User:Dumelow/Challenges

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In-play

General challenges

Jack of all trades

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

Luck of the draw

Bring an article that you arrived at via Special:Random to good article status.

Phoenix

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

Polyonymous

Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.[b]

Rock around the clock

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

Missing: 3am Monday, 2am Friday,

Textbook example

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

Vitality

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

Level 5: Anglo-Zanzibar War (Start to FA), Zanzibar Revolution (Stub to FA), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (C to B)

Wall-to-wall coverage

Have three pieces of content featured on the Main Page simultaneously, in three different sections.[f]

  • Winners:

Topic-specific challenges

Artist

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

As if by magic...

Create a biography representing each of the costumes worn by Mr Benn:

Red Knight - anyone granted a knighthood or damehood, or any broadly interpreted equivalent (eg. minor nobility) - Edward Hull (knight)
Hunter - a big-game hunter, wildlife photographer - Herbert Edwin Bradley
Clown - a comedian - Thomas Barry (clown)
Balloonist - a pilot (of any type) - Windham William Sadler
Wizard - a stage magician, or someone considered to be at the top of their field
Spaceman - an astronaut or astrophysicist
Cook - a chef or food critic - Benoit Blin
Caveman - a prehistoric person, prehistorian, anthropologist or palaeontologist
Zoo Keeper - a zoo keeper or animal scientist (zoologist, entomologist etc.) - Nathalie Evans
Diver - a diver or marine biologist
Cowboy - anyone involved in agriculture - Bronco Charlie Miller
Aladdin - a thief or someone with a "rags to riches" story - Zoe Progl
Pirate - a pirate or other sailor
Gladiator - a martial artist or military person

Chef

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

Diplomat

For each pair of continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America),[h] create an article with close geographic ties to two countries, one from each continent in the pair.[i] (For example, an article relating to an African country and an Asian country works for the first pair.)

Explorer

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

  1. Af: Tropical rainforest climate - Cirendeu
  2. Am: Tropical monsoon climate - Fort George, Grenada
  3. Aw/As: Tropical savanna climate with dry-winter r dry-summer characteristics Ng'ambo
  4. BWh: Hot desert - Koegas mine (previously occupied)
  5. BWk: Cold desert - Fort Raim (previously occupied)
  6. BSh: Hot semi-arid
  7. BSk: Cold semi-arid - Embassy of the United Kingdom, Kabul (previously occupied)
  8. Csa: Mediterranean hot summer climates - Al-Ghuraba cemetery (currently populated, despite the name!)
  9. Csb: Mediterranean warm/cool summer climates
  10. Csc: Mediterranean cold summer climates
  11. Cfa: Humid subtropical climates - Embassy of the United Kingdom, Montevideo
  12. Cfb: Oceanic climate - Megawatt Valley
  13. Cfc: Subpolar oceanic climate
  14. Cwa: Dry-winter humid subtropical climate
  15. Cwb: Dry-winter subtropical highland climate
  16. Cwc: Dry-winter cold subtropical highland climate
  17. Dfa: Hot summer continental climate, no dry season
  18. Dwa: Hot summer continental climate, dry winter
  19. Dsa: Hot summer continental climate, dry summer
  20. Dfb: Warm summer continental or hemiboreal climates, no dry season
  21. Dwb: Warm summer continental or hemiboreal climates, dry winter
  22. Dsb: Warm summer continental or hemiboreal climates, dry summer
  23. Dfc: Subarctic or boreal climates, no dry season - Bechevinka (previously occupied)
  24. Dwc: Subarctic or boreal climates, dry winter
  25. Dsc: Subarctic or boreal climates, dry summer
  26. Dfd: Subarctic or boreal climates with severe winters, no dry season - Sentachan mine (dormitories)
  27. Dwd: Subarctic or boreal climates with severe winters, dry winter
  28. Dsd: Subarctic or boreal climates with severe winters, dry summer
  29. ET: Tundra climate
  30. EF: Ice cap climate - Filchner Station (previously occupied)

Librarian

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

  • Class 000 – Computer science, information and general works
  • Class 100 – Philosophy and psychology
  • Class 200 – Religion
  • Class 300 – Social sciences
  • Class 400 – Language
  • Class 500 – Science
  • Class 600 – Technology
  • Class 700 – Arts and recreation
  • Class 800 – Literature A Journey Around My Room
  • Class 900 – History and geography

Marathon

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

Record deal

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

  • Bonus for also creating the album article.

Round the world

For every country in the world,[l] create an article with close geographic ties to that country.[m]

Showcase

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

  • Bonus for also creating the television show article.

Taxonomist

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

  • Bonus if the ranks are all order or higher.

