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Wikiproject Transport Newsletter September 2013
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In brief (please click):
- Project news - standard symbols throughout
- New featured articles - none
- New good articles - two
- Article statistics - 3110 articles total
- New project members - one
- Newsletter challenge - Transport in Mangalore
- Recent assessment - scroll down many months
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Road transport (talk) | |
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Twenty, Lincolnshire (talk) | |
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Garoé (talk) | |
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Time (xkcd) (talk) | |
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A Shade of Difference (talk) | |
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State Trust Lands (talk) | |
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Caseless ammunition (talk) | |
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Battle of Damascus (2012) (talk) | |
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A404 road (talk) | |
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A863 road (talk) | |
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Jane Cain (talk) | |
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A701 road (talk) | |
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- Views/Day
- Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
- Quality
- Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.
The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:
- Content
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- Headings
- Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
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- Links
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