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Well....with only 2 days to go, it's inevitable that I'll be eliminated at the end of round 1 (despite coming in 4th last year!) So, I did (what I hope to be) the honorable thing to do and withdrew from the Cup. Good luck to everyone this year guys! I'll still keep the Cup watchlisted and help in updating things and other stuff "behind the curtains" like I did last year ;) All the best,-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 02:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I created the Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2011/Round 1 but somebody should check if I was able to count to 64.-- Stone ( talk) 07:58, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Hook shortage. This entertained me given the kerfuffle last year. Reso lute 05:04, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Seriously? I'm in 66th place and Round 1 ended 65 minutes ago? ~ A H 1( T C U) 01:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure someone else is doing this already, but I was looking at those who came top in this round in the different categories and overall. I see that The Bushranger came top overall (487 points), that Casliber had two FAs (200 points), Hurricanehink had 9 GAs (270 points), that seven people had one FL each (40 points), that two people had one FP each (35 points), that there were no featured sounds, no featured portals, no featured topics, Hurricanehink was the only person to get points from good topics (50 points for 5 articles over 3 topics), The Bushranger had an astonishing 47 DYKs (235 points), The Candlewicke had three ITNs (30 points), and Racepacket had an impressive total of 25 good article reviews (50 points). The totals for each section are: 6 FAs, 70 GAs, 7 FLs, 2 FPs, 0 FSs, 0 FPOs, 0 articles in FTs, 5 articles in GTs, 257 DYKs, 9 ITNs, 182 GARs (this doesn't take into account any shared nominations). Maybe the bot could keep a running total in each category both round-by-round and a running total over all rounds for the whole year? The difficulty might be including withdrawn totals. Carcharoth ( talk) 04:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Will the pools/groupings for the next round be posted as soon as it hits March 1? (Pardon me, just excited !) -- Lord Roem ( talk) 21:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm in Pool A - is that good or bad? :-) Carcharoth ( talk) 01:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Darn, I'm in Pool H, with CycloneBiskit and Hurricanehink (at least it isn't Bushranger and Hurricanhink :D) Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 20:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Is Grammy Award for Best Rap Album eligible for points? Much of the work was completed in 2010, but subsequent edits and the FLC process took place this year. Just thought I'd ask. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Is the bot still updating? Everybody still only has 0 points. I know I should have at least 4. Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 16:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Am I seriously the only MILHIST regular around now? You gotta be kidding. If so, am I responsible for keeping the project's representative[s] alive? Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 04:22, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering why there were only two submitted articles in the first round that had multipliers and went through the running totals and found:
That should have gotten double the points - and there might be a few more. Anyways, I think participants are not aware very well of these bonuses, if even when the deserve them they do not request them. Nergaal ( talk) 23:53, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Am I correct in reading this as giving 4 pts for writing a GA review of an article on 20 Wikipedias? Racepacket ( talk) 22:56, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, something cropped up, so this one's gonna be a couple of hours late! I'm on it. J Milburn ( talk) 00:17, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Yeah so Wizardman just retired. Can someone take him off of the brackets? GamerPro64 ( talk) 16:58, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
For personal reasons, I have to withdraw from the WikiCup. Thank you. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 02:33, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Same here. Thanks for the memories, Scorpion 0422 23:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
...at [2]. Unofficial, obviously. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 10:02, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a little bit concerned about the article Airbus A330, which is currently at FAC. It hasn't received a lot of opinions and comments during the last few weeks. If the article is not decided by Friday, does that mean I'm eliminated? Any response is greatly appreciated. Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 03:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Should I get double points for F-16 Fighting Falcon, since there are more than 30, let alone 21, pages on other languages? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 04:16, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes. just list it twice on your submissions page. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:47, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Will Round 2 be closed soon? Adabow ( talk · contribs) 09:59, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Would the GAN for Rubidium qualify for double points?-- Stone ( talk) 18:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to butt in, but, I forgot to claim double points for Airbus A330 and Boeing 767 in round one. Is it too late now? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 07:18, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Shall I add my April 29 DYK points to the current round or the next? -- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Everything is now ready for the next round- I've cleared the submissions' pages and sent out the newsletter a little earlier than normal, as I will be away this weekend. All I need now is for some kind soul to update Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2011 with User:J Milburn/Notes2 (the new pools) come the start of the next round. It'd also be great if someone added a page showing round 2's scores to Template:WikiCup. Thanks! J Milburn ( talk) 19:07, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
