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[edit] WikiProject LGBT studies
Hello! I noticed that your userpage mentions that you are interested in LGBT issues. Would you be interested in joining WikiProject LGBT studies? The WikiProject's been a bit inactive recently and some of us are trying to get it going again. We'd love to have you on board! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Go to WikiProject LGBT studies and add your name to the Participants list. Then you're a member! Welcome on board! If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, Jtowns, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!
We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles of interest to the LGBT community. A couple of points that may be helpful:
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me or any other experience editor, and we will be happy to help you.
And once again - Welcome!
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Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Denver PrideFest
You are most welcome. I was hoping to get it to the status of SanFran or NYC, but we'll just have to see. I'll have to take my own pix at this coming pride. Thanks for the kind words :-)
Sincerly, Trodaikid1983 00:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC) (Brian)
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue II - January 1, 2007
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Happy New Year to all our members!
- Project News
- Several new templates have been created: {{Bi}} and {{Transgender}} by Dev920 and AliceJMarkham respectively. SatyrTN also created a {{LGBT Welcome}} template to welcome new members. Thanks to them all.
- The LGBT Portal's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you can.
- Latter Days became a Featured Article on December 31. It was written and nominated by Dev920. Congratulations Dev!
- A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos.
- A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
- We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going!
- Finally, our membership numbers have exploded! 21 new users have joined the Wikiproject: AdelaMae, WJBscribe, Trodaikid1983, Jtowns, Agne27, Boyau, NickGorton, Dialecticas, DaliJim, Tonei, Cabbers, silent, Textorus, GLGerman, Haiduc, Hornandsoccer, Bopopop, NinaOdell, Badbilltucker, DanB DanD, and Tiger Marc. Please make them feel welcome!
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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue II - January 1, 2007
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Happy New Year to all our members!
- Project News
- Several new templates have been created: {{Bi}} and {{Transgender}} by Dev920 and AliceJMarkham respectively. SatyrTN also created a {{LGBT Welcome}} template to welcome new members. Thanks to them all.
- The LGBT Portal's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you can.
- Latter Days became a Featured Article on December 31. It was written and nominated by Dev920. Congratulations Dev!
- A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos.
- A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
- We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going!
- Finally, our membership numbers have exploded! 21 new users have joined the Wikiproject: AdelaMae, WJBscribe, Trodaikid1983, Jtowns, Agne27, Boyau, NickGorton, Dialecticas, DaliJim, Tonei, Cabbers, silent, Textorus, GLGerman, Haiduc, Hornandsoccer, Bopopop, NinaOdell, Badbilltucker, DanB DanD, and Tiger Marc. Please make them feel welcome!
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[edit] Newsletter
What's happened was I didn't subst: it the first time I sent it out to you, so it automatically updated when I moved the old newsletter. Which is quite cool when you think about it, but I substed them all this time and it shouldn't happen again. Sorry about that. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 08:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue III - February 1, 2007
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Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you.
- Project News
- The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together.
- The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
- Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
- There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this.
- A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute.
- With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on.
- It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across.
- Article news
- Member News
- We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Aleta, Koweja, Profriend, Andrewn, Carolynparrishfan, Cpnlsn88, Brian1979, Tullerk, Garydw, Ganymead, Celithemis, Burnley, Lquilter, Parammon, Forsakendaemon, Allyn, bcatt, Dfeuer, Raystorm, Fabienne1, Esprix, Antanta, Janusvulcan, Elizabeth Lund, Ashleyvh, E. Sn0 =31337=, MiraLuka, White hotel, Zythe, Athena2006, CosmicWaffles, Emiellaiendiay, Musimax, AlexReynolds, Swollib, Nield, Kriza, 100110100, Andral, thickslab, Ronline, Iamvered, FisherQueen, William percy, Viannah, Ssbohio, Ali-oops, Anyaanomaly, Revolución, Ender2155, LuciferMorgan, Kathryn NicDhàna, and Artgoyle. Please make them feel welcome!
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[edit] AC-360
Thanks for providing a cool-headed opinion on the Anderson Cooper article. It really helps to have intellegent discussion on an issue such as that. Thanks and keep up the good work! CascadiaTALK|HISTORY 22:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:LGBT Coordinator Election Notice
This is just a quick, automated note to let you know that there is an election being conducted over the next 7 days for the position of "Coordinator" for the LGBT WikiProject. Your participation is requested. -- SatyrTN (talk • contribs)
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[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter
| The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter |
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue IV - March 1, 2007
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Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck!
- Project News
- With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk • contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev!
- The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
- Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
- A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice.
- The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope.
- Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage.
