DAB Challenge - May

Welcome to the Monthly DAB Challenge! The purpose of this competition is to see who can fix the most links to disambiguation pages that existed as of May 1st.

How to score points

The scoring system is straightforward - make an article no longer link to one of the disambigs in the list, and you earn one point.

These types of edits will earn you points:

Through redirect and template edits you can rack up points with a single edit. If a template with a disambig link is transcluded in 30 articles, and fixing that template causes all 30 articles to no longer link to the disambig, you receive 30 points. (Note though that it usually takes a couple of days for template fixes to be reflected by the articles that transclude them, so be patient when waiting to see results.)

These types of edits will NOT earn you points:

There are several compelling arguments I could make to justify this policy, but the simple truth is leaving out these scenarios made the programming a lot easier.

A final note on scoring: it isn't going to be perfect. Some edits will be improperly attributed, and others may not be caught by the system. But I've tried to keep this at a minimum, and don't expect it to ruin anyone's standings.

A word of caution

The purpose of this competition is to have fun, acknowledge the contributions of others, and improve Wikipedia. Anyone who does not make constructive edits (for instance, by making hasty, uninformed edits that have to be fixed later) will be banned indefinitely from the leaderboards. As insurance against this, I've created the ability to view the dab-fixing efforts of others (see below).

Current leaderboard for May

This list, updated hourly, includes anyone who has fixed at least 10 links from the disambig list this month. The second link goes to a page that lists what articles the user has fixed, what disambig was involved, and the diff of the "fixing" edit.

   1. Rodw  1202 fixed
   2. ShelfSkewed  420 fixed
   3. R'n'B  252 fixed
   4. GoingBatty  243 fixed
   5. Khalitate  129 fixed
   6. Cnwilliams  53 fixed
   7. Natg 19  44 fixed
   8. Tassedethe  19 fixed
   9. StAnselm  13 fixed
  10. BD2412  12 fixed
  11. Musashi1600  12 fixed
  12. RussBot  11 fixed

The List for May

On the first of every month, a new list of disambiguation pages with links is generated. Listed below are those disambiguation pages from the eligible list that have 5 or more incoming links. The full list of Challenge links is available at this page. The number of links is updated once daily, so you can see what disambigs are still available. If all links to a disambig are fixed, or if it is no longer a disambig, it will not be displayed.

   1. Legal recourse   40 links
   2. Mister International   36 links
   3. Convergence   30 links
   4. HK Martin   30 links
   5. Gallicism   27 links
   6. Test function   21 links
   7. Kamikaze drone   19 links
   8. Bengali wedding   18 links
   9. Suicide drone   18 links
   10. Civic society   16 links
   11. Guideway   16 links
   12. Prospectus   16 links
   13. Thermal emission   13 links
   14. Dualism (disambiguation)   12 links
   15. Regionalisation   12 links
   16. Thall, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa   12 links
   17. Serajul Huq   11 links
   18. Bình Long   9 links
   19. Executive Action   9 links
   20. Stator   9 links
   21. Yeni Mosque   9 links
   22. Abuse of a corpse   8 links
   23. An Lộc   8 links
   24. 88mm   7 links
   25. An Nhơn   7 links
   26. Doulatabad   7 links
   27. Liberal nationalism   7 links
   28. St. Leonard   7 links
   29. The Pinnacles   7 links
   30. Tibetan language   7 links
   31. Bellmore   6 links
   32. Counselor   6 links
   33. Florentinus   6 links
   34. Hermandad   6 links
   35. International Musician   6 links
   36. Jamia Masjid   6 links
   37. Katsura   6 links
   38. Kojima   6 links
   39. Li Shijie   6 links
   40. Mexican League   6 links
   41. Nagara   6 links
   42. Neto (suffix)   6 links
   43. Poi   6 links
   44. Rockweed   6 links
   45. Shaheed Minar   6 links
   46. Sheykhan   6 links
   47. Smoke shop   6 links
   48. Sochi International Film Festival   6 links
   49. Times-Union   6 links
   50. Toshiya Fujita   6 links
   51. Tân Uyên   6 links
   52. 1996 Bangladeshi general election   5 links
   53. Abdoulaye Camara   5 links
   54. Ahkam al-Qur'an   5 links
   55. Al-Omari Mosque   5 links
   56. American Indians   5 links
   57. Bantu   5 links
   58. Cinderella (disambiguation)   5 links
   59. Dalia   5 links
   60. Doux   5 links
   61. Edmund West   5 links
   62. Groundnut   5 links
   63. Han   5 links
   64. Hasanabad   5 links
   65. Hidden history   5 links
   66. Hylaeus   5 links
   67. Jahandad Khan   5 links
   68. Kajal   5 links
   69. LIG   5 links
   70. Lazar Stefanović   5 links
   71. Long Điền   5 links
   72. Luis Uribe   5 links
   73. Löwenberg   5 links
   74. Manali   5 links
   75. Manistee   5 links
   76. Mario Sandoval   5 links
   77. Mill   5 links
   78. Minjudang   5 links
   79. Mohammadpur   5 links
   80. New Paltz, New York   5 links
   81. North East Scotland   5 links
   82. Nowshera   5 links
   83. Order of Distinction   5 links
   84. Polarization   5 links
   85. Preparation   5 links
   86. Preparatory school   5 links
   87. Protopriest   5 links
   88. Saint John   5 links
   89. Samuel Mather   5 links
   90. Sankt Margarethen   5 links
   91. St. Leonhard   5 links
   92. St. Mary's Episcopal Church   5 links
   93. Structural optimization   5 links
   94. Tearjerker   5 links
   95. The Jack Paar Show   5 links
   96. Timing   5 links
   97. University Place   5 links
   98. Vainakh tower architecture   5 links
   99. Verrucomicrobia   5 links
   100. World Music Festival   5 links



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