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Thank you from the Ford Museum

Thank you for fixing our image! If all the images (about 200,000) were extracted, is there a way to batch-straighten and batch-focus them? I'm not sure all would need straightening/focusing. I think my uploader could write the script for the extraction; it's only worth doing if the images can be repaired. Are you willing to try a small sample? PS for some reason this msg is at the top of your page?? sorry if I messed something up, still a newbie. Bdcousineau (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem, glad I could help! It could be done to a certain extent using Adobe Photoshop, using its automated crop & straighten tool however it isn't perfect. Removing blur could also be automated however doing so wouldn't be as effective as doing it manually, as each image is unique. I'm no expert when it comes to batch processing but I would still be happy to help further. Even if it isn't 100% doable I am still willing to help out and extract them and process myself on ones you would really like doing. Kind regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 23:11, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Let me get with my uploader and see if he'll do a sample extraction, and then we'll go from there. Thanks, will be in touch soon. Bdcousineau (talk) 02:54, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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Another Ford contact sheet image

I posted another Graphics Lab request for a Ford contact sheet image at Ford A6748-31 NLGRF photo of Hank Aaron. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:17, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Cool I shall take a look! Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:21, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Elaine Didier

Elaine Didier is the boss in charge of the Ford libary donation to Commons. I posted a request in that regard at Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Photography_workshop#Elaine_Didier. You can see the photo you just worked on in the Elaine Didier article. Feel free to improve the photos and arrange them in the article as you feel best. Thanks! -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 06:21, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hello,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 20, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-01-20. —howcheng {chat} 17:17, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 January newsletter

Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader ( Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

• 12george1 (submissions) was also the first to score for an article, with the good article Hurricane Gordon (2000). Again, this is a repeat of last year!
• Buggie111 (submissions) was the first to score for a did you know, with Marquis Flowers.
• Spencer (submissions) was the first to score for an in the news, with 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
• Status (submissions) was the first to score for a featured list, with list of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) was the first to score for a featured picture, with File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg.

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:

• Ed! (submissions) was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
• HueSatLum (submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

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) 00:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

1. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
2. Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
3. Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

• Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
• Sasata (submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
• Muboshgu (submissions) and Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
• Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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) J Milburn (talk) 11:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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really bad penny turning up

Hey man...how are you? You really are one of the kind, sweet peeps around here.

Could you do the map request that I have in the graphics lab?

TCO (talk) 23:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

P.s. If you are (properly) wanting to stay away from my permabanned thugishness, is cool. I love you anyway.

P.s.s. Although really it is a frigging crime that we don't have a better picture of Lake Bonneville. I mean this is the Internet. We are using computers. It is 2013. And we have worse graphics than the 1920s. (/guilt trip)

Hey mate, I'm not too bad cheers, hope you have been keeping well yourself, good to hear from you! Nah it's fine. I'm sure I will get a chance to rustle something up, just may take a few days with things I got going on at the mo. I'm kinda liking this one, so would something along those lines with state labels etc do the job? Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:22, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

That one rawks. Like how it shows the ice in relation to the lake and all. Have fun with work and sports and sunshine and chasing skirt (or pants). Peace, babe. TCO (talk) 01:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok here we go. I know Orionist is looking into the request on the GL so if he comes up with something more suitable then use his, I won't mind, much.. ;) Fallschirmjäger ✉ 01:28, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Lake Bonnville map

  Ice/Glacier

  Pleistocene Lake

  Modern Lake

  Direction of flood

It is beautiful. I am putting in article now. In terms of feedback to make even better, I wonder if there is some way to show the globe cutout or the like (for geo-challenged Yurapeens). Also, tall aspect ratio always causes more work in articles; not sure if key could be put on side or what. Neither comment is a sercious criticism. Just thoughts.

TCO (talk) 14:54, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

P.s. Could we head it to FP? Add the sources and SVG it and all that? No push, just want you to collect hardware and the Wikians to think about real educational graphics (not bird and shroom snapshpts for articles created when the photo made).  ;-)

P.s.s. Are you sure about the glaciers down in Southern California? The one in Imperial Valley seems unlikely (I mean there are some low mountains, but then why not glaciers all over the Rockies?

