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2015 GA Cup Wrap-Up

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Finals/Wrap-Up

 



The second-ever GA Cup is now over! The competition officially ended Thursday. Congrats to everyone who participated, and especially to our finalists.

The winner of the 2nd GA Cup is Zwerg Nase! He earned 408 points, over 100 points more than he earned in all previous rounds. He tied with our second-place winner, Sturmvogel 66 with 367 points, in number of articles reviewed (24), and they earned almost the same points for reviewing articles that were in the queue the longest (Zwerg with 322, Sturmvogel with 326). Basically, they tied in points, but what made the different for Zwerg was the advantage he had in reviewing longer articles. It seems that the rule change of earning more realistic points for longer articles made a difference. All of our contestants should be proud of the work they were able to accomplish through the GA Cup. Congrats to these worthy opponents!

Our third and fourth place winners, Johanna and Tomandjerry211, also ran a close race, with 167 points and 147 points respectfully. We had one withdrawal; we found it interesting that competitors dropped out in Round 2 and 3 as well. One of the original judges and co-creator of this competition, User:Dom497 stepped down as judge during Round 3; as stated previously, we will miss his input and wish him the best.

The judges were pleased with our results, even though fewer users competed this time compared to our inaugural competition. We recognize that this might be due to holding the competition during the summer months. We intend on looking more closely when we should conduct this contest, as well as other aspects of the GA Cup. We've set up a feedback page for everyone's input about how we should conduct the contest and what rule changes should be made. If you have any ideas about how we can improve things, please visit it and give us your input.

Again, thanks to all and congratulations to our winners! Please stay tuned for the start of GA Cup #3.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar and MrWooHoo.

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2015)

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Allegra Versace

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Generating references on Wp/dag

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How did you get {{Wp/dag/reflist}} to generate references? It seemed to work on [7] but not on [8]. Thanks.--Lucas559 (talk) 18:15, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Lucas559, to get the references to work using this example for instance
<ref name=AFP2012/><ref name=Irv2012>{{cite journal | last1 = Irving |
You need to include Wp/dag/ before cite journal like below
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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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WikiCup 2015: The results

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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is   Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program.   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science.   Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to   Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 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.

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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2015)

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Marie Serneholt at the 48th Guldbagge Awards.
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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

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Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.
 
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This Month in GLAM: October 2015

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2015)

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A continuum of goods and services
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The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015

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Bot automation at Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

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Please comment on Talk:Marco Rubio

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2015)

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Coffee production in Cuba

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2015)

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The First Geneva Convention (1864) is one of the earliest formulations of international law.
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The Center Line: November 2015

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Volume 8, Issue 4 • November 2015 • About the Newsletter

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