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WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

Volume 3, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2010

Changes to Featured and Good content | News items and announcements | Feature | Featured editor

News and announcements[edit]

New articles[edit]

There were 202 new articles in January 2010
There were 152 new articles in February 2010
There were 8 new articles in March 2010

Announcements[edit]

Several video game categories have been deleted: "Video games set in the Xth millennium"
The Wikiproject's To do list was reformatted from this.
The template {{VG reviews}} has undergone clean up: several parameters have been removed per project consensus.
The template {{Non-free game screenshot}} has been updated to sort images into categories based on gaming systems.
- {{Non-free game screenshot|Wii}} for example, will place the file into Category:Screenshots of Wii games rather than the main Category:Screenshots of video games.
- You can help out by making sure any screenshots you've uploaded are properly organized.
Per the template change above, the previous screenshot categories are now depreciated.
- The previous categories followed the naming scheme: [SYSTEM NAME] game screenshots.
- The new categories follow the naming scheme: Screenshots of [SYSTEM NAME] games.
- For example, Category:Commodore 64 game screenshots has been emptied and deleted to move the files into Category:Screenshots of Commodore 64 games.

On the Main Page[edit]

Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page this quarter.

Congratulations to the contributing editors.

Today's featured article

Did you know?

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