When someone reaches the last round, do all their accumulated points throughout the tournament get included in the final round? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 06:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Since we are approaching That Time of Year Again, I note that Wikicup participants have not been declaring at FAC, and ask that you remind them to do so, per Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring#Featured articles. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
That's just a quick glance-- there may be more. I am not going to see FAC go through this again, where nominators are in a rush to get their CUP points, and will begin to archive CUP FACs aggressively if y'all don't follow your rules. Please police, since participants are not complying. It should not be difficult for you all to police this, and it should not be up to FAC to check-- I suggest that if a participant did not follow the rules, they don't get their points-- you all can check that when rewarding the points. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Oops, I forgot as well, although that's more because my nominating is more part of my usual workload, as opposed to doing something special for the cup. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 17:50, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If this round ended today, would I be in the next round? Y E Tropical Cyclone 16:58, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Somebody should redirect Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter to wherever it is now. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Given that take up has been poor (I got weak interaction to GA, I'm not aware of any more), might be worth thinking about the way they are scored or taken into account (for next year)? I'd post this as and when next year's scoring is decided, except solution might be wider than just that. Upping the multiplier is the most obvious suggestion, but there may be cleverer ones. In any case, those people in the cup are reminded that Vital-3 articles ( WP:VITAL) are double-pointed. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 13:46, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I am withdrawing from this year's Wikicup. I have too many real-life matters to deal with and I am going to go on a wikibreak for a few weeks. Regards, Gaius Claudius Nero ( talk) 22:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Starting tomorrow, I will not be at the computer for over a week, and will not be able to compete. So instead of working my butt off now to go to the next round, I am going to withdraw because I just can't gain enough points in the time I have left. Even at the monument, I need at least 19 points, and that is not accounting for if the competitors in my pol gain score some more points.-- 12george1 ( talk) 23:43, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I just added an article to the Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews hoping to make a last minute push. After looking at the scores I don't think that even if this passed in the next few days that I could make it to the next round. This is now more of a vanity move I suppose, I had a lot of real world things going on in this round and wasn't able to focus on writing. I feel kinda bad that I got through to this round while other editors may have been eliminated in the previous round that could have accomplished more in this round. I was hoping to look a bit more competitive than the 7 points I have now and the potential 5 more points I have sitting in the DYK but I don't think I'll be able to finish another DYK and get it to the main page in time to get another 5 points. Meaning at best I'll finish the round with 42 points. I don't want an editor who has the potential to move on not get a review because my article is being reviewed. So I'll leave it up to the judges discretion if they want to review the article, simply ignore the article and clear it off at the end of the round or just remove it now, I'm fine with any of the three options.
I'd also like to mention a couple of things. (start rant) I know that during the point discussion prior to the start of this years tournament some one stated that they thought the Cup should be eliminated since it was causing more problems than benefits. Since the articles competitors were working on were what they would normally work on anyway and the competition was flooding GAN, DYK, and others processes with additional work. Out of curiosity I kept track of what I worked on specifically for the Cup and what was something I was going to work on regardless. Out of the 9 DYKs I did only two of them were on pages I wouldn't have worked on outside of the competition. But the fact that points were awarded encouraged me to expand several articles I wanted to "eventually" do, but had been put on the back burner so long I'm not sure I would have come back to them. Of the 3 GAs that I got promoted during the Cup 1 of them I guarantee you I wouldn't have touched at all and 1 of them I might have only made minor changes to. So in that respect the Cup has been very beatifically to the Encyclopedia, especially with the awarding of points for GAN and the new rules regarding DYK noms, alleviating some of the stress of the regular contributes to those projects.(end rant)-- Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 18:21, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey- to anyone watching this page, current participant or otherwise, it'd be great if we could get some reviews for the articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. There are only four there now, but it's possible others could pop up in the next couple of days (though nominators would be cutting it very fine!) Of course, a fair review is necessary, but it'd be great if everyone feels like they've had a fair chance to get into the next round. Remember that GA reviews are also worth points. J Milburn ( talk) 14:44, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I'm going away tomorrow. The GA nomination that I started at the beginning of the month, German involvement in the Spanish Civil War ( talk) was not attracted a reviewer. It could well be critical to whether I go through, which leaves a dilemma: find a reviewer who either manages to lay out their review today, so I can alter the article accordingly in the next ten hours, or who acts a little of their own accord whilst I'm away; or leave the article to wallow (I may be able to edit whilst away, but I doubt it). Obviously, some special assistance might annoy some people if I go through because of it and someone doesn't. That's why the article I'm focussing on is the one I put up at the start of the month [Edit: I've checked, it was the 4 July.] and not another I put up more recently. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 11:20, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
What time does the round end? And, if it ended right now would I be in it. Y E Tropical Cycloneould U be in it?