Women of the Year

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

Achieved

General challenges

Alphabet

Create an article[o] beginning with every letter of the alphabet.

Ambiguation

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

  • Bonus for also creating the disambiguation page.

Archaeologist

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

  • Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.

Calendar

Achieved, but going for a full year for fun!

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

DYKs

OTD

ITN

Four-eyes

Get an article whose title contains exactly four "i"s to featured article status. - Zungeni Mountain skirmish

  • Bonus for four such articles.

Possible targets: Middlesex Regiment alien labour units, Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom

Hooker

Have five Did you know hooks listed at WP:DYKSTATS (at over 600 views per hour for a non-imaged hook or 900 views per hour for an imaged hook) in a single calendar month.[b][e]

Prior to December 2022 the criteria was: Receive a credit for five Did you know? hooks listed at WP:DYKSTATS (5,000 views per 12 hours on the main page) in a single calendar month.[p]

February 2019
  1. Pow of Inchaffray
  2. British ambulances in the Franco-Prussian War
  3. Guy Dury
  4. Boybuloq Cave
  5. Land mines in the Falkland Islands
January 2020

NB: 12 hour rotations throughout this period

  1. Limnological tower
  2. Prague Castle Skeleton (ran with Ivan Borkovský but received sufficient views on its own)
  3. Temporary gentlemen
  4. Parliament Oak
  5. Winshill Water Tower
  6. Alphons Timmerman
February 2020

NB: 12 hour rotations throughout this period

  1. Shelton Oak
  2. Marie-Louise (conscript)
  3. Diego (tortoise)
  4. Swanage Town Hall
  5. Huer's Hut
July 2020

NB 12 hour rotation in place on last two

  1. Newland Oak
  2. Queen Elizabeth'27s Oak, Greenwich Park
  3. No Surrender (to the IRA)
  4. Potato production in Algeria
  5. Kronstadt-Toulon naval visits
August 2020

NB 12 hour rotation in place on first five

  1. Danum shield
  2. Rolling straight-edge
  3. Friedrich Salomon Hall
  4. Minchenden Oak Garden
  5. Osage Battalion
  6. New Zealand White Ensign
  7. Île Sans Nom
September 2020

NB 12 hour rotation in place on first eleven

  1. Alienation (speech)
  2. Havering hoard
  3. Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers
  4. General Order No. 1 (Gulf War)
  5. List of British colours lost in battle
  6. Light Vessel 72
  7. Pierre David (mayor)
  8. United Kingdom-India bus routes
  9. London garotting panics
  10. MS Nordic Ferry
  11. Statue of Lenin at Finland Station
  12. HMS Junella
November 2020
  1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern
  2. Death of Frederick John White
  3. Iceber A-38 and Filchner Station (joint hook)
  4. Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes
  5. Grande Tema incident
January 2021

12 hour rotations for all bar first

  1. Paris pneumatic post
  2. Bechevinka
  3. Speibecken
  4. Clarence E. Willard
  5. Stockton Flyer
  6. Hyde Park pet cemetery
  7. The Burton Cooper
  8. Siege of Bednore
  9. Umberslade Obelisk
  10. A.P. Mine No. 3
  11. Veiled Vestal
February 2021

12 hour rotations for all bar last

  1. Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley
  2. Sèvres Egyptian Service
  3. Guards of Honour (France)
  4. Garland grenade
  5. Pliofilm
April 2021

12 hour rotations throughout

  1. Great Michigan Pizza Funeral
  2. Flat-roofed pub
  3. Windermere (submarine)
  4. Margate Jetty
  5. Chronographer
  6. Death and state funeral of George VI
  7. Sinking of the Spanish trawler Sonia
  8. Harry Daley
  9. Blickling Park mausoleum
  10. Saint-Bélec slab
June 2021

12 hour rotations until 20th

  1. Prescott punch
  2. White flags over Port Stanley
  3. HMS Sherwood (shore establishment)
  4. Whistle Belly Vengeance
  5. Britain Awake
  6. James Bridge Copper Works
  7. Duhamel plan (ran with Khrulev plan but achieved sufficient views on its own)
  8. Marie André Cantillon
  9. Statue of Heracles, Arcachon
July 2021

12 hour rotations for all bar the first

  1. Charles Bertie Prowse
  2. Sleeping Lady with Black Vase
  3. Willem van Ruytenburch
  4. Chico Velasquez
  5. Scenes in the Square
  6. Sihayo kaXongo
  7. Albert helmet
August 2021

