APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. - Ambrose Bierce

April Fool's Day must have started early in certain time zones. My contribution to the merriment is here, Wikipedia's picture of the day for April 1, and I will be spending most of the day contributing content to remedy gaps in Wikipedia's coverage of Africa, beginning with a caricature of Idi Amin (which seems oddly appropriate under the circumstances).

If you have the urge to do constructive work in the spirit of fun, please take this opportunity to contact me for pointers to historic political cartoons and other material that can make Wikipedia a better and more amusing encyclopedia. GIMP is free if you don't have Photoshop and there's no time like the present to learn. Alternatively, if you have access to specialized archives, try improvements to the biography of Jean Desbouvrie so he can run as the April Fool's article of the day for next year. The page is solid B-class, but we really need documentation of his birth and death dates and a bit more to round it out in order to move up to FA. Best wishes all for a safe and productive holiday, Durova ^Charge! 18:31, 31 March 2009 (UTC) reply

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue 10 - March 31, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants with the most: Featured articles Gary King and Juliancolton have both had 3 successful featured article nominations. Featured lists Matthewedwards has had 7 successful featured list nominations. Featured topics Scorpion0422 and Mitchazenia have both had 1 successful featured topic nomination. Featured pictures Durova has had 54 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds Shoemaker's Holiday has had 7 successful featured sound nominations. Featured portals Sunderland06 has had 1 successful featured portal nomination. Good topics Scorpion0422, Theleftorium, Gary King and Climie.ca have all had 1 successful good topic nomination. Good articles Mitchazenia has had 34 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 53 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 28 successful "In the News" nominations. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last fortnight, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Durova 1713 1932 219 2 Mitchazenia 951 1167 216 3 Scorpion0422 683 788 105 4 ThinkBlue 291 386 95 5 Shoemaker's Holiday 791 873 82 6 Theleftorium 990 1060 70 7 Sasata 513 581 68 8 Rlevse 224 290 66 9 Matthewedwards 630 695 65 10 97198 314 360 46 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges What a brilliant finale to Round 1. With so little in it it was always going to be a tight contest, particularly in the all-important wildcard places. Congratulations to all those who have made it to Round 2, and commiserations to all who have been eliminated. I hope you continue to contribute as fully as you have been in the tournament, if not better! As has been stated before, Round 2 begins Wednesday, April 1 2009. I hope you are all ready!  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of: 20 Featured articles 32 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 135 Featured pictures 21 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 2 Good topics 143 Good articles 304 Did you know? items 49 In the news items Pool winners In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are: Pool A Gary King (1154) Spencer (377) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (1055) La Pianista (74) Pool C Scorpion0422 (944) Candlewicke (806) Pool D ThinkBlue (444) 97198 (374) Pool E Sasata (604) X! (216) Pool F Rlevse (405) Bedford (331) Pool G Sunderland06 (236) Ceranthor (190) Pool H Juliancolton (686) Dendodge (220) Pool I Theleftorium (1107) Durova (961) Pool J Mitchazenia (1180) Matthewedwards (702) Wildcard winners Useight (659) Paxse (507) Rambo's Revenge (333) the_ed17 (330) J Milburn (302) Climie.ca (265) Catalan (256) Ottava Rima (190) Wrestlinglover (169) Tinucherian (162) All scores are accurate as of the end of Round 1.

21:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Delivered for the WikiCup by  GARDEN  at 21:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC). Queries to my talk. reply

Dear Durova, I think you do a lot of searching for Wikipedia images. Could you please find a free Photo of Waris Dirie? Thanks in advance -- Taranet ( talk) 23:09, 31 March 2009 (UTC) reply

You could check to see if there's someting on Flickr. The archives I use really wouldn't be a help with a subject this recent. Durova ^Charge! 01:21, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Durova + =

Happy April Fools Day :) Steve Crossin :  Chat  03:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Is an image that is in the Italian public domain due to age in the US public domain? Here is a VPC candidate that I have my doubts about copyright-wise. Your input would be appreciated. File:Kalki 03 1948.jpg. ~ ωαdεstεr16 _«talk ^stalk» 04:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

The United States observes the rule of the shorter term. So if an image was produced and published in another country, and its copyright has expired in that country, then the US accepts it as public domain. Thanks for asking. :) Durova ^Charge! 04:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

As always, your expertise are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ~ ωαdεstεr16 _«talk ^stalk» 17:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

You're welcome. :) Durova ^Charge! 17:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Would you take another look at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Dhaka, and check if it fits the bill now? Aditya^{( talk • contribs)} 17:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Starting a new article right this moment; will have another look soon. Thank you for your efforts and for following up. :) Durova ^Charge! 17:45, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Following up: thank you for the reminder and excellent work. Durova ^Charge! 23:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Dresden photochrom2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~ ωαdεstεr16 «talk stalk» 20:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Thank you very much. :) Durova ^Charge! 21:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Have you been asked to edit and remove material from ANI at whim [1] os this just presumption on your part? Giano ( talk) 21:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Permission is not required to manually archive that type of thread. I did a similar one last week and the decision was well received. Best regards, Durova ^Charge! 22:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Hi Durova, I believe all the issues you raised there have been resolved by now. Can you please reconsider your opinion there? If you have any new issues, plesae feel free to list them there, so that we can start fixing them. Thanks. -- Ragib ( talk) 23:39, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Yes, thank you. Done. Thanks very much for your hard work. :) Durova ^Charge! 23:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC) reply