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Hi, to whoever first proposed it, this is an interesting initiative. Anyway, would I be eligible for any Million Awards for helping to bring Airbus A330 and Neil Armstrong to GA status? Could somebody check? Cheers -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 23:29, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Swami Vivekananda is a good article now. The article is in WP:5000 (ranked 2369). User:Nvvchar and I have worked here. -- Tito☸ Dutta 11:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
I've just got this article through GA (it has passed but the bot is slow on doing the remaining paperwork), which according to its traffic stats had 289,072 views in the last 90 days and is ranked just outside the top 5K at 5,221. Could an independent person confirm it's eligible for a million award? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Just discovered this award and checked on a couple of my higher-visibility pages. By my reading of the stats, this page qualifies for a Half-Million Award? Or do FLs not qualify, only FAs? Staxringold talk contribs 16:50, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
The iPad (4th generation) article has received 63649 in the past 30 days, or a readership 763,788 annually, qualifying it for the Half Million Award. Zach Vega ( talk to me) 21:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
I never knew about this award! I got both Adventure Time and The X-Files up to GA status awhile back. They are number 1091 and 3446 on the WP:5000. I'm not sure which award either of those would qualify for, but I'd like to throw them in for consideration!-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 01:55, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
I've only just noticed this award on another users page and investigated. I have only used one months data from Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset/Popular pages but suspect Somerset and Bath, Somerset might be eligible for the quarter million. I would feel very uncomfortable "self awarding", but would anyone be kind enough to take a look?— Rod talk 10:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Fuck (film) just got promoted to WP:FA; I think it gets at least over 500,000 or so.
I'm going to be traveling out of town for a bit with limited Internet access, but maybe someone could do me a favor and go over other GAs and FAs quality improvement projects I've been a part of, and see if any others qualify?
I've listed them for perusal at User:Cirt/Contributions.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 23:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I believe that I have 22 articles that should be listed at WP:MILLION that are not ( Anthony Davis (basketball), Barry Bonds, Campbell's Soup Cans, Carly Foulkes, Cloud Gate, Denard Robinson, Evan Turner, First inauguration of Barack Obama, IJustine, Jabari Parker, Jack Kemp, Jake Long, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Jessica Gomes, Jon Corzine, Juwan Howard, Kinky Boots (musical), Royce White, Tim Hardaway, Jr., Tory Burch, Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago), Victoria's Secret Fashion Show). I have already calculated yearly totals at User:TonyTheTiger/QAviews#250.2C000.2B_yearly_views so you don't have to troll through the data for all of these. User:Khazar2 and I have an interaction ban. Someone else will need to evaluate my nominees.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Just passed a GA, would be elligible. Soham 11:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe that Somerset Levels would qualify for the half million having 187835 views in the last 90 days (which would give an annual figure around 750,000); however I suspect this may be a temporary effect due to media interest in the severe flooding on the Levels in the last few months, which will (hopefully) subside. Therefore I'm not sure if I should claim it - what do others think?— Rod talk 09:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
This article, which I promoted to Featured List in January of 2014, in the last 90 days, has been viewed 785,167 times, for an estimated annual readership of about 3 million. Since it's a list, does it still count?-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 22:09, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Titanfall is now a good article.
Titanfall has been viewed 528277 times in the last 90 days. This article ranked 143 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org. [1]
czar ♔ 00:19, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
I have been saying that 250K is too easy. I have made a chart at User:TonyTheTiger/QAviews. It uses full years. Obviously, it is easier to make these thresholds when you can choose the highpoint of the year and multiply the last 90 days by 4. The list would be a lot longer including articles meeting the threshhold using that technique. It could be more selective if you chopped out the 250K.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:10, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Noticing the well-deserved half-million award given to User:MONGO for Elk made me go look for other eligible editors (as well as other eligible FAs by MONGO, there must be lots!). And I thought I ought to look at readership over the whole last 12 months. Some articles clearly get more readers in term time, when the subject's studied in school, some more in vacation time when the subject is visited by tourists (compare for instance Great Fire of London with Buckingham Palace). Perhaps I'm taking this award too seriously… indeed, when used the article stats tool to check readership for the whole 12 months for a couple of articles, I felt I was taking it too seriously, because it was more work than I like to spend on such a soulless task. What I'd like to ask is, might there be some tool that'll simply give readership over the past 12 months at a click? Or a secret way of using the recommended article stats tool so that it will do this? Or would somebody like to create one? It sort of feels like that wouldn't be too hard, considering the stats that already exist. Bishonen | talk 13:24, 31 August 2013 (UTC).
