Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Outreach

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WikiProject Virginia

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- Virginia • Virginia geography • Virginia politicians • Virginia schools
FAC:
- none
FAR:
FARC:
- none
GA Noms:
Newport News, Virginia
Review:
Article Improvement and Requested Help: Add Articles that you need help with, or articles that are in bad condition
Assess:
- Assess articles that have tags but no quality or importance assessment
Infoboxes Needed:
- • More...
Photos needed:
- Help add photos to these pages
Radio Stations:
- Help create articles for radio stations licensed to Virginia, using the format here.

The outreach department of the Virginia WikiProject is a centralized work are for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The major programs currently underway are a monthly project newsletter and a welcoming message for new members of the project; further ideas are always welcome, of course!

1 Newsletter
2 Inviting new members
3 Welcoming new members

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The Virginia WikiProject Newsletter Volume II, no. 2 - October 2007
Project News We are up to 3163 articles, which means we offically have more articles than the entire Amharic Wikipedia. Look out Limburgish Wikipedia, we are coming for you next! Please continue to help the project grow by adding the {{WikiProject Virginia}} to the talk page of any Virginia related article that you want to be within the scope of this project. We also have a new page - Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Article Improvement - designed to help coordinate efforts to improve Virginia articles. You can use this page to tell us about articles that need work or let us know about articles you are preparing for a WP:GA or WP:FA nomination. Consider adding this page to your watch list and helping out. Special thanks to VirginiaProp and User:Neutralhomer for creating and tagging lots of new Virginia articles, to T Rex for developing our article improvement page, and to everyone who has helped improve Wikipedia's Virginia articles. Member News New members to the project since the last issue include.... Emeil, Hunter209, Don Braffitt, WAVY 10 Fan, VirginiaProp, Terrenjpeterson, Carla, Sageofwisdom, Chrisfortier, Faithlessthewonderboy, Okisize, Old Guard, Unixluv, and the return of T Rex (boy, we really need to have more frequent newsletters). If you have good reliable online sources, don't be afraid to add them to the main project page. Under "External links".	Current proposals and discussions From the Editors If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia. 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 3 – November 2007, or whenever we get around to doing another one). We could use more editors and any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue Kubigula (Lead Editor, Distributor) Dinosaur puppy (Editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Expand stubs: Virginia • Virginia geography • Virginia politicians • Virginia schools FAC: none FAR: FARC: none GA Noms: Newport News, Virginia Review: Article Improvement and Requested Help: Add Articles that you need help with, or articles that are in bad condition Assess: Assess articles that have tags but no quality or importance assessment Infoboxes Needed: • More... Photos needed: Help add photos to these pages Radio Stations: Help create articles for radio stations licensed to Virginia, using the format here.
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By default, we will provide a link to the current issue of the newsletter on your talk page when it comes out. If you would prefer, you may choose to have the contents delivered to you directly (in other words, to have the full newsletter added to your talk page), or to not receive the newsletter in any form.

If you are not a member of the project but would like a copy of the newsletter, for whatever reason, you may add you name here as well.

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[edit] Inviting new members

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Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Virginia WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the state of Virginia.

A few features that you might find helpful:

The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but several other formats are available.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every Virginia article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!