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Welcome to the 2011 WikiCup!

Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:58, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 January 2011

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, NerdyScienceDude/Archives/2011/January! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:58, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2010

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 3, No. 3 — 4th Quarter, 2010
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The Signpost: 10 January 2011

Be careful with your semi-automated changes

Hi, NerdyScienceDude. I noticed that one of your recent semi-automated changes [1] broke the link to File:Nursery of New Stars - GPN-2000-000972.jpg in the Hydrogen article by adding a non-breaking space and an em dash in the file name. I've fixed it, but in the future please be a little more careful when making these changes. Thanks. —Bkell (talk) 00:20, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. ~NerdyScienceDude 04:41, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

iPhone

Do you think this claim can be reliably sourced? It's so obvious that I haven't been able to find anything for it. Apple's own site doesn't seem to mention that it doesn't have a keyboard and doesn't use the term "slate" anywhere. The Touchscreen part is easy to verify, of course, as we touch upon it further down in the article, but nowhere can I see the term "slate" used. Soap 00:23, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I agree that it's obvious. The iPhone is even an example in the relevant article. ~NerdyScienceDude 04:47, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy 10th :)

Happy 10th :)

Thanks, and Happy 10th, but I'm under 21. ~NerdyScienceDude 04:50, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

Participation
GOCE January 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 20:32, 16 January 2011 (UTC).

The Signpost: 17 January 2011

WP:NASCAR Newsletter (January 2011)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject NASCAR at 00:08, 25 January 2011 (UTC).

The Signpost: 24 January 2011

Status bar

How did you get that awesome status bar? It's wicked. And also, how do you know I'm The Master of Mayhem when I'm editing your talk page?Regards.--The Master of Mayhem (talk) 15:33, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 January newsletter

We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for Talk:Hurricane King/GA1, Principality of Sealand Miyagawa (submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for Dognapping, and United Kingdom Jarry1250 (submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic (explanation), claiming for Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!

A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round two is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 22:39, 31 January 2011 (UTC)