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[edit] WikiProject Aquarium Fishes

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - May 2007
News
Discussions & Collaborations

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[edit] WikiProject The Beatles

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter
Issue 012 – April 2007
Beatles News
  • On Friday 30th March, a deranged fan was held after attempting to force his way into Paul McCartney's mansion. See here for more details.
  • Apple Corps continues to make news, after the recent settlement with Apple Computer over the use of the Apple trademark. On April 10th, the company announced that long-time chief executive Neil Aspinall had stepped down and had been replaced by American Jeff Jones. It was also announced that another long term dispute, this time with EMI over royalties, had been amicably settled prior to Aspinall's departure.[1][2]
Project News
  • The article "Jeff Jones (music industry executive)" suddenly becomes of top importance in the Apple sphere of Beatledom. User:Kingboyk has created a stub on the man, but the article needs urgent beefing up (including basic biographical data such as date and place of birth) and, if possible, a photograph of the new Apple chief executive.
  • With the debate over "the Beatles" vs "The Beatles" continuing to cause ill feeling and a number of resignations from the project from advocates on both sides, Kingboyk attempted to diffuse the situation by blanking the Project Policy page and tagging it as {{historical}}. Although this unilateral action hasn't been reverted as of the time of writing, the reaction was mixed, with two members rejoining the project and others stating their disagreement. With the issue still not resolved, the page was sent to Miscellany for Deletion, for the wider community (and WikiProject The Beatles members) to consider the issue.
Member News
  • The membership list has been trimmed, with inactive members listed seperately to help gauge the status of the project. If you've been incorrectly listed as inactive, please don't be offended - just move yourself back to the main list.
The Rutles: The legendary group who inspired lesser imitators like "The Beatles". WikiWorld, March 2007
The Rutles: The legendary group who inspired lesser imitators like "The Beatles". WikiWorld, March 2007
From the Editors

This has been a tumultuous month for the project yet again.

We need your input on how the project should work and what it's role should be. And we need to start getting Featured Articles, folks! :)

Next issue

This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 013 – May 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Contributors to this Issue
Complete To Do List
Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.
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[edit] WikiProject Big Brother

[edit] WikiProject Biographies

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter
Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News
  • The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way.
  • A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details.
Member News

Image:LinkFA-star.png Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia

New Members

Congratulations to our 225 new members
From the Editors

The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below)

We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future.

This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page

New irc channel

Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network:

#wikipedia-en-bio

Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up.

Contributors to this Issue
Complete To Do List

Assessment Progress
We couldn't do it without you!

[edit] WikiProject Birds

The Birds WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IV (June 2008)

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. It's been a good month for article improvement, with six new GA articles, and one new FA article. And we managed to save the featured status of List of birds in Canada and the United States, which had been threatened with delisting. There's still plenty to do on all fronts, of course...
Articles of note

New featured articles and lists:

  1. Cattle Egret (May 8)

New good articles:

  1. Pamela C. Rasmussen (May 8)
  2. White-winged Fairy-wren (May 17)
  3. European Robin (May 19)
  4. Common Treecreeper (May 24)
  5. Puerto Rican Amazon (May 26)
  6. Flammulated Flycatcher (May 30)


Welcome to our newest members


Bird article statistics
Bird
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 11 16 17 5 51
Good article GA 6 15 6 27
B 17 52 81 79 2 231
Start 19 156 518 1568 149 2410
Stub 6 53 517 2820 6202 9598
List 19 9 9 63 100
Assessed 44 297 1156 4499 6421 12417
Unassessed 1 1
Total 44 297 1156 4499 6422 12418
Collaboration efforts
  • We improved our April collaboration (Cattle Egret) all the way to FA status! Help us to do the same with this month's project collaboration. The White Wagtail is a very variable species (or is it several species, as some authorities insist?) found throughout much of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, and in small numbers in westernmost Alaska.
  • Be sure to vote for July's collaboration, which will be chosen on 21 June. We could use a few new nominations...
Domestic pigeons task force

We have our first official task force, covering articles related to domestic pigeons; new project member OnorioCatenacci (talk · contribs) started the group in May. If you're interested in helping with that suite of articles, drop by the new task force page at WP:PIGEONS.
Project news
  • The ongoing drive to improve our bird family articles continues; there are still at least 36 bird family articles currently rated as stubs. If you'd like to help improve one or more, the list of those needing work is here.
  • A change in Wikipedia's taxobox setup has meant the removal of the IUCN status scale image from all articles. To re-display the scale, add "| status_system = iucn3.1" to the taxobox parameters in any article for which it is appropriate.

Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas!

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[edit] WikiProject Christianity

[edit] WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

The Christianity WikiProject Newsletter

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The Christianity WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - June 2008
Project news
Member news
  • The project currently has 233 members, 15 joined & 1 leavers since the start of May 2008.
Other news
Related projects news
  • New Projects and/or work groups have been proposed for Christian theology and Christian denomations.
Christianity related news
From the Members

Welcome to the Sixth issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

Luckily, you all won't have to see my comments very often, as very little I have to say is really that important. But I would like to take the opportunity to say that I hope everyone finds the new General Forum page useful for discussing ideas relevant to Christianity in general, and feels free to make any additional comments regarding general Christianity there. Also, if any of you feel that you want to place a comment here in the future, please let us know what you want included. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

John Carter (talk), Lead Coordinator
Newsletter challenge

We are initiating a new feature here. Every month, we will list one misisng article. The first person to start the article will be mentioned by name in the next newsletter, as well as any others should they help get included in the Main Page DYK's section.

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[edit] WikiProject Films

The Films WikiProject Newsletter
Volume III, no. 5 - May 2008
Project News
  • Our project now has just under 42,000 film-related articles that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class and importance.
  • Do you know of an article that is assessed at a class below what you think it should be? If so, please nominate the article at the Assessment Department's request for assessment. This will allow our project to get a better idea of the quality of our articles.
  • A new task force was created recently: A Japanese films task force. The task forces currently needs new members to help with expansion. If you would like to help, please sign up on the task force's page.
  • If you know of an article that has reached GA status or you think could become a FA, consider taking your article to the project's A-class review department to see if it qualifies for a higher class. The process is a great way to improve the quality of your article and provides a stepping stone before heading to FAC.
  • There are currently two articles in Featured Article Review, that would benefit from your comments:Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Please stop by and help these articles keep their featured status.
  • Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in May 2008.
Member News
Film
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 12 22 20 14 5 73
Featured list FL 1 10 11
Good article GA 16 44 63 33 22 178
B 72 160 222 263 623 1340
Start 33 230 465 1957 5061 7746
Stub 5 97 448 14427 14192 29169
List 2 1 4 21 3721 3749
Assessed 140 554 1223 16715 23634 42266
Unassessed 1 1
Total 140 554 1223 16715 23635 42267
Current proposals and discussions
Coming to theatres

Opened last weekend (5/30):

Opening this weekend (6/6):

Opening next weekend (6/13):

Other June Releases:

From the Editors

If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Films. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 6 – June 2008). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Contributors to this Issue
  • Nehrams2020 (Lead Editor)
  •  ??? (Editor, Distributor)
We couldn't do it without you!

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[edit] WikiProject Golf

The WikiProject Golf Newsletter
Issue IV - May 2007
If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
Project News
  • I am experimenting with a new layout for easy readability, as well as to make the newsletter look more attractive and more like other ones. If someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here.
  • An assessment department has been set up. To find out how to assess an article, go to the assessment page.
  • I have asked Snowolf if his bot could help in tagging articles. The response is still pending, but hopefully we will soon have more of an idea of how many articles we have.
  • During the two months since the last newsletter, Annika Sörenstam has reached good article status. Congratulations to all who worked on this article.
  • There has been a recent peer review for Jack Nicklaus. Please help by following the suggestions that are shown here.
  • A new sidebar has been created. If you think it could be improved, go here.
  • Several new templates have been created. Go to the templates page for a full list.
Article Statistics
Golf
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA
A 1 1
Good article GA 2 2
B 10 1 11
Start 30 3 2 6 1 42
Stub 11 3 11 73 2 100
Assessed 54 6 13 80 3 156
Unassessed 0 0 0 0 1269 1269
Total 54 6 13 80 1272 1425
New Members

Welcome to all the new members over the past two months!

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[edit] WikiProject Hawaiʻi

Music of Hawaiʻi
June 2008

WikiProject Hawaiʻi Newsletter
Volume I, No. 3 - June 2008

In this issue
Queen Liliʻuokalani
Queen Liliʻuokalani
Music of Hawaiʻi

TUF-KAT is the primary author of Music of Hawaii. The article was listed as GA-Class in December 2005, but by September 2007, a great deal of anonymous editing left the article considerably weaker from its last good version in April 2006. As a result, Music of Hawaii was delisted due to a failure to meet the broadness criteria, as well as the addition of unsourced content, original research, poor formatting, and "stubby" sections needing expansion. One of the drawbacks of an encyclopedia that "anyone can edit", is that unless a core group of editors are watching articles closely on a daily basis, over time, articles tend to deteriorate in quality rather than improve, resulting in a telephone game where formerly good articles become incomprehensible. This is a perfect example of how important the project watchlist is to this project; Please check it at least once a day to avoid this type of problem in the future.