Once upon a time, there was a way to get yearly totals of monthly data in addition to the current monthly totals of daily data. No one at WP:VPP had responded to my inquiry into substitutes for this former data. I am also being ignored on augmenting the current tool in my subsequent VPP inquiry at here.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:14, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
I feel that this page would benefit from a "request" section for editors who feel that they are eligible for this award. A place to enter details about what article they got to GA, and their calculation of the annual readership. Uninvolved editors could then decide whether to award this easily to people who covet it.
As a completely unbiased and shameless example, I recently got aphthous stomatitis up to GA status, and the annual readership calculation I worked out is 114213 * 4 = 463705, which qualifies for a quarter million at least?
I would like to see this integrated into the GA criteria page, as an optional note that reviewers may wish to award one of these million awards if they passed a GA review of high enough readership. Lesion ( talk) 21:18, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. You suggest that this can be self awarded, yet the wording of the template would look a bit strange if some was to do this and post it on their user/talk page to themselves.
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The Quarter Million Award | |
For your contributions to bring Aphthous stomatitis (estimated annual readership: 463705) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! -- Lesion ( talk) 11:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC) |
Suggest that if it can be self awarded, to reword to something more like the user box version, which does not particularly stress that someone else is awarding it. Might also be good to make this clear on the project page. See for example the wording on the WP:service awards project page:
"Unlike other awards given from one editor to another in a show of appreciation, this is one award that is intended to be given to yourself, although it can also be given by a second party."
Understand your current hesitance to place a note about this on the GA criteria page. In the long term agree this would take all the work away from one person, as most of it would be done by the GA reviewers at the same time as promoting the article to GA status.
Final suggestion is about the images for the quarter, half and full million templates. Maybe it would be interesting to give each a different picture. Like the half million award could be a half cube of the million, etc. Or maybe the 1/2 and 1/4 awards could be successively smaller? Or perhaps most simple replace the "1" in the image with a fraction? Lesion ( talk) 11:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, this award can be given to yourself. Judging by requests on the talk page, I think it would be good to have a more formal requests section on the project page? Maybe a box for people to enter the name of the article, and a link to the estimated annual readership? See the section Wikipedia:Million_Award#Qualifying_articles for the instructions. As a worked example, in the case of Airbus A330:
I just realized that JennKR and I merit a Million Award for Lauryn Hill, which we took to GA a while ago in sort of a two-stage process. It has had around 1,330,000 views over the last 12 months, and despite a few news spikes here and there has had consistently high viewership.
And looking at the Hall of Fame Million list, I found that some music articles are missing that I know are FA or GA. For example, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are all FA and all get over 100,000 views a month (in the first two cases, a lot more) so all merit entry (FA John Lennon is already there). And Britney Spears is GA and would qualify for a Three- or Four-Million Award if there were one. It would be tedious but you could go over the lists of music articles that have reached these levels and probably find some more obvious candidates for checking.
Thanks ... Wasted Time R ( talk) 04:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia editing is a collaborative process, how do you single out one editor who is "responsible" for an article getting one million views? Clearly, these views are accumulative over a long period of time and many editors contribute to an article's development. Liz Read! Talk! 01:06, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me if the Abby Wambach article meets the criteria for this award? Thank you. Hmlarson ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Can I (with tongue firmly in cheek) get a "Near miss award" for Abbey Road reaching GA status yesterday? I cannot prove through stats.grok.se that the annual readership is any higher than about 994,000, and I suspect a good proportion of those are people looking for the studio or the road, instead of the album. However, the wfmlabs tool above reports 248,608 views in the last 90 days, which multiplying by (365/90) gives an estimated annual readership of about 1,008,000. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 07:12, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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The 994k Award | |
For your contributions to bring Abbey Road (estimated annual readership: not quite one million) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the 994k Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, but next time, try not to write about such an obscure topic probably nobody has ever heard of. -- Reso lute 21:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
Will this do? ;) Reso lute 21:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
By my calculations, the article about the latest Daft Punk album is eligible for the highest tier of this award. Trouble is, I don't know who should receive the award. I can't tell who the main contributor(s) is. Can someone help me out by either giving the award, explaining to me what I'm doing wrong, or both? Thanks. Bobnorwal ( talk) 19:55, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I recently worked to have the article Voting Rights Act of 1965 promoted to Good Article status. I believe that qualifies for a Half Million Award; according to [4] the page has received 146,734 views in the last 90 days, which multiplied by 4 is 586,936. If another editor could confirm/award, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I think
One World Trade Center, an article that I nominated at
WP:GAN and recently got promoted to GA status, qualifies for WP:MILLION. (
Or maybe the WP:2000000 award? Do we have that?)
