User talk:Csisc

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Speedy deletion nomination of Menzel Chaker

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Proposed deletion of Triaga

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Your recent edits

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Tunisian Wikipedia

Hello / Ɛasslema

I saw your post about Tunisian wikipedia entries and if you are interested we could further work on more article written following the STUNdard method. I believe it is the most flexible and accessible one to transcribe Tunisian. Let me know what you think and keep up the good work.

Choft elpost mteɛek ɛala Elwikipedia Ettounsiya w'ken tħeb ennajmou nekhdmou incubateur bettounsi bel méthode STUNdard. Ħasb ma nra ashel méthode bech elweħed tekteb bettounsi. Aɛtini rayek w'yaɛtik essaħa ɛal khedma mteɛek.

E3 (talk) 00:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

About Tunisian Language

Tnajjem tagħmel tʾalla houni ?

--GeekEmad (talk) 21:29, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015

Hi there, just a quick note to say I've adjusted the formatting on your submission page - the bot should pick those peer reviews up now (it would have removed your points that you manually added to the table when it did the next update without that). Miyagawa (talk) 19:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tunisian Baccalaureate

Hello! Your submission of Tunisian Baccalaureate at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! George Ho (talk) 08:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen (submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw (submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia: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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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Irataba

Thankyou for your input at the peer review. Irataba is now at FAC. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikicup submissions

Csisc, I unfortunately had to remove two of your PRs from the Wikicup, Wikipedia:Peer review/Taj Mahal/archive2 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Stephen V. Cameron/archive1, because they fell well below the required 1000 bytes as described in the scoring rules. Good luck as you continue in the competition. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Alas, I had to remove two more submissions, for the same reason: Wikipedia:Peer review/1877 Wimbledon Championship/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Fall of the Western Roman Empire/archive1. Please make sure your PRs are long enough before you submit them; that would make all of our lives easier. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:27, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

File:Chocolate-Easter-Bunny.jpg

All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 04:55, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

your comments at peer review

Hi, your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Irataba/archive1 would be really valuable at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive2. The peer review is closed so the comments won't be seen unless you add them to FAC. Thanks, EChastain (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for The World Is Bardo

Harrias ^talk 08:03, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Anatomy Wikiproject!

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing wikipedia articles are:

• Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
• You will make a big difference to the quality of information by adding reliable sources. Sourcing anatomy articles is essential and makes a big difference to the quality of articles. And, while you're at it, why not use a book to source information, which can source multiple articles at once!
• We try and use a standard way of arranging the content in each article. That layout is here. These headings let us have a standard way of presenting the information in anatomical articles, indicate what information may have been forgotten, and save angst when trying to decide how to organise an article. That said, this might not suit every article. If in doubt, be bold!
• We write for a general audience. Every reader should be able to understand anatomical articles, so when possible please write in a simple form—most readers do not understand anatomical jargon. See this essay for more details.

Feel free to contact us on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page if you have any problems, or wish to join us. I wish you all the best on your wiki-voyages! Thanks for your comments on the review of Glomerulus. We don't have a template to welcome existing users, so I hope you don't mind me using this welcome template! --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:50, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 17:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

1967 Intercontinental Cup peer review

Thank you very much for your suggestions on improving the 1967 Intercontinental Cup article. I've added a summary of your main points on the article's Talk Page and added a link to the Peer Review page. I don't have the information to hand at the moment to address these points, but if I come across further information in future then I shall do so. Hopefully other editors will also be able to help. ShugSty (talk) 12:24, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 23 June

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Nominating Tunisian Arabic to be a Good Article

Csisc, you attempted to add an entry for this article on the WP:GAN page. Unfortunately, this is not the proper way to nominate an article, and the Bot that takes care of the page removed your entry during its next pass.

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Reference errors on 26 July

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Wḥūd and pronouncing /a/

Hello, I deleted the information about wḥūd because it is not something special in Tunis dialect, it's actually the common plural of wāḥid. I think wḥīd is used in Sfax, so you can add it to the Sfax dialect section. For the pronunciation of e, it's also the common pronunciation of /a/ in a stressed syllable, and nothing surprising about it. Thanks. GeekEmad (talk) 14:45, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

[o:] and [e:]

In Sahil and other regions, they don't pronounce /i:/ as [E:], but they pronounce it as [e:], same for /u:/ > [o:]. This is actually mentioned in one of Salah MEJRI's papers. And it's the same case for Lybian and Lebanese. GeekEmad (talk) 14:55, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Qaṛniṭ il-šalwāš, naqqāṛ il-zahwāni and others

What about adding a small section about old cartoons from the 80ths in Tunisian Arabic? I found three: qaṛnīṭ il-šalwāš, naqqāṛ il-zahwānī, mufattiš kaɛbuṛa. GeekEmad (talk) 15:24, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Tunisian Arabic

Hi, thanks for the message. I'm afraid that this isn't a topic I know anything about; time constraints, in addition to other on-wiki commitments, mean that this is not something I'll be able to review. Sorry! Josh Milburn (talk) 22:37, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot

