Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Newsletter/February 2009
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{| style="width: 100%; border: 1px gray solid; background-color:#F0E68C;" | style="vertical-align:middle;width: 55%; border: 0px; background-color:#F0E68C; padding: 1em" | The WikiProject Greater Manchester Newsletter | style="vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;width: 45%; border: 0px; background-color:#F0E68C; padding: 1em;" | 30px January issue | ||||||
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;Looking back at 2008 With the new(ish) year, I think it's right to look back over the year just gone. Last year was massive for our project, with lots of successes building on a successful 2007. In terms of featured content, we became the leading wikiproject in 2007, but 2008 saw us cement our status as one of the UK's leading wikiprojects: having started the year with most FAs (two more than London and Yorkshire), but falling behind in terms of GAs, we now have more FAs and GAs than any project under WP:UKGEO. While our aim is to improve all articles related to Greater Manchester, not collect trophies, we now lead the field by a long way and everyone deserves to feel proud for their part. We've had articles featured on the main page, both in DYK? and as today's Featured Article, but success is more than a matter of numbers; the project has grown into a community where editors join together to provide information and improve Wikipedia. A great example of this is the work our project did on Denshaw. Back in April, it was targeted by vandals and as a result was featured in national news. We stepped in and improved and protected the article, showing what WP:GM is capable of. This is undoubtedly the noisiest project in the UK and it's strength comes from the wide range of interests of its many members. We've even been so successful that we were accused of forming a claque. During 2008, our numbers have increased and, while some have left, we've welcomed many strong editors who will help bring the project more success. With so much emphasis on Good and Featured articles, it's sometimes easy to forget that a lot of effort goes into articles that don't get recognition. The table below shows that the number of B-class articles has increased since the start of 2008, and that the proportion of stub-class articles under our project has gone down. {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size:75%;" | ||||||
| {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance Greater Manchester articles|Top}} | {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance Greater Manchester articles|High}} | {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance Greater Manchester articles|Mid}} | {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance Greater Manchester articles|Low}} | {{No-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance Greater Manchester articles|No}} | Total | |
| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class Greater Manchester articles|FA}}
| 3 || 1 || 2 || 6 || || 12 | ||||||
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class Greater Manchester articles|A}}
| || 1 || || || || 1 | ||||||
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class Greater Manchester articles|GA}}
| 5 || 1 || 4 || 1 || || 11 | ||||||
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class Greater Manchester articles|B}}
| 15 || 20 || 25 || 20 || 8 || 88 | ||||||
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class Greater Manchester articles|Start}}
| 21 || 70 || 124 || 165 || 79 || 459 | ||||||
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class Greater Manchester articles|Stub}}
| 3 || 23 || 102 || 393 || 84 || 605 | ||||||
| {{Assessed-Class}}
| 47 || 119 || 264 || 592 || 171 || 1193 | ||||||
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class Greater Manchester articles|List}}
| || 3 || 7 || 7 || || 17 | ||||||
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed Greater Manchester articles|Unassessed}}
| || || || || 211 || 211 | ||||||
| Total
| 47 || 119 || 264 || 592 || 382 || 1404 |
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| {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance Greater Manchester articles|Top}} | {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance Greater Manchester articles|High}} | {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance Greater Manchester articles|Mid}} | {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance Greater Manchester articles|Low}} | {{No-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance Greater Manchester articles|No}} | Total | |
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| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class Greater Manchester articles|FA}}
| 7 || 4 || 5 || 3 || || 19 | ||||||
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class Greater Manchester articles|FL}}
| || 2 || 2 || 8 || || 12 | ||||||
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class Greater Manchester articles|A}}
| || 1 || || || || 1 | ||||||
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class Greater Manchester articles|GA}}
| 8 || 8 || 12 || 8 || || 36 | ||||||
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class Greater Manchester articles|B}}
| 14 || 26 || 40 || 31 || || 111 | ||||||
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class Greater Manchester articles|C}}
| 9 || 12 || 29 || 29 || 1 || 80 | ||||||
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class Greater Manchester articles|Start}}
| 14 || 89 || 212 || 335 || || 650 | ||||||
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class Greater Manchester articles|Stub}}
| 2 || 51 || 153 || 623 || 1 || 830 | ||||||
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class Greater Manchester articles|List}}
| || 3 || 21 || 15 || || 39 | ||||||
| {{Assessed-Class}}
| 54 || 196 || 474 || 1052 || 2 || 1778 | ||||||
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed Greater Manchester articles|Unassessed}}
| || || || || 1 || 1 | ||||||
| Total
| 54 || 196 || 474 || 1052 || 3 || 1779 |
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My own experience of Wikipedia has been positive and enjoyable, especially due to WP:GM. I've worked on interesting subjects with nice people, and hopefully the experience is similar for others. We've covered subjects as varied and interesting as castles, mummies, computers, Olympic swimmers, and wind farms, stuff I probably wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for Wikipedia. I enjoy being a part of this project, and as we approach the WP:GM's second birthday (24 February) I'm sure it will continue to go from strength to strength in 2009.
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; Project News
January has been a very successful month, with lots of article promoted, and hopefully more to come in January:
- Promoted articles:
Image:Oldham above Chadderton (2).jpg
:{{classicon|GA}} Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. It has a long and interesting history beyond that of its mill town façade; a Celtic hill fort, a medieval lordship and still an important industrial and metropolitan town.
:{{classicon|GA}} Manchester Liners was the first pasenger and cargo shipping company to operate on the Manchester Ship Canal. It was founded in 1898 and closed in 1985.
:{{classicon|GA}} In 2006, controversy was caused when Sony's first person shooter game Resistance: Fall of Man featured a representation of Manchester Cathedral without permission from the Church of England.
:{{classicon|GA}} Nico Ditch stretches from Ashton-under-Lyne to Stretford and according to legend was dug in a single night to defend against the Danes.
- Article news: Cine City, Withington is at WP:GAN, please keep an eye on these articles and if any issues are raised in their reviews help to address them. Unfortunately, despite User:Joshii's effort the Greater Manchester portal did not become featured.
; Aims
Our short-term aims remain:
- Obtain GA status for Salford.
- Obtain GA status for Kersal Moor.
- Obtain GA status for Manchester city centre.
- Obtain GA status for Congestion charging in Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund (TiF).
- Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
; Member News
There are now 48 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 14 members inactive since 1 July 2008) as 2 new members joined the project in January:
Welcome from everyone, and let's remember to make new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the project talk page, or perhaps look at the list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page:
;Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
; Reminders...
- Images!
There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
- Articles needing attention
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion and the list of articles needing cleanup are in permanent need of attention.
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