DAB Challenge - March

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 March 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 March

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  798 fixed
   2. ShelfSkewed  428 fixed
   3. R'n'B  374 fixed
   4. Tassedethe  228 fixed
   5. Cnwilliams  119 fixed
   6. Streded  76 fixed
   7. Natg 19  53 fixed
   8. BD2412  51 fixed
   9. MidnightAlarm  30 fixed
  10. Discospinster  24 fixed
  11. Crow Basket  15 fixed
  12. RussBot  15 fixed
  13. StAnselm  14 fixed
  14. Simon12  12 fixed

The List for March

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. GEO Television   425 links
   2. Mister International   37 links
   3. Bengali wedding   18 links
   4. Ariful Islam   14 links
   5. Beit Warszawa   13 links
   6. Order of Saint George   10 links
   7. Chinese chives   9 links
   8. Middle Eastern mythology   9 links
   9. Yeni Mosque   9 links
   10. Executive Action   8 links
   11. Muhammad Shafi (disambiguation)   8 links
   12. Resilience   8 links
   13. Vainakh tower architecture   8 links
   14. Australian fur seal   7 links
   15. Baby (disambiguation)   7 links
   16. Buckland, Devon   7 links
   17. Bellmore   6 links
   18. Doulatabad   6 links
   19. Florentinus   6 links
   20. International Musician   6 links
   21. Jamia Masjid   6 links
   22. Li Shijie   6 links
   23. Passage   6 links
   24. Rockweed   6 links
   25. Tân Uyên   6 links
   26. Water snake   6 links
   27. Abdoulaye Camara   5 links
   28. Al-Omari Mosque   5 links
   29. Charles Boyle   5 links
   30. Hasanabad   5 links
   31. Kajal   5 links
   32. Muhammad cartoon   5 links
   33. Northern France   5 links
   34. Old Capitol   5 links
   35. Protopriest   5 links
   36. Sankt Margarethen   5 links
   37. Structural optimization   5 links
   38. The Jack Paar Show   5 links
   39. Tirupattur (disambiguation)   5 links
   40. Video Games   5 links
   41. William Coxon   5 links
   42. World Music Festival   5 links



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