User:Shogeneral/Challenges

Alphabet

Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet.

• Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.

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

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.

• Bonus for achieving this in all three categories, or at Today's featured article.

Four-eyes

Get an article whose title contains exactly four "i"s to featured article status.

• Bonus for four such articles.

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.

Jack of all trades

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

• Bonus for successfully nominating one in each category.

Luck of the draw

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

• Bonus: Bring such an article to featured article status.

Maximalist

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

Millionaire

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

Use this tool: pageviews.wmcloud.org

Minimalist

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

• Bonus for featured article or featured list 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.

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).

Polyonymous

Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.

• Bonus for 25 namespaces.

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

Rock around the clock

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

Switch

Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to ninth) within the section.

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.

• Bonus for featured article or featured list status.

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.

• Bonus for ten languages.

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.

Wall-to-wall coverage

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

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.)

Artist

Get three articles to featured article status whose titles contain the standalone words "red", "green" and "blue" in their title. (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:

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. (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.

• Bonus for also taking these articles to good article status.

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.)

Decadent

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

• Bonus if each article falls under the scope of WikiProject Women in Red.

Diplomat

For each pair of continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America), create an article with close geographic ties to two countries, one from each continent in the pair. (For example, an article relating to an African country and an Asian country works for the first pair). This requires a total of 15 articles.

EGOT

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

• Bonus: Add a Peabody Award, Pulitzer Prize and a Razzie 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.)

Explorer

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

Librarian

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

Marathon

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 of it).

Rainbow

Create articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters of a shade of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. (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".)

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, create an article with close geographic ties to that country.

Showcase

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

• 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.

Well-dressed

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

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.)

Zoo

Get three articles to good article status that are not about an animal but contain an animal as a standalone word in their title. (For example, Rhinoceros Party, but not University of Oxford.)

• Bonus if the three animals are in the same order.