User:Casliber/wikicup scoring

Okay, I am laying out all the (to my mind) remotely feasible multipliers discussed so far. I (or any other helpful person) can bracket reasons/doubts/queries after them. After reading Nergaal's comments on the subject, I believe a standard 2x multiplier across the board works well, and is stackable/cumulative.

Likely contenders
These ones are easily definable, contain a fair number of articles and are pretty core encyclopedic.


 * Any sovereign country
 * Any leader of a sovereign country (Query - past as well as present?)
 * Any chemical element
 * Any nobel prize winner
 * Any World Heritage listed Site
 * Any capital city
 * Any ocean
 * Any continent
 * Any desert
 * Any mountain range
 * Any unit of time (anything from second, minute hour to geological periods (Cretaceous/Mesozoic etc.)
 * Any biological taxon of order or higher (family?? class?? - I lean to order...)
 * Multiplier for article size (FA/GA) - up to 15 kb prose size (with PDA tool) =smaller, 16-30 kb = medium, and > 31 kb large (these are initial estimates on my part just to start discussion)
 * How about rivers longer than 2000 km (or something like that)? Nergaal (talk) 00:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Underrepresented FA classes
I'd be tempted to make multiplier valid for GAs as well as FAs given GAN is now an integral step to FA.


 * Awards, decorations and vexillology
 * Business, economics and finance
 * Chemistry and mineralogy
 * Computing
 * Food and drink
 * Health and medicine
 * Language and linguistics
 * Mathematics
 * Philosophy and psychology

Core/Vital issue

 * BUT....we have Core topics - 1,000 (note merger talks on talk page) and Vital articles/Expanded - now we have 1,2,3, and 4 levels!
 * Any Level 3 (1000 of them). Nergaal (talk) 00:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Possible contenders
Some issues with each of these.


 * Any food staple (a type of food rather than a brand etc.)
 * Any language
 * Any colour. (obvious ones are key articles, but many esoteric/designer colours...)
 * WikiProject Physics/Popular pages (not a bad list but how do we police it?)
 * Any musical instrument.
 * Any BLP. (one less to reference anway...)
 * Any article subject to arbcom sanctions (to reflect a difficult editing environment?)
 * Any article in the top 1000 most-viewed list (on whatever specified date) Sasata (talk) 05:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)