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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp

In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax

Featured content: Wiki loves video games

WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles

Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases

Recent research: Sentiment monitoring; UNESCO and systemic bias; and more

Technology report: New notifications system deployed across Wikipedia

WikiCup 2013 April newsletter

We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with Sven Manguard (submissions) claiming for the high-importance Portal:Sports and Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and Cwmhiraeth (submissions) claiming for a did you know of sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place Casliber (submissions) and second place Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.

The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.

A rules clarification: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on 29/30 April, which may be claimed in this round. 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) 16:03, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014

Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!

In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions

WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!

The Signpost: 13 May 2013

News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list

WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts

Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map

In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?

Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases

The Signpost: 20 May 2013

Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment

WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome

News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles

In the media: Qworty incident continues

Featured content: Up in the air

WP:NASCAR Newsletter (May 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 3 · No. 11 –April 26, 2013 –May 25, 2013

Previous month's issue - Next month's issue

Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles

WikiProject News

New members:
- Cscott79 (talk · contribs) — April 29

How to Help WikiProject NASCAR

Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed!
Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs.
Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season.
Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (racing driver), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens
Assess : See all here
Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr.
Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin
Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500
Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway
Stubs : See all here
Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing
Other : More

Portal Help

Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed as Selected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate articles or images on the talk pages.

Article Statistics

NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	3	5	17	2			27
B	30	55	51	12			148
C	23	40	56	29			148
Start	26	123	424	424		5	1,002
Stub	17	57	309	603		2	988
List		12	53	3		1	69
Category	1	2	4	10	159		176
Disambig		4	1	1	19		25
Portal	1				4		5
Project					11		11
Redirect			2		106		108
Template	2	15	8	4	71		100
NA					3		3
Assessed	103	313	925	1,088	373	8	2,810
Unassessed				1		8	9
Total	103	313	925	1,089	373	16	2,819
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 26,714			Ω = 4.93

Picture of the Month

Article Developments

New articles:

Article of the month – Dick Trickle

Richard "Dick" Trickle (October 27, 1941 – May 16, 2013) was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC. In more than an estimated 2,200 races, Trickle logged one million laps and is believed to have won over 1,200 feature races. He was billed as the winningest short track driver in history. Trickle's career highlights include racing to 67 wins in 1972, winning seven ARTGO Championships in nine years between 1979 to 1987, winning back to back ASA AC-Delco Challenge championships in 1984 and 1985, the 1968 USAC Stock Car rookie of the year, and winning the 1989 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award in what was then called the Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup). Trickle was nicknamed the "White Knight" as referenced by his sponsored SuperAmerica paint scheme, when he raced in Wisconsin. (Read more...)