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10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Cam Henderson (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Add sources
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub CFL Evaluation Camp (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
810 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Tim Conway (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
123 Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: GA National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (talk) Add sources
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub 1997 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Add sources
338 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Phoenix Coyotes (talk) Please add more sources Add sources
21 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Povel Ramel (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Cleanup
57 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA King & Spalding (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Cleanup
12,841 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Avicii (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Cleanup
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Stratford High School (Connecticut) (talk) Please add more content Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
213 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Krasnodar Krai (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Expand
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub 2007 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Expand
32 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Jack Baker (activist) (talk) Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Unencyclopaedic
20 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C David O. Carter (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more sources Unencyclopaedic
1,396 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: A Benigno Aquino III (talk) Unencyclopaedic
8,673 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: A Shooting of Trayvon Martin (talk) Merge
35 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: FA 2011–12 Argentine Primera División season (talk) Merge
137 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA P16 (gene) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more sources Merge
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub 1984 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 2012 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship (talk) Please add more content Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
46 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Ian Hamilton (critic) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Wikify
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Stub Prayer of the Blessed Virgin (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Whorehouse Meadow (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ambuchanania leucobryoides (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Orphan
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Sweden at the 1948 Summer Olympics (talk) Please add more content Please add more sources Stub
82 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start The Impossible Dream (Richard & Adam album) (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
30 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Unassessed, Predicted class: Start Promontory Financial Group (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Please add more sources Stub
2 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA Howie Dickenman (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more wikilinks Stub
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Swaziland at the 1972 Summer Olympics (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Marshall Islands national basketball team (talk) Please add more content Please create proper section headings Please add more images Please add more sources Stub

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Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
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Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

  1. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
  2. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
  4. Canada Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
  5. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
  6. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
  8. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Poland Piotrus (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), Michigan Dana boomer (submissions), Prince Edward Island Status (submissions), United States Ed! (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), England Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 06:09, 29 August 2013 (UTC)