Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/September 2009

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Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

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Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

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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

;Summer treasures?

As the summer holiday season draws to a close, it is likely that many of our project Yorkshire members will have visited the Yorkshire coast. Some will have digital photographs stored on their camera cards or have leaflets and guide books about places they have visited. Now is the time to put all that wonderful treasury of information onto Wikipedia, before they all get lost in the run up to Christmas. (Ah yes, I can see supermarkets selling off barbecues to make room for baubles.)

There are two major categories for our coastal venues :Category:Coastal settlements in North Yorkshire and :Category:Coastal settlements in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Many of the articles in these categories are not kept up to date on a regular basis. Although it has to be said that some of the articles about the more popular resorts are well maintained and regularly watched for vandalism. Some tend to suffer from being overlinked to commercial enterprises but most sit there waiting patiently for a bit of TLC.

;Fish and tricks at the seaside

Our own watchlists often become unmanageable after a while, so here is a way to make the task of keeping an eye on specific articles much easier.

You can create your own separate Watchlist for any articles that you are interested in helping to maintain or expand by:

• listing the articles on a clean Sandbox page

• clicking on "Related changes" in the toolbox area to get a list of recent changes for your adopted articles

• copying and pasting the URL displayed on the address bar of your browser to a convenient place, maybe your to do list.

Here is one I made earlier!!

This is the list: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Coastal settlements list

Here is the URL of the related changes page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list

Tidied up to put on your to do list as: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list My coastal settlements watchlist]

And, of course, you can change the options at the top of the page to display more or fewer changes, as usual.

(This trick works for any special little watchlists that you might like to create!!)

; 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 August 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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