As an aside, some of
these users worked really hard on the article as well, so...
Epicgenius (
talk)
23:14, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I expanded California Chrome 5x and then took it to GA. It has had 273,000 hits in May alone, plus about another 10K prior to May. I anticipate yet more on or about June 7. Not sure if this qualifies me for the quarter-million award, but can someone verify and give me a yea or, um, er, a "neigh"? Montanabw (talk) 18:17, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Doesn't it qualify here? Fitzcarmalan ( talk) 09:44, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Do these qualify?
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:47, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Ritchie, can you check the readership Megadeth has? I've brought it to FA status and believe I deserve one of those cubes.-- Retrohead ( talk) 07:35, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I believe that I am due WP:MILLION awards for both House of Cards (season 2) and Emily Ratajkowski, which both belong in the Hall of Fame.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:55, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
I brought the Shah Rukh Khan article to GA on 3 August 2014. According to User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages, it is number 506, with over 100,000 views a week, so 5 million+ per year! BollyJeff | talk 00:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
Are people here aware of the new and improved pageview tool run by German WP user Hedonil? It seems to have slightly higher pageview counts for almost all pages. It also includes some features that http://stats.grok.se does not. Given that it consistently produces higher pageview totals, I assume it counts some things that our older tool does not. I have been trying to contact Hedonil to see if he can get his tool to calculate pageviews for the entire historical database that we have going back to the end of 2007. I have been unable to get any responses to my communications. Does anyone know how to communicate with him. He apparently communicates in english, but does not seem to communicate with me.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I think two articles which I recently helped promoting to Good Articles Dallas Buyers Club and The Fault in Our Stars (film), qualify for the Million Award. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 10:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Back in August, Samjohnzon and I brought Katy Perry up to FA. I don't know how to calculate the readership, but believe it is eligible for the Million Award. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 20:12, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Chef (film) qualifies for The Quarter Million Award, for two users, myself and 97198. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 01:37, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Recently promoted to WP:GA quality after a successful Quality improvement project. :) I think this qualifies not for the million, but for one of the other ones. Could someone else check please?
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 03:37, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Recent GA. It was viewed 116,804 times in the past 90 days, which means about 467,216 views a year. This is probably a circumstance for the Quarter-Million Award. – Epicgenius ( talk) 16:16, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
I setup archival to archive pages older than one (1) year. I also archived a few threads that were closed successfully (people requested awards and subsequently got them). — Cirt ( talk) 02:24, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I've cleared all the backlogs of requests that were on this page.
I've given out awards to eleven (11) users including: SNUGGUMS, Samjohnzon, Captain Assassin!, Bollyjeff, TonyTheTiger, Retrohead, Redtigerxyz, Jeff Dahl, Montanabw, Epicgenius, and Prototime.
If they've also qualified for the actual full Million, then they may feel free to add themselves to the Million Award Hall of Fame at Wikipedia:Million_Award#Million_Award_Hall_of_Fame.
Thanks again to you all for your quality improvement efforts on Wikipedia.