- WP:FILM has a current drive to give every film article an infobox. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated.
- A new template, LGBT-footer, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it.
- A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites.
- A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage.
- An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved.
- An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can!
- Article News
- Member News
- Our membership continues to expand. 55 new users have joined the Wikiproject: HalJor, Brianna Austin, Kylehamilton , PeaceNT, Paradoxdept, Joie de Vivre, Bearcat, Avazina, Treybien, Xdenizen, Chalyres, Lisapollison, Stitchy CP, Wjhonson, Psicorps, Jliberty, Zuejay, DrGaellon, Mallanox, lwollert, Switchercat, Number301, emerson7, Ebyabe, Ashlux, Larrybob, Eirra, Alcarcalimo2364, DavidShankBone, Cedlaod, Mcguireka, Fireplace, Jacobshaven3, Buddmar, Yksin, Intesvensk, Justin_Eiler, kc12286, Kolindigo, PseudoPhoenix, Samanthabrennan, Anbellofe, roger_jg, Moni3, The Wednesday Island, Carom, Belovedfreak, My little needle, Fenoxielo, Arianna, Philippebeaudette, FrankCostanza, AmberAlert1713, A.Z., Fluffball70, . Please make them feel welcome!
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Well, I'm not very good at GA, but it looks fine to me. I say go for it and see what happens. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 09:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Heya, just wondering how this is going? You doing ok? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 02:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've asked WJB to take a look at it next time he's on. All Wikipedia feedback processes are horribly backlogged at the moment. Dunno why. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 17:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'd do it myself, but I'm useless with the GA criteria. Either I don't do enough and it fails or I go totally overboard and go straight to FAC. The only GAC I ever passed was Jake Gyllenhaal, and that passed FA a month later. Hopefully Washington Blade will do the same. ;) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Washington Blade
Hi, I've done the GA review for this article. A have a few concerns so have put it on hold for now. But don't let the negative points detract from the brilliant work you've done on the article. It reads really well and articles about newspapers are notoriously difficult to get up to standard. I'll keep the article's talkpage on my watchlist, but feel free to bring questions to me directly. WjBscribe 23:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hey you, well done on your GA!! That took a lot of work so I hope you feel suitably proud. :) You planning to go to FA or work on something else? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- It gets faster the more you do. Jake Gyllenhaal took me about four months to pass FA, now I can get one passed in about a month. If you're writing in one narrow area, particularly, you pick up standard formatting, needed content, useful sources etc.
- Are you sure you don't want to make the Blade FA? It only takes a little bit more effort, and I'm willing to help you out as much as I can. FA can be a bitch, but you can make it and I would really like to see this one make the grade, you've worked so hard on it. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter
| The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter |
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue V - April 3, 2007
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Monthly Challenge:
- Article News
- Project News
- There is now the beginning of a list of core topics to possibly be included in the Wikipedia 1.0 release. Your suggestions are welcome; there may be many core LGBT topics still missing.
- We have a list of people categorized as LGBT whose articles need to be checked for reliable sourcing. This effort is necessary and urgent, to comply with Wikipedia's policy on living persons. Please take a few moments to source one article; if you've got time, do another.
- SatyrTN identified all the articles that were in subcategories of Category:LGBT but not yet tagged with the project's banner, about 1,400 articles. These have been completed, though SatyrBot will make periodic runs through the cats to find any new entries. Thanks Satyr!
- The number of articles within our project's spectrum (6,667 currently) should now be relatively stable and only grow with article creation. However, if you find a category that should be included, please let SatyrTN know so it can be included in the bots runs.
- Work is underway to improve the LGBT Portal. Please add any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles to the gallery here. Also if anyone would like to volunteer to help in maintaining the portal, please make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage.
- If you see any articles for deletion or any other deletion discussions related to LGBT topics, please remember to add them to the deletion sorting board. Thanks!
- Member News
- Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject: Garik, Esrever, mlbedwell, Jet123, Welland R, Auriel, DaliJim, queerpeace, SUIT, Mentality, Nukleoptra, LeaHazel, lindleyle, Justin Eiler, Bylandl, Brent Calderwood, PC78, Gekedo, polymathematics, Coryarlo, Ziji, mcgarymi. Please make them feel welcome!
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SatyrBot 05:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Journalism
Hello, and welcome to WikiProject Journalism - I'm sure your input there will be valued! In particular, User:Wiki Wistah has proposed a guideline for editing articles about newspapers, and although I've responded with comments of my own, WW rightly suggested that it should be more than just a two-way conversation. Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Otherwise, if this is not of interest to you, or if you've already got a plateful of editing, feel free to ignore this message! -Tobogganoggin talk 02:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
