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Volume 3, Issue 14 — 2 April 2007

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WikipediaWeekly 30 March 2007 –Episode 16

Jimbo apologizes Jimbo apologizes in The New Yorker for Essjay. Other topics include: web 3.0, Wikimania preparations, gaming.wikia, vuguru and Lewis Carol's Jabberwocky

[edit] Notices

A list of written sources, sorted by subject area and WikiProject, is being compiled at Wikipedia:List of sources. Feel free to add your own sources.
The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team announces the release of Wikipedia 0.5. Leave feedback on the talk page
For those who use welcome templates, a new set has been created, and can be seen at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates.
After a Fund-drive/poll, the Linguist List has decided to hire a graduate student to review the English Wikipedia entries on linguistics and to organize a community effort to update and expand these sections.
A new proposal for providing help to editors has been proposed, comments, suggestions, and those wishing to help are welcome.
A new guideline for reviewing good articles has been proposed, feel free to comment or leave a suggestion.

[edit] New project pages seeking contributors

[edit] WikiProjects

[edit] Portals and Collaborations

[edit] To do

Do you have a moment to respond to a request for comment?
Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images.
Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
Can you code? Help make a useful bot or update an offline report.
Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
Peer review some articles.
Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Wikipedia policies.
Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
Would you like to respond to more requests?
Proofread a finished translation.

Or...

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Wikify: Fabio Grossi, George Condo, Galaga Arrangement, Jennifer Delton, Henry Busse, Hidromek, F.U.N., Backlog...
Cleanup: Mergers and acquisitions, Japanese demography before WWII, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Peace Action, Backlog...
Stubs: Farra d'Isonzo, Pony Canyon, Conservative People's Party (Denmark), Peter Kušnirák, Rotation period, More...
Verify: 4 Non Blondes, Alexei Yashin, Adhiratha, Aida Cuevas, Agni, Alberta SuperNet, Agastya, 4X, Backlog...
Update: Allan Ramsay (artist), Caetani, Abdoulaye Wade, Almai, Checkmate (comics), Antonov, Bertat, More...
Neutrality: Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, Alembic Inc, Alvin Toffler, American Foreign Policy Council, 0304, Backlog...
Copyedit: History of professional wrestling, Kairos Document, Jujutsu Techniques, Forward caste, Judaism, More...
Merge: Maillard Middle School, Misspelling generator, Maple Creek Middle School, Hillcrest Middle School, Backlog...
Style: Account aggregation, Adirondack Woodcraft Camps, 2007 San Diego Chargers season, ARC International, More...
Expand: Infinity plus one, Florida State Road 16, April 1996 Tornado Outbreak Sequence, Dave Revsine, Cold Fire, Wheaton Village, Kotavi, More...
Requests: Ray Cochrane, Andrew Prowse, Shan-ge, Kappa 2, JCPM Yakiimo Station, Autoplastic adaptation, More...
Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Antioxidant, Hero, The Freechild Project, More...
Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

[edit] Active collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community take part in collaborations to expand articles.

[edit] Collaboration of the week

Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's.

You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

[edit] Article Creation and Improvement Drive

The Article Creation and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Winston Churchill:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier, and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Well-known as an orator, strategist, and politician, Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history. Sir Winston Churchill was voted the greatest-ever Briton in the 2002 BBC poll the 100 Greatest Britons.

You can still help with last week's article, Vladimir Lenin, or help pick next week's article.

[edit] Other collaborations

Africa (Ashanti)
Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime)
Australia (Cricket in Australia)
Biography (Henry the Navigator)
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema (Casino Royale (2006 film))
Comics ([[Marvel Comics]])
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (Phare)
French Translation (fr:Liberté to Freedom)
Football (soccer) (Liverpool F.C.)
Gaming (Imagic)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (National Highways Development Project)

Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Macintosh (Apple II family)
Maintenance (be merged)
Mathematics (Probability theory)
Medicine (Blood pressure)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])
Science (Infrared)
Singapore (Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board/SGCOTF/current)
Spanish Translation (es:Zarzuela to Zarzuela)
Texas (Strand National Historic Landmark District)
United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)
United States (Junior State of America)

[edit] Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Dead-end pages Most wanted stubs Most wanted articles Missing articles Stubsensor Uncategorised articles Orphaned articles Wikification needed Orphaned talk pages Disambig pages w/ links Linkrot Transwiki log cleanup
Main - Inactive - Mini

WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below.

Active improvement teams:

Community support groups

Ongoing tasks:

[edit] About Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

The links below lead to the main community pages of the projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content.
Meta-Wiki –	Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionary –	A collaborative multilingual dictionary.
Wikinews –	News stories written by readers.
Wikibooks –	A collection of collaborative textbooks.
Wikiquote –	A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource –	A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies –	A directory of species.
Wikiversity –	Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.