This is the kind of thread I like... ;)

I've put myself in the Wikicup, so many of my edits are with the competition in mind.  I have a FA ([[Heart of a Woman]], Maya Angelou's fourth autobiography) that just passed, and I have four others languishing at GAC.  I also have an Angelou featured topic that's getting close to passing.  I've been reviewing a lot of GAs these days; for some reason, a lot of basketball articles, a subject I know very little about.  (That's the fun of reviewing articles--you get exposed to all kinds of new and different topics.)  Fortunately, the article I'm currently reviewing for GAC has gender-gap connections, [[Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics]].  I recently reviewed [[Cobi Crispin]], one of the major players for the Aussie team.  These girls are very impressive.

The Wikicup has really tapped into my competitive streak.  We're currently two weeks into the third round.  I easily passed the first, and stayed at about hafl-way through the pack during the second, although I was second in my pool, behind an editor who came in third last year.  Right now, my scores are low, but once my FA goes through, I'll be in contention.  Very fun!

Christine 
User: Figureskatingfan


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Emily Monroe <emilymonroe03@gmail.com> wrote:
I tend to avoid AfC, and #wikipedia-en-help because the people who tend to it also tend to really violate WP:OWN in a good-faith and incompetent manner. I'm sure the majority of articles in AfC will eventually pass muster, even if they don't when they are first reviewed. The few who can't is what makes me very, very wary of helping with AfC backlog.

I tend towards new and random page patrol, and vandal fighting myself. I've somewhat recently downloaded Huggle on my mac. There was some issues with Huggle starting at first ("Huggle needed to shut down" kind of messages), but since Wine Bottler updated, I haven't had any issues with that.

From,
Emily


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Carol Moore DC <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:
On 5/18/2013 12:35 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
Good luck with the AfC backlog Sarah - it depresses me to just think
about that.


*Wow, I didn't even know it existed. So there actually are people who will create an article (of interest to them) if you put up some refs, maybe an outline.  I have a bunch of folders with that sort of thing just keeping adding refs to but never get around to...

Definitely something to help increase number of women-related articles (though not too many of mine are).

Or increase our ability to generate them, especially those who may be have more enthusiasm for the referencing stage than the writing and defending edits stages...


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