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Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), whose contributions included featured articles on the Russian battleships Poltava and Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six of eight making it to the next round.

This year's first featured portal came in this round, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

Sixteen semi-finalists

This is, of course, only a bite-sized sample of each person's work, and in no case represents the whole contribution of the participants.

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  Besides his work with money from the Smithsonian Institution archives, first-place Godot13 also showed off his photographic skill, such as this featured picture.
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  Banksia coccinea, promoted this round, is only one of twenty-three featured articles on Banksia species created by second-place Casliber
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  Third-place Sturmvogel 66 brought the Russian battleship Poltava to featured article status: only one of many naval articles he's worked on.
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  Fourth-place Adam Cuerden restored some valuable photos, such as this one of John Lorimer Worden.
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  Fifth-place ThaddeusB created a good article on The Boat Race 2014, an annual competition between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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  Czar worked mainly on video games, which makes his contributions hard to illustrate with free images. Luckily, he has a good article on Phil Fish, designer of the videogame Fez.
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  Cwmhiraeth worked primarily on creating and expanding articles on different organisms, such as Echidna catenata, the chain moray eel.
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  12george1 worked with hurricanes, including bringing the rather scary 1979 Atlantic hurricane season to good article: There were two hurricanes, a tropical storm, and two tropical depressions active all at the same time.
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  The C of E both created and brought the article on the iconic cricket painting, Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury, to good article status this round.
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  Matty.007 brought an article on the World War II British minesweeper, HMS Algerine (J213), to good article status.
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  WikiRedactor brought Marina Diamandis's album Electra Heart through good article status, and all the way to featured article.
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  Yellow Evan worked on destructive typhoons from the 1980s, such as Typhoon Nelson (1985).
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  Cloudz679 brought two articles on Czech footballers (Tomáš Rosický shown) to good article status.
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  While it's a bit hard to explain List of Major League Baseball hitters who have batted in 10 runs in one game in a short caption, Bloom6132 did excellent work on it. (pictured: Wilbert Robinson, the first person to achieve it)
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  User:Prism created many good articles on albums and songs, such as "Runaway Daydreamer" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (pictured).

Runners-up

And, of course, just because they didn't pass to the current round doesn't mean they didn't make valued contributions to Wikipedia. Here's some of the work done by those who didn't pass.

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  Sven Manguard created a featured portal on literature, the first portal in the competition this year. (Don Quixote shown.)
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  Rodw always has beautifully-illustrated articles, as his photo for his good article Sutton Court shows.
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  Red Phoenix brought the article on the Sega CD to featured article, and the WonderSwan to good article.
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  Ruby2010 has a lovely good article on Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll.
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  John Baker White served in the War of 1812, and remains the longest-serving Clerk of Court in Hampshire County, Virginia. Caponer raised his article to good article status.
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  Montanabw raised the article on Lipizzan, a breed of horse, to good article status.

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9 July 2014

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• Thanks J Milburn and Adam Cuerden for a nice report. --Pine^✉ 06:37, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Angelou FT

Hey guys, thanks for the mention. Angelou *only* wrote 7 autobiographies, not 9. I'm not sure how to edit it, so I bring it to your attention. Great edition of the Signpost! Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 20:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Impressive work BTW! --99of9 (talk) 02:22, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, there's nine articles in the topic, of course, and I forgot for a moment that two of them are overviews. I've only read the first three of her autobiographies, so... (memo to self: fix this: I loved the ones I read.) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:41, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]