacamata! Dimmi!!! 18:58, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for East Germany–Zanzibar relations

On 8 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article East Germany–Zanzibar relations, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first East German embassy in Africa opened in Zanzibar in 1964? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/East Germany–Zanzibar relations. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, East Germany–Zanzibar relations), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:3rd congress (rewrite)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:02, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Altai Electoral District deputies, 1917

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Nomination of Communist Youth Federation of San Marino for deletion

 
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asilvering (talk) 12:44, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Foundation of CPI

 

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 18:58, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista) (1964-92) (logotipo).jpg

 

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