12 hour rotations throughout

  1. Bourton-on-the-Water model village
  2. Economy coffin
  3. Mustankallio water tower
  4. Albert shako
  5. Alexander Gordon (brewer) and Polhollick Bridge
  6. Punch Bowl Inn, Lancashire
  7. Whitesmith maze
  8. Hedgehog Flavour Crisps
October 2021

12 hour rotations for all bar first

  1. Grand Jubilee of 1814
  2. Execution of George Flaxman
  3. Stahlrohrlanze
  4. Frederick Marten Hale
  5. Bill Godwin
  6. SS Fernebo
November 2021

12 hour rotations after first four

  1. HMS Cicala
  2. Richard John Andrews
  3. Columbus (1824 ship)
  4. Hinged arch bridge
  5. Kirkcudbright war memorial
  6. Bourbaki Panorama
  7. Horned helmet of Henry VIII
December 2021

12 hour rotations except first and last ones

  1. Lamprey pie
  2. Desmond Young (British Army officer)
  3. Head of a Bear
  4. Dutch invasion of Saint Helena
  5. Mo Drake
  6. Storming of Shelford House
  7. Gallos sculpture
January 2022

12 hour rotations throughout

  1. Yasmin Miller
  2. Phil Silvers Archival Museum
  3. Leo Osnas
  4. Essential Commodities Reserves Act 1938
  5. Zoe Progl
  6. Corozal (dredger)
  7. Coldbath Fields riot
  8. RentAHitman.com
  9. Zungeni Mountain skirmish
  10. Prince of Wales riots
  11. Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander
  12. Symbol of Sacrifice
  13. Flint Magama & Njini Ntuta
February 2022

12 hour rotations for first two

  1. 7th Division (Finland)
  2. Maud Holland
  3. Juliana Olshanskaya
  4. 1994 Dronka lightning strike
  5. Royal Navy cutlasses
  6. 87th African Infantry Division
  7. Viktor Taranovsky
August 2022

12 hour rotations for first two and last two

  1. Sarah Pike Conger
  2. Seven Natural Wonders of the UK
  3. Milk's Gotta Lotta Bottle
  4. Man from Del Monte (advertising campaign)
  5. Aquis Querquennis
  6. Rockwood & Company shipping department fire
September 2022

12 hour rotations for first 5

  1. Barclays House
  2. Antony Hodgkinson
  3. Elver Eating World Championships
  4. Rorke's Drift (video game)
  5. Leutard of Vertus
  6. Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage
  7. State hearse
  8. Raid on Kronstadt
  9. Langley Hawkins murder case
October 2022

24 hour rotations for first one

  1. East African Mounted Rifles
  2. John Giffard (police officer)
  3. John Hemsley
  4. Charles de Tricornot de Rose
  5. Willmer House
  6. Andriy Kovalchuk
  7. Regent Cinema, Deal
November 2022

12 hour rotations for first four

  1. Elephant of Henry III
  2. 1914 Kenwood House ball and Maurice Mouvet
  3. Martin Wemyss
  4. Le Vaillant
  5. Bir Hakeim rescue
  6. Taters Chatham
  7. Lichfield Angel
August 2024

All 24 hour rotations

  1. Roberto Quintanilla
  2. Samoan branch of the Nazi Party
  3. Ravenswood standing stone
  4. Russian ship Dmitry
  5. William Hewett (British Army officer)
  6. Robert Turner (soldier)
  7. Andrew Gillison
November 2024
  1. Light Vessel 95
  2. Fijian Labour Corps
  3. Kent Brushes
  4. Vivian Stranders
  5. Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik

Millionaire

Create an article that gets a million views (all time total). (Not to be confused with the Million Award.)

TV pickup (1,037,644 at 20-6-24)

Maximalist

Create an article that reaches over 100,000 bytes in length.[r]

Minimalist

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

Polyglot

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

  1. Dalmat (yacht) Slovenian
  2. Dalmat (yacht) Croatian
  3. Hivernage French
  4. Mustankallio water tower Russian
  5. Mustankallio water tower Finnish
  6. Mustankallio water tower German
  7. Sleeping Lady with Black Vase Hungarian
  8. Osman Erbaş Turkish
  9. Bechevinka Italian
  10. Moritz Hall Hebrew
  11. Lee Eun-soo Korean
  12. Pwllpriddog Oak Welsh
  13. Maribel Parra de Mestre Spanish
  14. Apranik Arabic
  15. Roll's Regiment Polish

Quite the character

Create an article with a title N characters long for every value of N between 5 and 25 (inclusive). Spaces are not counted.

