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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

Wikidata weekly summary #509

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Numbered Routes in Zambia moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Numbered Routes in Zambia, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. noq (talk) 18:19, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, 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 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 Needed.

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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, 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 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 Needed.

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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Zambia route signs

Regarding this where are you getting information that route number signs look like ? I can't find anything in the Zambian Highway Code. –Fredddie 22:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@Fredddie:, I just used those signs temporarily, and currently finding out about signs there. I asked @Chils Kemptonian:, but he says that numbering is not common there. I suspect that Zambia uses the SADC road sign standard and I’m going to design the signs over the next few days in Inkscape.
https://41.175.8.225/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Zambian-Highway-Code.pdf(Zambia
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_road_signs_in_the_Southern_African_Development_Community (Commons Road Signs)
https://www.transport.gov.za/documents/11623/109113/SARTSM_V2full_2019_compressed-pages_1_51.pdf/106cc340-5d33-49ef-81f6-f6096ab6a10d (Standardization report)

TapticInfo (talk) 07:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

@Fredddie:, Just realized, the reasoning behind the numbering. That was based on OpenStreetMaps, Google Maps, and other mapping systems as per the Zambian government and SADC report TapticInfo (talk) 21:05, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Zambian Road Designation.

This link may help a bit with knowing which roads are "Main Roads" & which ones are "District Roads".

https://old.zambialii.org/node/8147 (Road & Road Traffic Amendment; Cap 464)

This Act may only describe which places are connected by the road. After reading, it is up to us to look carefully at a map and figure out exactly which roads are being talked about in the Act. That's what I did for M14 Road (Zambia) and M7 Road (Copperbelt).

At the moment, I haven't found any easier method of verifying that we are writing the "Correct Information" on Zambian Road Articles apart from this link. Google Maps, although trusted, has a lot of errors and OpenStreetMap may not have every road labelled. Chils Kemptonian (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Chils Kemptonian:, Thanks for providing me with all these documents, I saw the one you left in reply to me on your talk page as well and will try an go through them when I have some time, since they are long.
Also are you enjoying the updates to the road network articles or should I change anything?

TapticInfo (talk) 21:00, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

16:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 March 2022

Wikidata weekly summary #513

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)