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Well....with only 2 days to go, it's inevitable that I'll be eliminated at the end of round 1 (despite coming in 4th last year!) So, I did (what I hope to be) the honorable thing to do and withdrew from the Cup. Good luck to everyone this year guys! I'll still keep the Cup watchlisted and help in updating things and other stuff "behind the curtains" like I did last year ;) All the best,-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 02:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I created the Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2011/Round 1 but somebody should check if I was able to count to 64.-- Stone ( talk) 07:58, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Hook shortage. This entertained me given the kerfuffle last year. Reso lute 05:04, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Seriously? I'm in 66th place and Round 1 ended 65 minutes ago? ~ A H 1( T C U) 01:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure someone else is doing this already, but I was looking at those who came top in this round in the different categories and overall. I see that The Bushranger came top overall (487 points), that Casliber had two FAs (200 points), Hurricanehink had 9 GAs (270 points), that seven people had one FL each (40 points), that two people had one FP each (35 points), that there were no featured sounds, no featured portals, no featured topics, Hurricanehink was the only person to get points from good topics (50 points for 5 articles over 3 topics), The Bushranger had an astonishing 47 DYKs (235 points), The Candlewicke had three ITNs (30 points), and Racepacket had an impressive total of 25 good article reviews (50 points). The totals for each section are: 6 FAs, 70 GAs, 7 FLs, 2 FPs, 0 FSs, 0 FPOs, 0 articles in FTs, 5 articles in GTs, 257 DYKs, 9 ITNs, 182 GARs (this doesn't take into account any shared nominations). Maybe the bot could keep a running total in each category both round-by-round and a running total over all rounds for the whole year? The difficulty might be including withdrawn totals. Carcharoth ( talk) 04:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Will the pools/groupings for the next round be posted as soon as it hits March 1? (Pardon me, just excited !) -- Lord Roem ( talk) 21:31, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm in Pool A - is that good or bad? :-) Carcharoth ( talk) 01:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Darn, I'm in Pool H, with CycloneBiskit and Hurricanehink (at least it isn't Bushranger and Hurricanhink :D) Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 20:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Is Grammy Award for Best Rap Album eligible for points? Much of the work was completed in 2010, but subsequent edits and the FLC process took place this year. Just thought I'd ask. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Is the bot still updating? Everybody still only has 0 points. I know I should have at least 4. Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 16:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Am I seriously the only MILHIST regular around now? You gotta be kidding. If so, am I responsible for keeping the project's representative[s] alive? Wiki cop ter what i do s + c cup| former 04:22, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering why there were only two submitted articles in the first round that had multipliers and went through the running totals and found:
That should have gotten double the points - and there might be a few more. Anyways, I think participants are not aware very well of these bonuses, if even when the deserve them they do not request them. Nergaal ( talk) 23:53, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Am I correct in reading this as giving 4 pts for writing a GA review of an article on 20 Wikipedias? Racepacket ( talk) 22:56, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, something cropped up, so this one's gonna be a couple of hours late! I'm on it. J Milburn ( talk) 00:17, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Yeah so Wizardman just retired. Can someone take him off of the brackets? GamerPro64 ( talk) 16:58, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
For personal reasons, I have to withdraw from the WikiCup. Thank you. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 02:33, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Same here. Thanks for the memories, Scorpion 0422 23:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
...at [2]. Unofficial, obviously. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 10:02, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a little bit concerned about the article Airbus A330, which is currently at FAC. It hasn't received a lot of opinions and comments during the last few weeks. If the article is not decided by Friday, does that mean I'm eliminated? Any response is greatly appreciated. Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 03:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Should I get double points for F-16 Fighting Falcon, since there are more than 30, let alone 21, pages on other languages? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 04:16, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes. just list it twice on your submissions page. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:47, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Will Round 2 be closed soon? Adabow ( talk · contribs) 09:59, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Would the GAN for Rubidium qualify for double points?-- Stone ( talk) 18:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to butt in, but, I forgot to claim double points for Airbus A330 and Boeing 767 in round one. Is it too late now? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 07:18, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Shall I add my April 29 DYK points to the current round or the next? -- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Everything is now ready for the next round- I've cleared the submissions' pages and sent out the newsletter a little earlier than normal, as I will be away this weekend. All I need now is for some kind soul to update Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2011 with User:J Milburn/Notes2 (the new pools) come the start of the next round. It'd also be great if someone added a page showing round 2's scores to Template:WikiCup. Thanks! J Milburn ( talk) 19:07, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