Hi, the steps you have taken toward the documentation of the Tunisian language, has helped me (and probably others) to better understand our language. With such a level of information this Wikipedia article can have some really big effects on the long term to promote Tunisian culture. In a way you did a major service to the country, so thank you and hope you keep up ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tounsimentounes (talk • contribs) 14:06, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

You've asked for a reference for "jabur" in phoenician, http://www.canaanite.org/dictionary/index.php?a=term&d=18&t=396 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tounsimentounes (talk • contribs) 10:44, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tunisian Arabic

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Your GA nomination of Tunisian Arabic

The article Tunisian Arabic you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Tunisian Arabic for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cerebellum -- Cerebellum (talk) 00:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your previous work at Wikipedia:Peer review. Happy editing, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

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 2016 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup Award

Awarded for participating in the 2015 WikiCup. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 19:34, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Tunisian Arabic

Hi! Thanks for your kind message on my talk page. I've had a look at how the article has developed, and I'm very impressed by what you and others have done to improve it - and that most of it (I think) has been done by Tunisians. There are a few places where I think some corrections could be made (sometimes English, sometimes linguistics - not really on the Tounsi, obviously!) and I may go through and edit, but I can't promise much. If and when I do that I'll probably go ahead and edit, and if the edits prove contentious, I'm happy to discuss/ be corrected. I hope that's OK. Drmaik (talk) 20:36, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Signpost exit poll

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quick and easy exit poll , estimated time required: 4 minutes

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HELLO

What is غرّيم محبوب in Tunisian Arabic? Is it really a sort of tuber (a special mushroom growing underground)? If it is, then which species exactly? HOTmag (talk) 03:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Of course, ghrayem is a kind of mushrooms that grows underground. The word is only used in Southeastern Tunisian. Unfortunately, there are limited literature about this variety. That is why you will not find any literature proving that. As for ma7boub, it means "in grains" or pulverized in the same variety of Tunisian. I am working about a Conventional Orthography for Maghrebi Arabic and I think that using it for creating a Tunisian wiktionary will successfully solve such problems. --Csisc (talk) 08:11, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Y3ayshek.

1. Do you speak Southeastern Tunisian fluently? Is the term غرّيم محبوب used also in Sfax (mentioned on your userpage)? The variety of Sfax is somewhat different from the southeastern variety, isn't it?
2. As for the meaning of محبوب , I'm pretty shocked: I was sure it meant: "beloved" - or something like that. Does Southeastern Tunisian have the root ح ب ب , meaning: "to pulverize"?
3. As for the meaning of غرّيم , I'm again shocked, because I thought it meant: a sort of edible leaves, as opposed to غرّيم محبوب - being a sort of mushroom (of tuber).
4. As for the very word غرّيم , you've transcribed it as 'ghrayem". Isn't there a shadda above the R? How would you spell it in Arabic Orthography? I thought it's pronounced gharrim, isn't it? Anyways, I think it derives from Berber.
5. Have you ever seen غرّيم محبوب (or غرّيم)? I would like to see its photo, maybe this may help me identify what kind of mushroom (of tuber) it is. I need its exact English name. The term "Mushroon" (or even "tuber") is too general.

As for a Conventional Orthography for Maghrebi Arabic: I think the main problem is there being many consonants which are absent in Classical Arabic (e.g. two kinds of Z, two kinds of R, two kinds of B, and the like). Additionally, it has some vowels absent in Classical Arabic.

Bislama. HOTmag (talk) 09:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: A Shaddah exist on Gharrim. It was just a fault. This word is specific to Southeastern Tunisian. Ma7boub in Southeastern dialect is m7abbeb in the other dialects. It is derived from 7eb meaning a grain. I have never seen it before. But, gharrim means a mushroom. But, I can find it for you. As for the orthography, I have seen the problem of vowels and I have written a paper about it that was accepted in LREC 2016... I am still working on it... I think that it will be efficient for us in creating the Tunisian Arabic Wiktionary... But, we still need opinions and proposals to let it more perfect. --Csisc (talk) 09:50, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, when you wrote "I can find it for you", did you misspell it and mean: "I can't find it for you"? Additionally, do you mean that غرّيم means mushroom as - a general term - rather than a specific species of mushroom? Bislama. HOTmag (talk) 15:45, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: I am sorry for replying you very late. It is due to personal matters. I have made a search in the corpuses about Southeastern dialect and mainly the one of Marçais and Guiga. I found the word cited in limited times. I made a search in Social Networks and I found the word four times. In the examples I have found, غرّيم is rather a general term. It simply means mushroom. I asked several linguists about its meaning, they had not given a precise definition of it as studies about this dialect did not provide any definition of غرّيم. However, they have recognized that the term is general. The ethymology of غرّيم is not known and that is why scientists did not give a definition for it. However, in the examples I have, the most recognized definition is mushroom. You can verify the definition of غرّيم by asking a native speaker of Southeastern dialect about it in the Social Networks. --Csisc (talk) 08:37, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

How do you say mushroom (or truffle) in the dialect of Sfaqes? HOTmag (talk) 10:17, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Nowadays, we use French Champignon to denote mushrooms. However, the Tunisian Arabic word is فقاع and it is used in Tunis, Sahil, Sfax, Northwestern and Southwestern dialects. --Csisc (talk) 10:28, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Oh, that's interesting, because the word فقاع in Classical Arabic - has a quite different meaning: i.e. in the pathological sense, whereas its botanical sense - exists in other Semitic languages only (in fact: Western Semitic) - meaning tuber (in the wider sense), so I wonder if this is a linguistic evidence about a connection between Tunisian Arabic (or maybe even Maghrebi Arabic) and Western Semitic.

