Bilorv's Challenges are a series of off-beat and difficult editing tasks. Initially designed in August 2021, some had been completed by the author at the time of creation and some may never be achieved in Wikipedia's history. Everyone is encouraged to add themselves to the list as they complete a challenge. Suggestions for more challenges will be met with delight on the talk page. Make any bold rewording improvements you like.
By sharing these challenges, Bilorv encourages their fellow volunteers to maintain their usual levels of maturity and decorum when aiming to complete any task; all policies, guidelines and community norms still apply.
This page was inspired by many existing awards—see Template:Awards, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards—but with the aim of recognising and encouraging contributions in a new way.
Thanks goes to ezlev for Centenarian, Librarian, and the bonus for Decadent; to Urve for Polyglot; to theleekycauldron for Hooker, Diplomat and Marathon; to SounderBruce for "Textbook example"; to Premeditated Chaos for Chef and Well-dressed; to MeegsC for Artist, Astronaut, Rainbow and Zoo; to CactiStaccingCrane for Vitality; to Trainsandotherthings for Explorer; to BeanieFan11 for Ambiguation; to Etriusus for "Animal, vegetable, mineral"; to QuicoleJR for Archaeologist and Phoenix; to OlifanofmrTennant for Showcase; to Esculenta for Taxonomist; and to Generalissima for the bonus for Centenarian.
Thanks to evrik, there is a userbox that you can display using the code ((User:Bilorv/Challenges/Userbox|number goes here))
:
![]() | This user has achieved n of Bilorv's Challenges. |
Create an article[a] beginning with every letter of the alphabet.
Create two articles that have the same title except for parentheticals, such as any two of King, King (chess) and King (playing card).
Receive a Did you know credit for an article that was created by a different editor at least 10 years beforehand.
Receive a credit for an item featured at In the news, On this day or Did you know?[b] on each day of the month i.e. from 1st to 31st.[c][d]
Get an article whose title contains exactly four "i"s to featured article status.
Have five Did you know hooks listed at WP:DYKSTATS (at over 600 views per hour for a non-imaged hook or 900 views per hour for an imaged hook) in a single calendar month.[b][e]
Review an article at Wikipedia:Good article nominations in every possible top-level category.[f]
Create an article that reaches over 100,000 bytes in length.[g]
Create an article that gets a million views (all time total). (Not to be confused with the Million Award.)
Get an article to good article status with fewer than 50 edits in its page history at the time the bot adds the good article icon.
Recreate an article that has been deleted; bring a delisted good article back to good article status; and bring a former featured article back to featured article status.
Introduce sources in 15 foreign languages to articles. Each source should contain information not found in any reliable English-language source (to ensure WP:NONENG compliance).
Make at least one edit in 20 different namespaces.[h]
Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week (in UTC), as measured by your XTools timecard.[i]
Receive a credit for a hook featured at Did you know? in every slot (from first to ninth) within the section.[b] (Until May 2024 this could be achieved with slots from first to eighth only.)
Get an article that is linked from any Manual of Style page (a page linked in Template:Manual of Style) to good article status.[j]
Improve 5 Level 5 Vital articles, 4 Level 4 Vital articles, 3 Level 3 Vital articles, 2 Level 2 Vital articles or 1 Level 1 Vital article by one or more classes.[k]
Have three pieces of content featured on the Main Page simultaneously, in three different sections.[l]
Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.)
Get three articles to featured article status whose titles contain the standalone words "red", "green" and "blue" in their title.[m] (For instance, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Green's theorem and Green-Wood Cemetery count for "green", but Greenpeace does not.)
Create four articles whose titles contain distinct Solar System objects from this list: the Sun; the planets and their moons; the IAU dwarf planets.[n] (For instance, Omar Sharif counts for Mars.)
Create bios for people who were born in each century from the 1000s to the 1900s, inclusive.
Get an article about a dish and articles containing three of its ingredients in the title to good article status. (For instance, with the dish BLT, qualifying articles include Bacon's Rebellion, Lettuce club and Tomato Kaji.)
Create bios for people who were born in each decade from the 1900s to the 1990s, inclusive.
For each pair of continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America), create an article with close geographic ties to two countries, one from each continent in the pair.[o] (For example, an article relating to an African country and an Asian country works for the first pair). This requires a total of 15 articles.[p]
Create four different bios about an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, an Oscar winner and a Tony winner.
Create four articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters "tin", "iron", "lead" and "gold". (For instance, Acting, Anti-nuclear movement or Betti number all count for "tin", but Avanti un altro! does not.)
Create an article about a populated place in each of the 30 climates of the Köppen climate classification.[q]
Create articles about books from each of the ten Dewey Decimal classes.
Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon[r] (or within a mile of it).
Create articles whose titles contain the consecutive letters of a shade of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.[s] (Shades of cyan can count as blue or green, and magenta for purple. Names have to be listed at the given templates and can exclude the base colour name e.g. for robin egg blue, the title must contain "robin egg". Are druryi would count for "red".)
For every country in the world,[t] create an article with close geographic ties to that country.[u]
Create an article for every episode of a television show with at least six episodes.[v]
Get three articles about successive taxonomic ranks to good article status. For example, the genus Ninox contains the species Ninox novaeseelandiae, which contains the subspecies Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata.
Create articles about each type of garment: hat, top, bottoms, shoes.[w]
Contribute content to a monthly WikiProject Women in Red initiative for each calendar month. (For instance, Alphabet run: M & N (2024) would count for January and Geofocus: Southeast Asia (2022) would count for December.)
Get three articles to good article status that are not about an animal but contain an animal as a standalone word in their title. (For example, Rhinoceros Party, but not University of Oxford.)