Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/July 2008

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 3 - July 2008

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; Project News

• Welcome to the third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

• Currently there are ten 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

• 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

• Sam Cowan was nominated for GA Status on May 12th and is on hold from June 23rd

• Last of the Summer Wine was not promoted to FA on June 12th

• Kingston upon Hull was not promoted to GA status on June 10th after a re-review

• Portal:Yorkshire on peer review since June 17th

• Scarborough F.C. seasons was promoted to FL status on June 25th

• Lealholm was not promoted to GA status on June 30th

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3509 last month to 3635 on June 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.

; Member News

There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 3 new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

• {{User|almost-instinct}}

• {{User|A1personage}}

• {{User|Mtaylor848}}

No users left the WikiProject this month, but 1 user was registered twice under different logins and has been consolidated.

;Thanks

• The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments at peer review. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.

• The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Also for getting Scarborough F.C. seasons to FL status during the month.

• There have been even more WikiProject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.

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; New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
• To recruit more active editors
• 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

;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.

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|+ Informal article viewing and editing statistics for 5 of our priority articles

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!Viewing statistics

| Rated a B class article. Viewed 40,122 times in May, 2008. Only went below 1,000 viewings on one day, 10th, and achieved 1,600 on the 6th and the 20th. Overall total number of edits 1,818 with 46 in May, 2008.

| Rated a B class article. Viewed 38,018 times in May, 2008. On 12 days there were over 1,000 viewings with a sudden peak of 4,200 on the 24th. Overall number of edits 2,269 with 88 in May, 2008.

| Rated a B class article. The highest number of monthly viewings for our priority articles at 50,846 for the month of May, 2008. There were consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with a high of 2,000 on the 25th. Overall total number of edits 3,152 with 86 in May, 2008.

| Rated an FA class article.Viewed 37,740 times in May, 2008 with usually over 1,000 daily viewings. There were 6 days when over 1,400 viewings were made then a low of 900 on the 10th. Overall total number of edits 2,550 with 44 in May, 2008.

| Rated a GA class article and actively being worked on for FAC. Viewed 42,902 times in May, 2008. Consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with 2,000 viewings on the 12th. Overall total number of edits 2,434 with 241 in May, 2008.