Regarding غرّيم : I'm quite sure it's of a Berber origin (the consonant cluster غر is highly common in Berber. Most of the Tunisian words - containing the consonant cluster غر - are of a Berber origin, unless they exist in Classical Arabic as well).

How about truffle? Do you know of any Tunisian dialect that uses a word other than the classical كمأة ? HOTmag (talk) 13:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Truffle is also called فقاع in Tunisian Arabic. However, I don't think that its use is due to a Western Semitic substratum as Yemeni Arabic as well as many other Arabic dialects from Arabia that were not in contact with Western Semitic use فقع as a tuber. As for غرّيم, it is sure that it is a plant or mushroom. So, if a native speaker had said to you that it is a tuber, just consider this information as accurate. --Csisc (talk) 11:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Y3ayshek. HOTmag (talk) 23:41, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tunisian Arabic consonant phonemes table

I was just trying to organize the consonant phonemes table because it's outdated and so unorganized and hard to read or compare to other Arabic dialects. it's the same table just more organized and looks more like every other consonant phonemes table on wikipedia :) عربي-٣١ (talk) 22:33, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

@عربي-٣١: I thank you for your answer. However, we used the characters written in Italics to transcribe texts in Latin Script. So, if you drop them, it will be difficult to understand what is written all over the work about Tunisian Arabic and Tunisian Arabic morphology. --Csisc (talk) 10:05, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@Csisc: I think you can use my more organized table and add the Latin script letters, even though i don't see why Tunisian-Arabic would be written in this latin alphabet it's useless! but the table as it is, is so messed up and i don't think it makes anybody more interested in Tunisian-Arabic instead they'll find it so complicated and messed up in case of phonemes. عربي-٣١ (talk) 14:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@عربي-٣١: The work is also written for interested people who do not know the common Arabic Script. If you want it, you can use your more organized table. However, you should not drop the Latin script letters from it. Thank you. Have a nice day. --Csisc (talk) 14:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@Csisc: ok i will do it, and i wanted to ask are ق /q/ and ڨ‎ /g/ really distinctive phonemes in Tunisian?, i mean can you give me two native words (minimal pair) where ق /q/ and ڨ‎ /g/ contrast? cause for example in my native dialect which is Hejazi Arabic we use [q] for fewwwww words instead of /g/ but it always corresponds to the same phoneme /q/~/g/ و شكرًا برشا :). عربي-٣١ (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@عربي-٣١: q and g are two distinct phonemes. This has been proved in Baccouche, T. (1972). Le phoneme'g'dans les parlers arabes citadins de Tunisie. Revue tunisienne de sciences sociales, 9(30-31), 103-137. However, you have dropped the Latin Letters. Please write them in the table. --Csisc (talk) 14:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@Csisc: I made the changes :), I know but at the same time in the article it says "Tunisian Arabic qāf has both [q] and [ɡ] as reflexes in both sedentary and nomadic varieties, with [q] predominating in sedentary varieties and [ɡ] in nomadics ones" so it's the same phoneme with two different allophones and sometimes even articles by linguists can be wrong or even get influence by other dialects like for example /q/ is considered a different phoneme in Egyptian Arabic because historical /q/ merged with /ʔ/ not /g/ and historical /d͡ʒ~ɟ/ became /g/. عربي-٣١ (talk) 15:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@عربي-٣١: I thank you for your edits and answers. Baccouche was not wrong. He has seen how nomadic [g] is spoken in sedentary regions. He discovered that it is substituted by [q] in most of the situations. However, it is kept as [g] in some situations like in Bagra meaning cow. He concluded that [g] and [q] are different phonemes. If this fact is not explained in the work as I have explained to you now, please adjust it soon. --Csisc (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@Csisc: well you're explaining the sounds but a phoneme means more like a unit in the language that can differentiate two words in the case of Hejazi the [q] sound is used in Standard or more Classical words (under the influence of Modern Standard Arabic) and some new younger generations are using it in a bit of more words but if you noticed the speech of old people you will notice only [g] which makes both of them two sides of one coin (two sounds of one phoneme) like i would pronounce ثقافة mostly as [θa'qaːfa] but even [θa'gaːfa] wouldn't sound wrong and both can be transcribed as /θa'gaːfa/ since in most Hejazi words like 99% i think we pronounce ق like /g/ and not [q], i guess in Tunisian you use more [q] than [g] if i'm not wrong. عربي-٣١ (talk) 15:41, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@عربي-٣١: I haven't read Baccouche's article, but he/she is definitely right: /q/ and /g/ are really two distinct phonemes in Tunisian Arabic. Two examples have just come to my mind, for proving this:

• The southeastern Tunisian dielect (and maybe the other Tunisian dialects as well), has both the word "qedd" - as a noun meaning "a size", and the word "gedd" - as a verb meaning "can".
• The southeastern Tunisian dielect (and maybe the other Tunisian dialects as well), has both the word "qerr" - as a verb meaning "confess / admit", and the word "gerr" - as a verb meaning "nag" (i.e. behave like a nagger).

