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  1478 fixed
   2. ShelfSkewed  484 fixed
   3. GoingBatty  339 fixed
   4. R'n'B  263 fixed
   5. Khalitate  201 fixed
   6. Natg 19  65 fixed
   7. Cnwilliams  53 fixed
   8. Tassedethe  21 fixed
   9. StAnselm  13 fixed
  10. BD2412  12 fixed
  11. Musashi1600  12 fixed
  12. RussBot  10 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   36 links
   2. Mister International   36 links
   3. Convergence   30 links
   4. Test function   21 links
   5. Kamikaze drone   19 links
   6. Bengali wedding   18 links
   7. Suicide drone   18 links
   8. Thermal emission   13 links
   9. Dualism (disambiguation)   12 links
   10. Prospectus   12 links
   11. Regionalisation   12 links
   12. Serajul Huq   11 links
   13. Executive Action   9 links
   14. Yeni Mosque   9 links
   15. Abuse of a corpse   8 links
   16. An Lộc   8 links
   17. 88mm   7 links
   18. An Nhơn   7 links
   19. Doulatabad   7 links
   20. Liberal nationalism   7 links
   21. Stator   7 links
   22. The Pinnacles   7 links
   23. Tibetan language   7 links
   24. Bellmore   6 links
   25. Florentinus   6 links
   26. Hermandad   6 links
   27. International Musician   6 links
   28. Jamia Masjid   6 links
   29. Katsura   6 links
   30. Kojima   6 links
   31. Li Shijie   6 links
   32. Mexican League   6 links
   33. Nagara   6 links
   34. Neto (suffix)   6 links
   35. Poi   6 links
   36. Rockweed   6 links
   37. Sheykhan   6 links
   38. Smoke shop   6 links
   39. Sochi International Film Festival   6 links
   40. Toshiya Fujita   6 links
   41. Tân Uyên   6 links
   42. 1996 Bangladeshi general election   5 links
   43. Abdoulaye Camara   5 links
   44. Ahkam al-Qur'an   5 links
   45. Al-Omari Mosque   5 links
   46. Bantu   5 links
   47. Cinderella (disambiguation)   5 links
   48. Dalia   5 links
   49. Doux   5 links
   50. Edmund West   5 links
   51. Groundnut   5 links
   52. HK Martin   5 links
   53. Hasanabad   5 links
   54. Hidden history   5 links
   55. Hylaeus   5 links
   56. Jahandad Khan   5 links
   57. Kajal   5 links
   58. LIG   5 links
   59. Lazar Stefanović   5 links
   60. Long Điền   5 links
   61. Luis Uribe   5 links
   62. Löwenberg   5 links
   63. Manali   5 links
   64. Manistee   5 links
   65. Mario Sandoval   5 links
   66. Mill   5 links
   67. Minjudang   5 links
   68. Mohammadpur   5 links
   69. New Paltz, New York   5 links
   70. North East Scotland   5 links
   71. Nowshera   5 links
   72. Order of Distinction   5 links
   73. Polarization   5 links
   74. Preparatory school   5 links
   75. Protopriest   5 links
   76. Saint John   5 links
   77. Samuel Mather   5 links
   78. Sankt Margarethen   5 links
   79. Shaheed Minar   5 links
   80. St. Leonhard   5 links
   81. St. Mary's Episcopal Church   5 links
   82. Structural optimization   5 links
   83. Tearjerker   5 links
   84. Thall, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa   5 links
   85. The Jack Paar Show   5 links
   86. Times-Union   5 links
   87. Timing   5 links
   88. University Place   5 links
   89. Vainakh tower architecture   5 links
   90. World Music Festival   5 links



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