A solar flare erupts from the Sun, an example of
solar activity.
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There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, 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 · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
A Nunivak
Cup'ig man with raven maskette – in the
Raven Tales the raven is the Creator god
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Have you noticed over the past few weeks that editing one section will display an edit box for the section above? I first noticed this bug with Solar activity, but have seen the bug on other pages over the last few days. Most recently it happened again on the TAFI notice. - Kyle (talk) 16:47, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
File:Jvc gz-mg555-02.jpg Hello, NickPenguin.
A handheld
camcorder ia a typical
consumer electronics device
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Arches were used in
Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the
Aqueduct of Segovia
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All this TAFI stuff has make me start to think about old articles that I worked on for a while before moving on when other projects (or life) came up. Good Game is one of those articles that I invested a lot of source-gathering and info-dumping time into, but one I was never confident enough to brutally copyedit. I was wondering if you would care to take a look at it. According to David Condrey, it's not the sort of article he deems encyclopedic so he was not interested, but I figured since you were such a pro at editing you might want to take a crack at it.-- Coin945 ( talk) 13:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi, NickPenguin - I just added an article to the TAFI list, but I'm not sure how to set up a collaboration according to the guidelines at WP:Collaboration Can you help guide me in the setup, or do I even need to set one up? Thank you in advance. Atsme☯ Consult 03:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
On 21 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Solar activity, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that solar activity and related events ( solar flare pictured) have been recorded since the time of the Babylonians in the 8th century BCE? ( TAFI) The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Solar activity. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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First of all, thanks very much for your work there in adding the weekly TAFI vote selections, (and everything else that you do). I noticed that I didn't receive a notification on the notifications system from my user name being linked there. It could be due to server lag, or a potential problem with the notifications system. Just a heads up regarding this matter. Cheers, NorthAmerica 1000 10:31, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
On 21 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Animatronics, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Walt Disney's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? ( TAFI) The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Animatronics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Arches were used in
Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the
Aqueduct of Segovia
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Aerial photograph of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, an
international airport in Houston, United States
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In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 ( submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list ( historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber ( submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.
Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, 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 · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nick, this is zy87 from the group of students editing the pizza article. We have made some progress and the changes we made are listed in the talk page. Can you please look into to it a little bit and see where we can improve? Specifically, I was looking at the preparation section that has existed for a while. I see that it does not have reliable source and the content seems not sufficient enough for a whole section. We are thinking of either deleting it or integrating it to other sections. Where do you think is a good place for it? Zy87 ( talk) 19:09, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Seasoned and chargrilled lamb fillet
steak
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Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America.
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Hey. Before even making a whole group discussion over it I wanted to see what you think about an idea I just had. It seems to me that the TAFI project might be more effective if we organized our efforts better. As is I think some people may potentially feel overwhelmed by the more active members of the group for one. I was thinking it's pretty clear, at least for some, to tell what people tend to gravitTe to in editing. Some people mostly copy edit, some always add images, myself for example I tend to spend most of my time improving references and researching adding new content. With that in mind I was contemplating the idea of organizing teams and making TAFI a staggered schedule. For example TAFI could spend three weeks on each article but still move on to a new article every week if we split into 3 teams. People would sign up to spend the majority of their effort on either research and expansion, styling copy editing and cleanup, or review and polish.
Each week we'd get a new article and it would stagger. Research team works on it for a week and then moves on while the second team moves on to the article that research just finished in order to do copy edits, images, style improvements. Then the third team would be responsible for initiating a peer review or DYK or whatever else and following up on those processes.
Make sense? What do you think? Just an idea but I was thinking we could potentially be a lot more affective if people got into it. Feel free to move this over to the main discussion page if you want, I just wanted to run it by you first. David Condrey ( talk) 09:56, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Inside an
ice hotel in
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
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Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first
national park
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Hello NickPenguin:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable
Halloween!
–
NorthAmerica
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Hey NickPenguin! I've seen we'd missed a few weeks of weekly updates at WT:TAFI regarding the weekly recaps. Thanks and Happy Halloween! ///EuroCar GT 23:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
A
pizza is an oven-baked flat bread typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings
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The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 ( submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber ( submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.
A full list of our prize-winners follows:
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 participated this year. 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 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 · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Sleeping is part of
everyday life
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Hiya Nick, Not sure if you're aware but everyone's votes seems to have disappeared from
Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement#Choose the TAFI article for Week 51 of 2014
Just thought I'd let you know :)
Cheers, –
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(talk) 07:16, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Military aviation and missile guidance are examples of modern
military technology.
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Ni NP: Just a heads up regarding the week 45 Pizza recap at WT:TAFI – Template:Pizza was created well before the TAFI collaboration. Thanks for performing the recaps and for all of your TAFI work, it's well appreciated. NorthAmerica 1000 04:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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A beach on the island of San Andrés, a tourist destination in the
Caribbean
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The
Mexico–United States border spans six Mexican states and four U.S. states, with a total length of 3,145 km (1,954 mi).
