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GA Cup - Round 1 Newsletter #2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 1

Hello GA Cup competitors!

The judges have learned a great deal in this first part of the competition, and we appreciate your patience with us as we've figured out what works and what doesn't work. As we reported in our last newsletter, an inadequacy in the scoring system has been illuminated in the past 15 days, which has resulted in a major change in the rules. It has also resulted in one withdrawal.

To ensure fairness, we've decided to further increase the number of participants moving onto Round 2. Everyone who has reviewed at least one article will automatically be moved forward, and will be placed in pools. You have until October 29 to take advantage of this opportunity. It is our hope that this will make up for the unforeseen glitch in our scoring system.

Best of wishes to all of you as you continue to help improve articles and make Wikipedia a better place.

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Scottish religion in the 17th century

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

GAs

Thank you for reviewing Matthias Corvinus and Stephen IV of Hungary. I highly appreciate your work. Have a nice day! Borsoka (talk) 02:22, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

Stephen III of Hungary

Sorry, I would only like to know if you had time to continue your review? Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 17:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

No need to apologize, the delay is on me, Borsoka. I should have it finished tomorrow, if not today. I was called in for some extra shifts last week for work, and that messed up my schedule. Thanks, --¿3family6 contribs 18:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt answer. Good work! Borsoka (talk) 18:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

DYK for Sinema (Swoope album)

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:04, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Edit warring at Amon Amarth

Hello. You are way past 3RR on this page and your sources have been disputed by more than one editor. So please continue discussing the matter on the talk page and seek consensus or you will have to be blocked. Regards, De728631 (talk) 06:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I lost track of how many edits were made. I didn't realize we'd gone through that many reverts.--¿3family6 contribs 13:31, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

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Happy Halloween!!!

 Wilhelmina Will has given you some caramel and a candy apple! Caramel and candy-coated apples are fun Halloween treats, and promote WikiLove on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween!

'"On Psych, A USA Network TV series Episode 8, The Tao of Gus, Season 6, Shawn refers to pumpkins as "Halloween Apples" because he thinks all round fruits are a type of apple.


If Trick-or-treaters come your way, add {{subst:Halloween apples}} to their talkpage with a spoooooky message!


Cheers! "We could read for-EVER; reading round the wiki!" (talk) 18:01, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! And I like the Psych reference!--¿3family6 contribs 18:13, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup - Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 2

Greetings, GA Cup competitors!

Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Jaguar took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 238. In a tight race for second, Peacemaker67 and Ritchie333 finished second and third with 152 and 141 points, respectively.

Two users have scored the maximum five bonus points for article length (60,000 characters+). Anotherclown reviewed Spanish conquest of Yucatán (77,350 characters) and MrWooHoo reviewed Communist Party of China (76,740 characters). The longest review was by Bilorv who reviewed Caldas da Rainha. The review was approximately 22,400 characters which earned s/he two bonus points (20, 000 - 29, 999 characters).

In Round 1, 117 reviews were completed, making the first round of the GA Cup a success! A total of 86 articles were removed from the backlog during the month of October! We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible.

To qualify for the second round, one completed review was needed, which 28 users accomplished. Participants have been randomly put into 7 pools of 4; the top 2 in each pool will move onto Round 3. There will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 15th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on November 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on November 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here

Also, remember that a major rule change will go into affect starting on November 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 displayed a weakness in the rules, which we are correcting with this new rule. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: Your review must provide feedback/suggestions for improvement, and then you must wait until the nominator has responded and all issues/suggestions have been resolved before you can pass the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule.

Good luck and remember to have fun!

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

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GA nom of Hospitaller colonization of the Americas

Hello, sorry for not replying. My wiki activity has been confined recently to maintaining one portal; I haven't had much time for actual content lately. I have read your review, I'm pleased that the concerns seem relatively simple to address. I plan to begin work on it tonight, and then really fix things this Friday/Saturday (October 31 and November 1, USA time). Is this acceptable? Best regards, Fishal (talk) 22:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, Fishal, that is fine. As long as you are working to address the issues I found in the review, I don't mind waiting.--¿3family6 contribs 22:56, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
I have left the response at Talk:Hospitaller colonization of the Americas/GA1. I have additional questions about the 2 images but have otherwise made the changes you suggested. Fishal (talk) 21:58, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Stephen III of Hungary

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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A Dobos torte for you!

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VisualEditor newsletter—November 2014

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Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.

Recent improvements

The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [1] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData

The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November.  This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation.  When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top.  Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.

Looking ahead

Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.

The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Thank you!

— Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Precious

Noise in music
Thank you, user who dislikes narrow-minded behaviour. for quality articles such as Gravity and Noise in music, for broad-minded reviewing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Master of Puppets

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Yo'nal Ahk III

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:58, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of K'inich Yat Ahk II

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DYK nomination of K'inich Yat Ahk II

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Reference Errors on 19 November

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DYK for K'inich Yat Ahk II

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

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DYK for Matthias Corvinus

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:22, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

DYK for John F. Adams House

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:09, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

commons:File:Offbeatninja - The Hunt Is On ( Hunter X Hunter Bump ).ogg

Hi,

I don't understand why you say that the licence of commons:File:Offbeatninja - The Hunt Is On ( Hunter X Hunter Bump ).ogg is not given. On the link on the description, it is clearly mentioned "CC BY-SA" in the "Info" section at the right. Morever, I have checked this file with Midomi to search any copyright. So what is the problem with this file? Ftiercel (talk) 14:07, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

None. The reason I reverted the addition of that file was because the sample in the article did not link to the Commons file. Thus, I could not verify the licensing status of the work, and did not know that it was on Commons. Go ahead and re-add it, but make sure to supply a link to the Commons file.--¿3family6 contribs 14:12, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
OK. If I understand you well, I have added the link in the article too quickly. Ftiercel (talk) 14:25, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
It appears you tried to add the file as you would an image. I went ahead and restored the file, using a template that links to the Commons info.--¿3family6 contribs 15:03, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup - Round 3

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 3

Greetings, all! We hope that all of our American GA Cup competitors had an enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday.

Friday saw the end of Round 2. Two from 7 pools, plus a tie score and one wildcard (16 in all) moved onto the next round. Some pools were more competitive than others. Round 2's highest scorer was 3family6, with an impressive 255 points. Good888, who came in second place overall with 202 points, reviewed the most articles (19). The wildcard slot for Round 2 went to Jaguar. Congrats to all!

Round 3 will have 15 competitors in three pools. The key to moving forward in Round 2 seemed to be reviewing articles with the longest nomination dates; almost everyone who moved forward nominated at least one article from the pink nomination box (20 points) or reviewed articles that had languished in the queue for over 5 months (18 points). The GA Cup was also used to promote a group of articles about The Boat Race, a rowing race held annually since 1856 between Oxford University and Cambridge University, on the River Thames. 17 Boat Race articles were promoted to GA in November.

In Round 2, 110 reviews were completed, as compared to 117 in Round 1. The GA Cup continues to be a success. This month, we got a report from User:AmericanLemming, who maintains the GA statistics, that in October, there was a net gain of 201 articles nominated for GA. He thought that more open GANs could mean that more editors are submitting more of their articles to the GAN process. In addition, having a high-throughput of GANs means that more articles get reviewed more quickly, which reduces the frustration of potentially waiting several months to get an article reviewed. The activity in Round 2 of the GA Cup seems to bear that out. It's our hope that the competitors' enthusiasm continues in Round 3, and we can continue to make a difference in helping more editors improve their articles.

For Round 3, participants have been randomly put in 3 pools of 5 contestants each; the top two in each pool progressing, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users. Round 3 will start on December 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on December 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here.

There have been a couple of rules clarifications to announce. We're slightly changing the wording to the second bullet in "General rules", which now reads: You may only score points in a round for reviews which have been completed in that round. We're also including this clarification: Only reviews started during the competition are eligible. We have also lost a judge, so there are now only three judges.

Good luck and remember to have fun as we move into the holiday season. It is the judges' hope that every competitor in the GA Cup has a joyous holiday season and Happy New Year.

Cheers from Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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DYK for Music in early modern Scotland

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:42, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

DYK for Allenville Mill Storehouse

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:01, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ragnall mac Somairle

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DYK for Jackie Hill-Perry

The DYK project (nominate) 14:22, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for twice serving on jury duty; once for your legal jurisdiction, and once as a GA reviewer for History of Briarcliff Manor. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Tangascootack Creek/GA2

Hi. Just wondering when you'd be able to review Tangascootack Creek. Thanks, --Jakob (talk) 17:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, Jakec. Life outside the Wiki delayed my review. I will make sure to finish my review by tomorrow.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 17:51, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ragnall mac Somairle

Mike V • Talk 18:31, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/History of Briarcliff Manor

FYI. Your GA review was well done! Cheers! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:51, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you!--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 18:22, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

Hello! Since you're a member of the Discography WikiProject, would you be interested in commenting at or reviewing my FLC for Guy Sebastian discography? There hasn't been any activity there for over a month, so any input would be appreciated. Thank you! — Usfun8991 05:27, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

I will try to take a look at it within this week.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 05:43, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Satellite Kite

Mike V • Talk 20:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Instruments of Mercy

Mike V • Talk 20:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

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