  • Bonus for going up to 50 characters
5 Meski
6 Dawnus
7 Changuu
8 Stumpery
9 Basil Cave
10 William Maw
11 Colin Tapley
12 Edmund Hambly
13 Alfred Pippard
14 James Abernethy
15 CS Faraday (1874)
16 Alexander Kennedy
17 John Holmes Jellett
18 George Barclay Bruce
19 John Alexander Brodie
20 Charles Hutton Gregory
21 Joshua Field (engineer)
22 John Griffith (engineer)
23 James Simpson (engineer)
24 William Barton Worthington
25 William Matthews (engineer)
26 Battle of Burton Bridge (1643)
27 William Henry Ellis (engineer)
28 Alexander Milne (civil servant)
29 Corps of Invalids (Great Britain)
30 Société Royale Belge de Géographie
31 Arthur Cumming (Royal Navy officer)
32 Army Printing and Stationery Service
33 Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar
34 Société Anversoise du Commerce au Congo
35 Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers
36 2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck
37 Maria Filomena de Fátima Lobão Telo Delgado
38 Rockwood & Company shipping department fire
39 Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion
40 British ambulances in the Franco-Prussian War
41 Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition
42 Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline
43
44 Military Engineering Experimental Establishment
45
46 Professor John Perkins' Review of Engineering Skills
47
48 List of Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
49 List of French generals who died during the First World War
50 List of Italian generals who died during the First World War


Switch

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

Sure I must have completed this several times over. As an example (all completed within same month) see October 2021:

  1. Grand Jubilee of 1814
  2. Fernhill House
  3. Hivernage
  4. Guard Force (Rhodesia)
  5. Karnabo
  6. Lead belt (wargaming)
  7. John Ford Elkington
  8. Andrew Rawlins

Translation

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

  1. Zaian War (7)
  2. Charles Inglis (engineer) (8)
  • Bonus for ten languages.
  1. Sycamore Gap tree (20)

Topic-specific challenges

Animal, vegetable, mineral

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


Astronaut

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

Centenarian

Create bios for people who were born in each century from the 1000s to the 1900s, inclusive.

asterisk = GA, +=possible future GA

Decadent

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


EGOT

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

Elementary

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


Rainbow

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


Well-dressed

Create articles about each type of garment: hat, top, bottoms, shoes.[u]


Zoo

Get three articles to good article status that are not about an animal but contain an animal in their title. (For example, Rhinoceros Party.)

Notes

  1. [a]
    From "Agriculture, food, and drink" to "Warfare". That is, "Miscellaneous" is not required. Quickfails count; Wikipedia:Good article reassessment does not.
  2. [b]
    Deprecated namespaces and the "transwiki" pseudo-namespace (but no other pseudo-namespaces) count.
  3. [c]
    The edits are measured over the total account activity, and not over a single week.
  4. [d]
    The page only has to be linked in the MoS when you begin working on it. You may not insert a link to the page yourself.
  5. [e]
    Each article can only be counted once; the hierarchy of classes is FA > A > GA > B > C > Start > Stub. You must make substantive improvements that bring the article from one class to another, rather than just updating the class in the WikiProject banners.
  6. [f]
    Today's featured article, In the news, Did you know?, On this day, Today's featured list and Picture of the day are the six possible sections.
  7. [g]
    One article for each of the three colours is needed
  8. [h]
    There are 15 pair combinations:
    More information Combinations ...
    Close
  9. [i]
    The tie needs to be close enough that it falls under the scope of "WikiProject [Country Name]".
  10. [j]
    Formerly populated places are permitted. Research stations count as populated.
  11. [k]
    To one decimal place, 26.2 miles (42.2 km).
  12. [l]
    Any definition of "country" that includes every current member state of the United Nations is okay.
  13. [m]
    An article can only be counted for one country, and the tie needs to be close enough that it falls under the scope of "WikiProject [Country Name]".
  14. [n]
    Note that, for most television programmes, not all episodes will be individually notable, making them ineligible. If the programme later has additional episodes released then the win is invalidated unless you become the creator of an article on each new episode.
  15. [o]
    Expanding from redirect is okay; must be an article (or list) when you create it, not a disambiguation page or redirect. Pick either the default sort or order of the verbatim title.
  16. [p]
    The credit must be for content creation and not just nomination—in technical terms, a DYKmake rather than DYKnom credit.
  17. [q]
    No mixing and matching! Choose one of the sections.
  18. [r]
    It doesn't have to remain at that length. See Special:LongPages.
  19. [s]
    As of 2022: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto.
  20. [t]
    Six articles are required, one for each colour.
  21. [u]
    Very loosely interpreted: any headwear is a hat; anything that covers the torso is a top; anything that covers the legs is a type of bottoms; anything covering feet is shoes. If the connection is clear then it doesn't have to be exactly a garment—Skirt (song) counts as bottoms. Ask on the talk page about edge cases.

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