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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.

 Done

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.

 Done

No. Article Nomination Page Initial Creation DYK run Time between creation and DYK Bonus?
1 Ball Ground, Georgia DYK nomination 18 October 2002 28 October 2022 20 years 10 days Yes
2 Bethlehem, Georgia DYK nomination 18 October 2002 31 July 2022 19 years 9 months 13 days Yes
3 Zabuton DYK nomination 6 August 2005 5 January 2023 17 years 4 months 30 days Yes
4 alt attribute DYK nomination 27 August 2005 1 November 2022 17 years 2 months 5 days Yes
5 Shoshin DYK nomination 2 January 2007 29 September 2022 15 years 8 months 27 days No
6 Faces of War Memorial DYK nomination 16 March 2008 30 January 2023 14 years 10 months 14 days No
7 An Appeal for Human Rights DYK nomination 27 February 2010 6 December 2022 12 years 9 months 9 days No

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 - Pending
  • Engineering and technology - K-Meleon (Review at Talk:K-Meleon/GA1: no Failed)
  • Geography and places - Pending
  • History - Pending
  • Language and literature - Pending
  • Mathematics and mathematicians - Pending
  • Media and drama - WUPA (Review at Talk:WUPA/GA1:  Passed)
  • Music - Pending
  • Natural sciences - Pending
  • Philosophy and religion - Pending
  • Social sciences and society - Pending
  • Sports and recreation - Pending
  • 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 - Nephila antipodiana (link)
  2. Chinese - Jieba (diff)
  3. Spanish - DoudouLinux (link)
  4. Italian - DoudouLinux (link)
  5. Korean - LARIAT (diff)
  6. Russian - TOSS (operating system) (diff)
  7. Japanese - Zazen Wasan (link)
  8. Portuguese - GNOME Text Editor (diff)
  9. Burmese - Statue of Gautama Buddha (Myanmar) (diff)

Polyonymous

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

 Done 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.

 Done completed 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.

 Done: alt attribute is linked at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (specifically at MOS:ACCIM).

Animal, vegetable, mineral

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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.)  Done

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

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).

 Done: Buford, Georgia Ball Ground, Georgia

Distance: 26.1 miles in a straight line using this resource