I truly do mean it when I say I'm most happy to see fellow editors that engage in quality improvement efforts to bring pages to WP:GA or WP:FA quality! :)
— Cirt ( talk) 01:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
I think this quote in the Qualifying articles section should be kept in mind -- Like any user page bling, the Million Award exists only for editor encouragement and fun, and should never be subject to dispute over who "deserves" it." -- Shudde talk 09:38, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Gravity (film) has 13,78,784 views in the last year. I'm hoping a Million Award :). -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 10:59, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a spike that actually crosses a million, excluding it, the annual readership is quarter million. -- AmritasyaPutra T 17:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I think Lemur qualifies for the quarter-million, and Slow loris qualifies for the half-million. The former has pretty steady viewership, while the latter is sporadic since it's viewership is often based on viral videos on YouTube (current and residual). I'm pretty sure Strepsirrhini won't make the cut, even though it is a "vital article". Anyway, I re-wrote all three, taking them through GAN and FAC. – Maky « talk » 18:23, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
The article Washington Monument, which I recently promoted to GA status, has been viewed 112559 times in the last 90 days. That equates to about 450,000 views a year. I think this is eligible for the Quarter-Million Award. Epic Genius ( talk) 14:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
I had brought Delhi to GA status long ago when I was not aware of this award. I just noticed so wanted to ask. I checkd it and the views go over one million. It also went above one million in the year in which it became a GA; 2012. So, am I still eligible for the award? Cheers, — Yash! (Y) 13:06, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
I worked on the GA nomination back in 2013, after it was nominated in January 2013 by another editor. Now it had 215k viewers in the last 90 days. I don't know if this qualifies.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:36, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Someone should create a substable template to make it easier to give out this award.
Then, I'd be happy to give it to people.
Hrm, maybe I'll look into this, but perhaps others could help as well.
— Cirt ( talk) 21:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Currently the intro gives one the impression this is about the former (which would be great) but if one looks closer the award is only about the latter... Palosirkka ( talk) 08:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Not sure how this is handled, but Hillary Rodham Clinton, which previously had the Million Award for GA, is now an FA article. It continues to run over 100,000 views a month and so continues to qualify. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, everyone,
I see that the new annual top 10,000 page views chart for 2014 has just been posted. That confirms that a good article I expanded and maintain, IQ classification, has enjoyed a million page views in the last year, so I'll self-nominate for the award. I'd like to thank the award program organizers for setting up a user award program that focuses attention on the most-viewed pages on Wikipedia. I first learned of this program after looking at the user page of an editor who had just made a very helpful edit to a page I watch, and then I discovered his self-disclosure of having gained the Million Award, and I decided after reading the project page here to follow his example. I hope in the next year to bring some other articles that are very high in page views up to good article status, and I hope after the appropriate time spent seeking review to bring some of those in turn up to featured article status. Thanks to all of you for the inspiration you provide to other Wikipedians. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 17:02, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, to whoever first proposed it, this is an interesting initiative. Anyway, would I be eligible for any Million Awards for helping to bring Airbus A330 and Neil Armstrong to GA status? Could somebody check? Cheers -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 23:29, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Swami Vivekananda is a good article now. The article is in WP:5000 (ranked 2369). User:Nvvchar and I have worked here. -- Tito☸ Dutta 11:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
I've just got this article through GA (it has passed but the bot is slow on doing the remaining paperwork), which according to its traffic stats had 289,072 views in the last 90 days and is ranked just outside the top 5K at 5,221. Could an independent person confirm it's eligible for a million award? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:17, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Just discovered this award and checked on a couple of my higher-visibility pages. By my reading of the stats, this page qualifies for a Half-Million Award? Or do FLs not qualify, only FAs? Staxringold talk contribs 16:50, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
The iPad (4th generation) article has received 63649 in the past 30 days, or a readership 763,788 annually, qualifying it for the Half Million Award. Zach Vega ( talk to me) 21:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
I never knew about this award! I got both Adventure Time and The X-Files up to GA status awhile back. They are number 1091 and 3446 on the WP:5000. I'm not sure which award either of those would qualify for, but I'd like to throw them in for consideration!-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 01:55, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
I've only just noticed this award on another users page and investigated. I have only used one months data from Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset/Popular pages but suspect Somerset and Bath, Somerset might be eligible for the quarter million. I would feel very uncomfortable "self awarding", but would anyone be kind enough to take a look?— Rod talk 10:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Fuck (film) just got promoted to WP:FA; I think it gets at least over 500,000 or so.
I'm going to be traveling out of town for a bit with limited Internet access, but maybe someone could do me a favor and go over other GAs and FAs quality improvement projects I've been a part of, and see if any others qualify?
