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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
 * 1) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
 * 2) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
 * 3) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
 * 4) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
 * 5) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
 * , the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
 * , the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. ,, , , , and  have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Persistent error on section editing Comment
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)

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Hey Nick, could you look over an article for me?
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)
 * I appreciate that you would consider asking me. I will be occupied today but I will be able to read the article and put some edits in within 48 hours. Lets see if we can't make all pretty. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 16:28, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well a quick glance shows it to be a high quality, well written article. I would make some organizational changes, and it could use a heavy copy edit for phrasing and structure. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 16:37, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Help setting up a collaboration
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 &#9775;  Consult  03:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Solar activity
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:18, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

TAFI talk page pings
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, NorthAmerica1000 10:31, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'll have to look into it. Maybe we will just use the regular ping list instead of the templates. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 14:52, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
 * At the TAFI talk page, User:Evad37 stated that a signature needs to be in place in posts in order for the notifications system to function. NorthAmerica1000 10:58, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Animatronics
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2014)

 * Thanks for your encouraging feedback! I would like to be able to collaborate and work on all the interesting articles that the TAFI project identifies as needing improvement, but I can't keep up with them all (I still think the schedule is too fast). Sometimes I have no time and sometimes I am in the middle of another article of my own but sometimes I just get hooked! Must get back to work now. Cheers, Whiteghost.ink (talk) 04:11, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter
In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer 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 is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. , 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Pizza Article Suggestion
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)
 * I will take a look at it and leave my feedback on the pizza talk page. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 03:36, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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TAFI Teams idea & 3 week staggered schedule
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)
 * I think you should propose your idea and see what kind of discussion it generates. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 15:47, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Halloween cheer!


Happy Halloween!

'''Hello NickPenguin: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!''' – NorthAmerica1000 04:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Cheers, thanks for that! -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 04:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Weekly recaps
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! ///Euro Car GT  23:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have provided some recaps, and I will be sure to continue this feature of the project. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 04:17, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Also per your comment, Steak should be nominated as a good article. You, Northamerica1000, Whiteghost.ink, David Condrey and SovalValtos did a marvelous job on the article! -- ///Euro Car GT  03:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014: The results
The 2014 WikiCup champion is, 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. , 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. , WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
 * wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
 * wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
 * wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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TAFI results
Hiya Nick, Not sure if you're aware but everyone's votes seems to have disappeared from Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement

Just thought I'd let you know :)

Cheers, – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  07:16, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * There was a typo in a comment, I removed a stray character and it fixed the code. Thanks for the heads up. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 07:19, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah brilliant, You're welcome :) – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  07:22, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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Pizza recap
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. NorthAmerica1000 04:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I will make a correction. Thanks, -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 07:22, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 20 November
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Template:TAFI/Picture box
Thanks for your thanks earlier today and previously. I've now updated the template with the version from the sandbox/testcases page so that a smaller picture may be used e.g. here (for pages such as here) but the standard size and formatting should remain the default for uses such as here. Hopefully it still looks attractive and works correctly in its various places. Yours, Sardanaphalus (talk) 20:30, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks Sardanaphalus. I've never really been good with templates, thanks for helping out the project. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 21:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Something you changed broke the wrapping of the caption for images set to a narrower width, eg check the Week 44 message above - Evad37 &#91;talk] 03:22, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I found the error and fixed it - Evad37 &#91;talk] 07:40, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...
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.


 * We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
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 * The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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Game design
I hope I'm not causing a bother with edit. It looks like a large chunk of material I had just added got lost in 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)
 * That was my error, I was moving the content to the History section but I changed my mind. My apologies. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 19:06, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries. I was thinking that if that subsection should be shortened for aesthetic/style reasons then I'd prefer to see it merged into the board game article which is lacking a section on design. Anyway thanks again and keep up the good work. -Thibbs (talk)
 * There's no reason we can't copy the content into the board game article as well. It's not like we have to take a one-or-the-other mentality. I've always been a firm believer that articles can, and in many cases should, share content. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 20:07, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the wikilove, and it's definitely a team effort. You have put in at least as much effort as the rest of us. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 04:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Happy New Year NickPenguin!
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WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter
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.

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Dishwashing liquid TAFI
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)
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Archives (Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Holding area)
Greetings NickPenguin! I was wondering, where do the articles go that have been "archived" from 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)
 * They are actually at the bottom of the page in a hidden section. Today%27s_articles_for_improvement/Holding_area It's a show/hide clicky. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 01:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, indeed. Thanks! :-) Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 01:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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TAFI
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)

Using font tags in your signature
Hello there! I'm working on a project trying to bring most of the coding on Wikipedia up to the most current standards (HTML5), and I noticed that your signature is using <font ></font> tags which were deprecated in HTML 4.0 Transitional, marked as invalid in 4.0 Strict, and are not part of HTML5 at all. I'd love to help you update your signature to use newer code, and if you're interested,&#32;I suggest replacing:

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge,  led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter
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 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.
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