User:AryKun/Challenges

From User:Bilorv/Challenges:

General challenges

Alphabet

Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet.

• Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.

Ambiguation

Create two articles that have the same title except for parentheticals, such as any two of King, King (chess) and King (playing card).

• Bonus for also creating the disambiguation page.

Archaeologist {done+bonus}

Receive a Did you know credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand.

• Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.
• Anomochilus

Calendar

Receive a credit for an item featured at In the news, On this day or Did you know? on each day of the month i.e. from 1st to 31st.

• Bonus for achieving this in all three categories, or at Today's featured article.

Four-eyes

Get an article whose title contains exactly four "i"s to featured article status.

• Bonus for four such articles.

Hooker

Have five Did you know hooks listed at WP:DYKSTATS (at over 600 views per hour for a non-imaged hook or 900 views per hour for an imaged hook) in a single calendar month.

Jack of all trades

Review an article at Wikipedia:Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.

• Bonus for successfully nominating one in each category.

Maximalist

Create an article that reaches over 100,000 bytes in length.

Millionaire

Create an article that gets a million views (all time total). (Not to be confused with the Million Award.)

Minimalist {done+bonus}

Get an article to good article status with fewer than 50 edits in its page history at the time the bot adds the good article icon.

• Bonus for featured article or featured list status.
• Mini scule

Phoenix

Recreate an article that has been deleted; bring a delisted good article back to good article status; and bring a former featured article back to featured article status.

Polyglot

Introduce sources in 15 foreign languages to articles. Each source should contain information not found in any reliable English-language source (to ensure WP:NONENG compliance).

• 5 - German, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish

Polyonymous

Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.

• Bonus for 25 namespaces.

Rock around the clock

Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week (in UTC), as measured by your XTools timecard.

Switch

Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to eighth) within the section. (Note that the first slot is the image slot.)

Textbook example

Get an article that is linked from any Manual of Style page (a page linked in Template:Manual of Style) to good article status.

Vitality

Improve 5 Level 5 Vital articles, 4 Level 4 Vital articles, 3 Level 3 Vital articles, 2 Level 2 Vital articles or 1 Level 1 Vital article by one or more classes.

Wall-to-wall coverage

Have three pieces of content featured on the Main Page simultaneously, in three different sections.

Topic-specific challenges

Animal, vegetable, mineral

Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.)

Artist

Get three articles to featured article status whose titles contain the standalone words "red", "green" and "blue" in their title. (For instance, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Green's theorem and Green-Wood Cemetery count for "green", but Greenpeace does not.)

Astronaut

Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets. (For instance, Omar Sharif counts for Mars.)

Centenarian

Create bios for people who were born in each century from the 1000s to the 1900s, inclusive.

• Bonus for also taking these articles to good article status.

Decadent

Create bios for people who were born in each decade from the 1900s to the 1990s, inclusive.

• Bonus if each article falls under the scope of WikiProject Women in Red.

Diplomat

For each pair of continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America), create an article with close geographic ties to two countries, one from each continent in the pair. (For example, an article relating to an African country and an Asian country works for the first pair). This requires a total of 15 articles.

EGOT

Create four different bios about an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, an Oscar winner and a Tony winner.

• Bonus: Add a Peabody Award, Pulitzer Prize and a Razzie winner.

Elementary

Create four articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters "tin", "iron", "lead" and "gold". (For instance, Acting, Anti-nuclear movement or Betti number all count for "tin", but Avanti un altro! does not.)

Explorer

Create an article about a populated place in each of the 30 climates of the Köppen climate classification.

Librarian

Create articles about books from each of the ten Dewey Decimal classes.

Marathon

Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon (or within a mile of it).

Rainbow

Create articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters of a shade of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. (Shades of cyan can count as blue or green, and magenta for purple. Names have to be listed at the given templates and can exclude the base colour name e.g. for robin egg blue, the title must contain "robin egg". Are druryi would count for "red".)

Round the world

For every country in the world, create an article with close geographic ties to that country.

Showcase

Create an article for every episode of a television show with at least six episodes.

Well-dressed

Create articles about each type of garment: hat, top, bottoms, shoes.

Zoo

Get three articles to good article status that are not about an animal but contain an animal as a standalone word in their title. (For example, Rhinoceros Party, but not University of Oxford.)

• Bonus if the three animals are in the same order.