I've listed them for perusal at User:Cirt/Contributions.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 23:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I believe that I have 22 articles that should be listed at WP:MILLION that are not ( Anthony Davis (basketball), Barry Bonds, Campbell's Soup Cans, Carly Foulkes, Cloud Gate, Denard Robinson, Evan Turner, First inauguration of Barack Obama, IJustine, Jabari Parker, Jack Kemp, Jake Long, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Jessica Gomes, Jon Corzine, Juwan Howard, Kinky Boots (musical), Royce White, Tim Hardaway, Jr., Tory Burch, Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago), Victoria's Secret Fashion Show). I have already calculated yearly totals at User:TonyTheTiger/QAviews#250.2C000.2B_yearly_views so you don't have to troll through the data for all of these. User:Khazar2 and I have an interaction ban. Someone else will need to evaluate my nominees.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Just passed a GA, would be elligible. Soham 11:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe that Somerset Levels would qualify for the half million having 187835 views in the last 90 days (which would give an annual figure around 750,000); however I suspect this may be a temporary effect due to media interest in the severe flooding on the Levels in the last few months, which will (hopefully) subside. Therefore I'm not sure if I should claim it - what do others think?— Rod talk 09:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
This article, which I promoted to Featured List in January of 2014, in the last 90 days, has been viewed 785,167 times, for an estimated annual readership of about 3 million. Since it's a list, does it still count?-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 22:09, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Titanfall is now a good article.
Titanfall has been viewed 528277 times in the last 90 days. This article ranked 143 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org. [1]
czar ♔ 00:19, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
I have been saying that 250K is too easy. I have made a chart at User:TonyTheTiger/QAviews. It uses full years. Obviously, it is easier to make these thresholds when you can choose the highpoint of the year and multiply the last 90 days by 4. The list would be a lot longer including articles meeting the threshhold using that technique. It could be more selective if you chopped out the 250K.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:10, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Noticing the well-deserved half-million award given to User:MONGO for Elk made me go look for other eligible editors (as well as other eligible FAs by MONGO, there must be lots!). And I thought I ought to look at readership over the whole last 12 months. Some articles clearly get more readers in term time, when the subject's studied in school, some more in vacation time when the subject is visited by tourists (compare for instance Great Fire of London with Buckingham Palace). Perhaps I'm taking this award too seriously… indeed, when used the article stats tool to check readership for the whole 12 months for a couple of articles, I felt I was taking it too seriously, because it was more work than I like to spend on such a soulless task. What I'd like to ask is, might there be some tool that'll simply give readership over the past 12 months at a click? Or a secret way of using the recommended article stats tool so that it will do this? Or would somebody like to create one? It sort of feels like that wouldn't be too hard, considering the stats that already exist. Bishonen | talk 13:24, 31 August 2013 (UTC).
Once upon a time, there was a way to get yearly totals of monthly data in addition to the current monthly totals of daily data. No one at WP:VPP had responded to my inquiry into substitutes for this former data. I am also being ignored on augmenting the current tool in my subsequent VPP inquiry at here.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:14, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
I feel that this page would benefit from a "request" section for editors who feel that they are eligible for this award. A place to enter details about what article they got to GA, and their calculation of the annual readership. Uninvolved editors could then decide whether to award this easily to people who covet it.
As a completely unbiased and shameless example, I recently got aphthous stomatitis up to GA status, and the annual readership calculation I worked out is 114213 * 4 = 463705, which qualifies for a quarter million at least?
I would like to see this integrated into the GA criteria page, as an optional note that reviewers may wish to award one of these million awards if they passed a GA review of high enough readership. Lesion ( talk) 21:18, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. You suggest that this can be self awarded, yet the wording of the template would look a bit strange if some was to do this and post it on their user/talk page to themselves.
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The Quarter Million Award | |
For your contributions to bring Aphthous stomatitis (estimated annual readership: 463705) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! -- Lesion ( talk) 11:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC) |
Suggest that if it can be self awarded, to reword to something more like the user box version, which does not particularly stress that someone else is awarding it. Might also be good to make this clear on the project page. See for example the wording on the WP:service awards project page:
"Unlike other awards given from one editor to another in a show of appreciation, this is one award that is intended to be given to yourself, although it can also be given by a second party."
Understand your current hesitance to place a note about this on the GA criteria page. In the long term agree this would take all the work away from one person, as most of it would be done by the GA reviewers at the same time as promoting the article to GA status.
