Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/Newsletter June 2006

Project news

• Three new task forces have been started: Ancient Near East, Australian military history, and Maritime warfare.
• New infoboxes for military awards and weapons are nearing completion; any comments on the proposed designs would be extremely welcome!
• A system of article importance ratings has been introduced to accompany the existing article quality ratings. Help with rating articles would highly appreciated!

From the Coordinators

Five months ago, as we were in the midst of coordinator elections, Loopy commented that "I don't think it's unrealistic to imagine this project as one of the most prominent and effective ones around in say, a year's time." Since then:

• We have grown from just under a hundred members to nearly 300, and appear to be the second largest WikiProject (lagging, curiously enough, behind WP:COMICS).
• From one small task force, we have grown to include seventeen.
• Instead of a hand-made worklist of a few hundred articles, we now have one that is quickly approaching 10,000, and forms nearly a third of the overall 1.0 worklist effort.

I'd say—without any unrealistic optimism—that we're well on our way to fulfilling those expectations!

Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion about the use of operational names in articles has started.
• Discussion continues about the role of "good articles" in the assessment process.

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