User:Aoidh/Challenges

Criteria: Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.

 Done

Criteria: Receive a Did you know? credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand. Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.

 Done

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

In progress

The links provided go to the talk pages of each article, where the DYK talk template at the top of the page can verify the date the article appeared on DYK.

Criteria: Review an article at Wikipedia:Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.

In progress

• Agriculture, food and drink - Pending
• Art and architecture - Pending
• Engineering and technology - K-Meleon (Review at Talk:K-Meleon/GA1: Failed)
• Geography and places - Pending
• History - Pending
• Language and literature - Pending
• Mathematics and mathematicians - Pending
• Media and drama - WUPA (Review at Talk:WUPA/GA1: Passed)
• Music - Pending
• Natural sciences - Pending
• Philosophy and religion - Pending
• Social sciences and society - Pending
• Sports and recreation - Pending
• Video Games - Pending
• Warfare - Pending

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

In progress

1. French - Nephila antipodiana (link)
2. Chinese - Jieba (diff)
3. Spanish - DoudouLinux (link)
4. Italian - DoudouLinux (link)
5. Korean - LARIAT (diff)
6. Russian - TOSS (operating system) (diff)
7. Japanese - Zazen Wasan (link)
8. Portuguese - GNOME Text Editor (diff)
9. Burmese - Statue of Gautama Buddha (Myanmar) (diff)

Criteria: Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.

 Done Namespace Totals

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

 Done completed timeclock

Criteria: Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to eighth) within the section. (Note that the first slot is the image slot.)

 Done

• 1 - Buford Dam → 9 September 2022
• 2 - Seckinger High School → 7 August 2022
• 3 - Retina (typeface) → 9 September 2022
• 4 - Happy Wars → 26 November 2012
• 5 - 6th Military Police Group (United States) → 24 August 2022
• 6 - Buford High School (South Carolina) → 27 July 2022
• 7 - Flip (software) → 28 July 2022
• 8 - Shoshin → 30 September 2022

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

 Done: alt attribute is linked at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (specifically at MOS:ACCIM).

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

 Done

• Android Debug Bridge (10+)
• Leafpad (10+)
• Invizimals: The Alliance (5)

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

 Done

• Animal: Buford Dam (DYK nom) - Has a section about the onsite goats being used to maintain the vegetation on the slope of the dam.
• Vegetable: Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center (DYK nom) - The facility section discusses the roof using Sedum and other vegetation to reduce runoff.
• Mineral: Ball Ground, Georgia (DYK nom) - The economy section discusses the town's marble industry.

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

In progress

• Io (moon): Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion
• Dia (moon): Nephila antipodiana
• Mab (moon): Statue of Gautama Buddha (Myanmar)

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

In progress

• Tin - Retina (typeface)
• Iron - Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center
• Lead -
• Gold -

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

 Done: Buford, Georgia → Ball Ground, Georgia

Distance: 26.1 miles in a straight line using this resource