We did it! We chose the winners for the second contest, after a lengthy wait. We had another great collection of entries that kept the judges busy. We finally decided on our three winners, along with three honorary mention, but everyone deserves honorary mention for a job well done.

So, the winners are:

1. Battle of Alesia by muriel@pt. Great coverage of an important battle, and a nice homemade map to go along with it.
2. Turquoise by Hadal. Very thorough, with great illustrations. It is already a featured article.
3. Page table by Dysprosia. An important engineering topic, explained well and excellent diagrams.

Honorable mention goes to:

1. Paper plane by Squash. Fun and quirky. Just like I like. Something you won't find in a conventional encyclopedia.
2. Hayyim Nahman Bialik by Woggly. An important poet, with a great entry. Having translated Bialik professionally, I am a little biased, but so what? It's my contest.
3. Andamanese languages by Mustafaa. Like he said, gotta love a language which divides the world up by similarities to body parts.

Finally, special mention should be made of Grutness's devotion in submitting four excellent articles, expanding our information about New Zealand.

• Danny
• Raul654
• Grunt
• Elian
• Sj

We are looking specifically for stubs that were transformed into full-fledged articles, not new articles. That is, the article should exist as a stub at the opening of this contest (even though it does not necessarily have to include a stub template). The contest ends on Saturday, December 4, 2004.

• Category:Stub categories: choose your favorite stub

Please put them on the ideas for new contests subpage.

1. Champernowne constant - (initial)(final), Dysprosia 05:58, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. Stack-oriented programming language - (initial)(final), Dysprosia 09:41, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
3. Desmond Dekker (initial diff of expansion), Tuf-Kat 21:53, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
4. Page table - (initial)(final), Dysprosia 00:10, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
5. Paper plane (Before and after) (Minus edits by other people). I also made diagram for that article. Squash 07:09, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
6. Turquoise - (initial diff of expansion); used found images as my camera's been lent out. —Hadal 09:22, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
7. Coromandel Peninsula - (initial diff of expansion); over the course of several edits. Included two vacation snaps - it brought back some good holiday memories. I was in the process of adding more but someone else started working on it - the diff shown is to immediately before Drstuey added a satellite image. I've added more since. Grutness|^hello? 11:15, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
8. Appetite - (initial diff of expansion); this article was hungrily awaiting expansion. I found some useful review articles and improved it considerably. JFW | T@lk 18:27, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
9. The Castle of Otranto (initial diff of expansion) the first horror novel... deserves better than this though. Pedant 18:30, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
10. Heat of combustion - (initial diff of expansion) Duk 20:24, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
11. Andamanese languages - initial diff of expansion over the course of several edits, as is my habit... you gotta love a language which divides the world up by similarities to body parts. - Mustafaa 23:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
12. Chemical reactivity-initial diff of expansion Increased from stub over about 3 edits. There are no sources because all of the information provided there is a result of my own knowledge using computational chemistry and some previous knowledge. - EagleFalconn 21:08, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
13. Similitude (model)-expansion A bunch of edits. Duk 15:05, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
14. Waikato - (initial diff of expansion); my second go. Not listed as a stub, but compared to now it certainly was. Multiple edits with no interruption this time! Grutness|^hello? 10:52, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
15. Farewell, My Lovely - (initial diff of expansion). Was a literature stub and now gives an introduction to the book and details the three movie versions. <KF> 14:30, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
16. Michael Arlen - (initial diff of expansion) originally a stub, then a by-product of Farewell, My Lovely, now an article in its own right. <KF> 22:20, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
17. Hayyim Nahman Bialik - (initial diff of expansion). --Woggly 11:18, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
18. Death Gate Cycle - (see expansion) Started out as a list of books. Now it's a fairly comprehensive guide to the series. - Lifefeed 19:24, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
19. Battle of Alesia - Before and after, then i added images (the diagram is also my doing) and tweaked the whole thing. muriel@pt 12:28, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
20. Northland - Was/Is, entry no. 3, over numerous edits. Grutness|^hello? 02:31, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
21. Cilk - (see differences) As I researched the article, I discovered that not only was it a stub, but just about all of it was copyvio taken from the MIT Cilk website, magnifying the task. (Note: I am not certain just when the contest started; if it turns out that I started working on the stub before the contest began, I ask the judges to consider my work from that point on, rather than disqualifying my entry.) -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:22, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
22. Hokianga - Pre-, Post- One final go. Not as good as the others (no photo, to start with), but better than it was, anyway. Interesting subject, too. Grutness|^hello? 12:13, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
23. Equilibrium Constant Changes Another chemistry article down... EagleFalconn 16:33, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)