Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Wines task force/Newsletter/04-1-2007
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The Wine Project Newsletter! Issue IV - April 1st, 2007 |
Welcome to the latest edition of the Wine Project Newsletter! Feedback is always welcome. Please consider dropping a comment on the Newsletter talk page, to let us know how we improve future editions. News and notes[edit]
Since our last newsletter 4 new editors have joined the Wine Project. Be sure to extend a warm welcome to User:Theorb, User:Swallowtail, User:Il cacciatore and User:Alexparr. For our new members, feel free to dive right in and don't hesitate to share your thoughts on various wine related project on the Wine Project talk page
User:Scharks has created an info box for all our wine grape articles at Template:Infobox grape variety. Currently the majority of our grape articles are lacking this infobox. Consider pitching in and checking out the category Category:Grape varieties so that every Grape article can be fitted with our shiny new infobox.
On the Wine Project talk page there is an on going discussion about setting up a Standard_structure_of_a_grape_article. User:Stefan has set up a sample grape article template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Template grape article. Feel free to share your thoughts on this endeavor that will help bring some consistency to our wine grape articles.
Category:Wine-related images has been created as an easy catalog of all wine related photos and to help with a new feature added to our {{wine}} talk page template. If a particular wine article is in need of a picture, you can add "needs-photo=yes" to the template and the article will be added to Category:Wine articles needing photos. Be sure that any new images uploaded have a Wikipedia acceptable license.
Kudos to User:Bethling for her work in creating 4 new wine related stub.
Thanks to the quick work on Wine Project members, the 700+ articles that were in Category:Wine stubs were quickly recategorized and placed under their proper stub type. These new stub types also give the Wine Project members an opportunity to get these articles in their proper categories. For instance, all {{wine-grape-stub}} should be listed in Category:Grape varieties and any applicable sub categories.
User:Bduke has set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Wine for help in keeping up to date on Wine related deletion discussion as well as proposed mergers. A listing of these articles also appear on the front page of the Wine Project.
User:Stefan and User:Saintrain have been working on developing a Wine article watchlist. The watchlist is still in development at time of this newsletter publishing.
These past two weeks the Wine Project had two articles awarded GA status, Languedoc wine an Champagne (wine region). Champagne (wine region) is currently under Good Article Review Wine Sub Projects[edit]
Since our last newsletter, we now have 1072 articles under the Wine Project banner with 761 Stubs and 238 Starts. We did make some progress in improving the overall quality of our core articles reducing the number of stubs in Category:High-importance Wine articles from 76 stubs at time of last newsletter to 57. We also dropped the percentage of articles that stubs account for from 75% to 71%.
Wiki-Wino : Steve Moulding[edit]What got you first interested in wine?
What brought you to Wikipedia?
What type of wine articles do you enjoy editing?
What non-wine related activities do you also enjoy on Wikipedia?
What is your favorite wine? Least favorite wine?
What is the most under appreciated wine, in your opinion?
What efforts on a wine related article are you the most proud of to-date?
Know any good wine jokes/quotes?
Have you ever had a "Wine snobbish" moment? If so, tell us about it.
What area of the wine project would you like more editors to focus on
![]() What are some wine related reliable sources (i.e. a wine book or web site) that you like using when editing wine articles?
Wine Improvement Drive- Sauvignon blanc[edit]For this edition, we are going to share some Wiki love on the start class article Sauvignon Blanc. We hit a bit of a road bump with our last WID-Pinot Gris, though we did succeed in taking this Top Level Importance article from a stub to now B-class quality. The article still has a way to go before it complies with the Good Article Criteria-namely expansion of the various wine regions that produces Pinot Gris and some improvement in prose formating and copy edits. Feel free to chip in and continue to help this article progress towards GA. B-Article Adoptions[edit]To better focus the Wine Improvement Drive on the articles that need the most improvement (our Stubs and Start class) articles, we will run a parallel improvement drive on our Category:B-Class Wine articles. Our goal is to improve 2-3 of this articles into GA quality article between each newsletter. To adopt an article, see the Category talk:B-Class Wine articles page for more details. |
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