B-Class to GA-Class Push

Including Music of Hawaii, there are 63 B-Class articles that need to be checked against criteria for B-Class status; this criteria also needs to be added to the {{WPHawaii}} template. Articles should be referenced with inline citations, accurately discuss the topic in appropriate detail, adhere to WP:LAYOUT and WP:MOS, and include any necessary images or infoboxes. Of these 63 articles, about 20 are close to GA-Class status. Please take a moment to sort through the category and bring potential GA-candidates to the attention of the project. Or, you can perform cleanup, review the GA criteria, and nominate the articles yourself.

Unreferenced articles

While by no means comprehensive or complete, Category:Unreferenced Hawaii articles currently contains ~105 articles which are flagged in the {{WPHawaii}} project tag on the talk page as unref=yes. MPerel notes that if each of the 39 members of this project added references to at least one article per week, we could clear out the category well before the end of June. Please take a moment to review the category and find an article that catches your eye.

New and unassessed articles

AlexNewArtBot identifies new Hawaii-related articles on a project subpage. Please browse through these articles for review and assessment; If you run into a false positive, just ignore it. Category:Unassessed Hawaii articles should usually be empty, but if you find articles within this category please take a moment to assess as many as you can and help empty out the category.

Collaboration

Aloha shirt has been proposed as a collaboration candidate with the Fashion WikiProject. Please join the discussion on the fashion project talk page. If you own vintage aloha clothing, photographs are needed. A new subsection on the original Aloha Friday casual day and its relation to the Aloha clothing industry is in development. Anyone is welcome to help add this material to the main article or continue to expand it.

ABOVE RIGHT: A statue of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii, is shown holding a copy of "Aloha `Oe" (Farewell to Thee) in her hand, a popular song she wrote in 1878. The Queen composed more than 165 songs and played guitar, piano, organ, 'ukulele and zither.

Learn the Hawaiian language at Wikibooks

Singularity has begun working on a Hawaiian language textbook at Wikibooks. Upon finishing the book, users should be able to contribute to Wikipikia Hawai'i, the Hawaiian language Wikipedia. Singularity has already started two pages: About Hawaiian and Numbers. Questions or suggestions can be left for Singularity on his talk page. Singularity also maintains a to-do list that has even more Hawaiian language-related tasks.

Genealogy

KAVEBEAR has embarked upon an ambitious project creating family trees for the Royal Family of Hawaii, beginning with the Alii Aimoku of Hawaii. A very rough work-in-progress can be seen at Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Genealogy. Help is needed formatting and presenting the diagrams, using the formats available in Wikipedia:Family trees. It is unknown if WikiProject Genealogy is active, but it might be helpful to instead create a Royalty and nobility task force like WikiProject Japan in order to collaborate and benefit from active projects like WikiProject Royalty.

Dispute resolution update

Jonny-mt has reviewed eight significant article disputes on the project and has posted his findings here. Four of the eight disputes have either died down or have been solved. Ongoing disputes include Kingdom of Hawaii (NPOV) , Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy (NPOV), Liliuokalani (overthrow), and Hawaii (use of diacritics and completion of MOS:HAWAII). Please visit the talk pages and help contribute to a solution.

Watchlist update

MPerel manually updated the project watchlist, adding 400 articles that were left behind since Ingrid last ran WatchlistBot in August 2007. The project still needs a dedicated bot for automation, routine maintenance, and generating reports. Meanwhile, checking the project watchlist on a daily basis not only helps us keep an eye on vandalism but gives a quick overview of the most edited articles and ongoing, live discussions.

Next Issue
About the Newsletter

E komo mai! The WikiProject Hawaiʻi newsletter is a monthly newsletter regarding updates of WikiProject Hawaiʻi. The idea for this newsletter was conceived by The Obento Musubi in March of 2008, with the help of Viriditas, Jonny-mt, and SeanMD80. Mahalo!

