Wookieepedia:Status Article Nominations Awards
(See the 2022 edition here!)
Welcome to the 2023 Status Article Nomination Awards! Greetings everyone, and a warm reception to the Wookieepedia Status Article Nomination Awards for the year 2023! For those who experienced the initial event last year, this occasion is a celebration of the quantitative accomplishments of Wookieepedia's contributors within our site's status article nominations (SAN) framework, encompassing the Featured, Good, and Comprehensive article nominations pathways.
The mechanics of the Status Article Nomination Awards involve NBDani and Imperators II gathering data pertaining to the status article nominations throughout 2023, with invaluable support from LucaRoR who extracts information from the source code of archived nomination pages. Subsequently, Imperators converts this code into a structured format suitable for spreadsheet management. Dani then employs their exceptional spreadsheet expertise to develop and maintain a dynamic system that uses nomination data as input, providing us with a diverse range of statistical insights into the contributors' efforts. The term "Input data on nominations" refers to the scraping of source code mentioned previously, alongside the meticulous monitoring of both the SAN archiving procedure and the administration of status article portfolios by WookieeProjects.
Greef Karga showing Din Djarin the status article progress over the past year The year 2023 was a significant one for the SAN, highlighted by an increase in the permitted number of concurrent Comprehensive and Good nominations, rising from four to six. This change is reflected in the augmented number of articles approved in 2023 compared to 2022. As in previous years, these achievements would not have been possible without the considerable assistance of our esteemed SAN archivist bot, JocastaBot (overseen by Cade Calrayn), and the dedicated, unwavering work of our SA review panel members and other nomination reviewers. We extend our gratitude to each of you!
Important Technical Information
Dani working hard on the SAN data As in the previous year, a key consideration was the limitation placed on nominators who are not affiliated with the AgriCorps and Inquisitorius status article review panels, restricting them to a maximum of six active Good article nominations and four active Featured article nominations concurrently. Consequently, any comparison of the quantity of status articles promoted between AC/Inq members and non-AC/non-Inq members is likely to encounter challenges related to equitable assessment. Therefore, we separated these two user groups early in the process of identifying the most productive nominators.
For the sake of practicality, users who were promoted to membership of the review panels during the year in question (for example, Lewisr joined the Inq in mid-2023) were considered panel members for the entire year, rather than dividing their contributions into separate segments. Additionally, any users who are currently blocked were excluded from the competition. For clarity, the data used in this year's SAN Awards is current as of January 10, 2024.
Are you prepared to discover the recipients of the Status Article Nomination Awards for 2023? LET'S BEGIN!
Status Article Nomination Awards
*The top nominators (highlighted in bold in the tables below) in each category will receive special award messages on their talk pages!
Pure Numbers
Nominators who successfully promoted the most articles to Comprehensive status.
Nominators who are neither Inquisitorius nor AgriCorps members and who promoted the most articles to status overall, as well as within the Good and Featured article categories.
Inquisitorius and AgriCorps members who successfully promoted the most articles to status overall, and in the Good and Featured article categories.
Top Scores
Status article nominators may be aware that JocastaBot maintains an informal "points" system for successful nominations, where each new Comprehensive article earns 1 point, each Good article earns 3 points, and each Featured article is worth 5 points.
Presented below are the nominators who achieved the highest point totals.
By Continuity
Comprehensive Articles
The nominators who elevated the most articles on canon, Star Wars Legends, and real-world (out-of-universe or OOU) topics to Comprehensive status.
Canon Articles
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who successfully promoted the most status articles on canon topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on canon topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
Legends Articles
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who successfully promoted the most status articles on Legends topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on Legends topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
OOU Articles
Non-AC/non-Inq nominators who successfully promoted the most status articles on OOU topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most status articles on OOU topics overall and within the Good and Featured article tiers.
Supporting WookieeProjects...or Not
WookieeProjects are designed to encourage collaboration among editors (including status article nominators) who are interested in contributing to articles related to specific areas of Star Wars, whether these are interconnected groups of in-universe subjects or distinct categories of real-world Star Wars media or other topics. The status article nomination system enables nominators to indicate any WookieeProjects that their nomination may be relevant to.
