User:Dumelow/Challenges

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General challenges[edit]

Alphabet[edit]

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

Ambiguation[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

DYKs

Four-eyes[edit]

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

  • Bonus for four such articles.

Hooker[edit]

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.[b]

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

Jack of all trades[edit]

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

  • Bonus for successfully nominating one in each category.

Maximalist[edit]

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

Millionaire[edit]

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

Closest so far is TV pickup at 983,116

Minimalist[edit]

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.

Phoenix[edit]

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[edit]

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

Polyonymous[edit]

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

Rock around the clock[edit]

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

[1] Missing: 3am Monday, 2am Friday,

Switch[edit]

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

Textbook example[edit]

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

Vitality[edit]

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.[i]

Level 5: Anglo-Zanzibar War (to FA), Zanzibar Revolution (to FA)

Wall-to-wall coverage[edit]

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

  • Winners:

Topic-specific challenges[edit]

Animal, vegetable, mineral[edit]

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[edit]

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

Astronaut[edit]

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

Centenarian[edit]

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

Decadent[edit]

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

Diplomat[edit]

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

  • Africa and Asia
  • Africa and Europe - Abir Congo Company
  • Africa and North America - Emory Alvord
  • Africa and Oceania
  • Africa and South America
  • Asia and Europe - Embassy of the United Kingdom, Kabul
  • 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

EGOT[edit]

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

Elementary[edit]

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[edit]

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

  1. Af: Tropical rainforest climate - Cirendeu
  2. Am: Tropical monsoon climate
  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
  6. BSh: Hot semi-arid
  7. BSk: Cold semi-arid
  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
  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
  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
  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

Librarian[edit]

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[edit]

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

Rainbow[edit]

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

Round the world[edit]

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

Well-dressed[edit]

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

Zoo[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ 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. ^ a b c The credit must be for content creation and not just nomination—in technical terms, a DYKmake rather than DYKnom credit.
  3. ^ No mixing and matching! Choose one of the sections.
  4. ^ From "Agriculture, food, and drink" to "Warfare". That is, "Miscellaneous" is not required. Quickfails count; Wikipedia:Good article reassessment does not.
  5. ^ It doesn't have to remain at that length. See Special:LongPages.
  6. ^ Deprecated namespaces and the "transwiki" pseudo-namespace (but no other pseudo-namespaces) count.
  7. ^ The edits are measured over the total account activity, and not over a single week.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ One article for each of the three colours is needed
  12. ^ As of 2022: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto.
  13. ^ There are 15 pair combinations:
    Combinations
    • 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
  14. ^ The tie needs to be close enough that it falls under the scope of "WikiProject [Country Name]".
  15. ^ Formerly populated places are permitted. Research stations count as populated.
  16. ^ To one decimal place, 26.2 miles (42.2 km).
  17. ^ Six articles are required, one for each colour.
  18. ^ Any definition of "country" that includes every current member state of the United Nations is okay.
  19. ^ 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]".
  20. ^ 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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