Editor in chief - The Obento Musubi (talk · contribs)
Editors - Singularity (talk · contribs) (Hawaiian language), Viriditas (talk · contribs)

Suggestions or comments? Interested in writing a story? Please contact us here.
Ka Hae Hawai{{okina}}i, the Flag of Hawaii

[edit] WikiProject India

Project News
  • Jimbo's visit to India and the WikiCamp in Chennai: Jimbo recently visited India in late February and early March on wiki work. This included a trip to a WikiCamp in Chennai. The one day conference attracted 300 participants from across India and beyond dealt with issues facing wikis ([3]). It was widely covered by the press, eg The Hindu( [4]), which cited the efforts of Bhadani (edit count), Sundar (leadership on Tamil Wikipedia) and Ganeshk (Creation of Ganeshbot to create articles on Indian towns from census figures). Ganeshk himself travelled from California to attend the conference.
  • Wikipedia Weekly 15: Wikipedia Weekly, a informal Wikipedians' program that purports to give "A weekly audio roundup of Wikipedia happenings with news, interviews and roundtable discussions" recently interviewed two prominent editors Rama's Arrow and Ragib(listen). The entire 34 minute interview was entirely about the world of Indian subcontinent wiki-happenings, and was the first episode which was not entirely dominated by discussion of wiki-politics and wiki-bureaucracy, with the host Witty lama praising the efficiency of the project and its proliferation of featured content. Rama's Arrow cited the team spirit, friendship and respect among project members in discussing its success and FA productivity, as well as discussing subcontinental wiki-conflict. Ragib talked also of his public campaign to raise awareness of the Bengali Wikipedia in his native Bangladesh, which has seen a 30-fold increase in article count over the past year.
What's New?
Congratulations to all contributors who helped to develop the above content to represent the best of Wikipedia!
Need some help?

Are you stuck at a point where admin help is needed? There are 21 Indian Administrators in Wikipedia at the last count. If you need some help with anything related to WikiProject India, they are just a couple of clicks away!
Complete To Do List
Note from Editor's Desk
  • Welcome to the March 2007 edition of our newsletter.
  • Congratulations to one of our most respected writers, bureaucrats and administrators, Nichalp, who is now entrusted with the oversight permission. In addition Riana has joined the administrative ranks after a successful RfA.
  • On a sad note, Nobleeagle, who was responsible for the creation of the Punjab WikiProject, and was largely responsible for Indian cricket team, Bhagat Singh and Lage Raho Munna Bhai becoming GAs, as well as working heavily in Indian religious and cricket work, has left the project after having his identity revealed.
  • More generally, certain Indian users have recently been subject to real life harassment by banned users, etc. If this is affecting you in real life, please do not hesitate to contact Wikimedia board members for assistance, or ask a senior Wikipedian to solicit help on your behalf if required.
  • Nishkid64, a prolific contributor and administrator, is currently undergoing surgery to fix a congenital heart defect. You can wish him well here.
  • Weekly Collaboration (Shortcut:WP:INCOTW): Collaboration of the Week has fallen from its once high feats. Please drop by and help rejuvenate it.
  • As before, we'd like to stress, this is your newsletter, and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips. It can be anything related to the project, from discussions to calls for help, and other interesting stuff within our community. Sponsored content for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome, including requests for copyediting, photographic work, peer review, etc. We'll be very happy to include them here.
This edition special
  • Translation Department: Can you read and write any languages of India? Do you know multiple languages and are looking to keep your skills at a high level or improve them? If so, the Translation Depeartment may be for you!

The translation department of the India WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to India for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources. The department aims to provide services in transliteration, formulating scripts for various languages, as well as translating articles from one language to another and validating sources in other languages to that of the encyclopedia article. If you are looking for a friendly translator here is your go-to point. Currently, we are still seeking representation for Kashmiri, Nepali, Oriya, Sindhi and Tulu, as well as reinforcements in all other languages.
Signed...

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[edit] WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games

WikiProject MMO Quarterly
April 2007 Issue I
About Us
WikiProject MMO Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter posted on the first of January, April, July, and October. The newsletter is written by any and all interested members of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games for members of the project and interested Wikipedians outside of the project.
Questions, comments, and concerns
For general questions, comments, and concerns, leave a message on our talk page here. For questions, comments, and concerns about our newsletter, leave a message on the talk page for the newsletter section of our Outreach Department here.
New good articles and featured articles
Good articles and featured articles are a great way to see what major acomplishments we have made over the last quarter.

