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Project news

• The military history style guide has been integrated into Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
• The contest department has completed its eight month of competition. The leader for this month, with a massive 92 points, is Blnguyen; Woodym555 is in second place, with 32 points, and Cla68 and TomStar81 are tied for third place, with 15 points each. Overall, Blnguyen is now in first place, with 140 points, followed by JKBrooks85, with 120 points, and by Woodym555, with 63 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• The American Revolutionary War and Baltic states military history task forces have been created.
• Tag & Assess 2007—the project's first major article tagging and assessment drive—is continuing; all project members—and anyone else who's interested—are invited to assist with this effort.
• The number of articles tagged as being within our scope has now exceeded 50,000.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Red Cliffs
2. James II of England
3. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
4. Pre-dreadnought battleship
5. Thomas C. Hindman
6. USS Kentucky (BB-66)

New featured lists:

1. List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients
2. List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

New featured portals:

1. Military of Greece

New A-Class articles:

1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
2. Battle of the Gebora
3. Battle of Vaslui
4. Le Quang Tung
5. Morotai Mutiny
6. Phan Dinh Phung
7. Truong Dinh
8. USS Illinois (BB-65)
9. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
10. Yen Bai mutiny

Current proposals and discussions

• A proposal to introduce a project motto is being discussed.
• A discussion regarding flag icons in biographical infoboxes has begun.

Awards and honors

• Mike Christie was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on Anglo-Saxon military history, including the production of numerous featured articles.

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Project news

• The Intelligence task force has been created.
• The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome!
• {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Albuera
2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
3. Battle of the Gebora
4. Constantine II of Scotland
5. Francis Harvey
6. Vasa (ship)
7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
2. Evacuation of East Prussia

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.

Awards and honors

• Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
• Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
• For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.

Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-particpants alike are very welcome and appreciated.

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Project news

• The project coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14!
• The contest department has completed its tenth month of competition, which saw an unprecedented 44 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 95 points, followed by Cla68, with 42 points, and Ed! and Woody, with 21 points each. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 182 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• A new auxiliary infobox, {{operational plan}}, is now available.
• A new page for military history essays has been created; project members are encouraged to post their own advice and opinions on matters within the project's purview.
• New guidelines concerning precision and ship pronouns have been added to the style guide.
• Featured picture candidates and picture peer reviews are now accessible through the project's review department.
• An effort to convert deprecated infoboxes has begun; any assistance is welcome!

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
2. Battle of Musa Qala
3. George Jones (RAAF officer)
4. Italian War of 1542–1546
5. Jim Bowie
6. Józef Piłsudski
7. Matanikau Offensive
8. Offa of Mercia
9. Suleiman the Magnificent
10. USS Illinois (BB-65)

New featured lists:

1. List of Knight's Cross recipients
2. Order of battle at the Glorious First of June

New A-Class articles:

1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
2. Cold War
3. Hans-Joachim Marseille
4. Krulak Mendenhall mission

Current proposals and discussions

• Discussion about top-level operational categories continues.
• A discussion about non-English operational codenames has begun.
• A category restructuring workshop is now open; brainstorming regarding the arrangement of the top-level military history categories is currently ongoing.

Awards and honors

• Bwmoll3 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his superior contributions to a variety of articles about the United States Air Force, including a great number of those dealing with wings and installations.
• Bedford has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the outstanding contribution he has made to the project's organization by going above and beyond the call of duty in tagging, assessing, and classifying a massive number of articles during the 2007 assessment drive.

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Project news

• The fifth project coordinator election has now concluded. Roger Davies has been elected to serve as the project's Lead Coordinator, and Blnguyen, Eurocopter tigre, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Wandalstouring, and Woody will occupy the eight Assistant Coordinator positions. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!
• In the simultaneous referendum on project organization, you voted almost unanimously for a primus inter pares structure. As a tangible reflection of this, Assistant Coordinators are now known as Coordinators.
• The contest department has completed its eleventh month of competition, which saw 10 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 28 points, followed by Smsarmad, with 13 points, with Blnguyen, Ed! and jwillbur also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• The National militaries task force has been created.
• A new automatically-generated clean-up list is available to track articles that have various clean-up tags applied to them.
• A new logistics department has been created. The aim is to provide a pool of useful article creation skills that anyone can draw on. These include copy-editing, photograph retouching, and reference material sourcing. If you can contribute, please do so.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
2. Carlson's patrol
3. Coenwulf of Mercia
4. Glorious First of June
5. Koli Point action
6. Operation Camargue

New featured lists:

1. List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality

New A-Class articles:

1. 51st Army (Soviet Union)
2. Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999)
3. Le Paradis massacre
4. Military of East Timor
5. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

Breaking news

• A new B-Class Assessment Drive ("BCAD") will go operational no later than 11 March. Of great interest to experienced wiki-gnomes, it is small in scope, about 4,500 articles, and will be supported by the usual awards, including a golden wiki. To keep up to date with developments, and to get off to a flying start when it opens, add WP:MHA-BCAD now to your watchlist.

