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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2012[edit]

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 47 - March 2012

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Project News

Welcome to the forty seventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,599 last month to 9,683 on February 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,917 articles.

Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York)

There are also twelve featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Hedley Verity PR started on February 6th
Len Hutton FAC nominated on February 12th
Webster's Brewery nominated for GA review on February 22nd

Member News

There are now 98 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the February newsletter:

HeroTwins! (talk · contribs)
Mattythewhite (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

The number of active members is still currently low.

Thanks

A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	58			76
FL			1	16			17
GA	3	7	36	173			219
B	9	63	132	340			544
C	3	143	287	1,443			1,876
Start	1	227	1,187	8,467			9,882
Stub		18	328	5,646		3	5,995
List		4	12	798	1		815
Category				1	3,815		3,816
Disambig					21		21
File					21		21
Portal					95		95
Project					220		220
Redirect			3	177	1,325		1,505
Template		1	8	431	159		599
Other			1	1	11		13
Assessed	18	464	2,010	17,551	5,668	3	25,714
Unassessed			1			3	4
Total	18	464	2,011	17,551	5,668	6	25,718
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,936			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 February 2012, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

Thanks

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

New software release

By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in Signpost for details.

Discussions

Members may be interested in some discussions that are ongoing at the moment. A discussion on whether or not secondary schools meet notability guidelines is still on-going. If you are interested in having articles on secondary schools then raise your voice in the discussion. Another schools related one is taking place on the talk page of template {{Infobox UK school}} about introducing co-ordinates in to the infobox in addition to the top right corner of the article. Similar discussion was also raised at {{Infobox UK place}}. If you have views then chip in and see if consensus can be found on these areas.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The March 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
XXIV	1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011	Thornton Watlass	Beverley town walls
XXV	1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012	Halifax, West Yorkshire	South Yorkshire Railway
XXVI	1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012	Fountains Abbey	Saltburn Cliff Lift
XXVII	1 Mar 2012 ~ 31 Mar 2012	M1 motorway	RAF Elvington

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

Monitoring is essential
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

Moves
Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

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→ Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 08:46, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 05 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing

Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion

WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

Featured content: Best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open

Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

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EdwardsBot (talk) 16:08, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you![edit]

he or she is so cute

35775walters (talk) 16:10, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 March 2012[edit]

Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue

WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History

Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case

Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education

Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

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EdwardsBot (talk) 11:49, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	ok.. Sweet&snazzy101 (talk) 00:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

yeah[edit]

ikr!! tht cat iz very cute!

Sweet&snazzy101 (talk) 00:11, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thanks for welcoming me!! Happy editing to you too!! Sweet&snazzy101 (talk) 00:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting

Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

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EdwardsBot (talk) 13:44, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

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EdwardsBot (talk) 00:13, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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