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Those portals were promoted back in the day where the portal would pass the featured process by creating sections that require update once a month. However, soon after the promotion, the maintainer often neglects the updating duty. Which is why the random portal component was introduced. The maintainer makes a batch of ~20 selections per section and the portal would show different contents upon each visit. This is to reduce the amount of update work required by the maintainer. You can try contact the person and projects mainly responsible for the portal by checking out the table in Wikipedia:Portal/Directory. Alternatively, if you think it's a hopeless cause then you can go to featured portal review that will start the de-listing discussion. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:23, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Sven Manguard, and welcome to the 2013 WikiCup! Your submissions' page is here. The competition begins at midnight UTC. The first round will last until the end of February, at which point the top 64 scorers will advance to the second round. We will be in touch at the end of every month, and signups are going to remain open until the end of January; if you know of anyone else who may like to take part, please let them know! A few reminders:
Overall, however, don't worry, and have fun. It doesn't matter if you make the odd mistake; these things happen. Questions can be asked on the WikiCup talk page. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 17:25, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your contest at the VG Wikiproject page. It looks like it's been a while since the contest began. Did someone already take the prize? Or is the contest still open? -- FutureTrillionaire (talk) 22:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just a quick note; shorter reviews, including "rubber-stamp" reviews and some quick-fails, are not eligible for points in the WikiCup. Some of your reviews are a little light (which of course does not necessarily make them poor reviews!) and so I thought I'd remind you of this. J Milburn (talk) 20:28, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your time and guidance in making The Irascibles a good article. I think we improved it a lot over my initial effort. Raymond Ellis 09:43, 10 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raymond Ellis (talk • contribs)
On 13 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit the prince of Hell is a rubber duck-loving rabbit? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Harrias talk 15:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC) 08:03, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
On 13 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Splatters, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the video game The Splatters players detonate bombs by flinging anthropomorphized globs of goo (pictured) at them? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Splatters. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Non-free film poster. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Non-free film poster redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
On 14 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Scarygirl, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the video game Scarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an eye patch, a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped tentacle for one arm? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Scarygirl. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:04, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Püssi at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 03:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
On 16 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Defenders of Ardania, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Defenders of Ardania. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
I think I've fixed all the issues you took issue with. Let me know if all is well or if there are other things that need to be fixed. Shearonink (talk) 06:37, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As one of the participants in the original Village Pump discussion about getting the Simple Wiki to the top of the Languages, you are invited to participate in the reopened discussion of the same. Your feedback will be appreciated.
Cheers, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Evening Sven, Hope all is well. I had seen that Svenbot hasn't run in over 5 months since the Fastily rewrite. Did you want me to re-setup the bot to run on Labs on a schedule? Thanks. Piandcompany (talk) 03:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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I award you this barnstar for your work on getting Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit and Scarygirl to GA status! Congratulations! On a side note, I think I'm gonna check Hell Yeah! out. Very interesting concept. — Statυs (talk, contribs) 01:26, 20 January 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Sven,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 20, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-01-20. —howcheng {chat} 17:17, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Also a new message on my talk.
P.S. I totally also thought you were an admin... LOL. I'm not sure why exactly... — Statυs (talk, contribs) 07:56, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
If any of the games on the list below make it to FA, the nominator can claim a free copy of Civ 5.
