User:Aoidh/Challenges

Alphabet

Criteria: Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.

Done

A - Android Debug Bridge
B - Buford Dam
C - Chapel Hill Zen Center
D - DoudouLinux
E - Eyes of Buddha
F - Foremost (software)
G - Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center
H - Happy Wars
I - Invizimals: The Alliance
J - Jieba
K - Kyōgai
L - Leafpad
M - Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion
N - Nephila antipodiana
O - Oglethorpe County High School
P - Project Hindsight
Q - Quitman High School (Louisiana)
R - Retina (typeface)
S - Seckinger High School
T - TOSS (operating system)
U - Umatilla High School (Florida)
V - Vegeta (software)
W - Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade
X - Xavier High School (Massachusetts)
Y - Yelp (software)
Z - Zazen Wasan

Bonus

In progress

0 -
1 -
2 -
3 -
4 - 4th Dental Battalion
5 -
6 - 6th Military Police Group (United States)
7 -
8 -
9 -

Archaeologist

Criteria: Receive a Did you know? credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand. Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.

Done

No.	Article	Nomination Page	Initial Creation	DYK run	Time between creation and DYK	Bonus?
1	Ball Ground, Georgia	DYK nomination	18 October 2002	28 October 2022	20 years 10 days	Yes
2	Bethlehem, Georgia	DYK nomination	18 October 2002	31 July 2022	19 years 9 months 13 days	Yes
3	Zabuton	DYK nomination	6 August 2005	5 January 2023	17 years 4 months 30 days	Yes
4	alt attribute	DYK nomination	27 August 2005	1 November 2022	17 years 2 months 5 days	Yes
5	Shoshin	DYK nomination	2 January 2007	29 September 2022	15 years 8 months 27 days	No
6	Faces of War Memorial	DYK nomination	16 March 2008	30 January 2023	14 years 10 months 14 days	No
7	An Appeal for Human Rights	DYK nomination	27 February 2010	6 December 2022	12 years 9 months 9 days	No

Calendar

Criteria: Receive a credit for an item featured at In the news, On this day or Did you know? on each day of the month i.e. from 1st to 31st.

In progress

The links provided go to the talk pages of each article, where the DYK talk template at the top of the page can verify the date the article appeared on DYK.

1 - alt attribute
2 -
3 - Oglethorpe County High School
4 - Daruma-ji
5 - Zabuton
6 - Seckinger High School
7 - LARIAT
8 - Georgia Cryptologic Center
9 - Buford Dam
10 -
11 - Vegeta (software)
12 -
13 - Gansen-ji
14 -
15 - Chōgaku-ji
16 - Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center
17 -
18 -
19 -
20 -
21 -
22 -
23 - 6th Military Police Group (United States)
24 -
25 -
26 - Happy Wars
27 -
28 - Flip (software)
29 - Shoshin
30 - Leafpad
31 - Bethlehem, Georgia

Progress: 58.1% complete

(18 / 31)

Jack of all trades

Criteria: Review an article at Wikipedia:Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.

In progress

Agriculture, food and drink - Pending
Art and architecture - Pending
Engineering and technology - K-Meleon (Review at Talk:K-Meleon/GA1: Failed)
Geography and places - Pending
History - Pending
Language and literature - Pending
Mathematics and mathematicians - Pending
Media and drama - WUPA (Review at Talk:WUPA/GA1: Passed)
Music - Pending
Natural sciences - Pending
Philosophy and religion - Pending
Social sciences and society - Pending
Sports and recreation - Pending
Video Games - Pending
Warfare - Pending

Progress: 13.3% complete

(2 / 15)

Polyglot

Criteria: Introduce sources in 15 foreign languages to articles. Each source should contain information not found in any reliable English-language source (to ensure WP:NONENG compliance).

In progress

French - Nephila antipodiana (link)
Chinese - Jieba (diff)
Spanish - DoudouLinux (link)
Italian - DoudouLinux (link)
Korean - LARIAT (diff)
Russian - TOSS (operating system) (diff)
Japanese - Zazen Wasan (link)
Portuguese - GNOME Text Editor (diff)
Burmese - Statue of Gautama Buddha (Myanmar) (diff)

Polyonymous

Criteria: Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.

Done Namespace Totals

Rock around the clock

Criteria: Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week (in UTC), as measured by your XTools timecard.

Done completed timeclock

Switch

Criteria: Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to eighth) within the section. (Note that the first slot is the image slot.)

Done

1 - Buford Dam → 9 September 2022
2 - Seckinger High School → 7 August 2022
3 - Retina (typeface) → 9 September 2022
4 - Happy Wars → 26 November 2012
5 - 6th Military Police Group (United States) → 24 August 2022
6 - Buford High School (South Carolina) → 27 July 2022
7 - Flip (software) → 28 July 2022
8 - Shoshin → 30 September 2022

Textbook example

Criteria: Get an article that is linked from any Manual of Style page (a page linked in Template:Manual of Style) to good article status.

Done: alt attribute is linked at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (specifically at MOS:ACCIM).

Animal, vegetable, mineral

Criteria: Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.) Done

Animal: Buford Dam (DYK nom) - Has a section about the onsite goats being used to maintain the vegetation on the slope of the dam.
Vegetable: Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center (DYK nom) - The facility section discusses the roof using Sedum and other vegetation to reduce runoff.
Mineral: Ball Ground, Georgia (DYK nom) - The economy section discusses the town's marble industry.

Astronaut

Criteria: Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets. (For instance, Omar Sharif counts for Mars.)

In progress

Elementary

Criteria: Create four articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters "tin", "iron", "lead" and "gold". (For instance, Acting, Anti-nuclear movement or Betti number all count for "tin", but Avanti un altro! does not.)

In progress

Tin - Retina (typeface)
Iron - Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center
Lead -
Gold -

Marathon

Criteria: Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon (or within a mile).

Done: Buford, Georgia → Ball Ground, Georgia

Distance: 26.1 miles in a straight line using this resource

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