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Réunion

Does Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean next to Mauritius, count for points? BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:03, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As of right now, no. Neither the International Monetary Fund nor the United Nations have identified it as a developing economy. We could add it to the list by consensus, like we did for Greenland, but I'm not sure we want to do that a month and a half into the contest. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN

If you expand and nominate an article which appeared ITN, does it count for points? 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 12:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As per the scoring page, yes, if you do significant work on the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AirshipJungleman29: According to XTools, I have 23.1 authorship of the article, is it significant enough to gain points? 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 13:21, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see if it gets posted first. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:35, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to participate, go to this link. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 13:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Points for an entry

@TechnoSquirrel69, Ixtal, and Sawyer777: Late to notice this, but I think the points for one of my entries - Han Bong-zin - might have been calculated incorrectly. As of now, it has the five base DYK points and a 1.5 multiplier for being least-developed. According to the scoring page, In addition, DYK appearances for articles that were created during or before 2019 will be awarded at least 5 bonus points. For each additional year prior to 2019, the bonus increases by 1. The article for Bong-zin was started in 2011; see here. Wouldn't that mean it gets 13 extra points for age? Just wondering. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:38, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, BeanieFan11! I've made the correction on your submission as well as a handful of submissions from other participants. The bonus points are now noted on your submissions page. Let me know if you have any other questions. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:13, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Green's October 2024 edit-a-thon

Hello 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 13:15, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My flag

I know this is late into the contest, but I'm wondering if I could have my flag changed to Sao Tome and Principe's for the remaining duration, i.e. Yue. Thank you! Yue🌙 15:28, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yue:

Done. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:44, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Post-competition appearances

Hello, with this drawing to a close I thought it worth raising the question of what will happen to any FA/GA/DYK nominated before the end of the period but not passing. There may need to be rules for each. GAs may be the easiest to quickly wrap up of these, but FAs are dependent on coordinator decisions, and DYKs are dependent on a couple of steps before the main page even after the DYK passes review.

If the decision is to cut of points at status award at 30 September (ie passing of FA/GA, main page appearance of DYK), I think it would still be worth recording any in-process noms somehow, as while points are nice, the benefit of the contest in reducing systematic bias is also met by later article's prompted by the contest. While I expect some to get through in the next few weeks, I did a potential mockup with my current DYKs, for example. Best, CMD (talk) 04:01, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]