This contest is now over. The free copy of Civilization V was won by Futuretrillionaire for bringing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to Featured Article status. | |
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:The Splatters 03.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:47, 20 January 2013 (UTC) |
When you finish splitting Portal:Games into a separate Portal, can you update the table at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory? I came across the old name coming off a CSD request and pointed it to Portal:Sports but am not familiar enough with the Portal hierarchy to create a new listing. Thanks. --Michael Greiner 08:50, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, In terms of quality, I think it's good enough. I personally would prefer a shadow and higher resolution but it meets the criteria as it is. I am more concerned with the EV. Perhaps you could add it to the pinball article as well; it would have greater value there IMO and is much better than the current lead image File:Theatre_of_magic_pinball.jpg. If that is done, I'd support --Muhammad(talk) 09:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Piandcompany (talk) 15:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Sven Manguard,
Thanks for your review. I have addressed your concerns at the review page, and would be grateful if you can have another look at the portal. Happy editing and good luck at the Wikicup.--Lionratz (talk) 03:11, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Should ContinuityBot flag files such as File:9.5.07AMCGardenStatePlaza.JPG that have been marked as deleted on commons for re-transfer to commons (Task I) or remove their transfer to commons template (Task II) or do nothing? Piandcompany chat 22:25, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks much for pitching in at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Main Page Featured Portal drive, we'd love the added assistance!!! — Cirt (talk) 19:48, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Well, so far, we're managing to be perfectly civil at FP. If we can manage to keep this up, we're probably ready to relaunch FS =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
The inflatable habitat looks quite feasible. I'll leave it for now, as it's a good project for a budding restorationist, but if it's not done by the time I finish the Cendrillon poster, I'll do it.
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Then decide if someone like me can claim credit for such a small restoration. (Claiming that many points for something I can likely do in half an hour seems a little wrong, don't you think? I mean, for someone else, learning how to do these sorts of things, it'd be perfectly reasonable to claim it. But if I let myself get too lazy, then all that the Wikicup causes is that someone who could be doing the difficult stuff is instead doing easy stuff that others could do instead, and claiming credits that are a bit too easy to feel right to claim.) |
=) Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:23, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Oh, um, one thing: You should probably move the Inflatable habitat/moon colony thread to WT:FPC. Far, far more people watch that talk page. Adam Cuerden (talk)
We gotta be more on top of this. That's just bad... Sven Manguard Wha? 05:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Sven, how you find good DYKs for Featured portals, short of grabbing them from other portals? Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:14, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful tracking bar at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Society, much appreciated! — Cirt (talk) 16:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
If you want help pulling stuff over, after my comments, I will, but would appreciate a little help with finishing Portal:European military history once I have =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:59, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a question regarding the tracking bar at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Society, do you know if there's a way it could be regularly implemented at WP:FAC and WP:FLC and other similar areas of Wikipedia? I think it'd be most helpful! — Cirt (talk) 17:45, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Sven Manguard - this is to notify you that there is a discussion starting on the Article Feedback RfC talkpage that has ramifications for the RfC itself. Your input is much appreciated :). Thanks! and apologies if I've missed anyone Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:52, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Please see Discipline Global Mobile, where the screenshot was removed because "we don't need to 'prove' anything with it". IMHO, the screenshot draws the readers' attention and illustrates the article's section well. The section could be expanded to describe the distribution in greater detail, if that is what is needed to restore the screenshot. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:27, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
I don't know if you watch the Featured portal review page, but I've just brought the Literature portal there for review. I seem to recall you were the editor who first brought my attention to it being a bit of a red-link sea. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 18:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey I looked over the WP:FPORTC discussion at Portal:Massachusetts, haven't looked over Portal:Sports yet, anything specifically left to address? — Cirt (talk) 15:50, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Oh, er, speaking of portals, do you know anything about portal topics? I've been asked to redo a section, and I'm not quite sure I know what to do. If you can advise me through it, the portal's likely to promote. Hmm. Or maybe I do have an idea... Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader ( Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:
Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.
This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:
Also, a quick mention of The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?