There are many other examples. The reason for this (interesting) phenomenon, is the fact that Tunisian Arabic is influenced - both by Arabic - and by Berber which has /q/ and /g/ as two distinct phonemes. By the way, Tunisian Arabic is also influenced by some European languages (mainly French and Italian) having the consonant /g/, e.g. in the word "sigourou" meaning "certainly", and it's impossible to claim that "sigourou" can be replaced by "siqourou", because this word is derived from Italian - which does not have the consonant /q/.

Hope this helps. HOTmag (talk) 20:34, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: I thank you for your answer. You have explained the current issue very well. You have made it easier to convince عربي-٣١. Yours Sincerely, --Csisc (talk) 15:01, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

How about the Sfaxi dialect? Does it have the words I've given? HOTmag (talk) 15:23, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: The example of gedd exists in Sfax Dialect. However, I have added to Tunisian Arabic a more common example that exists in all varieties of Tunisian that is qarn and garn. qarn means century... garn means Horn... --Csisc (talk) 15:44, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Do the Sfaxians say "qedd" or "qadr" - for "size"?

Do the sfaxians know the word "sigourou" (meaning "certainly")?

As far as I know, the sedentary southeastern dialect - never uses "garn". The word "qarn" is used for both "horn" and "century". HOTmag (talk) 08:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: gedd is the one that is used in Sfax Dialect. Sfax dialect does not use sigourou to mean certainly. As for the example of qarn and garn, Southeastern dialect pronounces [q] as [g] and that is why garn is used for both horn and century. However, qarn means "century" and garn means "horn" in the regions that pronounce [q] and [g]. You can see the cited reference to verify that. However, your example about qadd and gadd is not applicable for Tunis dialect that uses "qedd" for both meanings that you have mentioned. Tunis dialect also uses "qerr" for both meanings that you have mentioned. Another example that can be cited to prove that [q] and [g] is two distinct phonemes and that is existing in all varieties is the one of "qaṭṭaɛ" meaning cut and "gaṭṭaɛ" meaning flee. However, I cannot find a relevant reference for that example. I thank you for your answer. Yours Sincerely, --Csisc (talk) 13:48, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

1. As for qedd/gedd: to sum up: Sfax dialect uses "gedd" for both meanings. Tunis dielact uses "qedd" for both meanings. The southeastern dialect uses, "qedd" - for size, and "gedd" - for can.
2. As for sigourou: Ok, I see, but how about "gaṛanṭi" (from Italian)? Does Sfax dialect uses it - for excellent, as the southeastern dialect does?
3. I didn't understand your comment about "garn/qarn" in the southeastern dialect. Please notice that I was talking about the sedentary southeastern dialect - which does make a clear distinction between /q/ and /g/. I've just pointed out that this dialect never uses "garn". The word "qarn" is used for both "horn" and "century".
4. As for "gaṭṭaɛ": As far as I know, the southeastern dialect does not have that word for flee, and uses "hṛaḅ" instead.

HOTmag (talk) 16:53, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Sfax dialect uses gaṛanṭi. As for the example of southeastern dialect, [q] is never pronounced. Even if some linguists write it as qaf, it is pronounced as a [g]. So, qarn becomes garn in Southeastern dialect and is transliterated as qarn in your used reference. However, in the dialects that differentiate between [g] and [q] that are Tunis, Sahil and Sfax dialects, "garn" is horn "qarn" is century. As for the example of gedd and qadd, your information is accurate. As for gaṭṭaɛ, it is used as flee in an informal situation. hrab is just used in formal situations. --Csisc (talk) 17:14, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

I think you contradict yourself: On one hand, you claim that my information about gedd and qedd is accurate - so you agree that the [sedentary] southeastern dialect uses "qedd" for size and "gedd" for can, but on the other hand you claim that "[q] is never pronounced" in the southeastern dialect. Don't you see the contradiction?

