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772: 723:), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing. 2098:, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen 1489: 570: 256: 1573:(depending on whether you believe this policy relates only to commercial sites), which I was unaware of when I created the pages. I'll be pulling the offending pages down within 1 week (by 7/10), in case I'm correct about the policy violation. Still, if this is a policy violation, I find it ironic that while I provide a free service to a non-profit using free software to provide free information to the under-served for free, these actions may violate WP policy. Maybe I'm the only one who sees the irony. 1474: 2081: 745: 31: 1244: 2021: 2324:, who are otherwise never improving the article in any way, content with keeping it in a sorry state and just revert. The article as well as its talk page could benefit from your insight and knowledge. I have left extensive comments myself, and each time I edited, I left an overwhelming number of sources, going above and beyond of what's necessary. I don't want this simple article to become artificially polarized, and thus think your "two cents" would help improve it. -- 475:. 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 three 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 2059: 1407: 1199: 712: 1452: 1229: 730: 434: 1437: 1214: 1422: 449: 2036: 1463:), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this. 2179: 1853: 1315: 1038: 839: 122: 1255:) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at 2091:)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space! 1950:, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term. 2047:) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on 1467:

their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

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editor, I realize that not all reverts are going to have a nice personal explanation on them. Still, Huggle does notify users it reverts. Also, it doesn't revert user's userspaces (without notifying). And should I make a revert that gets contested, I'm more than happy to get into a discussion with

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Hope all is going well for you, Katie! I was hoping for some direction on how to get a ambitious user some help. There's a user that came to my attention recently that is doing some really good work removing advertising content from userspaces. I've taken a look at some of the stuff this user has

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We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain,

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Your work as an Online Ambassador is making a big contribution to Knowledge. Right now, we're trying to measure just how much student work improves the quality of Knowledge. If you'd like contribute to this research and get a firsthand look at the quality improvement that is happening through the

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User spaces are a nice little rose garden for those of us that call WP home. I understand there are rules and restrictions about what we can have in our gardens, in order to keep the neighborhood as a whole in good shape. Still, when a neighbor comes in, tramples all my roses because he doesn't

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No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite

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and at times may take place in a heated environment. Please take a look at the relevant RFC page before responding and be sure that you are willing and able to enter that environment and contribute to making the discussion a calm and productive one focussed on the content issue at hand. See also

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Hi Katie. My moms nickname is Katie. I wanted to know if I could please have rollback permissions. I have not posted here much, but I am active on answers.com. Here are a couple of reasons I think I should have rollback: 1. I am in honor or high honor roll every year 2. I ranked PHS in all of my

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Hi! This is the last call for signing on for a Knowledge Ambassador hooded sweatshirt (in case you missed the earlier message in one of the program newsletters about it). If you would like one, please email me with your name, mailing address, and (US) sweatshirt size. We have a limited number

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Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.

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This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.

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is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a

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If you are still active and interested in editing University of Oklahoma related articles, I'm going to be starting there this month majoring in meteorology, so I might be able to collaborate in some way. I'm kinda sad to see that the WikiProject is tagged as inactive and that most of the

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I have done many edits to it, expanded it tremendously, added many fresh, new sources, including unique statistics from the Department of Homeland Security, and in general made this article more consistent with other similar articles about "hyphenated Americans", such as

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We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is

2280:. Could you please mentor me and help keep that page up to Wiki standards? Because I believe I've made great efforts, contributing a lot, bringing in many new great sources and really enriching the article that was in a very poor shape. Here's the version I've done: 2283:. Unfortunately, two other users who've edited in the past and have been content with its poor shape, remove sourced information repeatedly and engage in edit warring. So it would be of great benefit to have your involvement as a third-party mediator and mentor. -- 930:

I am not affiliated with Allmenus. You can look me up under smkatz, and see I've made many contributions to Knowledge. I may have liked the article, though if it was blatant advertising probably not, but information on how it started, particularly is useful to me.

460:) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered " 464:") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see 1945:

Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Knowledge Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up

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We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Knowledge Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Knowledge Ambassadors.

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Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The

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WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey:

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Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Knowledge assignments and managing courses are most effective.

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Your user page confused me by saying that today (April 15) is tax day in the United States, but I confirmed after reading your notice that tax day will be on Monday. I bet you scared any late filers who saw your page.

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blanked, and it looks quite good. That said, I'm a little concerned about blanking of pages within user spaces without notifying the user, especially when some of those pages might have notices like

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at the top. Additionally, some of the responses on the user's talk page appear to be of the nature "I think it's advertising and violates policy so end of discussion." As a formerly frequent

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Any advice you might have about how I can resolve the matter is greatly appreciate. Even if you have no advice, I appreciate you listening to me vent. Thank you so much!

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Hey Katie! Welcome back! Other people have been looking after your mentees while you were out; just let us know when you're ready to take the lead with them again. Cheers--

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Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen

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BTW, I tried to find mentors for all the people who requested you while you were gone but you had never said "yes" to. So no need to worry about the backlog of requests.--

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Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

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We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are

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participants listed haven't edited regularly in some time. I added myself to the project, but I'm not really sure where to begin. Any suggestions?

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If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.

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Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen

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quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.

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think they're good for the neighborhood, and doesn't leave so much as a note, I'm concerned not everyone may be on the same page.

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the users about it to try to resolve the problem (although I think we both have seen how well that works out for me sometimes).

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related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (

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grades 3. I am cool:) 4. I am a boy scout 5. I love helping people 6. I recently went on a missions trip in the Dominican

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Working closely with the instructor and Campus Ambassadors, providing advice and perspective as an experienced Wikipedian

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make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.

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left, so it will be first-come, first-served. (If more than one size would work for you, note that as well.)

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Hey, just a happy reminder to make sure that you are regularly checking in on your mentees work for

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There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on

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is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:

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Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the

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Since you've dealt with Willfults in the past, I'd really appreciate your help over at

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project, please sign up to assess articles. Assessment is happening now, just use the

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and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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Helping students who ask for it (or helping them to find the help they need)

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for the United States! The deadline has been extended to Friday, April 29th.

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on the talk pages, and have the newly improved Article Feedback Tool active.

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and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck!

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and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck!

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and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck!

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and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck!

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and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck!

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This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to

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to the top of the page, and an admin will take care of it for you. --

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Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

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all the articles students did significant work on in the last term

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that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!

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Please help assess articles for Public Policy Initiative research

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Document DYK, peer review and other milestone at the trophy case

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Ed talks about real-world collaborations and how you can help

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From the editors – Contest results, A-class medal recipients

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Dank helps you see what article writers want from reviewers

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started this week, and will continue through 27 April.

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