Also, theSociology article has been identified by theWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team as aCore Topic, one of the 150 most important articles for any encyclopedia to have. This article has been listed as agood article for meeting thecriteria for thiscategory of articles. We're going to be working to improve the article toFeatured article status.

Please placeWikipedia:WikiProject Sociology on your watchlist andGet involved!

TheSociology WikiProject isconducting a roll call (or min-census, if you prefer). More then five years down the road, we have over 50 members, but we don't know how many of them are still active in the sociology area. If you are or want to become once again an active contributor to the sociology content on Wikipedia, pleasemove your name from the inactive to the active list on our roll call (oradd yourself to the list if you haven't joined yet!).

In other news, we have reactivated the newsletter :) At least, for this announcement. We also havea new, automated to do listing, an activetag and assess project (which has identified about 1,800 sociology articles on Wikipedia, and assessed about 1,3000 of them), andthree new userboxes for your self-identification pleasure :) On a final note, I highly recommend watchlisting theWikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

TheSociology WikiProject third newsletter is out!

According to ourApril mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.

On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, seeWikipedia:Research andwiki-research-l listerv.

Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors areteaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from theWikimedia Foundation, and somereally useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!

And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?

In other news: thea automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an activetag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).

We now have a listing ofmost popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course,GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and removeCriminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month'sIndustrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visitWT:SOCIOLOGY!

Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our ownhere. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.

Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010).

If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicatedbarnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is theSociety Barnstar.

As always, I highly recommend watchlisting theWikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.