As for your claim about the absence of /q/ in the [sedentary] southeastern dialect and about the word gaṭṭaɛ in that dialect: I'm pretty shocked, because I myself speak that dialect at a near-native level (although I wanted to know the exact meaning of "gharrim" in that dialect), and my parents speak it at a native level. Not only have we (they and me) never heard the word gaṭṭaɛ in that dialect, but I also did hear the Qaf pronounced - in that dialect - as the classical Qaf, in most of the words (e.g. in the words "qæl", "qɑm", "qerr", "qedd" meaning size, and so on), except for rare cases - like "bagra" (and "gedd" meaning can) and likewise. What you claim about the absence of /q/ is only true for the nomadic southeastern dialect rather than for the sedentary one. HOTmag (talk) 00:23, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: I did not read your post very well as I was leaving home when I answered you. In fact, what is accurate about the example of gedd is that Sfax dialect uses "gedd" for both meanings. Tunis dielact uses "qedd" for both meanings. The Sahil dialect uses, "qedd" - for size, and "gedd" - for can. Other dialects use "gedd" for both meaning. As for what you said about pronouncing [q] in Southeastern Tunisian, I think that we do not talk about the same variety of Tunisian. Southeastern Tunisian is the one spoken in the Governorates of Gabes, Medenine and Tataouine. As shown by Cantineau, Marçais, Baccouche as well as many other scientists, [q] is pronounced as [g] even in sedentary regions. Extinguishing Judeo-Tunisian variant of Djerba is an exception that pronounces [q] and [g] as [q] unless in French loanwords and bagra. So, please tell me what is your hometown in Tunisia so that I can verify if we are talking about the same dialect. --Csisc (talk) 16:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Okay, now it seems more reasonable. Actually, I have never been in Tunisia (although I speak the southeastern dialect at a near native level). My parents were born in Djerba (in الحارة الكبيرة), and lived there for 14 years. HOTmag (talk) 17:11, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: What your parents speak is a modified Judeo-Tunisian that uses Southeastern Tunisian vocabulary. In fact, Judeo-Tunisian seems to be similar to Sfax dialect. Judeo-Tunisian and Tunisian have the same morphology. However, there are some phonological differences that were specified by Cohen in Cohen, D. (1970). Les deux parlers arabes de Tunis. Notes de phonologie comparee. In his Etudes de linguistique semitique et arabe, 150(7). Judeo-Tunisian is mainly spoken in Houmt Souk and Ghraiba by jews and even by muslim people. I propose you to read some books about the issue although they are limited and work to develop the work about Judeo-Tunisian Arabic in Wikipedia and prove that Judeo-Tunisian Arabic is spoken by muslim people in Houmt Souk and Ghraiba. --Csisc (talk) 14:18, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. In what sense, is it similar to Sfax dialect? I suppose both dialects share common components (e.g...?) of ancient Tunisian vocabulary, but do they also share common structures in morphology?

By the way, although we say "qarn" - for both horn and century, we still say "garn fulful" - with a /g/, for a unit of cow-horn pepper - as well as for a single banana pepper and generally for a single chili pepper. HOTmag (talk) 17:36, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Judeo-Tunisian Arabic has the same morphology as Sfax dialect as both of them are prehilalian dialects. In fact, it uses aw/ay (diphthongs) and it uses minimization (qṭayṭas) However, their behaviour with loanwords (Judeo-Tunisian does not modify loanwords after adopting them such as garn fulful that is adopted from Southwestern dialect) and their vocabulary is different (There are several words that are only used in the Judeo-Tunisian). --Csisc (talk) 15:58, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Regarding qṭayṭaṣ, I'm quite surprised: Isn't the minimization a general phenomenon in the Maghreb, including Tunisia as a whole? Regarding "garn fulful", why did you mention the southwestern dialect only? HOTmag (talk) 07:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Judeo-Tunisian of Tunis uses flaflaya. Judeo-Tunisian of Djerba uses garn fulful due to language contact with Southeastern Tunisian dialect. As for the minimization, it is a general phenomenon of Arabic dialects and not only of Maghrebi ones. However, the overuse of this minimization in practice is one of the particularities of Judeo-Tunisian and Sfax dialects. --Csisc (talk) 12:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanx. Anyways, I'd used "fulful" just incidentally: The more common word in my dialect is fləflaya (for singular) and fləfla (for Plural). Btw, do other Tunisian dialects use "garn / qarn" for a single unit of chili pepper, as my dialect does? HOTmag (talk) 13:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: Of course, All Tunisian Arabic dialects use garn fulful for a single unit of chili pepper. However, Judeo-Tunisian of Tunis does not use it and just use fləflaya as specified by Cohen 1970. So, it is a loanword from Southeastern Tunisian dialect in the one of Djerba. --Csisc (talk) 13:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Well, now I see. Thank you.

By the way, when I took a look at our article Tunisian Arabic morphology today, I was surprised to see that the future tense in Tunisian Arabic is expressed by the form: "maːʃ niktib" or "baːʃ niktib" (I will write), "maːʃ tiktib" or "baːʃ tiktib" (you will write), and likewise. That surprised me, because of two reasons:

• First, because my dialect never uses the prefix "ma:ʃ ", and uses the prefix "ba:ʃ " for only the modal meaning of "to". For example, the sentence: "Give me five dollars to buy fish", is translated into my dialect as following: "a3ṭi:ni xəmsa ḍoḷa:ṛ ba:ʃ nəʃri 7u:t". Similarly, "I told him to go" is translated: "Qəltlu ba:ʃ yəmʃi". Do you know of any other Tunisian dialect using "ba:ʃ " in that modal sense?
• Second, because when I use the future tense in my dialect, it is always expressed by the form "7ənniktib" - "7əttiktib" - and likewise (no doubt it's an abbreviation of "n7əbb niktib" - "t7əbb tiktib" - and likewise). Do you know of any other Tunisian dialect using that form?