Affiliation with WookieeProjects
These are the nominators who provided the greatest support to WookieeProjects by promoting articles to Comprehensive status.
These are the non-AC/non-Inq nominators who supported the most WookieeProjects through their successful status article nominations.
The AC/Inq members who supported the most WookieeProjects through their successful status article nominations.
Independence!
These nominators successfully promoted the most articles not associated with any WookieeProjects to Comprehensive status.
These non-AC/non-Inq nominators brought the most articles (overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers) that were unaffiliated with any WookieeProjects to status.
The AC/Inq members who promoted the most articles (overall and in the Good and Featured article tiers) that were unaffiliated with any WookieeProjects to status.
WookieeProject Contributions
The tables are about to become more extensive, but please bear with us!
Overall
The non-AC/non-Inq nominators who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to status.
AC/Inq members who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to status.
CAs
Nominators who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to Comprehensive status.
GAs
The non-AC nominators who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to Good status.
AC members who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to Good status.
FAs
The non-Inq nominators who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to Featured status.
Inq members who promoted the most articles associated with specific WookieeProjects to Featured status.
Score
The non-AC/non-Inq nominators who accumulated the most of the aforementioned "points" through status articles associated with specific WookieeProjects.
AC/Inq members who accumulated the most points through status articles associated with specific WookieeProjects.
Additional Awards
Longest Status Article
A staggering 8,716 words—the length of the Pijal article, which Spookywilloww successfully brought to Featured status in 2023!
Participation Awards
In addition to all the users mentioned in the tables above, the following nominators also contributed to Wookieepedia's collection of status articles (bringing the total number of unique nominators this year to 55):
WookieeProjects
The WookieeProjects with the highest number of status article nominators.
WookieeProjects that achieved the highest total number of associated status articles and the highest total "score" for associated nominations.
WookieeProjects that had the highest number of associated Featured, Good, and Comprehensive articles, respectively.
New WookieeProjects
This year, Wookieepedia also witnessed the launch of a new WookieeProject:
- Visions (May 23, 2023)—dedicated to all aspects of the Star Wars: Visions series.
Please consider supporting this new WookieeProject!
Additional Interesting Facts
Total First-Place Awards
This year, the total count of first-place awards is 336.
"Most Valuable Nominator"
Just for entertainment :P, we have also identified our two "Most Valuable Nominators" (MVN), a meta-award recognizing high rankings across the awards lists.
Each placement is assigned a corresponding point value: third-place is worth 1 point, second-place earns 2 points, and first-place is awarded 3 points. Furthermore, the Longest Article award is worth an additional 1 point.
This year, our MVNs are AmazinglyCool (112 points) from the non-Inq/AC group and Imperators II (259 points) from the panel members.
Nomination Supporting the Most WookieeProjects
This year, one status article nomination, by Braha'tok enthusiast, was associated with a total of 10 WookieeProjects:
- Bestine IV — Ambition ; Astrography ; Battlefront ; Comics ; Fantasy Flight Games ; Novels ; Star Wars: Card Trader ; The Clone Wars ; The High Republic ; Video Games
Dates with the Most SA Activity
The following dates in 2023 saw the highest number of new status articles added to Wookieepedia's SA collection. It's interesting to note that in 2022, the highest numbers of CAs and SAs overall, and of FAs, were also in August and mid-March, respectively. It's almost... eerie.
Reviewing Your Personal Data
Are you interested in examining the data related to your own status article nominations? To enable nominators to thoroughly review their statistics, we have developed this tool. To gain access (and allow others to do so simultaneously!), please follow the link and then, in the top menu of the Google Sheets spreadsheet that appears, click File > Make a copy.
Within the Year in Review spreadsheet, you can input your Wookieepedia username in the yellow cell A2 and the year for which you wish to review data in the yellow cell B2. If you leave the username field blank, the tool will display the aggregate data for all nominators for that year. Please be aware that the tool now incorporates data from all years up to 2023, although data prior to 2022 may be incomplete.
Discussion
Do you have any inquiries, feedback, or expressions of joy or confusion? Please feel free to share them in the comments section below!
Additionally, we would like to pose a question to all of you:
Happy status article nominations! :) NBDani (they/them)Yeager's Repairs and Imperators II(Talk) 19:19, 13 March 2024 (UTC)