Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/Awards

In order to attempt to increase activity among editors, an awards system has been set up. There are 40 levels that one may achieve by performing various actions to earn points (see below). Participation in the awards system is completely voluntary.

Instructions

 * Please go to the talkpage and make a subpage for yourself if you would like to participate in the awards system. Please copy and paste the entire "points" section to your subpage.
 * In order to earn points, please put submissions on your user page and then tally up the points. Then, post on the project's talk page for someone to review your total in order to make sure it is accurate and assign your level (items should never be removed from your page). Please note for calculating points, the totals listed WILL NOW stack.
 * Each item will be approved by a reviewer and certified at the top with a point total and their signature (timestamped). Please note that ONLY items you personally worked on are counted.
 * GANs, FAs, and FLs may be credited to multiple people if there were co-nominators.
 * Points are counted from all-time contributions, not when this idea was conceived.
 * Points still count even if the article status is later lost. The person still achieved the status at one point and thus it still counts. It may be counted twice (or as many times as needed) if the status is later re-obtained by the original nominator.

Formula for Weather edit points
$$P = \left \lfloor \frac{NS_{User}\sqrt[4]{x}}{3S_{Standard}} \right \rfloor$$

where: Note that ANY and ALL weather-related edits (All EN WP pages excluding talk or on Commons) are now counted.
 * $$P$$ is the number of Weather Edit Points
 * $$N$$ is the total number of Weather article edits (check your mainspace and file edit statistics using tools)
 * $$S_{User}$$ is your average edit size in bytes (check statistics using tools)
 * $$S_{Standard}$$ is a 'standard' edit size in bytes: 200 bytes (divisor will be 600 for everyone)
 * $$\sqrt[4]{x}$$ is the fourth root of x, where x = the number of days since joining ANY of the three weather wikiprojects (WPTC, WPWX, or WP Severe Weather)

Point multipliers
There will be two types of multipliers for points for articles on the vital articles list.
 * For good/featured articles:
 * Any item listed on level 1 will grant a 5X bonus (Note: there are only 5 articles in this level)
 * Any item listed on level 2 will grant a 3.5X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 3 will grant a 2.75X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 4 (future) will grant a 2X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 5 (future) will grant a 1.25X bonus


 * For good/featured topics (Please note that multipliers do stack):
 * Any item listed on level 1 will grant a 2X bonus (Note: there are only 5 articles in this level)
 * Any item listed on level 2 will grant a 1.6X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 3 will grant a 1.4X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 4 (future) will grant a 1.2X bonus
 * Any item listed on level 5 (future) will grant a 1.1X bonus

Points
Total Points:

Leveled awards
Templates are stylized as. Editors who have not registered are considered unregistered and do not possess a rank. Rank points were calculated using the formula : 1000*1.696^X where H rank is just 1000. SSS rank would be 750*1.696^10

I Rank: 0 points
- None

H Rank: 1000 points
- Black Iron

G Rank: 1,696 points
- Wrought Iron

F Rank: 2,876 points
- Black copper

E Rank: 4,878 points
- Dirty Copper

D Rank: 8,274 points
- Copper

C Rank: 14,032 points
- Bronze

B Rank: 23,799 points
- Silver

A Rank: 40,363 points
- Gold

S Rank: 68,455 points
- Platinum

SS Rank: 116,100 points
- Painite

SSS Rank: 196,906 points
- Jadeite

EX Rank: 333,952 points
Designed to be a special rank for those with unfathomable dedication - Blue Diamond

Nomination-based

 * 100 GARs
 * 2500 points


 * 50 DYN/ITN
 * 1250 points


 * 25 GAs
 * 2000 points


 * 10 FAs
 * 6000 points


 * 10 FLs
 * 1250 points


 * 10 FPs
 * 900 points

Edit-based

 * 1000 edits: 200 points
 * 2500 edits: 500 points
 * 5000 edits: 1000 points
 * 10000 edits: 2000 points
 * 25000 edits: 5000 points
 * 50000 edits: 10000 points
 * 75000 edits: 15000 points
 * 100000 edits: 20000 points
 * 125000 edits: 25000 points
 * 150000 edits: 30000 points

Lifetime Achievement

 * Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 100000 points

Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
Use by placing ''' Put your message here. ~  or  Put your message here. ~ ''' for the first or second versions, respectively, on the talk page of the recipient. This award may be given to anyone who has excelled in contributing to the realm of tropical cyclone articles or assisting in the WikiProject itself.

Golden Cyclonic Barnstar
This award may be bestowed to editors who makes highly outstanding and exceptional work or efforts for the WikiProject itself - this includes activities outside of Wikipedia that greatly benefited the project like our Discord server and Wikimedia Commons. This award can be also called WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Lifetime Achievement Award and was first awarded to in February 9, 2021 after a discussion that was started all the way back into October 2019. To award the Golden Cyclonic Barnstar, you should try to establish consensus within the WikiProject by nominating someone in a discussion (example) before placing them in any user talk pages – thus, this award will be presented to it's recipient in the name of WikiProject as a whole. Once you established the consensus, you can place this to the recipient of the award's user talk page by using this: ''' Put your message here. ~ . Due to the nature of this barnstar, this should not be awarded''' randomly elsewhere.

Recipients

 * 1) on February 9, 2021. (discussion)