Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2012

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style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"\| ; Project News Welcome to the forty sixth 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 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles. {{classicon\|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine 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) {{classicon\|FA}} 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 {{icon\|GA}} Peter Swan (footballer born 1966) promoted to GA on December 18th {{icon\|PR}} Len Hutton PR started on December 27th {{icon\|GAN}} 1936 FA Cup Final nominated for GA review on December 31st {{icon\|GA}} 1936 FA Cup Final promoted to GA on January 12th {{icon\|PR}} Geoffrey Boycott PR started on January 26th ; Member News There are now 96 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the January newsletter: {{user\|fiddlersmouth}} 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 WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. {{Great}} {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}} ; Assessment Assess and review {\| border="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 46 - February 2012

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; Project News

Welcome to the forty sixth 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 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine 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)

{{classicon|FA}} 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

{{icon|GA}} Peter Swan (footballer born 1966) promoted to GA on December 18th

{{icon|PR}} Len Hutton PR started on December 27th

{{icon|GAN}} 1936 FA Cup Final nominated for GA review on December 31st

{{icon|GA}} 1936 FA Cup Final promoted to GA on January 12th

{{icon|PR}} Geoffrey Boycott PR started on January 26th

; Member News

There are now 96 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the January newsletter:

{{user|fiddlersmouth}}

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 WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}

; Assessment
Assess and review

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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 (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.

;New software release

We are getting near to the next release of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this page on MediaWiki.org. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the Village Pump to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The February 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice and a suggestion from the project talk page.

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|XXIII

|1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011

|University of Bradford

|The Mount, Sheffield

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|XXIV

|1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011

|Thornton Watlass

|Beverley town walls

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|XXV

|1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012

|Halifax, West Yorkshire

|South Yorkshire Railway

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|XXVI

|1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012

|Fountains Abbey

|Saltburn Cliff Lift

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

; Please bear in mind...

File:Imbox style.pngThe project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire 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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