Wikipedia:Bilorv's Challenges

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Bilorv's Challenges are a series of off-beat and difficult editing tasks. Initially designed in August 2021, some had been completed by the author at the time of creation and some may never be achieved in Wikipedia's history. Everyone is encouraged to add themselves to the list as they complete a challenge. Suggestions for more challenges will be met with delight on the talk page. Make any bold rewording improvements you like.

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Climb every mountain

By sharing these challenges, Bilorv encourages their fellow volunteers to maintain their usual levels of maturity and decorum when aiming to complete any task; all policies, guidelines and community norms still apply.

Credits

This page was inspired by many existing awards—see Template:Awards, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards—but with the aim of recognising and encouraging contributions in a new way.

Thanks goes to ezlev for Centenarian, Librarian, and the bonus for Decadent; to Urve for Polyglot; to theleekycauldron for Hooker, Diplomat and Marathon; to SounderBruce for "Textbook example"; to Premeditated Chaos for Chef and Well-dressed; to MeegsC for Artist, Astronaut, Rainbow and Zoo; to CactiStaccingCrane for Vitality; to Trainsandotherthings for Explorer; to BeanieFan11 for Ambiguation; to Etriusus for "Animal, vegetable, mineral"; to QuicoleJR for Archaeologist and Phoenix; to OlifanofmrTennant for Showcase; to Esculenta for Taxonomist; to Generalissima for the bonus for Centenarian; to PerfectSoundWhatever for Translation; and to Skyshifter for "Record deal".

Thanks to evrik, there is a userbox that you can display using the code {{Wikipedia:Bilorv's Challenges/Userbox|number goes here}}:

This user has achieved n of Bilorv's Challenges.

General challenges

Alphabet

ABC ...

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

Ambiguation

Two that are not the same

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

Archaeologist

Tool of the trade

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

Calendar

Time flies

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

Four-eyes

Four eyes

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

Hooker

Hook 'em!

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]

Jack of all trades

Jack of Spades with a jackknife

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

Luck of the draw

You may roll multiple times

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

Maximalist

Too much is not enough

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

Millionaire

Show me the money

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. (This means the article must have had less than 50 edits total, not that the person claiming the award has less than 50 edits to the article).

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

Speaking with tongues

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.[h]

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.

Rock around the clock

Tempus fugit

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

Switch

Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to ninth) within the section.[b] (Until May 2024 this could be achieved with slots from first to eighth only.)

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.[j]

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.

Vitality

All fired up

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.[k]

Wall-to-wall coverage

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

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.)

Artist

Artist

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

  • Winners:

As if by magic...

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

More information List of costumes ...
Close
  • Winners:

Astronaut

To infinity and beyond

Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets.[n] (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.

Chef

Whatcha got cookin'?

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.)

  • Winners:

Decadent

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

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.[o] (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.[p]

EGOT

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
  • Emmy
    Emmy
  • Grammy
    Grammy
  • Oscar
    Oscar
  • Tony
    Tony

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

Elementary

Elementary
  • Tin
    Sn
  • Iron
    Fe
  • Lead
    Pb
  • Gold
    Au

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.[q]

  • Winners:

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[r] (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.[s] (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.

Round the world

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

  • Winners:

Showcase

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

  • Bonus for also creating the television show article.
  • Winners:

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.
  • Winners:

Well-dressed

Everyone is crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man

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

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

Cuckoo!

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.)

Notes

  1. [a]
    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.
  2. [b]
    The credit must be for content creation and not just nomination—in technical terms, a DYKmake rather than DYKnom credit.
  3. [c]
    No mixing and matching! Choose one of the sections.
  4. [d]
    The nominations don't all have to occupy the same calendar month—a set that contains nominations from April 1, August 2, December 3, February 4, and so on, would satisfy the requirement.
  5. [e]
    Prior to December 2022, the bar was 416.6 views per hour for all hooks, but was changed due to rising averages. The change is retroactive through December 2021.
  6. [f]
    "Topics" from "Agriculture, food, and drink" to "Warfare". That is, "Miscellaneous" is not required. Quickfails count; Wikipedia:Good article reassessment does not.
  7. [g]
    It doesn't have to remain at that length. See Special:LongPages.
  8. [h]
    Deprecated namespaces and the "transwiki" pseudo-namespace (but no other pseudo-namespaces) count. Evidence of contributing to the code of Special or Media pages counts.
  9. [i]
    The edits are measured over the total account activity, and not over a single week.
  10. [j]
    The page can be linked in the MoS at the GA promotion date or the date you first began work on it. You may not insert a link to the page yourself.
  11. [k]
    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.
  12. [l]
    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.
  13. [m]
    One article for each of the three colours is needed
  14. [n]
    As of 2022: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto.
  15. [o]
    The tie needs to be close enough that it falls under the scope of "WikiProject [Country Name]".
  16. [p]
    The 15 pair combinations are:
    • Africa and Asia
    • Africa and Europe
    • Africa and North America
    • Africa and Oceania
    • Africa and South America
    • Asia and Europe
    • Asia and North America
    • Asia and Oceania
    • Asia and South America
    • Europe and North America
    • Europe and Oceania
    • Europe and South America
    • North America and Oceania
    • North America and South America
    • Oceania and South America
  17. [q]
    Formerly populated places are permitted. Research stations count as populated.
  18. [r]
    To one decimal place, 26.2 miles (42.2 km).
  19. [s]
    Six articles are required, one for each colour.
  20. [t]
    Any definition of "country" that includes every current member state of the United Nations is okay.
  21. [u]
    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]".
  22. [v]
    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.
  23. [w]
    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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