Wikipedia:Bilorv's Challenges

Bilorv's Challenges are a series of off-beat and difficult editing tasks. Initially designed in August 2021, some had been completed by the author at the time of creation and some may never be achieved in Wikipedia's history. Everyone is encouraged to add themselves to the list as they complete a challenge. Suggestions for more challenges will be met with delight on the talk page. Make any bold rewording improvements you like.

By sharing these challenges, Bilorv encourages their fellow volunteers to maintain their usual levels of maturity and decorum when aiming to complete any task; all policies, guidelines and community norms still apply.

Credits
This page was inspired by many existing awards—see Template:Awards, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia and WikiProject Wikipedia Awards—but with the aim of recognising and encouraging contributions in a new way.

Thanks goes to for Centenarian, Librarian, and the bonus for Decadent; to  for Polyglot; to  for Hooker, Diplomat and Marathon; to  for "Textbook example"; to  for Chef and Well-dressed; to  for Artist, Astronaut, Rainbow and Zoo; to  for Vitality; to  for Explorer; to  for Ambiguation; to  for "Animal, vegetable, mineral"; to  for Archaeologist and Phoenix; to  for Showcase; to  for Taxonomist; to  for the bonus for Centenarian; to  for Translation; and to  for "Record deal".

Thanks to, there is a userbox that you can display using the code :

Alphabet
Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet.


 * Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.
 * Winners:, , ,  (bonus),  x4, , ,  ,

Ambiguation
Create two articles that have the same title except for parentheticals, such as any two of King, King (chess) and King (playing card).


 * Bonus for also creating the disambiguation page.
 * Winners:,  (bonus),  (bonus), , , x3 (x1 bonus),  (bonus),  (2 x bonus),  (bonus), Frzzl,  x4 (x2 bonus), ,  (bonus)

Archaeologist
Receive a Did you know credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand.


 * Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.
 * Winners: (x10; bonus x6),  (x7; bonus x4),, ,  (bonus x1),  (x6; bonus x2),  (x5, bonus x5), Frzzl,  (x4, bonus x2),  (x11; bonus x1),  (bonus),  (x7, bonus x4),  (x12; bonus x5),  (x1),  (x13, bonus x4),  (x4; bonus x1),  (× 47; bonus × 38),  (x56; bonus x31),  (x265; bonus x69), sawyer777 (x3),  (x1),  (x4; bonus x1),  (bonus),  (x2; bonus x2),  (x1),  (&times;8; bonus &times;7) ,  (x5, bonus x2),

Calendar
Receive a credit for an item featured at In the news, On this day or Did you know? on each day of the month i.e. from 1st to 31st.


 * Bonus for achieving this in all three categories, or at Today's featured article.
 * Winners:, (DYK: January, November & December), ,  (bonus)

Four-eyes
Get an article whose title contains exactly four "i"s to featured article status.


 * Bonus for four such articles.
 * Winners: SounderBruce, Gog the Mild

Hooker
Have five Did you know hooks listed at WP:DYKSTATS (at over 600 views per hour for a non-imaged hook or 900 views per hour for an imaged hook) in a single calendar month.
 * Winners: x22,  ,  , ,

Jack of all trades
Review an article at Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.


 * Bonus for successfully nominating one in each category.
 * Winners:, , , ,

Maximalist
Create an article that reaches over 100,000 bytes in length.


 * Winners:, , , , , , , , , , x2,  x5, ,  ×7,  x2, ,

Millionaire
Create an article that gets a million views (all time total). (Not to be confused with the Million Award.)
 * Use this tool: pageviews.wmcloud.org


 * Winners:, , , , , , , , , , ,  x7, , ,  x2, , , , ,  ,

Minimalist
Get an article to good article status with fewer than 50 edits in its page history at the time the bot adds the good article icon.


 * Bonus for featured article or featured list status.
 * Winners:, x2,  x2, , , , , ,  x24, ,  x3, ' (x1; bonus x1), , ' (x4; bonus x1),  x4, bonus x2  x2,   ×2, ',  x32,  x11, bonus x1  x4,  x4, ,  x3, ' (x4; bonus x2),  x3,  x8,  x16 (bonus x 2), , Etriusus,  ×3, , , , , ,  x2 ,  x3,  (x3 bonus x1),  x4,  (x4),  (x3),  x4,  (x1) ,  (&times;1)

Phoenix
Recreate an article that has been deleted; bring a delisted good article back to good article status; and bring a former featured article back to featured article status.


 * Winners:

Polyglot
Introduce sources in 15 foreign languages to articles. Each source should contain information not found in any reliable English-language source (to ensure WP:NONENG compliance).


 * Winners:, , , ,  , , Mugtheboss

Polyonymous
Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.


 * Bonus for 25 namespaces.
 * Winners:, , , , , ,  (bonus), , ,  (bonus), , , , , , , , , , Red-tailed hawk, Mugtheboss, OlifanofmrTennant, , , ,

Rock around the clock
Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week (in UTC), as measured by your XTools timecard.


 * Winners:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  ,  , ,

Switch
Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to ninth) within the section. (Until May 2024 this could be achieved with slots from first to eighth only.)


 * Winners:, , , , , , , , ,  x4,  x2, ,  , ,  2 x ,

Textbook example
Get an article that is linked from any Manual of Style page (a page linked in Template:Manual of Style) to good article status.


 * Winners:, , ,

Translation
Create an article on the English Wikipedia that does not exist in any other language edition and is later translated into five other languages.


