Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Red Bull Air Race World Series

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Okay, so thanks for coming along to take a look. First, I believe our goal should be to make all the articles about the pilots. Thus we need articles for:

  1. Mike Mangold
  2. Péter Besenyei
  3. Kirby Chambliss
  4. Klaus Schrodt
  5. Nicolas Ivanoff
  6. Nigel Lamb
  7. Steve Jones (aviator)
  8. Alejandro Maclean
  9. Paul Bonhomme
  10. Frank Versteegh
  11. Michael Goulian

Lets get to work! One last thing, I will try and send round a weekly notice each Friday to keep everyone up to date. Please keep this and the project page on your watchlist. Cheers, --HamedogTalk|@ 13:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

That should not be too much of a problem. I will see whether I can take care of the Dutchie in a few minutes. SportsAddicted | discuss 14:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Done, SportsAddicted | discuss 15:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Newsletter 1 (Friday December 1, 2006)

WikiProject Red Bull Air Race World Series Newsletter
Shortcut:
WP:RBARWS

Opening thoughts
Well firstly, thank you to all of you for joining the WikiProject. Currently we have four members and hopefully that number will rise soon. Ideally, in the first few months, 20 members or so would see the project move along nicely.

Just so you know, I intend to send these newsletters around fortnightly. If you would like to help or comment, leave a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Red Bull Air Race World Series.

New Members
From November 22 to December 1.

  1. Hamedog (talk • contribs)
  2. CeeGee (talk • contribs)
  3. GW_Simulations (talk • contribs)
  4. SportsAddicted (talk • contribs)


Recently Made Related Articles:
Mike Mangold, Klaus Schrodt, Nicolas Ivanoff, Frank Versteegh

Current target area:
Create articles for all pilots.

Other thoughts:
If all of you could just recruit a few more Wikipedians along, that would be great. Thanks--HamedogTalk|@ 13:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Aviation proposal

There is currently a proposal to create an Aviation WikiProject, which would serve to clarify how all the aviation related projects relate, and help with interproject editing. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#Proposal_Recap for how the projects hierarchy. Part of the reorganization proposes that, because of its very limited scope, WikiProject Red Bull Air Race World Series become a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation. For an idea of how task forces work, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history. They have a number of task forces, listed here. As described by them, "task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of military history; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them." The benefit of such a system it that the sub-topics have all the resources of the overall project at their disposal. For instance, the Military history project banner, is placed on every military history page, and the related task forces are listed at the bottom of it. All military history related articles are thereby joined under one roof. I just happened to stumble upon your project, and had until now never realized it existed. By joining forces with another project you will benefit from increased exposure. If you have any ideas or comments, please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 02:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Single Project Banner for use by all aviation related projects

I've created a project banner at User:Trevor MacInnis/sandbox/Aviation banner. This banner can replace all the various banners used by the various projects, while still providing all the individual uses, such as categorizing articles under specific projects. It is based on the banner user by the Military history project ({{WPMILHIST}}). An example of it in use is at User talk:Trevor MacInnis/sandbox/Aviation banner, and you can see that by using the various parameters, all aviation articles will be combined under the aviation project at Category:WikiProject Aviation articles and when tagged properly, in their respective Category:Rotorcraft task force articles, etc. It will also allows us to introduce other areas of the Wikiproject, such as "collaboration of the month", and take advantage of the larger total number of users throughout the projects. Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aviation#A_Single_Project_Banner_for_use_by_all_aviation_related_projects. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 21:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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