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Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, Riley1012! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

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Your GA nomination of Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva

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Thanks!

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive! You scored 205 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this citation barnstar. Thanks for helping out!

Pichpich (talk) 22:01, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Evita Griskenas

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Your GA nomination of Evita Griskenas

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Your GA nomination of Evita Griskenas

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DYK for Lorrane Oliveira

On 28 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lorrane Oliveira, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Brazilian Olympic gymnast Lorrane Oliveira (pictured) trained for the circus before starting gymnastics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lorrane Oliveira. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lorrane Oliveira), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Lilia Cosman

On 28 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lilia Cosman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lilia Cosman. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lilia Cosman), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DCWC August update

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:

• Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
• Arconning (submissions) – 305 points, including from six seasonally-appropriate Olympics-related good articles.
• Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
• Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.

Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.

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Thank you for participating in the July 2024 GAN backlog drive

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		Your noteworthy contribution (5 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 160 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 11:27, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva

The article Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ToxicVictory -- ToxicVictory (talk) 01:04, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

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Pan American Games talk pages

I saw your recent edits to the Pan American Games men's gymnastics talk pages for 2023, specifically the addition of the Multi-sport events project. I found that curious as the pages are for gymnastics-specific events and not the games as a whole. I'd love to learn why you felt the need to add these out of curiosity. When I edited them, or in some cases created them, I followed the lead of the most recent Olympics men's gymnastics event talk pages from 2024 which do not include the Multi-sport events projects on them. I would imagine there must appear to be some discrepancy that I'm not understanding. Thanks for any insight you might provide! GauchoDude (talk) 16:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

@GauchoDude: The Multi-sport events project covers all non-Olympic events including Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. This also includes all the sports/results pages for these non-Olympic events. Thanks for asking! -Riley1012 (talk) 19:48, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

@Riley1012: Understood, that makes more sense. Why would the Olympics not also fall under this same umbrella? GauchoDude (talk) 14:41, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

@GauchoDude: Not sure, I think this project split off from the Olympics one. -Riley1012 (talk) 18:40, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

September 2024 at Women in Red

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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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