(See the 2022 edition here!)
Hello all, and welcome to the 2023 edition of Wookieepedia Status Article Nomination Awards! Those who witnessed the inaugural edition of this event last year know it celebrates the quantitative achievements of Wookieepedians in our site's status article nominations (SAN) system—which includes the Featured, Good, and Comprehensive article nominations processes.
The way the Status Article Nomination Awards work is through us, NBDani and Imperators II, collecting the data on the status article nominations of the year 2023 via magnificent help from LucaRoR in scraping the source code of archived nomination pages. Imperators then converts said code into usable data that can be managed on a spreadsheet, after which Dani uses their uncanny spreadsheet wizardry skills to create and maintain a dynamic system that takes input data on nominations and in return gives us statistical data of the most various sorts on the nominators' contributions. "Input data on nominations" here refers to the aforementioned scraping of source code as well as the careful monitoring of both the SAN archiving process and the management of the status article portfolios of WookieeProjects.
2023 was a huge year for the SAN, as we saw the number of allowed simultaneous Comprehensive and Good nominations raised from four to six, which is reflected in the increase of 2023's passed articles compared to 2022. And as before, these new heights could not have been reached without the massive help of our beloved SAN archivist bot JocastaBot (managed by Cade Calrayn) and the selfless, tireless work of our SA review panelmembers and other reviewers of the nominations, so thank you all!
Technical note
Similarly to last year, an important factor that had to be considered was that nominators who are not part of the AgriCorps and Inquisitorius status article review panels are limited to only having six active Good article nominations and four active Featured article nominations at the same time, respectively. That means that any competition in the quantity of status articles promoted between ACs/Inqs and non-ACs/non-Inqs is prone to running into issues related to objective comparison, so we had to separate these two groups of users early on when determining the most productive nominators.
For the purposes of practicality, however, users promoted to membership of the review panels during the year in question (for example, Lewisr became an Inq in mid-2023) were counted as panel members for that entire year instead of their contributions being separated into two parts. In addition, any users who are blocked at this time were also disqualified from the competition. For the record, the data that is used in this year's SAN Awards is up-to-date through January 10, 2024.
*The nominators who placed first (bolded in the tables below) in their respective categories also get corresponding fun talk page award messages!
Nominators who promoted the most articles to Comprehensive status.
Nominators who are not part of the Inquisitorius or the AgriCorps and who promoted the most articles to status overall as well as in the Good and Featured article tiers.
Inquisitorius and AgriCorps members who promoted the most articles to status overall as well as in the Good and Featured article tiers.
Status article nominators may already know that JocastaBot maintains a system of casual "points" for successful nominations, with each new Comprehensive article scoring 1 point, each Good article netting 3 points, and 5 points being awarded for each Featured article.
Here are the nominators who scored the most points.
The nominators who brought to Comprehensive status the most articles on canon, Star Wars Legends, and real-world (out-of-universe or OOU) subjects.
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who promoted the most status articles on canon subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on canon subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who promoted the most status articles on Legends subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on Legends subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who promoted the most status articles on OOU subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on OOU subjects overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers.
WookieeProjects aim toward facilitating collaboration between editors (among them, status article nominators) interested in working on articles related to specific domains of Star Wars, be it either interrelated groups of in-universe subjects or specific categories of real-world Star Wars media or other subjects. The status article nomination system allows nominators to denote any WookieeProjects their nomination may fall within the scope of.
These are the nominators who supported the most WookieeProjects by promoting articles to Comprehensive status.
These are the non-AC/non-Inq nominators who supported the most WookieeProjects with their successful status article nominations.
The AC/Inq members who supported the most WookieeProjects with their successful status article nominations.
These nominators promoted to Comprehensive status the most articles not affiliated with any WookieeProjects.
These non-AC/non-Inq nominators brought to status the most articles (overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers) unaffiliated with any WookieeProjects.
The AC/Inq members who promoted to status the most articles (overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers) unaffiliated with any WookieeProjects.
The tables are going to get somewhat bigger now, but bear with us!
The non-AC/non-Inq nominators who promoted to status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
AC/Inq members who promoted to status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
Nominators who promoted to Comprehensive status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects
The non-AC nominators who promoted to Good status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
AC members who promoted to Good status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
The non-Inq nominators who promoted to Featured status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
Inq members who promoted to Featured status the most articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
The non-AC/non-Inq nominators who scored the most of the abovementioned " points" with status articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
AC/Inq members who scored the most points with status articles affiliated with specific WookieeProjects.
Kriffing 8,716 words—the length of the article on Pijal, which Spookywilloww brought to Featured status in 2023!
In addition to all the users noted in the tables above, the following nominators also contributed to Wookieepedia's collection of status articles (bringing the total of unique nominators this year to 55):
The WookieeProjects with the most status article nominators.
WookieeProjects that had the highest total number of affiliated status articles and the highest total "score" for affiliated nominations.
WookieeProjects that had the highest number of affiliated Featured, Good, and Comprehensive articles respectively.
This year, Wookieepedia also saw the launch a new WookieeProject:
- Visions (May 23, 2023)—focusing on everything related to the Star Wars: Visions series.
Be sure to show support to this new WookieeProject!
Total first-place count
This year, the total number of first-place awards is 336.
"Most Valuable Nominator"
Just for fun :P we've also determined our two "Most Valuable Nominators" (MVN), which is a meta-award for ranking high in the above awards lists.
Every placement above is taken to have a corresponding point value: each third-place is worth 1 point, second-places give 2 points each, and 3 points are awarded for each first-place. In addition, the award for the Longest article is worth an additional 1 point.
This year, our MVNs are AmazinglyCool (112 points) from among non-Inqs/ACs and Imperators II (259 points) from among the panel members.
Nomination supporting the most WookieeProjects
There was one status article nomination this year, by Braha'tok enthusiast, that was affiliated with a total of 10 WookieeProjects:
- — Ambition; Astrography; Battlefront; Comics; Fantasy Flight Games; Novels; Star Wars: Card Trader; The Clone Wars; The High Republic; Video Games
Most SA-heavy dates
The following dates of 2023 saw the highest numbers of new status articles added to Wookieepedia's SA collection. Note that in 2022 the highest numbers of CAs and SAs overall, and of FAs, were respectively in August and in the middle of March too. It's almost... spooky.
The SAN review tool vaguely resembles this crowbar but is even more useful.
Interested in seeing the data for your own status article nominations? To allow nominators to review their numbers in full, we have created this tool. In order to access it (and let others do so at the same time!), please follow the link and then in the top menu of the Google Sheets spreadsheet that appears click .
In the spreadsheet, you can type in your Wookieepedia username in the yellow cell and the year the data for which you wish to review in the yellow cell . If you leave the username field blank, the tool shows the total data for all nominators that year. Please note that now the tool incorporates data from all years up to 2023, although data from before 2022 may be incomplete.