Good articles

Featured articles
None this quarter!
Role call
We ask that within a month, all members sign our role call to show that they are still active participants in the project. More information is available on the role call page.
Major news
WikiProject RuneScape, our former child project, was moved to become a task force of this project in January as it had a small scope but the task force is still going strong to this very day.

This past quarter marks the beginning of our new collaboration system MMOGCM. Past collaborations thus far have been World of Warcraft and MMORPG, both of which made it to GA status while it was the MMOGCM.

As well, we now have an Outreach Department which works on this newsletter as well as spreads the word of our project.

WikiProject MMO is also now a participant in the Work via WikiProjects division of Wikipedia 1.0 and as such, we will be helping decide which are the best (based on quality and importance) articles within our scope. Project members can discuss which articles are to be included here.
News from the RuneScape Task Force
We are currently trying to improve this task force so that we can edit all RuneScape-related articles in an organized manner. To do that we started a massive overhaul which we invite all task force members to participate in.

We have also gotten our main article, RuneScape to good article status this quarter. All this, and the task force was only created in January.
Signed...
Greeves, Ed

On behalf of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games.
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[edit] WikiProject Military history

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXVII (May 2008)
Project news
  • Editors needed for Tag & Assess 2008. To coincide with the summer holidays, it will be gearing up from 15 June. As usual, barnstars galore!
  • Partner peer reviews: for a thirty-day trial period, we'll be running joint peer reviews with Wikiproject Video Games. The idea is simple: we help with their reviews; they help with ours. This way both wikiprojects benefit from new reviewers and new ideas!
  • We're notable: A new book, Simon Fowler's 2007 Guide to Military History on the Internet (UK:Pen & Sword, ISBN 9781844156061) rates Wikipedia as "the best general resource" for military research (p. 7). Of the military pages, he says: "The results are largely accurate and generally free of bias" (he also suggests people join the wikiproject). When rating WP as the No. 1 military site (p. 201) he says "Wikipedia is often criticised for its inaccuracy and bias, but in my experience the military history articles are spot on."
  • A-Class reviews: the usual four-day review period may now be extended by up to three days (ie seven days in total) in the following circumstances:
  1. the article has no opposes but has insufficient support for promotion or
  2. the article's nominator requests more time to resolve matters arising during the review.
The full text is here.
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Tassafaronga
  2. Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
  3. HMS Cardiff (D108)
  4. Krulak Mendenhall mission
  5. Le Quang Tung
  6. Operation Passage to Freedom
  7. Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

New featured lists:

  1. List of German World War II jet aces
  2. List of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo
  3. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
  4. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army

New A-Class articles:

  1. Battle of the Kalka River
  2. Battle of Verrières Ridge
  3. Brian Horrocks
  4. Byzantine navy
  5. Erich Hartmann
  6. Montana class battleship
Current proposals and discussions
  • A discussion has been opened into the structuring of top level operational categories, starting with Category:World War II. All interested editors are invited to help establish a consensus.
Awards and honors

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[edit] WikiProject Novels

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXV - June 2008
Project news
  • We
Member news
  • The project has currently 380? members, 0? joined & 0? leavers since the start of May 2008.
  • The
Other news
  • Many b
Task force news
  • There
Novel-related news
  • The
Current debates
  • The
From the Members

Welcome to the Twenty Fifth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

feydey (talk), Temporary Editor
Collaboration of the Month
Newsletter challenge

Last month's challenge (The Hundred Secret Senses) was completed by member User:?????.

  • The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is ?????'s award-winning ?????.

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Issue II - May 2008
From the editor:

Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May.
The Ohio Portal

The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
Selected Article: Indian Head Rock

There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock. Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
Billy Massie


WikiProject Ohio
Article Assessment

Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}
Article Achievements

New Featured and Good articles

WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit

  • If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
    • {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
Contributors
Stepshep & Billy Massie

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Powderfinger/Newsletter June 2008

[edit] WikiProject Puerto Rico

The WikiProject Puerto Rico Newsletter
Year I - Issue 4 - September 2007

"La razón no grita. La razón convence." - Luis A. Ferré
From the editor

Hello, WikiProject Council. This is the fourth issue of WikiProject Puerto Rico's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members to keep up with the latest news relating to the project. Please help with the newsletter by suggesting content to be included on the newsletter by leaving a message on my talk page.