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. 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Sven,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Hurricane Bob 19 aug 1991 1226Z.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 4, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-02-04. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Let's try to keep to Featured quality selections where possible at Portal:Technology. It's the Main Page, after all, and it's such a broad topic and subject matter, should be pretty easy to accomplish. Are all the "Selected pictures" also WP:Featured pictures? If so, we can change that label to Featured pictures! :) — Cirt (talk) 19:51, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing out the error; I'm not sure of the exact cause - it may have been what you suggested, or just reflections, but since it was isolated to the two points, better to blend it in, regardless. A new version has been uploaded. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:17, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Visible Pinball III - Pacific Pinball Museum cropped.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:34, 3 February 2013 (UTC) |
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:ULPower UL260i.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:53, 4 February 2013 (UTC) |
Oh, those were all selections that I added in there myself. Perhaps instead of replacing those selections, we could instead expand the portal's randomness and increase its dynamism by adding more selections on top of those as well, and retain them? I'm open to any suggestions of selected articles that are of WP:FA or WP:GA quality, if you have any recommendations for additions to the portal? — Cirt (talk) 16:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm going to be reformatting this section - we can still use the hooks you've selected, but it's going to be three per hook subpage, not five, and everything will be standardized with a layout page to improve uniformity throughout. :) — Cirt (talk) 19:58, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
You did something to Selected picture sizing? It's way too big. The pictures are too wide and bleeding over and overlapping into the next section. Can you change it back please? — Cirt (talk) 20:12, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey Sven, I just noticed a bunch of recent redirects you made and just wanted to make sure there was a discussion somewhere. Can you point me to it? Ryan Vesey 17:29, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Going by how you said you don't really like the blue on blue, would this photo still be worth nominating?--Dom497 (talk) 21:02, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I also posted this question on your Wikimedia page, but noticed that you respond more often on this page.
Thanks for your advice on my correcting of file names. I had a question about another thing that I was hoping you could answer. If I come across a photo of a singer or some other person and the filename of the photo either does not have the person's name or it just has their first name with no last name, or just their last name and no first name, should we rename the picture so that it includes both their first and last name? (This would help people figure out who exactly the photo is of without having to click the image and read the file description). Or, would that be considered as another one of those minor changes you had recommended that I avoid making? (Also, I am not talking about people who are known by their first name such as Madonna, Cher, or Rihanna). Thank you for your help.
Examples are: File:200d.jpg - which is of Michelle Shaprow; File:Greta44.jpg - which is of Greta Salpeter; File:Gordonphoto.jpg - which is of Mikalah Gordon.
Dobie80 (talk) 00:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Hope you were serious about wanting to participate,a s I'm reviving it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:30, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Sven. I noticed you removed a submission from the redirect centre of articles for creation because a submission was not for an article; that is a valid rationale but, generally speaking, the convention is to archive all requests and simply collapse the submission with reasoning. Please do that in the future. TBrandley (what's up) 00:56, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the files!--Mr Fink (talk) 02:58, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
I've responded to all of your suggestions at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Geography.
Perhaps you could revisit and see if this portal merits your Support at this time?
Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 19:59, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Any chance you'll get a moment to revisit your position at this discussion page? Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 19:08, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Sven. I would appreciate it if you could expand on what areas of my steward activities you find lacking which required you to make the confirmation non-unanimous. Obviously, I have room for improvement. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
As a formerly active discussant at WT:FSC, I would like to call your attention to Wikipedia talk:Featured sound candidates#Proposal to revamp FS.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Please remember to close discussions under the level-2 header. Otherwise MiszaBot gets confused and creates mess. — This, that and the other (talk) 08:55, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
This is not a "conflict". Both Portal:Science and Portal:Technology link to the same page on the fy Wiki. Wikidata does not handle one to many relationships at present (and there are no plans to do so in the immediate future), so these types of interwikilinks will have to remain in the wikitext of the page. The rest can be removed though. 86.44.163.139 (talk) 02:12, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Please would you include a link e.g. WP:Wikidata in your edit summaries when removing interwikis? I had not come across this before, and was confused when I saw "Cleared for wikidata" in a recent diff on my watchlist. – Fayenatic London 17:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello Sven. I notice you write "Be civil" in the edit intro to your talk page. I agree. So just a note re your edit on Talk:Main page: please try to avoid abusive edit summaries if you could. I'm just an innocent bystander, it popped up in my watchlist as I suspect it did for many others... —Noiratsi (talk) 17:55, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey Sven, I noticed your spambot removal. I took the liberty of re-removing you from the spamlist here. I assume you won't have a problem with that. You might want to talk to Mdann52 who restored your name; although, it was quite a while ago. Ryan Vesey 00:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.
Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
Other contributors of note include:
Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!
