User:Casliber/wikicup scoring

Okay, I am laying out all the (to my mind) remotely feasible multipliers discussed so far. I (or any other helpful person) can bracket reasons/doubts/queries after them. After reading Nergaal's comments on the subject, I believe a standard 2x multiplier across the board works well, and is stackable/cumulative.^[1]

Likely contenders

These ones are easily definable, contain a fair number of articles and are pretty core encyclopedic.

Any sovereign country
Any leader of a sovereign country (Query - past as well as present?)
Any chemical element
Any nobel prize winner
Any World Heritage listed Site
Any capital city
Any ocean
Any continent
Any desert
Any mountain range
Any unit of time (anything from second, minute hour to geological periods (Cretaceous/Mesozoic etc.)
Any biological taxon of order or higher (family?? class?? - I lean to order...)
Multiplier for article size (FA/GA) - up to 15 kb prose size (with PDA tool) =smaller, 16-30 kb = medium, and > 31 kb large (these are initial estimates on my part just to start discussion)

How about rivers longer than 2000 km (or something like that)? Nergaal (talk) 00:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Underrepresented FA classes

I'd be tempted to make multiplier valid for GAs as well as FAs given GAN is now an integral step to FA.

Awards, decorations and vexillology
Business, economics and finance
Chemistry and mineralogy
Computing
Food and drink
Health and medicine
Language and linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy and psychology

Core/Vital issue

BUT....we have Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000 (note merger talks on talk page) and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded - now we have 1,2,3, and 4 levels!

Any Level 3 (1000 of them). Nergaal (talk) 00:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Possible contenders

Some issues with each of these.

Any food staple (a type of food rather than a brand etc.)
Any language
Any colour. (obvious ones are key articles, but many esoteric/designer colours...)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Popular pages (not a bad list but how do we police it?)
Any musical instrument.
Any BLP. (one less to reference anway...)
Any article subject to arbcom sanctions (to reflect a difficult editing environment?)
Any article in the top 1000 most-viewed list (on whatever specified date) Sasata (talk) 05:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Footnotes

^ An example might be a food staple - let's say to get potato to FA (which has the potential to be a massive article) - then we have 100 x 2 (underrepresented cat at FA, i.e. food), x 2 (vital article), possibly x 2 (long article) - gives us 800 points. (off the top of my head if we had 1= short, 1.5 = medium, and 2 = long article)

[1] An example might be a food staple - let's say to get potato to FA (which has the potential to be a massive article) - then we have 100 x 2 (underrepresented cat at FA, i.e. food), x 2 (vital article), possibly x 2 (long article) - gives us 800 points. (off the top of my head if we had 1= short, 1.5 = medium, and 2 = long article)

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