Final suggestion is about the images for the quarter, half and full million templates. Maybe it would be interesting to give each a different picture. Like the half million award could be a half cube of the million, etc. Or maybe the 1/2 and 1/4 awards could be successively smaller? Or perhaps most simple replace the "1" in the image with a fraction? Lesion ( talk) 11:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, this award can be given to yourself. Judging by requests on the talk page, I think it would be good to have a more formal requests section on the project page? Maybe a box for people to enter the name of the article, and a link to the estimated annual readership? See the section Wikipedia:Million_Award#Qualifying_articles for the instructions. As a worked example, in the case of Airbus A330:
I just realized that JennKR and I merit a Million Award for Lauryn Hill, which we took to GA a while ago in sort of a two-stage process. It has had around 1,330,000 views over the last 12 months, and despite a few news spikes here and there has had consistently high viewership.
And looking at the Hall of Fame Million list, I found that some music articles are missing that I know are FA or GA. For example, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are all FA and all get over 100,000 views a month (in the first two cases, a lot more) so all merit entry (FA John Lennon is already there). And Britney Spears is GA and would qualify for a Three- or Four-Million Award if there were one. It would be tedious but you could go over the lists of music articles that have reached these levels and probably find some more obvious candidates for checking.
Thanks ... Wasted Time R ( talk) 04:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia editing is a collaborative process, how do you single out one editor who is "responsible" for an article getting one million views? Clearly, these views are accumulative over a long period of time and many editors contribute to an article's development. Liz Read! Talk! 01:06, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me if the Abby Wambach article meets the criteria for this award? Thank you. Hmlarson ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Can I (with tongue firmly in cheek) get a "Near miss award" for Abbey Road reaching GA status yesterday? I cannot prove through stats.grok.se that the annual readership is any higher than about 994,000, and I suspect a good proportion of those are people looking for the studio or the road, instead of the album. However, the wfmlabs tool above reports 248,608 views in the last 90 days, which multiplying by (365/90) gives an estimated annual readership of about 1,008,000. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 07:12, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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The 994k Award | |
For your contributions to bring Abbey Road (estimated annual readership: not quite one million) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the 994k Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, but next time, try not to write about such an obscure topic probably nobody has ever heard of. -- Reso lute 21:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
Will this do? ;) Reso lute 21:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
By my calculations, the article about the latest Daft Punk album is eligible for the highest tier of this award. Trouble is, I don't know who should receive the award. I can't tell who the main contributor(s) is. Can someone help me out by either giving the award, explaining to me what I'm doing wrong, or both? Thanks. Bobnorwal ( talk) 19:55, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I recently worked to have the article Voting Rights Act of 1965 promoted to Good Article status. I believe that qualifies for a Half Million Award; according to [4] the page has received 146,734 views in the last 90 days, which multiplied by 4 is 586,936. If another editor could confirm/award, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I think
One World Trade Center, an article that I nominated at
WP:GAN and recently got promoted to GA status, qualifies for WP:MILLION. (
Or maybe the WP:2000000 award? Do we have that?)
As an aside, some of
these users worked really hard on the article as well, so...
Epicgenius (
talk)
23:14, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I expanded California Chrome 5x and then took it to GA. It has had 273,000 hits in May alone, plus about another 10K prior to May. I anticipate yet more on or about June 7. Not sure if this qualifies me for the quarter-million award, but can someone verify and give me a yea or, um, er, a "neigh"? Montanabw (talk) 18:17, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Doesn't it qualify here? Fitzcarmalan ( talk) 09:44, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Do these qualify?
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:47, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Ritchie, can you check the readership Megadeth has? I've brought it to FA status and believe I deserve one of those cubes.-- Retrohead ( talk) 07:35, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I believe that I am due WP:MILLION awards for both House of Cards (season 2) and Emily Ratajkowski, which both belong in the Hall of Fame.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:55, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
I brought the Shah Rukh Khan article to GA on 3 August 2014. According to User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages, it is number 506, with over 100,000 views a week, so 5 million+ per year! BollyJeff | talk 00:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
Are people here aware of the new and improved pageview tool run by German WP user Hedonil? It seems to have slightly higher pageview counts for almost all pages. It also includes some features that http://stats.grok.se does not. Given that it consistently produces higher pageview totals, I assume it counts some things that our older tool does not. I have been trying to contact Hedonil to see if he can get his tool to calculate pageviews for the entire historical database that we have going back to the end of 2007. I have been unable to get any responses to my communications. Does anyone know how to communicate with him. He apparently communicates in english, but does not seem to communicate with me.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I think two articles which I recently helped promoting to Good Articles Dallas Buyers Club and The Fault in Our Stars (film), qualify for the Million Award. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 10:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Back in August, Samjohnzon and I brought Katy Perry up to FA. I don't know how to calculate the readership, but believe it is eligible for the Million Award. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 20:12, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Chef (film) qualifies for The Quarter Million Award, for two users, myself and 97198. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 01:37, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Recently promoted to WP:GA quality after a successful Quality improvement project. :) I think this qualifies not for the million, but for one of the other ones. Could someone else check please?
