Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2011

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style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"\| ; Project News Welcome to the forty second 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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles. {{classicon\|FA}}Currently we have twenty eight 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 {{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}} Ed Miliband promoted to GA on September 12th {{icon\|PR}} Webster's Brewery peer review initiated on September 12th {{icon\|FA}} George Hirst promoted to FA on September 27th ; Member News There are now 88 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in membership since the September newsletter: 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 42 - October 2011

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; Project News

Welcome to the forty second 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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty eight 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

{{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}} Ed Miliband promoted to GA on September 12th

{{icon|PR}} Webster's Brewery peer review initiated on September 12th

{{icon|FA}} George Hirst promoted to FA on September 27th

; Member News

There are now 88 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in membership since the September newsletter:

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}}

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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

October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.

If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_18/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 full list].

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The October 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

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|XIX

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|Whitby

|The History Boys

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|XX

|1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011

|James Cook

|Levitt Hagg

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|XXI

|1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011

|Holmfirth Branch Line

|The Society of M.I.C.E.

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|XXII

|1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011

|Howden

|Tinsley railway station

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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