The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is 👁 South Carolina
Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. 👁 South Carolina
   Courcelles (submissions)
2. 👁 Wales
   Kosack (submissions)
3. 👁 Hel, Poland
   Kees08 (submissions)
4. 👁 Image
   SounderBruce (submissions)
5. 👁 Scotland
   Cas Liber (submissions)
6. 👁 Marshall Islands
   Nova Crystallis (submissions)
7. 👁 Republic of Texas
   Iazyges (submissions)
8. 👁 United States
   Ceranthor (submissions)

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• 👁 Scotland
  Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• 👁 South Carolina
  Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• 👁 Wales
  Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• 👁 Romania
  Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• 👁 United States
  Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• 👁 United Nations
  Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• 👁 Florida
  Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• 👁 United States
  L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• 👁 Image
  Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• 👁 Denmark
  MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• 👁 United States
  Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• 👁 Image
  Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• 👁 Ohio
  Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:39, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[]