Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/January 2025/Project news
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From the editors |
  
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Happy New Year, and welcome to the first Bugle for 2025!
In this edition of the Bugle, the Military History WikiProject's lead coordinator Hawkeye7 contributes an op-ed providing an overview of the state of the wikiproject.
The regular article news section includes two new featured articles and a new featured picture. No articles were promoted to A-class last month, underlining a key point in Hawkeye's op-ed. Turning to the book review section, we have reviews by Pickersgill-Cunliffe and Nick-D on works looking at German involvement in the Flanders Campaign and 50 years of Australian military history, respectively.
Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk)
Military Historian and MilHist Newcomer of the Year awards |
The Military Historian of the Year awards have been distributed, the Golden Wiki going to Hawkeye7, who previously won in 2012. The Silver Wiki was awarded jointly to Donner60 and Zawed and the Bronze wiki to Pickersgill-Cunliffe. Hog Farm, MSGJ, Noclador and Simongraham were runners-up.
The Military History Newcomer of the Year awards have also been handed out, Matarisvan receiving the Golden Wiki and CommissarDoggo, Klutserke and Wahreit the WikiProject Barnstar.
Congratulations to all members of the project on your achievements last year, and best wishes for 2025!
Awards and honours |
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There were no awards last month.
Contest department |
  
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The December edition of the contest department's article writing, and improvement, contest saw Zawed take the top spot with 98 points from 16 articles, 2 brought to GA. He claims the Wikichevrons as his prize. Simongraham finished second in the December contest with 74 points from 12 articles, 1 brought to GA, and was awarded the Writer's Barnstar. Congratulations to both for their outstanding contributions in the last monthly contest for the year.
December's contest ended the year with a large number of entries from many contributors. Other entries in December were submitted by Djmaschek, Dofftoubab, Gog the Mild, Hog Farm, Pickersgill-Cunliffe, Simongraham, and new contributors TheBestEditorInEngland and Tylermack999.
With the December results in, the 2024 competition concluded and so, after a drum roll of appropriate duration, the Military History Writers' Contest Cup went to Zawed, who surged to the lead in annual contest points in December, finishing the year with 335 points from 54 articles. Zawed also received the Writers' Contest Cup for 2023. Simongraham had a notable year of contributions, with the second-highest score, 315 points from 41 articles. The full results for all 17 contributors in 2024 can be found here.
Congratulations to all contributors to the contest on your achievements last year, and best wishes for 2025!
The January 2025 edition of the contest is now open. This starts the new annual contest for 2025. Monthly totals are applied to the overall 2025 Writer's Contest Cup, which will be decided at the end of December 2025. Please consider submitting your current article projects as entries in this friendly competition and display of notable project work.
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