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Dweller's Ref Desk thread of the week award was established in August 2007. It is given on a sort of weekly basis to the Reference Desk thread that I arbitrarily and quite unfairly, deem to be the best.
The award used to be, erm, awarded on Fridays. But since I didn't award it at all from November 2007 until March 2009, when I revived it on a Tuesday, perhaps I shouldn't be so definitive about this. How about "I give it out when I remember." Feel free to leave me annoying reminders on my talk page if I've forgotten for a long time. If you don't, I'll just feel like it's unloved and has no need to exist, which will encourage my base underlying laziness.
Nominations
editUsers are welcome to nominate threads, by placing witty messages on my talk page. Flattery, including references to just how funny/appreciated/odd I am will help. As will nominating good threads.
Scoreboard
editHere's a scoreboard that helps track how the various Desks are doing in competition with one another. Given that the criteria by which the awards are made are <ahem> hardly stringent, this is probably meaningless. But I like it. Except it's still quite ugly. Hint hint. It'd be nice to add a flagcrufty icon for each line, for instance.
| Reference Desk | Awards | |
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Computing Desk | 2 |
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Entertainment Desk | 1 |
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Humanities Desk | 1 |
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Language Desk | 2 |
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Mathematics Desk | 1 |
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Miscellaneous Desk | 2 |
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Science Desk | 4 |
Award winners
edit- 14th award: Science Desk:Capsaicin and squirrels Recipes for squirrels. Hot stuff.
- 13th award: Science Desk:What would actually happen if you used a defibrillator on yourself? Shocking how bad my mammary is.
- Week 12 award: Mystery week I was, erm, very busy.
- Week 11 award: Computing Desk:Classic code & magic constants - 1-4 Nov 07 - n = (n & 0x0f0f0f0f) + ((n & 0xf0f0f0f0) >> 4);. Yes, that's what I thought. Then they proved geeks can be funny.
- Week 10 award: Entertainment Desk:Surnames_of_ppl_in_the_english_royal_family - 21-24 Oct 07 - Ents desk takes time to unpick the British royal surname. Very entertaining.
- Week 9 award: Language Desk: Expletives - 16th-17th Oct 07 - F**king brilliant debate about (expletive deleted).
- Week 8 award: Computing Desk: EMail ID - 3rd post 11th Oct 07 - the computing desk mob show how to handle a repeat oddball with wisdom... and a little humour.
- Week 7 award: Science Desk:Thirst for knowledge and the human condition 4th-5th Oct 07 - will we ever run out of knowledge to seek... and if we do, will it damage us?
- Week 6 award: Miscellaneous Desk:How much of a human body is edible? 28th-30th Sep 07 - ever wondered which bits of you might be enjoyed with a nice chianti?
- Week 5 award: Humanities Desk: Westward Ho! 19th-21st Sep 07 - which came first, the town or the book?
- Week 4 award: Language Desk: Lost letters 13th/14th Sep 07 - what's the most recent letter to have disappeared from English? I had no idæ.
- Week 3 award: Miscellaneous Desk: Daaaaaang 5th/6th Sep 07 - "da...ang" with six "a"s has a disproportionately low number of Google hits. What about "wheeeeee" or "w000000t"?
- Week 2 award: Mathematics Desk: Distributing points evenly on a sphere 29th/30th Aug 07 - the boffins solve a complex theoretical problem in such a way that even a duffer could follow
- Inaugural award: Science Desk: Recovering wet electronics 23rd/24th Aug 07 - spilled coffee on your laptop? This thread's for you.