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The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes


This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 19 April through 25 April. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution. This edition of "Featured Content" also presents results from the ongoing WikiCup contest.

Seven featured articles were promoted this week.

Castell Coch
The Pyramid of Unas in Sakkara, Egypt.

Three featured lists were promoted this week.

Something's growing

Ten featured pictures were promoted this week.

Agfa Optima 1a, one of the first fully automatic 35mm film cameras.
Two dolphins, a trident and a crowned polar bear adorn the 50 Øre note from Greenland

 

I have seen
the Manet painting
that was in
the National Gallery

 

and which
you were probably
saving
for your next trip to DC

 

Forgive me
it was so beautiful
so pink
and so new

 

(with apologies to William Carlos Williams)
Titian's The Entombment (1559).

Second round of the WikiCup concludes

The second round of the WikiCup has all wrapped up, and round three has now started; 34 competitors remain. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus. There was a number of high importance articles improved during the second round including the work by Philadelphia Coemgenus (submissions) on the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. His work there is a prime example of how collaborative working can be included in the WikiCup - he wasn't the only person working on the article but individually it was considered to be significant enough for him to earn the points. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), WikiCup champion in 2013 and 2014 maxxed out the bonus points by taking Dragonfly to Good Article. Another significant GA which was promoted during round two was Alexander Hamilton by Spanish Empire LeftAire (submissions); Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which was high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and so all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. On June 28, the top two in each group will progress automatically to the fourth round while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards.

Of course this is not a complete list of content produced by any one contestant; consider this a sample of their overall work.

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