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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum

In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter

Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy

Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee

Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review

WikiProject report: New Year, New York

Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2013

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 57 - January 2013

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Project News

Welcome to the fifty seventh 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 10,275 last month to 10,294 on December 15th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 93 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 73. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,171 articles.

Currently we have thirty one 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 • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity

There are also fourteen 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 • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Blackburn Meadows promoted to GA on December 8th
Stainforth and Keadby Canal promoted to GA on December 8th
Cleveland Railway (England) nominated for GA on December 16th
Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery nominated for GA on December 16th

Member News

There are 108 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

AxG (talk · contribs)

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	1,501		1,944
Start	1	242	1,263	8,705		10,211
Stub		21	352	5,655	3	6,031
List		4	12	955		971
Category					3,887	3,887
Disambig					21	21
File					22	22
Portal					95	95
Project					226	226
Redirect			2	196	1,355	1,553
Template					619	619
NA					8	8
Other					10	10
Assessed	19	485	2,112	17,623	6,246	26,485
Total	19	485	2,112	17,623	6,246	26,485
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,155			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 15 December 2012, 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.

Signpost

Just to let members know that the project was featured in the 3 December issue of the Signpost magazine. You can read that issue of the magazine here.

Happy New Year

It is the start of another year so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy New Year.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The January 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
XXXIV	1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012	Settle-Carlisle Line	RAF Holmpton
XXXV	1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012	National Media Museum	Dobroyd Castle
XXXVI	1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012	Redcar	Goole
XXXVII	1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013	Kate Rusby	Patons and Baldwins

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...

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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The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die

WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year

News and notes: 2012—the big year

Featured content: Featured content in review

Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

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Get involved by:

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Meet other women and share your story in our profile space
Participate at and "like" our Facebook group
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Already participating? Take our survey and share your experience!