Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/December 2007

1. Wishing you'se all a happy, joyous holiday season! SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
2. Thanks for all your work. All the best in the New Year! Delzen (talk) 18:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
3. Add your greetings here!

Pop into the 2008 first edition for January and add your new year's resolutions online at Wikipedia Saskatchewan! WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - January 2008. SriMesh | talk 03:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

The Assessment Department is new. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} along with the Assessment guidelines.

See also wikiproject template for other work groups with their wikiprojects as well as provinces which can be added to the Canadian template

The new template and assessment table worklist is produced periodically and was created by Arctic Gnome. Thank you very much! Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition

New Template Saskatchewan

• AT Bot requests, another very kind user has also offered to help with the transition process (Thank you also to Ρх₥α )

The request conglomerated together the following tasks to help show the quantity / quality of Saskatchewan related articles:

1. tag all articles in Category:Saskatchewan and all of its subcategories with {{WikiProject Canada |sk = | class=| importance=}} and if {{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
2. all articles which have a Saskatchewan related stub Saskatchewan-politician-stub / Saskatchewan-stub / Saskatchewan-geo-stub to be tagged in their talk pages for wikiproject Saskatchewan and be classified as stub as such: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=stub| importance=}}
3. add GA or FA to to the class parameter of {{WikiProject Canada}} articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
4. add stub to the class parameter if a stub tag is present on the article page.
5. Replace the old tag {{Saskatchewanproject}} with the new parent wikiproject tag: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=| importance=}} and if {{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
6. add to the class area FL for any Featured-class lists articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
7. add to the class area List if the Saskatchewan related item in category:Saskatchewan articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.

Watch Arctic Gnome's assessment table worklist for progression undertaken by Ρх₥α. It is a very exciting time. Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition

Progress Report

• {{Saskatchewanproject}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | sk=yes}} — 797 articles remaining as of 06:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Unassessed Saskatchewan Articles See this category: Unassessed Saskatchewan articles which bear the old template, and also this page Unassessed SK Articles

Want to add a new article/image to Portal Saskatchewan? Help Page!

What's New?:Portal:Saskatchewan has a new section! This new section gives access to complete instructions on adding articles and images directly into the portal - step by step. The Saskatchewan Portal was created via instructions in creating a box portal. Clicking the edit button on the main Saskatchewan Portal page does not help at all to add to the various sections as is usually the case with creation of wikipedia articles. The instruction page give immediate access to the transcluded pages which need to be accessed to change additions to the Saskatchewan Portal!

• Amongst the many several marvellous WikiProject Saskatchewan members and Saskatchewan editors, the next nomination for Spotlight belongs to fishhead2100 (talk · contribs). Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read their brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio. Congratulations are sent out to fishhead2100 (talk · contribs)] at this time.

• Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan has 31 members. Please welcome Canuck85 (talk · contribs) as well as Leafschik1967 (talk · contribs) Merovingian (talk · contribs) to the project!!
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 10 members. Please welcome Mitchazenia and Leafschik1967 to the project!
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

Welcome and Seasons Greetings!:

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's seventh full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. The actual WikiProject Saskatchewan began on April 19, 2007, with its first newsletter delivered in June, and the Saskatchewan Portal with its randomly featured articles and images of Saskatchewan was created August 18, 2007. As the year 2007 comes to an end, Saskatchewan has a stronger presence on wikipedia and we look forward to exciting innovations and expansion in 2008.

Archives:

• • Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007
  • Other wikiproject newsletters

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. 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 Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Wikipedia talk WP SK :

• For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK

New template See Template:WikiProject Canada for the full template, however for Saskatchewan roads, add {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes |road =yes}} to the talk pages.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).

New Articles

• There is now a New Article Department . This page is created from a ruleset on AlexNewArtBot. The robot generated log should be checked for articles which may possibly be false positives as pertaining to WikiProject Saskatchewan article content. Then articles may be added to the New Article Department. A note should be recorded of any articles with tags which may need attention. Also discuss if the appropriate talk page banners and ratings have been added. It is a new and awesome way to see the growth and expansion of WikiProject Saskatchewan, WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods and WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods.

New wikipedia members

• The New Article Department will also help to identify new users to wikipedia. Please help to welcome them to Wikipedia, as well please welcome them to Wikiproject Saskatchewan with our Outreach template!

Pages needing attention

• The New Article Department will also help to identify pages needing attention, so that members can assist new articles survive various tags such as verifiability, or notability.

• A pilot project has also started in the creation of the to do listing. This project helps to narrow down the scope of Wikipedia's tags which relate to existing Saskatchewan articles.

Did You Know

• The will help to identify articles which should be noted on the "Did you know?" talk page. Those articles selected should be added to Portal SK Did you know creation page. Just click on a red link, and add the DYK question. This will make the new DYK article randomly appear on the main portal page.

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all members of WikiProject Saskatchewan, WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods, WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods as well as to WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .