Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more: After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (
submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (
submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance
Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's Sturmvogel 66 (
submissions), whose contributions included featured articles on the Russian battleships
Poltava and
Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six of eight making it to the next round.
This is, of course, only a bite-sized sample of each person's work, and in no case represents the whole contribution of the participants.
Besides his work with money from the
Smithsonian Institution archives, first-place
Godot13 also showed off his photographic skill, such as this featured picture.
Banksia coccinea, promoted this round, is only one of twenty-three featured articles on Banksia species created by second-place
Casliber
Czar worked mainly on video games, which makes his contributions hard to illustrate with free images. Luckily, he has a good article on
Phil Fish, designer of the videogame Fez.
Cwmhiraeth worked primarily on creating and expanding articles on different organisms, such as Echidna catenata, the chain moray eel.
12george1 worked with hurricanes, including bringing the rather scary
1979 Atlantic hurricane season to good article: There were two hurricanes, a tropical storm, and two tropical depressions active all at the same time.
And, of course, just because they didn't pass to the current round doesn't mean they didn't make valued contributions to Wikipedia. Here's some of the work done by those who didn't pass.
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Angelou FT
Hey guys, thanks for the mention. Angelou *only* wrote 7 autobiographies, not 9. I'm not sure how to edit it, so I bring it to your attention. Great edition of the Signpost! Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 20:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC) reply