Wikipedia talk:The 1000 Challenge (Turkey)

Merhaba!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Contest

@CeeGee: and @Nedim Ardoğa:. I think if we organized a Destubathon for this sometime we might attract a lot of contributors, and some of them might stick around to help with the challenge long term. Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey/The Turkish National Destubathon would work or a general Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey/The Turkish National Contest covering everything from new articles to cleanup and GAs. I think if either of you were to make a grant proposal for something sometime we'd have better luck as WM are keen on people running contests/projects in their own nations. That might be a way of getting us more contributors long term. We'll think of something ;-) WM can offer up to $1000-1500 for contests I believe, so that could be split into something which is going to reward a few people for the hardest work on Turkey for a month or two.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:43, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@CeeGee: and @Nedim Ardoğa:. Keep up the good work in the time being, I'll do my best to get something running for Turkey next year to attract more editors. I'm going to be busy with the Africa contest for the next six weeks, but I'll still try to flesh out a few of those villages when I can.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:05, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

• @Dr. Blofeld: Thank you for your nice words. Your contribution to WPTR, WP-related ideas and tireless try to motivate people are much appreciated. Good luck for your new task! See you soon again! CeeGee 05:25, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, I've started this. What would people like to do, obviously we'll keep the 1000 Challenge running independently and go for 1000 articles, but OK if we copy and "tip" entries into the 10,000 one after every hundred articles, or do we remain completely independent of it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Pictures of the Adana-Mersin railway

Hi all, if anybody has a picture of the Adana-Mersin railway, could they upload it? It would be nice to have a picture for the Wikipedia article. Thanks in advance! (Central Data Bank (talk) 19:35, 4 November 2016 (UTC))

Not the railway. But images of four stations on the railway; Mersin, Tarsus, Yenice and Adana. All can be seen in the relevant articles. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 00:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Excellent work!

Doing some great work here guys! Unfortunately I couldn't get the grant straight off to run the European contest I had in mind but I'm sure it will be possible at some point. In November I'm running Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest which will benefit Turkish women though. There will be over $4000 to win for participating, so if anybody thinks in November they can work on missing Turkish women bios they can be submitted for the contest and also put up here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:07, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

5,000/10,000 Challenge?

@CeeGee:, @Nedim Ardoğa:, @Dr. Blofeld: Now that the 1000 challenge has been completed, should we expand the challenge to 5,000 or maybe 10,000? (Central Data Bank (talk) 13:10, 10 January 2018 (UTC))

• Not exactly, we still have some red links in the list and we should add some other entries to compensate. It took about 16 months to complete this list and I think 5000 seems far off. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:53, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
• I am for the 5000-Challenge. WPTR is so poor compared with of Greece, Iran, Italy, France, Germany etc. To set higher targets is essential. CeeGee 15:55, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

It is very difficult for those contributers in Turkey to create new articles because of legal reasons. You can see that 86% of all articles have been created (or expanded) by just three of us. Among the 10 volunteers in the participant list some haven't created even one article. With this pace we need to create about 3400 more articles to complete the 5000. Well I am not optimistic to achive the 5000-articles task in near future. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 16:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Congrats! Yeah 5000 is too high with so few. 2000 alright? 2500?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:42, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Percentage

I don't exactly know why we still keep adding new articles to the list after the first 1000. Anyway, the strange thing is revising the numbers in the the percentage bar. The bar does not show after 100%. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:11, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

• I don't know why we shouldn't. The percentage figure does show in any case as I can see. I cannot understand what the problem is. CeeGee 20:53, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Lifting up the bar

I am with the proposal of Dr. Blofeld lifting up the bar to 2,000. If no one objects within one week I will move the W:The 1000 Challenge (Turkey) to W:The 2000 Challenge (Turkey), make the appropriate changes and archive the achievements 1-1000. Waiting for your comments. CeeGee 19:35, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

For what purpose ? The articles about Turkey are already included in WPTR. The contest, I understand was used to accelerate cerating new articles and this goal was achieved. I don't see what advantage we'll gain by lifting the bar. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

• It would have the same purpose as it has had earlier, namely to keep on maintaining the awareness for creating more Turkey-related articles. Is the goal for 1,000 articles an absolute one for your opinion? CeeGee 12:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

For a meaningful contest there should be a limit. 2000 is better than 1000. Very well; then 3000 is better than 2000 and 4000 is better than 3000. You see it goes to infinity. Anyway it does no harm to continue. But still I don't see how it helps. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 16:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Enough ?

The title of this contest was 1000 challange. It was completed by mid January, but it was expanded. Although I disagree with the expansion, I continued to add articles, to compansate for the deleted articles in the original 0-1000 list. Now that an extra 100 articles are added, I feel this reserve is more than enough. I am not going to add my future contributions to this list anymore. After all this list is not a WPTR project it is just a contest. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:09, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Turkish people

Dear wikipedians, for the last two years now, I have seen the Turkish people article in a complete mess. It is time for the nationalist nonsense to stop (whether pan-Turkish or anti-Turkish). Are there any wikipedians willing to help me write-up an objective article? O.celebi (talk) 17:42, 20 June 2018 (UTC)