Yeah I did think that about the ice. I will do a bit more digging to make sure. Know what ya mean about the aspect ratio, will add key and globe thing for my fellow Yurapeens then to give it more width. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 16:54, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok I've tweaked it to include the inset map to get a better idea of location and the legend. However I have found some interesting stuff after doing a little research.

• Firstly there is this map, which shows the area in much greater detail and I think it could be used as the author states it can be used on a Creative Commons license, see the page for more. So it's quite a find that I think could be put to good use, even though I've made a map I think this could be used for greater detail idk but it's massive!
• Plus also find this cool flash animation showing how the lake formed, would be cool to include in article as an animated GIF or something but would be a lot of work to make.

Still been interesting to find out about these ice age pluvial lakes in the US, didn't know about them and kinda reminds me of the Lake District here in the UK :) Fallschirmjäger ✉ 21:18, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

more lake

1. Nominated for FP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates#Lake_Bonneville_map

2. The other map is only CC-NC. can't be used per Wiki. (I think this is insane, since our immediate usage IS NC. And we are devaluing our own product very very significantly by not allowing the slew of NC images (and our articles are poor on maps). but so be it.

3. Thanks man.

TCO (talk) 22:07, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

No worries buddy, cheers for the FP nom! Fallschirmjäger ✉ 22:15, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Me again

Hi, Fallschirmjäger! Do you also work on maps too? I have an article called Uruguayan War which still is almost ready to become a FAC. I need a map there, however. It's quite simple as you can see in here. Could you do it? --Lecen (talk) 19:02, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey Lecen, hope you are well mate! Yeah I do dabble in map work now and again, I shall certainly take a look into it for you! Fallschirmjäger ✉ 20:10, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Fallschirmjäger, you don't have to worry about it, anymore. However, I really appreciate your willingness to help. But don't worry, I'll eventually need your assistance again. :) --Lecen (talk) 15:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

No problem, cheers! Fallschirmjäger ✉ 15:25, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Fallschirmjäger! How are you?! I'm need of help with a few pictures. Could you help me out? If yes, here they are:

• File:Congado in Minas Gerais 1876.jpg I need another version of this file with translucid background.
• File:Manuel Luis Osorio circa 1870.jpg Also another version with translucid background.
• File:Rosas, por Molino 2.jpg Also another version with translucid background.
• I need you to crop File:Juan Manuel de Rosas by Descalzi.jpg and upload it with translucid background over File:Juan Manuel de Rosas by Descalzi oval.png. You'll notice that his skin is a little reddish. Could you fix it? It should be more like this or this.

Regards, --Lecen (talk) 13:58, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey Lecen, I'm pretty good cheers, hope all is well with you also. Sure I'd be happy to help as always, I'll look into it in a little bit. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 14:42, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• First one... File:Congado in Minas Gerais 1876_alt.png Fallschirmjäger ✉ 23:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
• 2nd File:Manuel Luis Osorio circa 1870 alt.png Fallschirmjäger ✉ 23:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
• And the last one File:Juan Manuel de Rosas by Descalzi oval.png Fallschirmjäger ✉ 23:39, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

They look amazing. Thanks a lot. By the way, you forgot File:Rosas, por Molino 2.jpg. --Lecen (talk) 00:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Opps sorry I missed that one, was tired last night! Here you go. File:Rosas por Molino.png Cheers, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 13:56, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Fallschirmjäger. I really appreciate your help. They look exactly as I wanted. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello again

Hi again. I took a very long wikibreak, but am back now and was glad to see you're still active here. I remember some of the excellent work you did. Hope all is well. Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 23:58, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey nice to hear from you! Things aren't too bad cheers, hope everything is good with you also. Thanks for the kind words :) I had a sort of wikibreak myself over the last year or so and have only recently got back into the swing of things. Nice to have a familiar name around again! Kind regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

I hear you about long wikibreaks! Mine was over a year. Glad to have been away, and glad now to be back. Very nice to see a familiar name, and to see you're still doing good work. Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:58, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

BTW, that pic of Maxim Gorky turned out very well. MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:31, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah cheers :), just seen it on the main page as POTD! Seems like ages ago that I worked on it. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 01:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Congrats on the ozone POTD in December