Enjoy! --Agüeybaná 16:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Tribute to "the Marine"

I would like to pay a small tribute in this edition to Tony "the Marine". Editing since May 24, 2004, he has been one of our project's most active editors and has become one of Wikipedia's most recognized writers. He has authored over 400 articles, including 4 Featured Articles, 1 Featured List, 10 Good Articles, and 28 DYKs. His name has appeared in newspapers and magazines and has been mentioned by politicians and artists. He has brought Puerto Rico's history and its people to the web. He has shown the world that Puerto Ricans have done much more than just be gangsters and drug dealers. He has shown the world that we have contributed to history and the world just as much as any other group of people.

On September 29, 2007, Tony announced that he would not be writing for Wikipedia anymore. We, the members of this project, are sad that he will not be able to continue to spread the word of Hispanics' contributions here on the web, but I, for one, feel honored that he has entrusted us with the duty of continuing and improving his excellent work.

Tony, rest assured that your contributions, your wisdom, and the help you provided to all of us when we were new users will be remembered for generations. Que Dios te bendiga, Tony, y que tu recompensa sea grande en el Reino de los Cielos.

Viva Puerto Rico libre. —Agüeybaná 16:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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The WikiProject R&B and Soul Music Newsletter
Year I - Issue 1 - July 2007

Hello, WikiProject Council. This is the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music Monthly Newsletter for July 2007. Enjoy!
News
  • The first issue of the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music Newsletter was delivered! Please help with the newsletter by suggesting content to be included on the newsletter by leaving a message on Eduemoni talk page.
  • BrothaTimothy joined the project on July 02. Welcome!
  • We currently need a portal!
  • The Supremes, one of our Featured articles, was displayed at the Main Page on July 02. Thanks to all of the users who helped by reviewing and improving the article and reverting vandalism done to the article during its display.
  • LeToya Luckett has been promoted to Good Article. Special thanks to Spellcast for his enhancements on the article.
  • Special thanks to Acalamari for keeping us updated on all things related to the project.
  • See or edit the current tasklist here.
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008

New condensed format delivered by: ENewsBot. Thank you!

[edit] WikiProject Saw


The WikiProject Saw Newsletter
Issue III - January 2008

Happy New Year, everyone!

Not much of a newsletter for today...I just wanted to report that OfficialSaw.com's website has undergone a massive renovation and has added character profiles and trap descriptions and the like. Why am I telling you this? Because it appears that our Wikipedia articles have been used for the site! (Check out the House of Jigsaw history section for one example). So feel proud, knowing that the articles that you have worked on have garnered notice from the folks at LionsGate...

--CyberGhostface (talk) 16:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants

[edit] WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants July 2007 Newsletter

WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants Newsletter
July 2007 Volume 1, Issue 11
About
The WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants newsletter is a monthly newsletter regarding the project. AMK152 writes and publishes it. If you are interested in helping with the newsletter, please see the WikiProject's talkpage.
Interviews
If you would like to be interviewed for the newsletter, sign ups and details are here.
Assessment Scale
You will see Assessment scale information on each of the SpongeBob SquarePants article talk pages. The article will be rated according to the Assessment scale. Please consider looking at the status of the article to improve it. If the article has changed and the rating is outdated, you can change it or bring it up on the WikiProject talkpage.

We are trying to improve these articles, hopefully bring some to good or featured status. We would like your help reaching this goal. We hope to bring our main article, SpongeBob SquarePants to featured status. Please help us improve this article, based on the peer reviews and your knowledge of Wikipedia featured articles.
Project objectives
  • Episode Articles - See the heading below.
  • Expansion - Many articles need expanding, please try to help us with these. These include game articles (See games section on template and book information here.
Episode Articles
Please help us improve the episode articles by providing references, reception details, and production details. Please don't add trivia, quotes, or original research to these articles. Quotes can be placed at Wikiquote. The article in which improvements are taking place can be found here.
Portal
There is a portal for SpongeBob SquarePants here. If you can, please help keep it updated and contribute to the discussion.
Concerns and questions
Please leave a message with AMK152 if you have questions concerning the project. You may also post at the WikiProject's talkpage and someone will answer.
Signed...
AMK152
19:23, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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Number 11, April 1, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Damage from Will

Hurricane Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
  • The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
  • There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Jan Feb Mar Apr
Featured article FA 23 25 28 29
A 2 2 2 2
Good article GA 74 75 80 82
B 71 76 78 80
Start 193 195 194 209
Stub 16 16 16 17
Total 379 389 398 419
percentage
Less than B		 55.1 54.2 52.8 53.9

The Main Page

The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.

However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.

[edit] WikiProject U.S. Roads

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 4 • 30 April 2008 • About the Newsletter
Departments
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State and national updates
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