Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/August 2009
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; Project News
If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire {{classicon|FA}}Currently there are sixteen 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 • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfred {{classicon|FA}} 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 {{icon|GA}} Peak District passed a GA review on July 2nd {{icon|NoGA}} Ilkley failed a GA review on July 19th 20px Arctic Monkeys kept following GAR reassessment on July 21st {{icon|GAN}} York nominated for GA review on July 21st {{icon|GAN}} Geoffrey Boycott nominated for GA review on July 25th ; Member News There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:
One member left the project this month:
;Thanks
;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. {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}
; Assessment {| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;" | style="text-align:center;" |As of 31 July, 2009, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. {| style="border: 1px solid black" cellspacing=1 width=50% height=15x align=center |align=center width=100% style=background:#00A550| |align=center width=0% style=background:#FF0000| |
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{{Thank}}
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; 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
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
;Images
This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles—that of supplying alternative text for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{tl|Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images.
Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the alt= parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see WP:ALT.
Example
Image:York castle exterior.jpg
(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)
The same requirement is to be applied to Math-mode formulas but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.
; Please remember...
Image:Imbox style.pngThe 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. The latest listing was created on June 18th.
- 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.
- 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.
; 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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