I was also surprised to see that the negation form of the past tense is not similar to the negation of the other tenses: In my dialect, just as "I didn't write" is "ma ktibtʃ " (or more precisely: "ma ktibtʃi "), so "I don't write" is "ma niktibʃ " (or more precisely: "ma niktibʃi "). The same form of negation is used for the future tense. I wonder if any other Tunisian dialect is similar to mine at that point. HOTmag (talk) 19:59, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: maːʃ has been reported in several works like the one of Singer and that is why I have written about it in Tunisian Arabic morphology part even if it is not common. As for baːʃ, it is used as to and as a modal in Tunisian Arabic dialects. For example, -Wīn māšī -Bāš nimšī l- is-sūq bāš nišrī xuḍra. The first one is will and the second is to. Both meanings are cited in the Wikipedia work. The use of 7ənniktib in your dialect proves that it is a Judeo-Tunisian dialect. As for the negation, it is written in Tunisian Arabic morphology work that mā ...š is used "uith verbs conjugated in the present, past and conditional tenses"... Thank you for writing to me about that fact. --Csisc (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

With regard to the negation "mā...ʃ " (in fact it's "mā...ʃi " in my dialect): The article excludes the future tense (as well as the present participle), whereas my dialect uses the same form for all tenses - as I've already indicated in my previous response. E.g. "I will write" is "7ənniktib" - in my dialect, while "I won't write" - is simply "mā 7ənniktibʃ " (in fact it's "mā 7ənniktibʃi ") - in my dialect.

Btw, do you know of Tunisian dialects (other than my dialect) that use the negation form "mā...ʃi " instead of "mā...ʃ "?

Here is an important phenomenon, which (I'm almost sure) exists in all Tunisian dialects (at least it exists in my dialect) - although it is not indicated in the article: It is the replacement of the negation suffix " ʃ " (i.e. of the negation suffix " ʃi " in my dialect) by " ṣ " (i.e. by " ṣi " in my dialect) - in an emphatic environment. For example: "mā qɑmṣ" (i.e. "mā qɑmṣi" in my dialect). The only clear exception I can think of right now, is the verb "qæl" - that is negated by "mā qælʃ " (i.e. by "mā qælʃi " in my dialect). I suppose that's true for all Tunisian dialects, isn't that? HOTmag (talk) 14:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I think that these are some of the distinctives of your dialect. Unfortunately, they do not exist in other Tunisian varieties. --Csisc (talk) 16:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Thankxs. Btw, do you know of radio/TV channels broadcasted in Tunisian Darja? I would like to listen/watch, just to see if I understand. HOTmag (talk) 16:41, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, there are many channels that are broadcasting in Tunisian Arabic. For example, you can listen to SHEMS FM in http://www.shemsfm.net/fr/radio. But, I think that you will understand Tunisian Arabic. I ask if you pronounce [ʔ] in your dialect. --Csisc (talk) 16:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh, that's great! I've just listened, and - although it's a little bit different from the Darja I'm more familiar with - I understand everything (or almost everything) of the small talk (however the news uses much Fuṣ7a terminology I don't understand). Anyways, thanks a lot :-)

As for the [ʔ]: I guess you're not asking generally about my glottal stop (e.g. the glottal stop in my English, e.g. in the words "button" and "important" - usually pronounced "bʌʔn" and "ɪmpoɹʔnt" in my American accent). I assume you're asking about the hamza - in my Tunisian Arabic dialect, but I suspect no hamza exists in that dialect. So I assume you're asking about Tunisian words that are derived from Standard Arabic words containing an original hamza, aren't you? Anyways, If I pronounce such an original hamza at all, then I pronounce it like /h/. E.g. "I commanded", is "hṃəṛt" in my Tunisian dialect. I know that uneducated Tunisian people tend to replace this original hamza by /h/, so if this is what you mean - then...yes: I've never learnt Standard Arabic, except for basic knowledge I obtained from books written in English. HOTmag (talk) 17:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: I needed just to verify if what you speak is Judeo-Tunisian Arabic and this is accurate as you pronounce 'ṃəṛt as hṃəṛt. This is a particularity of Judeo-Tunisian Arabic dialects. As for the channel, I am happy that it was intelligible for you. --Csisc (talk) 14:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

You have already concluded that - in your previous responses, due to words like "qarn" meaning "horn", and to the morphology of the future tense (You have also indicated the heavy usage of minimization, although my parents have never been in Sfax). However, please note that our article Tunisian Arabic indicates that also less educated Tunisian people tend to replace the hamza by /h/. HOTmag (talk) 15:27, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

@HOTmag: I thank you for your answer. Judeo-Tunisian has the particularitiy to change [ʔ] by [h] even when it is in the beginning of the word. Tunisian only does that with the glottal stop. I will begin working on Judeo-Tunisian in Wikipedia in several days. It was very helpful to discuss with you about it. --Csisc (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome... HOTmag (talk) 21:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Script converter

Hello Mr Csisc,

Nice to meet you.

