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Palm House at the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden, Finland, seen in a new featured picture
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WikiCup update

The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. The finalists and information about them are copied here from the longer WikiCup 2013 August newsletter by competition judges J Milburn and The ed17, with assistance from Rschen7754. You can sign up for the newsletter by adding your username to Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

  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.
American presidential candidates in 2012 included Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan, seen here campaigning at the Iowa State Fair.
English musician Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Beatles.
A group of all integers, with odd integers on the red line and even integers on the blue line. The parity of zero is even.
South African author Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote Burger's Daughter.

Eleven featured articles were promoted this week.

A panorama of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand.
The Skater by Gilbert Stuart

Nine featured pictures were promoted this week.

Jalovec, a 2,645-meter (8,677-foot) high mountain in Slovenia, is part of the Julian Alps

















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