Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/October 2008

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008

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Please help with Version 7 Saskatchewan articles before October 20, 2008!!

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Version 0.7 Saskatchewan articles

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC) - Articles selected for Saskatchewan[reply]

Saskatchewan, Cougar, Gray Wolf, Louis Riel, Beaver, Leslie Nielsen , Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canoe, Canadian English, Bobcat, New France , Hudson's Bay Company, Moose, First Nations, Elk , Great Plains, Sitting Bull, Sioux, Wilfrid Laurier, Joni Mitchell, Reindeer, Northern pike , American Black Bear, Trans-Canada Highway , John Diefenbaker, American Bison, Muskrat , Cree, Bigfoot, Louisiana Purchase, Tommy Douglas, University of Saskatchewan, Taiga, White-tailed deer, Lloydminster, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Gordie Howe, Athabasca River , Métis people (Canada), Government of Canada, University of Regina, Wolverine , Rainbow trout, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Wendigo, American Beaver, Geography of Saskatchewan

Corner Gas
- Should development be made on the article Corner Gas in its last season and the necessary forms filled out for inclusion to Version 7?

Community and Neighborhood Assessments
There are now 769 community articles tagged and assessed for Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods using the new addition to the Canadian template.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
Saskatchewan articles	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
This is an article written about the Wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
Saskatchewan articles	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

Canadian Election 2008
- The election has now been called, so as with all elections we'll need to keep a close eye on the main article, party articles and candidate articles to make sure everything is conforming to policy (read: NPOV) and to watch out for likely edit wars.

Of course it will all be nothing compared to what happens on election night, October 14th, as packs of anon editors update ridings according to who won the first 1% of the vote, so mark that date on your calendar too. -Royalguard11(T) 18:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC) -Canadian Federal Election 2008[reply]

Selected picture:'55 Bel Air dragster 'Touch 'N' Go' at SIR

Member news
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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