|
 May Celebrations! |
|
Mother's Day
Memorials
Monarchy
Spring!
|
Government of Saskatchewan
|
|
There is new interest shown in the Government of Saskatchewan, its Crown Corporations (talk) and the Ministries (talk). The two new templates and categories need to be filled with articles. Please help out these sections if you have an interest in Saskatchewan and its Provincial Government.
|
 What's New? |
|
What's New?:
The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter! Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles about curling, crown corporations, Government ministries, aviation pioneers, and communities are a small sampling of the newest arrivals about Saskatchewan!
|
 Member News |
|
|
Other News
|
|
DYK?
Assessment Department
- Assessment of articles has shown improvements since the last update in the March newsletter. At that time there were 1,799 assessed articles, compared to 2,138 today; a 119% increase. Feature articles and lists were at 5, and have climbed to 8 articles. 4 GA class articles for Saskatchewan have increased to 6 at GA. 39 B class articles have increased to 89 at B Class, a 228% increase. Start class are currently at 505, Stub at 1,503, and List class at 27. There are currently 2 articles which rate top importance, 40 at high, 652 at mid, and 1,444 articles rated as low importance.
- Canadian Projects which overlap with Saskatchewan articles have been listed. The Canadian projects are:Music, Television, Geography, Governments of Canada, Education, Electoral Districts, Politics, Law, Roads, Communities, Military History, Sport and CFL. There are now more than 31 sports articles with both Saskatchewan and the sports project tagged. The Saskatchewan communities have both the Saskatchewan and community tag upon several articles. The Saskatchewan TV section is the shortest listing. Please help out discussing if Electoral districts in Canada should be merged with WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. The discussion is here...Merge Proposal
Barnstar Contest
- Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
- Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards!
Trivia Question
- The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before Sunday May 18. The answer to Trivia Question #1 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008 newsletter.
- Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
- Trivia Question #2: Does anyone wish to submit the second trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008. Pre-requisite: the answer shouldn't be in the top 10 google results. :-)
|
|
??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
|
|
|
Sports
- CA sports WP has been setting some guidelines. If you are one of the many sports contributors to WP SK you may wish to check out this new Wikiproject.
|
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
|
|
|
|
 The Editor's Desk |
|
 Welcome and Spring greetings!!:
- The WikiProject and newsletter keep members up to date with new research and articles, helps to expand their wikipedia editing skills and provide an outline for article creation in various Saskatchewan topics. WP SK is growing, both in terms of the range and variety of topics available about Saskatchewan, and the number of subscribers willing and able to assist. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated on how we could improve our newsletter in the coming months. This spring issue is being created during an April blizzard, very Saskatchewan for our spring months ;-)
- This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's twelfth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2008, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2008, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008, Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, 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
- If you would like to get involved, we welcome feedback on existing newsletters, and suggestions for further topics. Any and all contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
|
News Article
|
|
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
|
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
|
|
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.
See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads
Good Articles
As well the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan) has been started as the provincial highway network articles all link to this article.
|
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!
|
|
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods
See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods
There is a discussion started for M of S procedures when providing rural municipalites in a listing, infobox or template. Please feel free to add your two cents to the discussion as well.
Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]
|
 Spotlight Department |
|
Spotlight Department
- 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.
- Wyldkat (talk · contribs) has contributed several articles about the province of Saskatchewan amongst these have been Politics of Saskatchewan, Fort Carlton, Fort Carlton, and Malcolm Norris to name a few. As well, Wyldkat keeps an eye on existing articles, categories and listings and brings them into line with many of Wikipedia's policies and Manual of Style proceedings. Presently Wyldkat has been maintaining talk page banners and initiates the rating system. For the past few years Wyldkat has provided coherency and standardization for Saskatchewan related articles.
|
 Bot newsletter delivery
|
|
|
 Did You Know ... DYK |
|
|
Editors of May 2008
|
| SriMesh | talk 01:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
|
|
| Subscription options: Link-only delivery or Full content delivery are available.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on Sk WP Members, SK WP C&N Members and Sk WP Roads Members. If you do not wish the new condensed format of the WP SK Newsletter, send an e-mail to an editor or write a note here.
Provide us with your news tips on the 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 .
|
|
|
|
