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Alphabet

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Criteria: Create an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.

 In progress

Bonus

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  • 0 -
  • 1 -
  • 2 -
  • 3 -
  • 4 -
  • 5 -
  • 6 -
  • 7 -
  • 8 -
  • 9 -

Archaeologist

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Criteria: Receive a Did you know? credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand. Bonus if the article was created in 2005 or earlier.

No. Article Nomination Page Initial Creation DYK run Time between creation and DYK Bonus?
1

Calendar

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Criteria: Receive a credit for an item featured at In the news, On this day or Did you know? on each day of the month i.e. from 1st to 31st.


 In progress The links provided go to the talk pages of each article, where the DYK talk template at the top of the page can verify the date the article appeared on DYK.

(18 / 31)

Jack of all trades

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Criteria: Review an article at Wikipedia:Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.

 In progress

  • Agriculture, food and drink - Pending
  • Art and architecture - Axa Equitable Center
  • Engineering and technology - William E. Sawyer
  • Geography and places - Pending
  • History - Pending
  • Language and literature - Pending
  • Mathematics and mathematicians - Pending
  • Media and drama - KMIZ
  • Music - Pending
  • Natural sciences - Silver Hill Mine
  • Philosophy and religion - Pending
  • Social sciences and society - Draft Eisenhower movement
  • Sports and recreation - Geoff Bent
  • Video Games - Pending
  • Warfare - Pending
(2 / 15)

Polyglot

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Criteria: Introduce sources in 15 foreign languages to articles. Each source should contain information not found in any reliable English-language source (to ensure WP:NONENG compliance).

 In progress

  1. French -
  2. Spanish -
  3. Japanese -

Polyonymous

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Criteria: Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.

Namespace Totals

Rock around the clock

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Criteria: Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week (in UTC), as measured by your XTools timecard.


 In progress timeclock

Switch

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Criteria: Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to eighth) within the section. (Note that the first slot is the image slot.)

 Done

Textbook example

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Criteria: Get an article that is linked from any Manual of Style page (a page linked in Template:Manual of Style) to good article status.

 In progress:

Animal, vegetable, mineral

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 In progress Criteria: Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.)

Astronaut

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Criteria: Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets. (For instance, Omar Sharif counts for Mars.)

 In progress


Elementary

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Criteria: Create four articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters "tin", "iron", "lead" and "gold". (For instance, Acting, Anti-nuclear movement or Betti number all count for "tin", but Avanti un altro! does not.)

 In progress

  • Tin -
  • Iron -
  • Lead -
  • Gold -

Marathon

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Criteria: Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon (or within a mile).

 In progress