Awards and honors

• Kirill Lokshin has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding organizational work, his painstaking maintenance work, and his unstinting advice, throughout his two years of project leadership.
• MBK004 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding effort to improve our compliment of naval ships by updating infoboxes, replacing deprecated infoboxes, and locating sources for ships in the employment of their respective countries' navies.

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Project news

• Tag & Assess 2008 launched on 24 April and will run until 4 July. We have around 60,000 articles to check, so all assistance is very welcome. As usual, there are barnstars galore and service awards for contributing editors.
• The project scope has been amended to include specific reference to historically accurate video games. Songs and music with long military associations are also now included.
• The Contest department has completed its thirteenth month of competition, which saw 27 entries. The top scorer this month is Ed! with 37 points, followed by Cam with 22 points. Woody, Howard C. Berkowitz, Redmarkviolinist, Nousernamesleft and Outdawg also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• The coordinators have "adopted" task forces to act as prime point of contact. A list of which coordinators have adopted which task forces is here.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
2. 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
3. Lazare Ponticelli
4. Maximian
5. Peterloo Massacre
6. The Third of May 1808
7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
8. USS Siboney (ID-2999)

New featured lists:

1. List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients
2. Order of battle at the Battle of Tory Island

New featured portals:

1. Portal:American Civil War

New A-Class articles:

1. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
2. Battle of Bonchurch
3. Battle of Tassafaronga
4. Early thermal weapons
5. HMS Cardiff (D108)
6. USS Comfort (AH-3)
7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)

Current proposals and discussions

• An interesting proposal to set up teams to deal with specific tasks, like taking the Top Ten most frequently read military history articles to featured articles status is here.
• The coordinators are exploring ways of developing and improving our fifty or so task forces. More information is here.
• All editors are invited to contribute to a discussion about the naming of military operations in an endeavor to reach consensus.

Awards and honors

• Congratulations and kudos to the four top-performing editors in BCAD: CAM (1st); Legotech (2nd); Harland1 (3rd) and Smsarmad (4th). They helped assess 4303 B-class Milhist articles. Well done!
• To belatedly commemorate the first anniversary of the Contest department, the overall annual winner, Blnguyen, has been awarded the Chevrons and the March monthly winner, Woody, and runner-up, Dreamafter, each receive the Writer's Barnstar.

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Welcome to the second issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. Good news for our FA-class article Bird: It's now the top Google hit for both "Bird" and "Birds"!

Articles of note

New featured articles and lists:

1. Song Thrush (March 20)

New good articles:

1. Emperor Penguin (March 20)
2. Hooded Crow (March 17)

Featured topic update

Work on our first potential featured topic is nearing completion, with only New World vulture (B-class) and Cathartes (stub-class) left to go. Any help you can give in bringing either article up to GA/FA status would be appreciated.

Project news

• The current project collaboration is Cattle Egret. Help us to improve the article about this widespread species, which is found throughout most of the world—often lurking near the feet of foraging livestock.
• On a related note, be sure to vote for May's collaboration, which will be chosen on 21 April. Nominations are listed on the collaboration page; feel free to add a new article to the list if there's one you'd especially like to see worked on.
• A drive is on to bring all of our bird family articles up to at least start class. Currently, 44 families have only stub-class articles. See the list of families needing improvement to help with the project.
• Our list of articles awaiting assessment has dropped in the past month, and now numbers less than 1,900. If each project member assessed just a couple of articles a day (most will be stub or start class), we could continue to drive that number down. To find articles needing assessment, have a look at the Statistics table here and click on Unassessed for a listing. Special thanks to Dixonsej (talk · contribs), who has been assessing up a storm!

Aviculturalists wanted...

Snowmanradio (talk · contribs) is hoping to help start up an Aviculture task force. Anyone who'd like to help improve our coverage of aviculture-related topics is encouraged to get in touch.

Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Please contact MeegsC (talk · contribs) with your ideas!

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