On this talk page you mentioned you had created script converter from Tunisian Arabic to the Tunisian Latin alphabet. Could you show me the link to that online script converter?

Regards, --Philip J (talk) 02:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Philip J: Thank you for your answer about the converter. The software converts diacritized Tunisian Arabic written using Buckwalter transliteration into Tunisian Arabizi. As we used to write Tunisian Arabic without diacritics, the text should be diacritized, then converted to Buckwalter transliteration and finally converted to Tunisian Arabizi using my software that was compiled using PASCAL. Implementing these three softwares will be very difficult. That is why I applied for help. --Csisc (talk) 09:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Could you kindly help me transliterate this text into the Tunisian Latin script? (ie. the one that you have on your software):

للهْ حَبْ النَّاسْ الكُلْ لْدَرْجِةْ إِنُّو عْطَى ابْنُو الوَحِيدْ بَاشْ أَيْ وَاحِدْ يِمِّنْ بِيهْ مَا يِتْهِلِكْشْ، آمَا يْنَالْ الحَيَاةْ الأَبَدِيَّة.

Using an online tool, this is what I get:

"Allah ḥab annās alkul ldarjit ʾinnū ʿṭā abnū alwaḥīd bāš ʾay wāḥid yimmin bīh mā yithilikš, ʾāmā ynāl alḥayāt alʾabadiyya."

If you could help me write it into the current Tunisian latin orthography that you have on your software, then that would be appreciated, Thank you. --Philip J (talk) 10:04, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Philip J: The Latin Script you have used is Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellshaft Umschrift. It is one of the first script used for Tunisian Arabic for linguistic studies. However, it is not the one recognised by SIR International. The one that was recognised by SIR International is the Tunisian Arabizi. The text becomes "Allah 7th ennès elkol ldarjet enough 36a ebnou lwa7id bèch ay wè7ed yammen big ma yethelekch, ama ynèl el7ayèt ellabadiyya". --Csisc (talk) 10:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help! I am very Grateful. This language really is unique. Let me know when your conversion software is available online. For example, here are a list of transliteration tools available online. --Philip J (talk) 10:34, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Philip J: I will do that. Thank you. --Csisc (talk) 11:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Philip J: The script converter is now available in https://works.bepress.com/houcemeddine_turki/20. You should know that this script converter converts texts in Buckwalter system to Arabizi. You have first to convert texts in Arabic Script to Buckwalter using Encode Arabic and the guidelines written in the pdf. Thank you for your interest and I invite the WMF language committee to adopt it to develop a script converter for the Tunisian Arabic Wikipedia. --Csisc (talk) 15:37, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I will be busy over the next few weeks so I will not have time to test it out; but I'm sure other Wikipedians may also be interested in it. --Philip J (talk) 07:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

digla/ Hello =

Hello. In my Tunisian dialect, the word for a type of the fruit (=date) of palm tree, is /digla/. Do you use this word in Sfax? I'm asking, because Aramaic language has an almost identical word - /diqla/ - meaning the palm tree, so it seems like the /g/ of /digla/ in my Tunisian dialect derives from an original Semitic /q/. HOTmag (talk) 12:58, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

HOTmag: All what you said is accurate. It seems that you have well known the issue. --Csisc (talk) 09:15, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

So I understand you use this word in Sfax as well. Now I wonder about the other regions in Tunisia. If this word is used in all of them, then it can show another example, besides /bagra/, for a Tunisian /g/ deriving from an original Semitic /q/. HOTmag (talk) 09:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

HOTmag: Thank you for your interest in Tunisian Arabic dialects. This word is used in all the Tunisian Arabic dialects and you can easily find people using it in Tunisia. --Csisc (talk) 10:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

So it seems like we can add this word - as a second example - besides /bagra/, in our article Tunisian Arabic. Am I right? HOTmag (talk) 10:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

HOTmag: Of course. You can add the word and cite the work of Ben Abdelkader as a reference for it as it involves the word. --Csisc (talk) 10:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Does Abdelkader indicate this word as an example of a Tunisian /g/ deriving from an originally Semitic /q/ ? HOTmag (talk) 11:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

HOTmag: No, this is not written. However, it is written that /digla/ and not /diqla/ is used for Tunisian Arabic dialects. --Csisc (talk) 15:44, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I didn't see the word /digla/ in Ben Abdelkader's work. Would you like to tell me which page it is, ibid.? HOTmag (talk) 09:55, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

HOTmag: I am sorry. It is not Ben Abdelkader's work. It is the work of K. Abdellatif entitled Dico Karmous. Dico Karmous can be cited as Abdellatif, K. (2010). Dictionnaire «le Karmous» du Tunisien. --Csisc (talk) 12:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

 Done HOTmag (talk) 13:51, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
• 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
• Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
• Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

