User:Dweller/Dweller's Ref Desk thread of the week award
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Dweller's Ref Desk thread of the week award was established in August 2007. It is given weekly to the Reference Desk thread that I arbitrarily and quite unfairly, deem to be the best.
The award is, erm, awarded on Fridays. When I remember. Other weeks, it may be awarded on Saturday. Or even Sunday. But I'll (usually) get around to it eventually. Feel free to leave me annoying reminders on my talk page if I've forgotten for a long time.
[edit] Nominations
Users are welcome to nominate threads, by placing witty messages on my talk page. Flattery, including references to just how funny/appreciated/odd I am will help. As will nominating good threads.
[edit] Scoreboard
Here's a scoreboard that helps track how the various Desks are doing in competition with one another. Given that the criteria by which the awards are made are <ahem> hardly stringent, this is probably meaningless. But I like it. Except it's still quite ugly. Hint hint.
Reference Desk | Awards |
---|---|
Computing Desk | 2 |
Entertainment Desk | 1 |
Humanities Desk | 1 |
Language Desk | 2 |
Mathematics Desk | 1 |
Miscellaneous Desk | 2 |
Science Desk | 2 |
[edit] Award winners
- Week 13 award: [watch this space]
- Week 12 award: Mystery week I was, erm, very busy.
- Week 11 award: Computing Desk:Classic code & magic constants - 1-4 Nov 07 - n = (n & 0x0f0f0f0f) + ((n & 0xf0f0f0f0) >> 4);. Yes, that's what I thought. Then they proved geeks can be funny.
- Week 10 award: Entertainment Desk:Surnames_of_ppl_in_the_english_royal_family - 21-24 Oct 07 - Ents desk takes time to unpick the British royal surname. Very entertaining.
- Week 9 award: Language Desk: Expletives - 16th-17th Oct 07 - F**king brilliant debate about (expletive deleted).
- Week 8 award: Computing Desk: EMail ID - 3rd post 11th Oct 07 - the computing desk mob show how to handle a repeat oddball with wisdom... and a little humour.
- Week 7 award: Science Desk:Thirst for knowledge and the human condition 4th-5th Oct 07 - will we ever run out of knowledge to seek... and if we do, will it damage us?
- Week 6 award: Miscellaneous Desk:How much of a human body is edible? 28th-30th Sep 07 - ever wondered which bits of you might be enjoyed with a nice chianti?
- Week 5 award: Humanities Desk: Westward Ho! 19th-21st Sep 07 - which came first, the town or the book?
- Week 4 award: Language Desk: Lost letters 13th/14th Sep 07 - what's the most recent letter to have disappeared from English? I had no idæ.
- Week 3 award: Miscellaneous Desk: Daaaaaang 5th/6th Sep 07 - "da...ang" with six "a"s has a disproportionately low number of Google hits. What about "wheeeeee" or "w000000t"?
- Week 2 award: Mathematics Desk: Distributing points evenly on a sphere 29th/30th Aug 07 - the boffins solve a complex theoretical problem in such a way that even a duffer could follow
- Inaugural award: Science Desk: Recovering wet electronics 23rd/24th Aug 07 - spilled coffee on your laptop? This thread's for you.