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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

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• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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WikiCup awards

Awarded to Lee Vilenski for the strongest contribution of featured topic articles in the 2023 WikiCup Congratulations! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:56, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

I totally forgot about these awards! Well run competition as always! Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:14, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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2023 UK Championship - Neil Robertson

Thank you for cleaning up the text! Although, Neil Robertson hasn't entered the remaining events in 2023 so his winning streak has ended. See this reference. No Neil in either the Shoot Out or Scottish Open. AmethystZhou (talk) 23:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

No drama. That's fine then. There was no reference about it. Happy for that to be reintroduced to the image caption and prose. Will take a bit of time and clean up the prose.

Just a note - not sure who added them, but scores don't require a nowrap tag, as it is built into emdash. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:38, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

The WST page was referenced at the end of that paragraph, I'll add a separate reference to the claim. And thanks for the note on nowrap, I didn't know that! @AlH42 you might want to check this out as I think you were the first to add them. AmethystZhou (talk) 23:43, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes it was me, and I did it because the scores with ndash were wrapping.  Alan  (talk) 06:45, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: @AmethystZhou: And now that you've taken them all out, they are wrapping and (IMO) look horrible.  Alan  (talk) 08:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

That's weird, on my end (Firefox on Windows 10) if I resize the browser window it doesn't wrap the score for me. AmethystZhou (talk) 08:33, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Indeed. More likely something odd on your browser. H:LINEBREAK is the place to have a read about this, but WP:NOWRAP isn't a suitable use. It is generally just as endash, see MOS:RANGE for some details, we'd probably need a large consensus that nowrapping is a suitable solution to this problem. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm using Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. We need to accommodate all browsers. Have a look at the table I've made in my sandbox. Without using {{nowrap}} the scores look awful on mine.  Alan  (talk) 10:27, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Very interesting, all three without the template are wrapping on my iPad, as well. AmethystZhou (talk) 12:06, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean. Are they wrapping properly or not? On my PC, the right-hand column looks like this for the hyphen:

Text before 6-
4

like this for the ndash:

Text before 6–
4

and like this for the mdash:

Text before 6
—4

 Alan  (talk) 12:38, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, yes, that’s what I see on my iPad. They are split into two lines without the template. AmethystZhou (talk) 12:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Good - so it isn't just me! So what is the solution? Now that all the nowraps have been taken out, the article looks awful to me.  Alan  (talk) 12:45, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: Maybe we need to create a template where you would type something like:
{{snooker-score|6|4}}
which could transclude the {{nowrap}} template and automatically insert the {{tl|ndash}}.  Alan  (talk) 13:53, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

It's not really as simple as just creating a new template. I don't think this is within policy. Despite what people believe, we don't "fix" Wikipedia to fit browsers. I've started up a topic at WT:MOS for some more input. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Isn't this what {{nbnd}} is for? Nigej (talk) 16:12, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I didn't know that existed. Just checked it out in my sandbox and it works well. Thank you.  Alan  (talk) 16:24, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

We should really still ask the question, because it's not mentioned as an exception at WP:NOWRAP and we just use endashes at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:27, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

MOS:ENBETWEEN does say that we should use endash in "a 51–30 win" without mentioning any sort of wrapping issue. H:LINEBREAK#Non-breaking hyphen mentions the non-breaking hyphen but says "Avoid using it unless it is really necessary to avoid a line break." and I guess the same might well apply to the non-breaking endash. Nigej (talk) 18:22, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I can't find anthing in Help:Line-break handling, Wikipedia:Manual of Style, or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker that says we shouldn't use {{nowrap}} or {{nbnd}} in the way I did. In fact Help:Line-break handling says that {{nowrap}} is good for short text sections like "10 kg (22 lb)", which should always stay together. This, I think, applies to scores. The Wikipedia:Manual of Style says It is sometimes desirable to force a text segment to appear entirely on a single line‍—‌that is, to prevent a line break (line wrap) from occurring anywhere within it. and I think this applies here also.  Alan  (talk) 20:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

But the MOS not saying we shouldn't use it doesn't mean that the MOS says we should use it. There's hundreds of thousands of sports articles on Wikipedia that use dashes like this for scores. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:22, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't think that's a valid argument. The MOS etc. doesn't seem to have a rule about using or not using {{nowrap}} other than saying it is "good for short text sections" and "sometimes desirable to force a text segment to appear entirely on a single line‍." And the fact that we have been doing something a particular way in many articles does not mean we must continue to do so.  Alan  (talk) 10:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I think I mis-represented what I meant. I meant that we should find out what the consensus is, rather than change this on specific pages. If it is suitable to use these dashes in {{nbnd}}, we should make that change wholesale (using AWB or similar). We do have to be careful when it comes to nowrap, as we have seen people use this to wrap long names (such as writing {{nowrap|Thepchiaya Un-Nooh}}) which actually causes issues on mobile view. I agree that these terms should not wrap, I've just not experienced this doing this before. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:34, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Totally agree. Let's wait and see what the consensus is.  Alan  (talk) 10:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

I think the nowrap function of a plain endash "–" character is built-into browsers, but not Wikipedia itself, so you are seeing various results on different browsers. AmethystZhou (talk) 22:30, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I suspect so. I have asked that question at WT:MOS#NOWRAP on sports scores. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:33, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@AmethystZhou: I think you said earlier that you had the same problem using an iPad, so it isn't just MS-Edge.  Alan  (talk) 10:11, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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