- Project news
- Coordinator elections ended on September 28 resulting in seven elected coordinators: Andrzejbanas, Big Bird, Bovineboy2008, Collectonian, Erik, Lugnuts, and Nehrams2020. Erik will continue in the role of lead coordinator with the other elected members assisting. The coordinators will improve WP:FILMS by introducing and incorporating new elements into the project, and working together in discussions to further improve the project. A full list of the coordinators' responsibilities and information about the election can be seen on the main coordinator page.
- As the new coordinators help to organize the Tag & Assess drive, it has been postponed for at least a week to finalize details. You will be getting a notice soon to alert you to the start of the drive as well as to update your status for the project's annual roll call.
- Big Bird has proposed a new wording for "Awards and honors" at Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines. Further opinions would help to determine consensus on how to best improve the guidelines.
- A popular page list for WP:FILMS is now available on the Wikimedia Toolserver. The list shows which film-related articles are currently receiving the most hits. Page view statistics are updated regularly and will be archived and reset at the end of each month.
- Manos: The Hands of Fate is currently at featured article review. To ensure that the article keeps its current status, please consider stopping by and helping to address the concerns that have been raised.
- The project's cleanup listing contains many film related articles that have multiple issues. Articles that require the most attention include Film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Films considered the greatest ever, and Fansub. Any positive contributions to these articles will be most welcome.
- Our project currently has over 61,000 film-related articles, with 56,000 that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the
{{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class.
- Spotlight Update: September was a fairly quiet month with just one article promoted to GA status. In addition, three GAs were delisted.
- Member news
| Film pages by quality
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| Quality
|
| Total
|
 FA
|
190
|
| FL
|
483
|
| FM
|
33
|
 A
|
1
|
 GA
|
1,430
|
| B
|
1,515
|
| C
|
10,543
|
| Start
|
71,506
|
| Stub
|
96,420
|
| List
|
13,183
|
| Category
|
54,554
|
| Disambig
|
372
|
| File
|
111,062
|
| Portal
|
19
|
| Project
|
229
|
| Redirect
|
11,750
|
| Template
|
9,511
|
| NA
|
30
|
| Assessed
|
382,831
|
| Unassessed
|
6
|
| Total
|
382,837
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 985,629
|
Ω = 5.43
|
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- Coming to theaters
Opening this weekend (10/2):
Opening next weekend (10/9):
Other October releases:
- Did you know...
- From the editors
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