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 03:37, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Recent GA. It was viewed 116,804 times in the past 90 days, which means about 467,216 views a year. This is probably a circumstance for the Quarter-Million Award. – Epicgenius ( talk) 16:16, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
I setup archival to archive pages older than one (1) year. I also archived a few threads that were closed successfully (people requested awards and subsequently got them). — Cirt ( talk) 02:24, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I've cleared all the backlogs of requests that were on this page.
I've given out awards to eleven (11) users including: SNUGGUMS, Samjohnzon, Captain Assassin!, Bollyjeff, TonyTheTiger, Retrohead, Redtigerxyz, Jeff Dahl, Montanabw, Epicgenius, and Prototime.
If they've also qualified for the actual full Million, then they may feel free to add themselves to the Million Award Hall of Fame at Wikipedia:Million_Award#Million_Award_Hall_of_Fame.
Thanks again to you all for your quality improvement efforts on Wikipedia.
I truly do mean it when I say I'm most happy to see fellow editors that engage in quality improvement efforts to bring pages to WP:GA or WP:FA quality! :)
— Cirt ( talk) 01:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
I think this quote in the Qualifying articles section should be kept in mind -- Like any user page bling, the Million Award exists only for editor encouragement and fun, and should never be subject to dispute over who "deserves" it." -- Shudde talk 09:38, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Gravity (film) has 13,78,784 views in the last year. I'm hoping a Million Award :). -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 10:59, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a spike that actually crosses a million, excluding it, the annual readership is quarter million. -- AmritasyaPutra T 17:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I think Lemur qualifies for the quarter-million, and Slow loris qualifies for the half-million. The former has pretty steady viewership, while the latter is sporadic since it's viewership is often based on viral videos on YouTube (current and residual). I'm pretty sure Strepsirrhini won't make the cut, even though it is a "vital article". Anyway, I re-wrote all three, taking them through GAN and FAC. – Maky « talk » 18:23, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
The article Washington Monument, which I recently promoted to GA status, has been viewed 112559 times in the last 90 days. That equates to about 450,000 views a year. I think this is eligible for the Quarter-Million Award. Epic Genius ( talk) 14:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
I had brought Delhi to GA status long ago when I was not aware of this award. I just noticed so wanted to ask. I checkd it and the views go over one million. It also went above one million in the year in which it became a GA; 2012. So, am I still eligible for the award? Cheers, — Yash! (Y) 13:06, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
I worked on the GA nomination back in 2013, after it was nominated in January 2013 by another editor. Now it had 215k viewers in the last 90 days. I don't know if this qualifies.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:36, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Someone should create a substable template to make it easier to give out this award.
Then, I'd be happy to give it to people.
Hrm, maybe I'll look into this, but perhaps others could help as well.
— Cirt ( talk) 21:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Currently the intro gives one the impression this is about the former (which would be great) but if one looks closer the award is only about the latter... Palosirkka ( talk) 08:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Not sure how this is handled, but Hillary Rodham Clinton, which previously had the Million Award for GA, is now an FA article. It continues to run over 100,000 views a month and so continues to qualify. Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, everyone,
I see that the new annual top 10,000 page views chart for 2014 has just been posted. That confirms that a good article I expanded and maintain, IQ classification, has enjoyed a million page views in the last year, so I'll self-nominate for the award. I'd like to thank the award program organizers for setting up a user award program that focuses attention on the most-viewed pages on Wikipedia. I first learned of this program after looking at the user page of an editor who had just made a very helpful edit to a page I watch, and then I discovered his self-disclosure of having gained the Million Award, and I decided after reading the project page here to follow his example. I hope in the next year to bring some other articles that are very high in page views up to good article status, and I hope after the appropriate time spent seeking review to bring some of those in turn up to featured article status. Thanks to all of you for the inspiration you provide to other Wikipedians. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 17:02, 21 January 2015 (UTC)