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1 Thanks Harrison
2 Duplicate images uploaded
3 WikiProject Australia newsletter
4 Important message about my edits
5 Happy Birthday!

Thanks Harrison

Hey Harrison, thanks very much for your Christmas card. I have been away a lot since before Christmas and I'm not quite back yet, but I just wanted to let you know that I replied to your card but you probably didn't see my reply because there seems to be something screwy wrong with the coding in your card that causes messages left after it to be hidden or invisible or something. Anyway, I had replied to your message here. I didn't want you to think that I had ignored your card. I moved it to my archive a few minutes ago and also no wiki'd it because other messages and cards left after yours weren't showing up properly. And I just checked the others you gave it to and the same thing is going wrong with their pages too. For example, OXS thanked you for the card here but if you look in non-edit mode here, his thanks isn't showing up. And on Steve's page, you can see that it made the conversation he had after your message was invisible. Unfortunately I am not coding expert and so I have no idea what the problem is but maybe you could fix it or ask one of your friends to. Anyway, I hope you had a great NYE and that 2008 is very happy successful for you. Thanks for thinking of me at Christmas - I appreciated your card very much. All the best, Sarah 19:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:Auscarsportal.png. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Untitled-1 copy.png. The copy called Image:Untitled-1 copy.png has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

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WikiProject Australia newsletter

Issue 2, Volume 1 — January 1, 2008

Welcome! WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.

Australian Wikimedia chapter

Wikimedia chapters are independent organisations run by Wikimedians to further promote the Wikimedia projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". This means that we in the chapter can promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis and their contributor's work in our area. Currently, a chapter for Australia is in discussion. If you're interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation in more ways than just creating articles, and by promoting Wikipedia and other projects so people can start to read your work and become contributors, then consider adding yourself to the interested participants list at www.wikimedia.org.au

The proposed chapter also has an IRC channel on the freenode network: join #wikimedia-au next time you are online. The seventh IRC meeting for Wikimedia Australia will also be held in this channel at 8 pm (AEDT-UTC+11) on January 6 (WA at 6pm, SA at 7:30pm and QLD at 7pm). For more information, visit this page.

Recent happenings

2007 has been an excellent year for WikiProject Australia and its members – a sudden rise in article quality (see "Quality watch"), more article collaboration, portal creation, gap-filling article creation, image requests fulfilled, newsletter writing and award awarding. Success!

A sudden surge in new Portals took place late in the year, with numerous new portals being created and later being promoted to featured status, the best a young portal can get. Among the portals currently being worked on are: South Australia, New South Wales, Australian cars, Music of Australia, Powderfinger, Queensland, with portals for a lot of other topics to come very soon in the new year.

Portals and "topics" go hand in hand (not really), and many within the project and throughout Wikipedia aspire to achieve featured topic status for a particular topic. Goals to promote all capital cities to featured status, and among others, a Powderfinger featured topic, and a featured topic on The Invincibles cricket team. It's for sure that 2008 will be filled with Aussie pride, so hang in there with those flags, everyone! Especially on Australia Day, *hints surprises* :)

Of course, writing featured articles and making up clever hooks for use on "Did you know" isn't the only way to contribute. Many users contribute day-in, day-out, maintaining the project and portals, tagging and assessing articles, making suggestions at featured article candidacies, coordinating collaborations within the project, responding to peer reviews, save valid articles in deletion debates, in short, the stuff that if not done, will cause the whole project as we know it to slowly deteroriate. Many users who don't qualify for awards like Durova's Triple Crown award, qualify for others.

Moondyne recognised the users who work tirelessly every day to make sure that every thing is running smoothly by introducing a new award – the Drover's Award. Initiated in December, eight users have already received an award that is set to become a prestigious award for all Australia-related topic editors; SatuSuro, Longhair, Spebi, Moondyne, Grahamec, Mattinbgn and ScottDavis and more are sure to be awarded. If you know of any users who work tirelessly behind the scenes and have not yet been recognised for their greatly appreciated efforts, award them the Drover's Award.

More users have been awarded Durova's Triple Crown award for WikiProjects. This award was given to WikiProject Australia after 5 users who qualified for Durova's standard crown (one DYK, GA, FA). New recipients include Matilda, Moondyne, Mattinbgn, VirtualSteve, Gnangarra, RaNdOm26, and Thebainer. If you believe you qualify, leave a note at Durova's talk page.

Recent events

Jan 6: The seventh IRC channel meeting will take place on the freenode network at 8 pm (AEDT – UTC+11) in #wikimedia-au. See this page for more information.
Dec 26: One hundred Australia-related articles have been promoted to good article status.
Dec 20-31: New portals are created, old ones are revamped, some are promoted and others are soon to be among them.
Nov 15: "1967 in Australia" has been chosen as Wikipedia's Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.

Main page · Talk · Notice board · Portal · Articles · Current collaboration · Complete to-do · Article quality (FA·GA) · Subprojects · Miscellanous · Newsletter discussion

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Issue 2, Volume 1, January 2008. See newsletter archive for previous issues, or view this issue directly.

Newly-promoted content

Good articles

Featured articles

Removed articles

The Ashes

Recent collaborations

Quality watch

2007 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: one hundred articles were promoted to good article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for the whole of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics from the best of sources available on the Internet. A huge congratulations to all involved. And congratulations to Underneath-it-All, who wrote "2 Hearts", which passed as a good article, officially making him WikiProject Australia's "Good Article Centurian" and the article the one hundredth Australia-related article to be promoted to good article status at any one time.

Speaking of statistics nearing the number 100, WikiProject Australia has also seen an increase of the number of articles being promoted to featured article status. In November last year, seven articles were promoted, earning the month its official title of "Featured article month" of WikiProject Australia, and making it the month with the highest featured article achievement. Viva la featured article revolution! Also seeing some activity were featured portals – many have already been promoted, and a wave of excellently-crafted ones hitting our shores very soon.

End of year statistics

Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia produced by Blnguyen and his Assessment Monkey of 2007's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 71 featured articles, and 106 good articles.

Australia-related featured article production

Australia-related good article production

This newsletter is a monthly newsletter with details relating to events and happenings within the Australian Wikipedian community and WikiProject Australia. If you wish to stop receiving this newsletter, or receive it in a different format, relist your name appropriately at the subscription page. Delivered by BrownBot (talk), at 21:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC).

Important message about my edits

Unfortunatly in the next couple of months, my Wikipedia editing is going to be down (semi-active). 2008 is going to be a very busy year for me so it is in my best interest to "cut down" my edits.Senators^{Talk | Contribs} 03:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

ok. HarrisonB - Talk 05:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, HarrisonB/Archive2008/January, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Macy's 123 ^{(review me)} 00:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a heap. HarrisonB - Talk 00:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

	Happy Birthday	from the Birthday Committee
Wishing HarrisonB/Archive2008/January a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Happy Birthday

from the Birthday Committee