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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

For those who use welcome templates, a new set has been created, and can be seen at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates.
Wikipedia:Avoid the word "vandal". It's an essay. About... avoiding the word 'vandal'. Nothing special, however the original writer is desperately eager that others edit it.
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 essay discusses attempts to manipulate Wikipedia for profit or ideology.
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.
A strawpoll is being conducted on whether Wikipedia:Article inclusion should replace Wikipedia:Notability as a guideline.
A poll is being prepared on whether image description pages should show a chessboard pattern in the background to indicate transparency of the image.
Editors at Fair use exemptions are discussing whether the main page should allow fair use images.
Following statements by Jimbo Wales, there is a new discussion about whether there was a consensus to merge Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research into Wikipedia:Attribution.

[edit] New project pages seeking contributors

[edit] WikiProjects

[edit] Portals and Collaborations

[edit] Active collaborations

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

Volume 3, Issue 14 — 2 April 2007

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[edit] New featured content

Articles	Pictures	Lists
Doolittle (album) Battle of Shiloh Gwoyeu Romatzyh Central Coast Mariners FC Mayan languages Final Fantasy XII George Washington (inventor) Cholangiocarcinoma Armament of the Iowa class battleship Characters of Final Fantasy VIII	Golda Meir Bézier curves (set) Mammatus clouds Las Vegas Strip U.S. states by date of statehood Compass rose of Edwards Air Force Base King Kelly Goodwin Champions card Evolution of the states of Mexico Sather Tower Morphology and locomotive system of a horse	List of Smallville episodes List of Caribbean drums List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni List of delegates to the Millennium Summit Territorial evolution of Canada List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of The Unit episodes List of Pennsylvania state parks List of WWE Champions

Portals	Sounds (media help)	Topics
Alternative music Holidays Portal Visual arts Portal World War I Portal Electronics Portal	The Entertainer (play) at The Entertainer (rag) Star in the east solfege (play) Shepard-Risset glissando (play) The Four Seasons - Spring - Movement I - Allegro (play) Edison phonograph advertising record (play)	2003 Atlantic hurricane season Michigan State University Canadian election timelines Retired Pacific hurricanes Star Wars episodes

[edit] Collaborations by topic

Alternative music (Zen Arcade)
Article Creation and Improvement Drive (Winston Churchill)
Australia (Cricket in Australia)
Aviation (Malaysia-Singapore Airlines)
Bedfordshire (South Bedfordshire)
Birds (Common Raven)
Catholicism (Papal conclave)
Cetaceans (Baiji)
Chicago (AT&T Corporate Center)
Cinema (Casino Royale (2006 film))
Comics (Marvel Comics)
Dinosaurs - (Deinonychus)
Football (soccer) (Johan Cruijff)
Fungi (Amanita phalloides & Yeast)
Formula One (Juan Manuel Fangio)
Gaming (Baldur's Gate series)
Good Articles (Dean Smith)
Hinduism (Tantra)
History of science (History of scientific method)
India (Thums Up)
Indonesia (Sidoarjo mud flow)
Judaism (Zealotry)
LGBT studies (Lesbian)
Massively multiplayer online games (Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy)
Medicine (Blood pressure)
Military history (Bay of Pigs Invasion)
Mormon (Linguistics and the Book of Mormon)
Rugby union (France national rugby union team)
Science (Infrared)
Sharks (Great white shark)
Spanish Translation (Civil Code of Argentina)
United States (Shreveport, Louisiana)
United States Congress (Beryl Anthony, Jr., Alabama's 8th congressional district, List of United States Representatives from California)

[edit] Things to do

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

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Wikify: Mor-Taxan, General Placido Vega y Daza, Timothy Morss, Backlog...
Cleanup: Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Cleanup from July 2005, Albany Movement, Special:Search/Cleanup from July 2005, Backlog...
Stubs: Roy A. Tucker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Spectral class, Sportscaster, Krško, More...
Verify: Hipster (1990s subculture), Banu (Arabic), IMBEWU, Al Sharpton, Excitatism, Suzlon Energy, Backlog...
Update: List of United States House committees, Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index, Armenian Power, SIDPERS, AmBX, More...
Neutrality: Iraqi Security Forces, Kristin Nelson, Adam Beattie, Bobby Bland, Martha Chávez, Jewish Bolshevism, VKB, Backlog...
Copyedit: Kandahar, Pearse Jordan, History of Baku, Aziz Abdul Naji, Chocolate City Records, Teachings of Falun Gong, More...
Merge: Steady state theory, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics of Université Laval, Univision.com, Military of Iraq, Pi, Backlog...
Style: Sarkar (film), Sting and Lex Luger, Newsbreak Magazine, Production logo, Peer exchange, More...
Expand: Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, The Curse of Yig (short story), Erotica, Harivamsa, More...
Requests: Lam ploen, Amenable set, Literature by region, Top-coded, Nattura, Bidding function, Transient evidence More...
Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, Joie de Vivre, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Global warming, More...
Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

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