GC1XC7B Wikipedian Challenge (Unknown Cache) in Maryland, United States created by ZeWrestler

This cache has been archived.

ZeWrestler: After watching some folks find the Teddy Bears' Picnic (GC2CWC9), I came by here to checkup on this container. As Originalta reported, this cache is no more. I'm archiving this for now.

Thanks to everyone who's found it.

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A cache by ZeWrestler Message this owner

Hidden : 8/16/2009

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Here we use Wikipedia as a reliable source to find this cache.

Coordinates are of a place to park within this park. The hunt you seek is at Ellsworth Park in Silver Spring, Maryland. To find this cache, you need to answer the following questions about Wikipedia.

I'll be nice and give you pointers to the correct direction/article, but in some cases, you'll have to click a few screens from my pointer to find the answer. This should teach you some things about Wikipedia that you will not normally see unless you dig through the archives. The coordinates are as follows:
N AA FF.EBG
W DDD CC.HHI

The questions you have to answer are as follows:
A - In the Wikipedia article, when the article was created, what are the minutes of the time that can be found in the timestamp?
B - According to the History of Wikipedia , what was the date that the Wikipedia.org domain was purchased and brought online? Take this date in numerical form and add all of the digits together to get the value for 'B'.
C - The best of the best Wikipedia has to offer is represented by Featured Content. Featured originally was only Featured Articles. Find the first Wikipedia featured article to be featured on the front page as "Today's featured article". What is the day of the month that this article was featured on the front page. Subtract that value from the sum of the amount of letters in the article's title to get the final value of 'C'.
D - To help improve the quality of articles on a Wikipedia, many Wikipedians participated in the now inactive Collaboration Of The Week (COTW). One of the articles to to be improved during the the time COTW was active is the article on Reproduction. How many edits did the article receive during the COTW?
E - Before going inactive, the Video Game COTW was another driving force on Wikipedia for improving the quality of articles that related to video games. How many articles did the collaboration work on in 2008?
F - Pressing the random article link, I came to the an article about a shopping mall in Malaysia called Gurney Plaza. What is the day of the month of the first edit made to the article? What is the day of the month of the second edit made to the article? Subtract the second number from the first to get the value of 'F'.
G - A major storage place for free photos on the internet, that houses most of Wikipedia's free photos, diagrams and charts, is the WikiCommons. As of the creation of this cache, August 2009, it is estimated that the Wikicommons has 4.7 million media files. How many media files did it have during March 2004?
H - The Featured Lists section of Wikipedia keeps a log containing statistics of how many lists are promoted vs. failed every month for nomination to Featured List status. In the first half of 2009, 2 months promoted the same number of of lists consecutively. What was the number of lists that were promoted during a single month in time period?
I - Featured Pictures on Wikipedia originally started being listed as Pictures of the Day(POTD) in 2004. In December that year, a diagram of the Nuclear Bomb, "The Little Boy" was selected as the POTD. What day of the month was this image featured as POTD?

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Remember to bring your own writing implement (BYOP). Also, this is a popular park. There is neat playground equipment to play on here, (thus a kid friendly cache) but there are lots of muggles around. Use Stealth and please rehide the cache EXACTLY as found. Good luck.

Congratulations to wetfit for the FTF.