IPA in Tunisian Arabic article

Hello, I wanted to ask you about your opinion on reviewing the IPA transcription in Tunisian Arabic article. My suggestion is to adopt a phonemic transcription rather than a phonetic one. That is, ['bɛːʃ] becomes /baːʃ/ or /baʃ/ (because length is a result of stress). The same thing applies to [ˈʔɪnti] which becomes /ǝnti/ because the pronunciation is variable. The article isn't about Tunis dialect specifically, so I think the phonemic transcription is better? --GeekEmad (talk) 20:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

User:GeekEmad: This seems to be an excellent idea. However, there is a controversy about if Tunisian has three or four vowel qualities. This can let the phonemic transcription of vowels controversial. There are several other problems with phonemic transcriptions like how it is done when assimilation exists. So, it is better to keep the work as it is. However, I ask you if you would like to contribute to a description of Tunisian Arabic phonology that will be published in Journal of the IPA. You can explain the variation of pronunciation in Tunisian and you will get credit for that. --Csisc (talk) 11:44, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Csisc: the problem of the number of vowels is valid for the dialects of the Muslims of Tunis and the Sahel. However, for the other dialects, such a problem cannot exist. Furthermore, many sources, such as the VICAV dictionary, use three long vowels. The short vowels, however, are the real problem since they can vary between 4 and one. As for the contribution to the Tunisian phonology work, I am sorry, I have exams the next three weeks. --GeekEmad (talk) 12:26, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

User:GeekEmad: I know. I also have exams. The project will be done in July 2017. --Csisc (talk) 12:46, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

BTW, is it better to use Šš (used in all works about Maghrebi dialects) or Ch (a common way to write the phoneme inspired by French) for Maghrebi? --GeekEmad (talk) 18:44, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

User:GeekEmad: Ch is more intelligible for users. However, if you like to use the SIL recommendation of one graph for one phoneme, you should keep it as Š. --Csisc (talk) 21:13, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

My being a coauthor of your article.

1. What periodical is your article going to be published in?
2. How many coauthors is the article going to have?
3. Has it already been sent to the editors?
4. By the way, I was wrong about the researcher's first name: It's not "Lucien" (Saada) - as I told you before, but rather "Lucienne".

HOTmag (talk) 07:32, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

@HOTmag:: I thank you for your answer. The co-authors are Tania Garcia, me, you, Charles Häberl, and Mark D. Marroquin and we are still working on it. It will not be sent for review before verification and reformulation. So, feel free to expand the work. It will be sent for review to Journal of Semitic Studies or to Arabica. As for Lucienne Saada, I knew that you were talking about her. I know her mainly thanks to her works about Southwestern Tunisian dialect of Tozeur. --Csisc (talk) 08:59, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
• Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
• Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
• Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
• Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
• Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
• Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
• Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
• In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
• Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
• Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, Kosack and Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

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The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

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For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. Courcelles (submissions)
2. Kosack (submissions)
3. Kees08 (submissions)
4. SounderBruce (submissions)
5. Cas Liber (submissions)
6. Nova Crystallis (submissions)
7. Iazyges (submissions)
8. Ceranthor (submissions)

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).

WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

• Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
• Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
• Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
• Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, Ceranthor, Lee Vilenski, and Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in a discussion about publicly disclosing subscribers of TWL resources

Hi Csisc, I have started a discussion over our Village pump with the aim of maintaining a public list of all editors who are granted access to any TWL resource. Your thoughts and opinions on the proposal are welcome:-) Regards, ∯WBG^converse

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

1. Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
3. Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
4. Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
5. SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
6. Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
7. Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
8. HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

• Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
• Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
• Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
• Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
• CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
• The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D, Kingsif, Enwebb, Lee Vilenski and CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup newsletter correction

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Babel: aeb-N = This user has a native understanding of English?

Hi Csisc,

I've just noticed that in your Babel box, aeb-N = This user has a native understanding of English. Shouldn't it be in Tunisian Arabic and about that language instead of English? The RedBurn (ϕ) 08:24, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
• Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
• Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
• Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
• The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
• Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
• Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
• Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
• Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
• AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
• Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
• GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
• Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
• SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
• Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Levantine Arabic FAC

Bonjour Houcemeddine, I nominated Levantine Article for FAC. As you contributed to Tunisian Arabic in the past and given your interest in Arabic varieties, I thought you could be interested in reviewing this nomination. Thanks for any help you can provide. A455bcd9 (talk) 08:34, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done. --Csisc (talk) 16:21, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

A455bcd9: Feel free to send it to Wikiversity:WikiJournal of Humanities as I said in the review. --Csisc (talk) 16:21, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your review. I answered your 3 points on the nomination page (mainly looking for sources), please let me know what you think :) A455bcd9 (talk) 06:44, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

1. Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
2. AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
3. Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
6. Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
7. Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2022 July newsletter

The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
• Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
• Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

• Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
• Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
• BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
• Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
• Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
• Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
• PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
• Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.

• Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
• Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
• Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
• Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
• Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
• SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
• Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
• Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
• Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
• Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
• Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
• FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
• TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
• Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

• Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
• Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
• Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
• BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
• FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:14, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
• Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
• Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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