Glad that ran, to show people an idea. Great work doing the gif and coming up with the spark of creativity.TCO (talk) 00:08, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Cheers buddy :) Wouldn't have made it in the first place, let alone get it to FP & POTD without your efforts and throwing it my way! Hope we can get there with the Bonneville map too, just gotta finish off those tweaks. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 01:08, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

You are awesome, airborne trooper, doing all the work. I think it is for good in terms of giving people ideas. I kinda take partial credit for ones like the painted turtle map or fluorine economy where I did the content. But on ones like ozone or Bonneville, it is all you. I am glad to at least be a genesis of interesting work and happy that the best illustrators like you are willing to work with me.TCO (talk) 01:34, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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Video Game Screenshots

When uploading screenshots of video games, can you please put them in the specific section for whatever system they're on? (example: Category:Screenshots of Super Nintendo Entertainment System games) N. Harmonik (talk) 01:29, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah I will make sure I do that from now on! Sorry, never been the best for adding categories, always struggle to find suitable ones. Cheers for the reminder though :). Kind regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 01:32, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 March newsletter

We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate Miyagawa (submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's Casliber (submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.

Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr ( Hawkeye7 (submissions)), on the European hare ( Cwmhiraeth (submissions)), on the constellation Circinus ( Keilana (submissions) and Casliber (submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John ( Cerebellum (submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.

Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.

A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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) J Milburn (talk) 22:44, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fallschirmjager,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:The fluorine economy.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 23, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-04-23. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Wow cheers! Just read the caption, all seems good :) Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:19, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

• Cheers! Thanks for fixing the typo... I was wondering why that turned up red. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

TB

Hello, Liandrei. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lake Bonneville map.
Message added 16:27, 20 April 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Sven Manguard Wha? 16:27, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lake Bonneville map

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Lake bonneville map.svg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:14, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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) 16:08, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Question about an image file...

I was looking at File:Virge.jpg and while your entry indicates that you've finished the request, I don't see the new file on Commons. Server issue or did you only crop and overwrite without completing the rest of the request?

If the latter, #How_to_transfer_files_to_Commons may be helpful. I've found 'CommonsHelper' useful in the past. --Kevjonesin (talk) 23:14, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah sorry didn't have time to move it last night. All done now. Kind regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 06:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! :  }

--Kevjonesin (talk) 11:33, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Request crop and pad (minor images, but will help clean layout)

FS:

Could you crop and pad the two images at Fluoride in the infobox?

1. Crop away about half the white space both above and below the F- (keep it centered vertically and horizontally)

2. Pad the yellow ball top and bottom so that its aspect ratio matches the F- (then they will display nicely together)

TCO (talk) 22:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

P.s. I know it seems like a pain, but I think duplicate files are called for. Images end up getting used elsewhere and if you don't make separate file, it will mess someone else up or get reverted. (TCO)

No worries. The new cropped F- File:F- crop.svg and File:Fluoride ion2.svg. Hopefully they will work in the article, just let me know if they need more padding/cropping. Cheers Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

In article. Thanks. TCO (talk) 02:30, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Other thing Agricola woodcuts

Do you know how to do bulk uploads to Commons or someone who does?

I have about 300 gif images (have jpeg also) on a CD that I want to upload and organize into a directory.

Blimey thats a bucket load of images! Can't say that I've had much to do with bulk uploading, however I would recommend your first port of call be here. I would also check out Commonist bulk upload tool. Sorry I can't be of more use, it's not something I've had to consider before. I'd be happy to help though where I can if needs be. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:54, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber (submissions) and Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: 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 the 29/30 June, 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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) 10:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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) 05:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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) 23:16, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Image review

FS: Can you please check over the images on Fluorine. I have it under peer review, now.98.117.75.177 (talk) 17:18, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey mate, hope all is well. Yeah sure I will have a check over them. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 18:28, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Interacting with you has been a pleasure.71.127.137.171 (talk) 19:59, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
2. Hawkeye7 (submissions)
3. Sasata (submissions)
4. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
5. Casliber (submissions)
6. Adam Cuerden (submissions)
7. Miyagawa (submissions)
8. Piotrus (submissions)
9. Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

• Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
• Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
• Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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) 00:59, 1 November 2013 (UTC)