 * Bonus for ten languages.
 * Winners: (x7; bonus x3),,  (bonus),  , ,  (x6; bonus),  (x1; 2x bonus) ,  (x5, bonus x2)

Vitality
Improve 5 Level 5 Vital articles, 4 Level 4 Vital articles, 3 Level 3 Vital articles, 2 Level 2 Vital articles or 1 Level 1 Vital article by one or more classes.


 * Winners:, x3

Wall-to-wall coverage
Have three pieces of content featured on the Main Page simultaneously, in three different sections.


 * Winners:, , , , , x2,

Animal, vegetable, mineral
Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.)


 * Winners:,  ,  ,  ,  ,

Artist
Get three articles to featured article status whose titles contain the standalone words "red", "green" and "blue" in their title. (For instance, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Green's theorem and Green-Wood Cemetery count for "green", but Greenpeace does not.)


 * Winners:

Astronaut
Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets. (For instance, Omar Sharif counts for Mars.)


 * Winners:, , , , , ,

Centenarian
Create bios for people who were born in each century from the 1000s to the 1900s, inclusive.
 * Bonus for also taking these articles to good article status.


 * Winners: ,

Chef
Get an article about a dish and articles containing three of its ingredients in the title to good article status. (For instance, with the dish BLT, qualifying articles include Bacon's Rebellion, Lettuce club and Tomato Kaji.)


 * Winners:

Decadent
Create bios for people who were born in each decade from the 1900s to the 1990s, inclusive.


 * Bonus if each article falls under the scope of WikiProject Women in Red.
 * Winners:,  (bonus), , ,  (bonus), , , ,  (bonus)

Diplomat
For each pair of continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America), create an article with close geographic ties to two countries, one from each continent in the pair. (For example, an article relating to an African country and an Asian country works for the first pair). This requires a total of 15 articles.
 * Winners: Here's my attempt. Africa and Asia: Mamoudou Gazibo, a Nigerien political scientist who studies China. Africa and Europe: Dina Bousselham, a Spanish politician from Morocco. Africa and North America: Shelby F. Lewis, an American academic who worked in Lesotho and developed a research collective  there. Africa and Oceania: John Makumbe, a Zimbabwean political scientist who lived and studied in Australia. Africa and South America: Michael Hanchard, a scholar of Afro-Brazilian studies who has worked in Brazil and Ghana. Asia and Europe: Mariam Abou Zahab, a French academic who became a militant in Pakistan. Asia and North America: Toraichi Kono, a Japanese person in the American film industry. Asia and Oceania: Évelyne Pisier born in Hanoi, grew up partly in New Caledonia. Asia and South America: Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, a Brazilian scholar of China. Europe and North America: Abraham Solomon Freidus, an American born in the Russian Empire. Europe and Oceania: John D. Biggers, born in England and worked in Australia. Europe and South America: Bárbara de Alencar, a revolutionary in proto-Brazil disputing the Portuguese colonial government. North America and Oceania: Leonie Huddy, a political scientist in the United States who is from Australia. North America and South America: Lúcia Guimarães, a Brazilian journalist based in the United States. Oceania and South America: Ada Finifter, a political scientist who was a faculty member at universities in both Venezuela and Australia. They're not all in the relevant categories because I don't typically add pages to really general country categories, but in my opinion the addition of the country category to any of these articles would not be controversial.

EGOT
Create four different bios about an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, an Oscar winner and a Tony winner.


 * Bonus: Add a Peabody Award, Pulitzer Prize and a Razzie winner.
 * Winners:  (bonus),

Elementary
Create four articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters "tin", "iron", "lead" and "gold". (For instance, Acting, Anti-nuclear movement or Betti number all count for "tin", but Avanti un altro! does not.)


 * Winners:, ,

Explorer
Create an article about a populated place in each of the 30 climates of the Köppen climate classification.


 * Winners:

Librarian
Create articles about books from each of the ten Dewey Decimal classes.


 * Winners:

Marathon
Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon (or within a mile of it).


 * Winners:, ,

Rainbow
Create articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters of a shade of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. (Shades of cyan can count as blue or green, and magenta for purple. Names have to be listed at the given templates and can exclude the base colour name e.g. for robin egg blue, the title must contain "robin egg". Are druryi would count for "red".)


 * Winners:, , , ,

Record deal
Create an article for every single of an album with at least three singles.


 * Bonus for also creating the album article.
 * Winners:

Round the world
For every country in the world, create an article with close geographic ties to that country.


 * Winners:

Showcase
Create an article for every episode of a television show with at least six episodes.


 * Bonus for also creating the television show article.
 * Winners:

Taxonomist
Get three articles about successive taxonomic ranks to good article status. For example, the genus Ninox contains the species Ninox novaeseelandiae, which contains the subspecies Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata.


 * Bonus if the ranks are all order or higher.
 * Winners:

Well-dressed
Create articles about each type of garment: hat, top, bottoms, shoes.


 * Winners: ,

Women of the Year
Contribute content to a monthly WikiProject Women in Red initiative for each calendar month. (For instance, Alphabet run: M & N (2024) would count for January and Geofocus: Southeast Asia (2022) would count for December.)


 * Winners: ,

Zoo
Get three articles to good article status that are not about an animal but contain an animal as a standalone word in their title. (For example, Rhinoceros Party, but not University of Oxford.)


 * Bonus if the three animals are in the same order.
 * Winners:, , ,