User talk:Wikipedian Penguin/Archives/2012/April

Where are you Penguin?
Penguin! Please be more active. I am starting to miss you :S. When you are free!. Want to hear your queries. —  Tomica   (talk)   09:28, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * My Spring Break begins this Friday. I'll try and get more stuff done during the holiday. I'm trying not to let my 'Pedia spirit die, but I've involved myself in other interests lately. Your FLC is off to a smooth start, and I'll try and review it sometime soon. Best, — WP: PENGUIN  · [ TALK ]  18:57, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't hurry up with it. Just be more here from Friday :)! C Y —  Tomica   (talk)   21:26, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Pengs. Thanks for the c/e. What do you think about the videography lead? Have you read it already? Is it much c/e required? —  Tomica   (talk)   12:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm reading parts here and there. A little bit of copy editing, and it will be pretty good. — WP: PENGUIN  · [ TALK ]  00:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I feel that this table is incomplete. Do you think we should add Notes column in it, like in Madonna videography? —  Tomica   (talk)   19:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. Name the column "Description" or "Content" to differentiate it from the Album details. — WP: PENGUIN  · [ TALK ]  19:22, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. You could modify table if there is need. I am bad at formatting tables :) —  Tomica   (talk)   19:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 April newsletter
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's  coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both and, the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article,  earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by  to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank and, for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk &bull; email) and The ed17 (talk &bull; email) 23:25, 30 April 2012 (UTC)