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The Signpost: 31 October 2011

Opinion essay: The monster under the rug

Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified

News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest

In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism

Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful

WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined

Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked

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The Signpost: 7 November2011

Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot

News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised

In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.

Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC

WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science

Featured content: Slow week for Featured content

Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week

Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release

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The Signpost: 14 November 2011

News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released

In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles

WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India

Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports!

Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding

Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration"

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Cook

I was thinking that may be we should have a navbox for the articles on Cook rather than the various HAT notes/See also sections. What do you think? Keith D (talk) 20:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, good idea. I hadn't thought of it, but was thinking the HAT notes/See also bits made it look untidy. Ehm...How do you do it? BTW I emailed the paper boy as well as leaving a message.--Harkey (talk) 21:05, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I have just knocked together a first stab template probably needs more adding. Keith D (talk) 23:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Great stuff! (What are you like at putting up shelves?!!) I'll be thinking about other things to add.--Harkey (talk) 23:26, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I could manage - do not know if they would stay up long though. Keith D (talk) 23:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2011

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 43 - November 2011

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Project News

Welcome to the forty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles.

Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst

There are also twelve featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Peter Swan (footballer born 1966) nominated for GA September 1st
Geoffrey (archbishop of York) FAC initiated on October 18th
Whitby promoted to GA on October 28th
Stones Brewery nominated for GA October 28th

Member News

There are now 91 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

No members left the project this month.

The number of active members is still currently low.

Thanks

A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	175			220
B	9	66	137	360			572
C	5	144	294	1,500			1,943
Start	1	242	1,262	8,700			10,205
Stub		21	352	5,660	3	1	6,037
List		4	12	948			964
Category					3,887		3,887
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					226		226
Redirect			2	195	1,355		1,552
Template					619		619
NA					6		6
Other					10		10
Assessed	19	485	2,111	17,614	6,244	1	26,474
Total	19	485	2,111	17,614	6,244	1	26,474
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,151			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 31 October 2011, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

Thanks

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)
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 (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

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.

Collaboration

Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The November 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
XX	1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011	James Cook	Levitt Hagg
XXI	1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011	Holmfirth Branch Line	The Society of M.I.C.E.
XXII	1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011	Howden	Tinsley railway station
XIX	1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011	University of Bradford	The Mount, Sheffield

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

The project is 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.

Monitoring is essential
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.

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.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

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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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The Signpost: 21 November 2011

News and notes: Last-minute candidates for ArbCom, the Sue Gardner European Tour hits London

In the news: Indian wikiconference heralds expansion, fundraiser in Silicon Valley major donor coup, import of Wikipedia reconsidered

Discussion report: Much ado about censorship

WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections

Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class

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Deployed

I have deployed the {{Captain James Cook}} template. Keith D (talk) 14:05, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 November 2011

News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar

In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars

Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation

WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Voting underway in the elections, finally a final decision on Abortion, scant movement on requests

Technology report: Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes

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