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A few days left...

As we approach the beginning of the wikicup 2025 I wish to bring attention to a few useful tools for the contest.

• Wikipedia:Good article review circles You get a review and review another in exchange, a very simple way to get atleast 40 points.
• Wikipedia:Former featured and good topics Picking up a topic and restoring it shouldn't take too long depending on what you pick.
• Wikipedia:Reward board Provides other incentives to produce quality content

While most May find this redundant I hope atleast one person benefits from any of these. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 11:22, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for posting these links. I've pinned this section for the duration of the 2025 WikiCup. Epicgenius (talk) 20:25, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Flag icon

Please change my flag icon to {{flagicon|Vancouver}} . Thank you in advance. Yue🌙 07:03, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

@Yue, seems like @History6042 has already done this. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:09, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Question about DYK

If I nominate a DYK for 5x in this round, it gets approved this round, but it is put on the main page next round, what round do I redeem it in? History6042😊 (Contact me) 11:57, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

The rules say "Round points cannot be granted until the article has actually been featured on the main page. Merely being approved by a reviewer does not count." so, in your example, next round. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:00, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. History6042😊 (Contact me) 13:14, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Gog is correct, you claim points whenever the article appears on the Main Page. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:00, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Submission

My submission Kosovo at the 2024 Summer Olympics is not counting for bonus points, it is a GA and should be getting a 1.8X multiplier but has gotten nothing after the bot has ran twice. Does anyone know how to fix this? 20:50, 20 April 2025 (UTC) History6042😊 (Contact me) 20:50, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, I did it manually. History6042😊 (Contact me) 22:48, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be a 1.6x multiplier? (using interwikis on 31 December)? —Kusma (talk) 09:15, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I am not sure how to check I remember checking. Does English count as one? History6042😊 (Contact me) 09:20, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

22 other languages plus English makes 23. 1.8X History6042😊 (Contact me) 11:25, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, English counts as one. Kusma is technically correct if the bot only calculates interwikis from 31 December. However, if the bot won't give the correct multiplier (which is very rare), we'll use the number of interwikis that exist at the time of submission - in this case, 23 - to calculate the multiplier. – Epicgenius (talk) 12:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay so 1.8 is fine? History6042😊 (Contact me) 12:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, 1.8 is fine. – Epicgenius (talk) 12:51, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I don't know what the bot does, but Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring#From_number_of_interwikis says the score depends on interwikis on 31 December. Using the current number of interwikis instead is a rule change. —Kusma (talk) 17:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

@Kusma, good point. I've never seen this come up before, actually, so I guess we should just use the number of interwikis on 31 December for the time being, since that's what the bot calculates. If this is effectively a rule change, then I'm going to go with what the current rules say. We can discuss whether to change the rules to use the current number of interwikis later.

@History6042, my apologies for giving you the wrong information. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:50, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I should note that the article was available in 20 languages (including enwiki) as of 31 December, so the 1.8x multiplier will remain unchanged. The number of interwikis includes enwiki and is the number of languages in which the article exists, as of 31 December. Sorry for any confusion. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I also made a mistake, I thought the table on the Scoring page was for interwikis instead of total number of articles, so 19 interwikis is 20 language versions and gives a 1.8 multiplier. I changed the table to not mention "0 languages" as I thought it meant "0 interwikis". —Kusma (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

In the future, do not do it manually yourself @History6042. There's no rush, it could have waited until there was a response here. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:30, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay. History6042😊 (Contact me) 16:36, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

GAN Limits

I reviewed an article for GA but it was removed for being to short. What are the limitations on GAs, I though it was fine? History6042😊 (Contact me) 12:50, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Usually, we'd like to see several substantive pieces of feedback. Talk:Jordyn Wieber/GA1 consists of three short comments (two of which were to note that there were no issues), so that review is not comprehensive enough to qualify for points. – Epicgenius (talk) 12:53, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. History6042😊 (Contact me) 13:19, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Something similar with Talk:1990 United States Senate election in Delaware/GA1 Olliefant (she/her) 16:09, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

@OlifanofmrTennant, the bot is correct to not award a multiplier in this case since there were only 4 interwikis (including enwiki) as of 31 December. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:55, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I meant that History6042's review of my article was a similar length Olliefant (she/her) 18:42, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I'll take a look later, but yeah that doesn't look sufficiently long to me. – Epicgenius (talk) 04:00, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Withdrawal

Howdy, i would like to withdraw from the cup for this year. Thank you very much! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

@Generalissima, I have withdrawn you from the Cup. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia - they are greatly appreciated, even though the points for the History FAC may not have worked out in your favor. – Epicgenius (talk) 02:27, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Well this is a major bummer, I'm sorry to see this. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:40, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah. I was seriously upset, and concerned, when I first saw this. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:26, 24 April 2025 (UTC)