User:Casliber/wikicup scoring

Okay, I am laying out all the (to my mind) remotely feasible multipliers discussed so far. I (or any other helpful person) can bracket reasons/doubts/queries after them. After reading Nergaal's comments on the subject, I believe a standard 2x multiplier across the board works well, and is stackable/cumulative.[1]

Likely contenders

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These ones are easily definable, contain a fair number of articles and are pretty core encyclopedic.

  •   Any sovereign country
  •   Any leader of a sovereign country (Query - past as well as present?)
  •   Any chemical element
  •   Any nobel prize winner
  •   Any World Heritage listed Site
  •   Any capital city
  •   Any ocean
  •   Any continent
  •   Any desert
  •   Any mountain range
  •   Any unit of time (anything from second, minute hour to geological periods (Cretaceous/Mesozoic etc.)
  •   Any biological taxon of order or higher (family?? class?? - I lean to order...)
  •   Multiplier for article size (FA/GA) - up to 15 kb prose size (with PDA tool) =smaller, 16-30 kb = medium, and > 31 kb large (these are initial estimates on my part just to start discussion)
How about rivers longer than 2000 km (or something like that)? Nergaal (talk) 00:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Underrepresented FA classes

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I'd be tempted to make multiplier valid for GAs as well as FAs given GAN is now an integral step to FA.

  •   Awards, decorations and vexillology
  •   Business, economics and finance
  •   Chemistry and mineralogy
  •   Computing
  •   Food and drink
  •   Health and medicine
  •   Language and linguistics
  •   Mathematics
  •   Philosophy and psychology

Core/Vital issue

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Any Level 3 (1000 of them). Nergaal (talk) 00:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Possible contenders

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Some issues with each of these.

  •   Any food staple (a type of food rather than a brand etc.)
  •   Any language
  •   Any colour. (obvious ones are key articles, but many esoteric/designer colours...)
  •   Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Popular pages (not a bad list but how do we police it?)
  •   Any musical instrument.
  •   Any BLP. (one less to reference anway...)
  •   Any article subject to arbcom sanctions (to reflect a difficult editing environment?)
  •   Any article in the top 1000 most-viewed list (on whatever specified date) Sasata (talk) 05:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Footnotes

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  1. ^ An example might be a food staple - let's say to get potato to FA (which has the potential to be a massive article) - then we have 100 x 2 (underrepresented cat at FA, i.e. food), x 2 (vital article), possibly x 2 (long article) - gives us 800 points. (off the top of my head if we had 1= short, 1.5 = medium, and 2 = long article)