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Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
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Game design is the art of creating rules and mechanics to facilitate interactions between players in a game.
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I hope I'm not causing a bother with this edit. It looks like a large chunk of material I had just added got lost in this edit. I assume it was a mistake because of the edit summary, but if not then let's talk about it. Thanks for the good work on the article today! - Thibbs ( talk) 19:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
A plate of
spaghetti and meatballs.
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An
aurora is a
natural phenomenon.
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The
skyline of
Frankfurt, Germany
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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.
Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on
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Dishwashing liquid is a detergent used in dishwashing
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Hey, how are you? I was wondering if you might be interested in helping me use some of the references I've found at talk:dishwashing liquid. Regardless, thanks a lot! Bananasoldier ( talk) 05:20, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
The
history of Mongolia includes the foundation, expansion, and fragmentation of the
Mongol Empire in the 13th century
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Greetings NickPenguin! I was wondering, where do the articles go that have been "archived" from Wikipedia: Today's articles for improvement/Holding area? I tried to navigate my way throughout the pages, but couldn't find anything meaningful. :P Your answer would be greatly appreciated! Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya ( talk) 18:29, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
An example of
prose, a type of writing that simulates the natural flow of language
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The opening of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5, a famous
symphony.
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Freeze dried coffee, an example of the application of
food science
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Empire Field,
stadium made with temporary structures, cheaper than permanent.
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Thanks for all your work with TAFI - so far ;) Life may become less constrained in the future. Best wishes. SovalValtos ( talk) 08:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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which will result in a 228 character long signature with an appearance of: Nick Penguin( contribs)compared to your existing 210 character long signature of: Nick Penguin( contribs) — Either way. Happy editing! Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 09:25, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
A Sicilian
ice cream parlour
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Trailer Trash is a US derogatory term for poor people living in
trailers or
caravans. It appears that these trailer trash happen to live on a
trailer park.
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There are many
backup dancers accompanying the dances of the main dancer.
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Turkish
cuisine
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Hi NickPenguin: Just a heads up that you didn't sign your most recent post at WP:TAFI. Rather than adding an unsigned template, notifying you here. Cheers, NORTH AMERICA 1000 23:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, NickPenguin.
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A
antagonist is a character, group of characters,
institution, or concept that stands in, or represents, opposition against which the
protagonist(s) must contend.
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A man
garbage picking through a
skip (dumpster)
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The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the
history of technology
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Hello, NickPenguin.
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A
satellite image demonstrating the
Geography of Niger
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I am having trouble finding a user who can review my article at PR; it has been up there for a month now. I have asked several users who either ignored or couldn't review the article. Currently, there is a user who said he will review it but he has not been active for a week now. Would you care to help me out and review the article? Best, jona (talk) 22:14, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hydroelectric dams use
hydropower to generate electricity
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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber ( submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.
Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) 16:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The
food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse
businesses that supply much of the food and
food energy consumed by the
world population.
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Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being
deep fried.
Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the
North Pole, the northern
polar ice cap on
Earth
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Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
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Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.
The term
Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight
automobile with
off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
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An example of
sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial
Olympic Games
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The amounts of
fat types in selected foods
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A
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Mecca is regarded as the
holiest city in the religion of
Islam. Pictured is the
Masjid al-Haram during
Hajj, 2007.
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An example of an
igloo
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Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. The Rambling Man, who was eliminated during the first round in our last competition, earned an impressive 513 points, reviewed twice as many articles (26) as any other competitor. It was a tight race for second for first-time competitors BenLinus1214 and Tomandjerry211, who finished second and third with 243 and 224 points, respectively. Close behind was Wugapodes, who earned 205 points. The change in our points system had an impact on scoring. It was easier to earn higher points, although the key to success didn't change from last time, which was choosing articles with older nomination dates. For example, most of the articles The Rambling Man reviewed were worth 18 points in the nomination date category, and he benefited from it. BenLinus1214 reviewed the longest article, A Simple Plan (at 26,536 characters, or 4,477 words), the 1994 film starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda and directed by Sam Raimi, and earned all possible 5 points in that category. After feedback from our participants, the judges slightly changed the rule about review length this time out. Shorter reviews are now allowed, as long as reviewers give nominators an opportunity to address their feedback. Shorter reviews are subject to the judges' discretion; the judges will continue their diligence as we continue the competition. Despite having fewer contestants at the beginning of Round 1 than last time, 132 articles were reviewed, far more than the 117 articles that were reviewed in Round 1 of the inaugural GA Cup. All of us involved should be very proud of what we've accomplished thus far. The judges are certain that Round 2 will be just as successful. 16 contestants have moved onto Round 2 and have been randomly placed in 4 groups of 4, with the top 2 in each pool progressing to Round 3, as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 has already begun and will end on August 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Good luck and remember to have fun! Cheers from Dom497, Figureskatingfan, 3family6 and Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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A
farmhouse (bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
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