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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two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents.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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Edits of Indian Wikipedians
Hi Tinucherian,

Long time since we talked here. I noticed that you edited WikiProject India/List of Indian Wikipedians by number of edits recently and I thought it should be easier done using a tool (at least 90% of the work). I used Excel to get the old list (before your edit in this month) and then took the 10 November 2014 master list of edit counts (1 to 10000 wiki ranks). I used simple Excel functions to get an updated list, which would cover 90% of the users, I hope (at least covers the 121 folks in old list easily).

Please see User:VasuVR/EditCountIndia and find out if it helps. I would like to send the actual Excel by email - in case you want to play with it more (let me know).

Hope this helps. VasuVR ( talk,  contribs ) 12:50, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * you're the man, Vasu. please go ahead and update it. --  Tinu  Cherian  - 17:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, The reason I did not update is that I have taken the previous list as the 'base' for the new list. Other Indian Wikipedians who have "climbed" up from below 5000 edits to higher numbers would not be identified in this list. I wanted to make sure you also take a look at that angle - I don't know how you all do that (identify Indian Wikipedians among the 1-10,000 list). Let me know and I can see if I can figure out other ways of getting more info automatically (let me check the Category of Indian Wikipedians - may be that can help add a few more and improve this list). VasuVR  ( talk,  contribs ) 04:08, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * Kindly recheck my same sub-page of user page User:VasuVR/EditCountIndia, where I have added "potential" 50 users - we may have to manually screen them before adding to main list.
 * Also, how do we get details of user's rights/ notes, along with last active stuff easily - if there is a way, kindly let me know. I will also be searching. Manual work is tedious as well as boring - want to do it in more automated and if not, then semi-programmatic ways.
 * Thanks. VasuVR  ( talk,  contribs ) 06:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅. WikiProject India/List of Indian Wikipedians by number of edits has been updated and also its sub-pages (Potential, Anonymous). I have updated the description, sections, too. Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. VasuVR  ( talk,  contribs ) 15:05, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Great work, . Request if this can be kept updated on once in two months/quarterly basis. AshLin (talk) 05:09, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Vasu. Yeah, Like AshLin said, if you can keep this updated on a regular basis, it will be great !! :) --  Tinu  Cherian  - 05:39, 15 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Sure. I was also thinking that I could do it once in a quarter. Any questions/ suggestions about who I choose for the list (see my updates to description on that page)? As of now, we have one person in list who is an opt-out (I mark that person's row as [Placeholder], just like in WP:EDITS).
 * Any other inputs on source of people in second list - like Dr. Blofeld and gang. I have not updated that part.
 * VasuVR ( talk,  contribs ) 08:26, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

WP:INCOTM
Please vote for one choice for WP:INCOTM for December 2014. We have had balanced voting for the choices & a front-runner is not emerging. AshLin (talk) 10:02, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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