When someone reaches the last round, do all their accumulated points throughout the tournament get included in the final round? Sp33dyphil Ready • to • Rumble 06:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Since we are approaching That Time of Year Again, I note that Wikicup participants have not been declaring at FAC, and ask that you remind them to do so, per Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring#Featured articles. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
That's just a quick glance-- there may be more. I am not going to see FAC go through this again, where nominators are in a rush to get their CUP points, and will begin to archive CUP FACs aggressively if y'all don't follow your rules. Please police, since participants are not complying. It should not be difficult for you all to police this, and it should not be up to FAC to check-- I suggest that if a participant did not follow the rules, they don't get their points-- you all can check that when rewarding the points. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Oops, I forgot as well, although that's more because my nominating is more part of my usual workload, as opposed to doing something special for the cup. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 17:50, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
If this round ended today, would I be in the next round? Y E Tropical Cyclone 16:58, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Somebody should redirect Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter to wherever it is now. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Given that take up has been poor (I got weak interaction to GA, I'm not aware of any more), might be worth thinking about the way they are scored or taken into account (for next year)? I'd post this as and when next year's scoring is decided, except solution might be wider than just that. Upping the multiplier is the most obvious suggestion, but there may be cleverer ones. In any case, those people in the cup are reminded that Vital-3 articles ( WP:VITAL) are double-pointed. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 13:46, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I am withdrawing from this year's Wikicup. I have too many real-life matters to deal with and I am going to go on a wikibreak for a few weeks. Regards, Gaius Claudius Nero ( talk) 22:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Starting tomorrow, I will not be at the computer for over a week, and will not be able to compete. So instead of working my butt off now to go to the next round, I am going to withdraw because I just can't gain enough points in the time I have left. Even at the monument, I need at least 19 points, and that is not accounting for if the competitors in my pol gain score some more points.-- 12george1 ( talk) 23:43, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I just added an article to the Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews hoping to make a last minute push. After looking at the scores I don't think that even if this passed in the next few days that I could make it to the next round. This is now more of a vanity move I suppose, I had a lot of real world things going on in this round and wasn't able to focus on writing. I feel kinda bad that I got through to this round while other editors may have been eliminated in the previous round that could have accomplished more in this round. I was hoping to look a bit more competitive than the 7 points I have now and the potential 5 more points I have sitting in the DYK but I don't think I'll be able to finish another DYK and get it to the main page in time to get another 5 points. Meaning at best I'll finish the round with 42 points. I don't want an editor who has the potential to move on not get a review because my article is being reviewed. So I'll leave it up to the judges discretion if they want to review the article, simply ignore the article and clear it off at the end of the round or just remove it now, I'm fine with any of the three options.
I'd also like to mention a couple of things. (start rant) I know that during the point discussion prior to the start of this years tournament some one stated that they thought the Cup should be eliminated since it was causing more problems than benefits. Since the articles competitors were working on were what they would normally work on anyway and the competition was flooding GAN, DYK, and others processes with additional work. Out of curiosity I kept track of what I worked on specifically for the Cup and what was something I was going to work on regardless. Out of the 9 DYKs I did only two of them were on pages I wouldn't have worked on outside of the competition. But the fact that points were awarded encouraged me to expand several articles I wanted to "eventually" do, but had been put on the back burner so long I'm not sure I would have come back to them. Of the 3 GAs that I got promoted during the Cup 1 of them I guarantee you I wouldn't have touched at all and 1 of them I might have only made minor changes to. So in that respect the Cup has been very beatifically to the Encyclopedia, especially with the awarding of points for GAN and the new rules regarding DYK noms, alleviating some of the stress of the regular contributes to those projects.(end rant)-- Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 18:21, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey- to anyone watching this page, current participant or otherwise, it'd be great if we could get some reviews for the articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. There are only four there now, but it's possible others could pop up in the next couple of days (though nominators would be cutting it very fine!) Of course, a fair review is necessary, but it'd be great if everyone feels like they've had a fair chance to get into the next round. Remember that GA reviews are also worth points. J Milburn ( talk) 14:44, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I'm going away tomorrow. The GA nomination that I started at the beginning of the month, German involvement in the Spanish Civil War ( talk) was not attracted a reviewer. It could well be critical to whether I go through, which leaves a dilemma: find a reviewer who either manages to lay out their review today, so I can alter the article accordingly in the next ten hours, or who acts a little of their own accord whilst I'm away; or leave the article to wallow (I may be able to edit whilst away, but I doubt it). Obviously, some special assistance might annoy some people if I go through because of it and someone doesn't. That's why the article I'm focussing on is the one I put up at the start of the month [Edit: I've checked, it was the 4 July.] and not another I put up more recently. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 11:20, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
What time does the round end? And, if it ended right now would I be in it. Y E Tropical Cycloneould U be in it?