- Project News
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4085 last month to 4284 on October 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1708 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 30.
Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
 Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:
Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine
There are also eight featured lists:
List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
- Article Activity
 Northallerton was promoted to GA Status on October 6th
Curtis Woodhouse was promoted to GA Status on October 7th
Hebden, North Yorkshire was promoted to GA Status on October 30th
- Member News
There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:
One member left the project this month:
- Thanks
- Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Only two of our top priority articles were not selected, Ripon and Wakefield, the others were cleaned up, improved, expanded and copyedited as far as time allowed.
- There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
- The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
- WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
- A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
- Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
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.
| Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
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| Quality
|
Importance
|
| 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
|
339
|
|
|
543
|
| C
|
3
|
143
|
287
|
1,444
|
|
|
1,877
|
| Start
|
1
|
227
|
1,187
|
8,466
|
|
|
9,881
|
| Stub
|
|
18
|
328
|
5,647
|
|
|
5,993
|
| List
|
|
4
|
12
|
797
|
1
|
|
814
|
| Category
|
|
|
|
1
|
3,815
|
|
3,816
|
| Disambig
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
21
|
| File
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
21
|
| Portal
|
|
|
|
|
95
|
|
95
|
| Project
|
|
|
|
|
220
|
|
220
|
| Redirect
|
|
|
3
|
176
|
1,325
|
|
1,504
|
| Template
|
|
1
|
8
|
431
|
159
|
|
599
|
| Other
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
12
|
|
14
|
| Assessed
|
18
|
464
|
2,010
|
17,549
|
5,669
|
|
25,710
|
| Unassessed
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
3
|
| Total
|
18
|
464
|
2,011
|
17,549
|
5,669
|
2
|
25,713
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 94,920
|
Ω = 5.11
|
|
- New 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 above)
- 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
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Missing co-ordinates
A recent entry on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire#Missing coordinates alerted us to the fact that many of our articles do not display any geographical co-ordinates. Many also do not have infoboxes. As locational infoboxes usually have a field for co-ordinates, it was suggested that members might be able to kill two birds with one stone by adding an appropriate infobox at the same time as co-ordinates.
Appropriate locational infoboxes include:
The infobox page usually includes detailed instructions for its use and many of the fields are not mandatory so are not displayed until information is entered.
The geographical co-ordinates for a location can be found on Google Earth.
- Open Google Earth and enter the name of the location in the search box. (Quite often the article name can be copied and pasted directly into the search box but sometimes it is useful to add ,UK to the address.)
- A results list is displayed beneath the search box.
- Click on the right one.
- Zoom in to check that the correct feature is being displayed on the image. (Sometimes the supposed feature is not at the centre of the page.)
- Place the pointer over the location on the screen image and read the geographical co-ordinates from the panel at the bottom of the screen.
- Make a note of the co-ordinates.
- Open the tab of the article you are editing and add the co-ordinates in the co-ords field.
Further information can be found at Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates.
Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{coord missing}} should be removed from the article.
- Please remember...
 The project is now 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.
- Monitor
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.
- Infoboxes
Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
- Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
The changes are:
- The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
- The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
- A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
- References
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
- 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.
Written by Harkey & Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View
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