- Project News
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4005 last month to 4085 on September 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 28 out of a total number of 1678 articles. In the area of GAs, at 21, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 28.
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
Last of the Summer Wine was promoted to FA Status on September 9th
 Curtis Woodhouse was nominated for GA Status on September 18th
Henry Moore retained its FA Status after FAR on September 25th
- Member News
There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the September newsletter:
- Thanks
- There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
- The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
- WikiProject 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
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Importance
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| Top
|
High
|
Mid
|
Low
|
NA
|
???
|
Total
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| FA
|
2
|
1
|
15
|
58
|
|
|
76
|
| FL
|
|
|
1
|
16
|
|
|
17
|
 GA
|
3
|
8
|
36
|
173
|
|
|
220
|
| B
|
9
|
63
|
132
|
336
|
|
|
540
|
| C
|
3
|
142
|
287
|
1,440
|
|
|
1,872
|
| Start
|
1
|
225
|
1,177
|
8,432
|
|
1
|
9,836
|
| Stub
|
|
18
|
327
|
5,649
|
|
1
|
5,995
|
| List
|
|
4
|
12
|
773
|
1
|
|
790
|
| Category
|
|
|
|
1
|
3,810
|
|
3,811
|
| Disambig
|
|
|
|
1
|
21
|
|
22
|
| File
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
21
|
| Portal
|
|
|
|
|
95
|
|
95
|
| Project
|
|
|
|
|
220
|
|
220
|
| Redirect
|
|
|
3
|
179
|
1,321
|
|
1,503
|
| Template
|
|
1
|
8
|
431
|
159
|
|
599
|
| Other
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
13
|
|
15
|
| Assessed
|
18
|
462
|
1,999
|
17,490
|
5,661
|
2
|
25,632
|
| Total
|
18
|
462
|
1,999
|
17,490
|
5,661
|
2
|
25,632
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 94,680
|
Ω = 5.11
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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!
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- 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
- Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is currently under way and 43 of the project's articles are being
considered for inclusion. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection has been 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 has and the number of times the article has been viewed.
The process of selecting clean versions for each of the selected articles is also being undertaken so that vandalised versions are not put on the DVD.
Some of the articles also have clean-up tags attached to them which need to be dealt with before a version can be used on the DVD. It would be good if members
could address any tags in the selected articles and fix the problem identified. Those articles that are tagged by multiple projects should get a visit by each of the projects involved
so the articles will probably get a lot of activity in the next few days.
The cut-off date for this work is October 20th, but changes to articles following version selection may not be incorporated as there may not be time to reassess them.
- 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.
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