A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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. 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 11:42, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Can you undeleted article about Slovak defender Branislav Niňaj. He made his professional debut for ŠK Slovan Bratislava against FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce on 1 March 2013. Thanks, 18:19, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
NickDupree (talk) 06:34, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I see the warning at the top of this page about inactivity, but your contributions belie it :-)
In the WD transition, what are we doing about babel links to sections? Caucus has a single remaining babel link — he:הבחירות המקדימות לנשיאות ארצות הברית#אסיפות הבחירה (Caucuses) באיווה. It's the caucuses section of their article on the US presidential primary process, rather than discussing all kinds of caucuses, but it's relevant still. Talkback or respond at my talk, please. Nyttend (talk) 14:45, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello Sven, at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Discussion 2 you opposed my proposal for a more visible sister-link to Wikivoyage in some articles, because you do not see why one sister project should be favoured over the others. Do you think you could be supportive of an alternative proposal, in a similar spirit—the exact details of which have yet to be worked out, but which would cover all our sister projects, so as not to discriminate between them? Cheers, —Ruud 22:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Moving it to the section should be ok; I don't believe I spotchecked that section so there may still be issues. Wizardman 21:24, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I think I just won your contest.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 13:55, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello Sven Manguard! I have fixed all your issues with the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season and gave you an explanation as to why I removed the "Records" section. If you could check it out again soon that would be great. Regards,--12george1 (talk) 18:44, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Heads up talk page stalkers. More "free" goodies on the way!
So the free copy of Civilization V that I was offering as part of this contest was won a few days ago by user:Futuretrillionaire for bringing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to Featured Article status.
Other than that it took a bit longer than I had anticipated, the contest was a success. So I'm doing it again. If enough people preorder Bioshock Infinite everyone that preorders will get a free copy of X-COM: Enemy Unknown. Being that X-COM: Enemy Unknown was the game I preordered to get the extra copy of Civ V for the contest in the first place, it looks very likely that I'm going to have an extra copy of X-COM to give away.
For those of you that are interested in snagging a "free" copy of X-COM (free is in quotes because you still have to bring something to FA), feel free to get started on one of the articles from the old list. Other than Oblivion, everything from that list is going to be on the list for the new contest too. Of course, nothing is finalized until I make an official contest page like the one I did for Civ5, however the only reason I can think of for not running another contest at this point would be Bioshock Infinite not hitting the preorder threshold.
Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 07:01, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
You collapsed a section which I began with "blessing", and titled it: "This battle was already collapsed once. Enough already." - Should I be thankful that perhaps more people will read it with that label? But I don't see how blessing translates to battle? I go for peace, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:59, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Sir, may I know why you disabled VoxelBot from updating Vandalism Info? Arctic Kangaroo 13:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
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For your contributions to bring Liao Dynasty to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:24, 24 March 2013 (UTC) |
Hi there! Guided by your instructions, I worked again on Serbian dish - Gibanica. If it's not a problem could you give your opinion? And for a nutrition... it's very difficult to find nutrition facts about this dish. I found something on the internet and put it in article. Cheers (Nightwolf87 (talk) 17:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC))
You have previously commented on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Niemti.
As an outside editor, I have moved that this RFC/U be closed. If you wish to comment on the Motion to close, please do so here. Fladrif (talk) 14:34, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Heya - Great to see you and thanks again for helping out. Also glad you made some progress on Amanda Clement...I have a friend who is a female umpire and she'll be thrilled that Amanda now has a page :) Cheers! Girona7 (talk) 15:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Me again... So I submitted my first DKY nomination for the Joan Feynman article I expanded starting at our edit-a-thon (but mostly I worked on today). I saw that someone already approved your Clement article, which is great! Would you mind taking a look at the Feynman article and my nomination? I'd love any feedback or suggestions. Also, it's very last-minute, but the extra hook here is that it's actually her birthday tomorrow, so (unless it's too late) it would be really awesome if it could go up for tomorrow's DYK. Anyhoo, thanks in advance! Girona7 (talk) 19:57, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate Miyagawa (submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's Casliber (submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.
Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr ( Hawkeye7 (submissions)), on the European hare ( Cwmhiraeth (submissions)), on the constellation Circinus ( Keilana (submissions) and Casliber (submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John ( Cerebellum (submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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. 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 22:37, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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