User:Capsot/sandbox

Dear colleagues, Not so long ago we all participated to the Catalan Challenge and I am sorry if my request might appear bothersome but I would like to have your opinion about the following subject since I haven't been able to get a convincing answer so far from one of the organizers. I thank you in advance for your answers and apologize if this proves annoying.

Even though it took 14 days to get the results, I deem that they haven't been analyzed properly since, in my opinion, some editions happened after the deadline. You see, I spent an enormous amount of time, translating without any machine, and finished my editions just before 23:59 in my time zone (which I thought was UTC + 1, but actually was UTC + 2 because of the change due to summer time).

Thinking I had ended first I also added a few flags later. I went to bed late as usual and there had been no change so far. To my surprise, the next day I saw that some editors had added their contribution and noticed one of them, Artificial, had reached a higher score. However I also realized that Wikipedia's time was "strange" because there were 2 hours less than mine. I tried to understand how the whole thing works and came to a conclusion that the prevailing time in Wikipedia was UTC, that is mainly United Kingdom's time (except if they add one hour before summertime).

Then, while checking Artificial's latest contributions, that is in the Bulgarian wikipedia which apparently also uses a UTC time, I saw that his first article (number 122) was made in due time before 23h UTC, that is 24h UTC + 1 while the next one were edited later and thus after the deadline and therefore shouldn't, if I am not wrong not, be accounted for. I bring you the data so you can make your own opinion about it and won't have to search too much.