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  801 fixed
   2. ShelfSkewed  317 fixed
   3. R'n'B  300 fixed
   4. Tassedethe  182 fixed
   5. Cnwilliams  110 fixed
   6. Streded  76 fixed
   7. Natg 19  57 fixed
   8. BD2412  51 fixed
   9. Discospinster  24 fixed
  10. Crow Basket  15 fixed
  11. RussBot  15 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   440 links
   2. Socialist Party (India)   256 links
   3. Mister International   37 links
   4. List of Bengali films   30 links
   5. VVIP   19 links
   6. Bengali wedding   18 links
   7. Ariful Islam   14 links
   8. Muhammad ibn Abdallah   14 links
   9. Beit Warszawa   13 links
   10. Chinese chives   11 links
   11. Order of Saint George   10 links
   12. Buckland, Devon   9 links
   13. Middle Eastern mythology   9 links
   14. Yeni Mosque   9 links
   15. Executive Action   8 links
   16. Muhammad Shafi (disambiguation)   8 links
   17. Resilience   8 links
   18. Vainakh tower architecture   8 links
   19. Australian fur seal   7 links
   20. Baby (disambiguation)   7 links
   21. International Musician   7 links
   22. Bellmore   6 links
   23. Doulatabad   6 links
   24. Florentinus   6 links
   25. Groundnut   6 links
   26. Jamia Masjid   6 links
   27. Li Shijie   6 links
   28. Passage   6 links
   29. Polytechnic   6 links
   30. Rockweed   6 links
   31. Tân Uyên   6 links
   32. Water snake   6 links
   33. Abdoulaye Camara   5 links
   34. Al-Omari Mosque   5 links
   35. Charles Boyle   5 links
   36. Hasanabad   5 links
   37. John of Enghien   5 links
   38. Kajal   5 links
   39. Left Front   5 links
   40. Muhammad cartoon   5 links
   41. Northern France   5 links
   42. Old Capitol   5 links
   43. Protopriest   5 links
   44. Sankt Margarethen   5 links
   45. Structural optimization   5 links
   46. The Jack Paar Show   5 links
   47. Tirupattur (disambiguation)   5 links
   48. Video Games   5 links
   49. William Coxon   5 links
   50. World Music Festival   5 links



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