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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 10,294 last month to 10,371 on January 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 93 is ahead ofWP:GM who have 74.WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,185 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
2011 Census
TheOffice for National Statistics have now published the detailed information from the2011 Census for wards and parishes. The data can be searched for on their web sitehere. Would be good to get the information added to all of the relevant articles but this is a big job. If the article already has the 2001 census figures then it may be worth retaining these, in the text of the article, for comparison purposes.
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Op-ed:An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?
Featured content:A lousy week Six articles, one list, and fourteen pictures were promoted to "featured" states this week on the English Wikipedia.
WikiProject report:Just the Facts This week, we got the details on WikiProject Infoboxes.
In the media:Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute Foreign Policy has published a report on editing of the Wikipedia articles on the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute. The uninhabited islands are under the control of Japan, but China and Taiwan are asserting rival territorial claims. Tensions have risen of late—and not just in the waters surrounding the actual islands.
News and notes:UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year Wikimedia UK, the non-profit organization devoted to furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement in the United Kingdom, has published the findings of a governance review conducted by Compass Partnership.
Discussion report:WebCite proposal Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
WikiProject report:Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines This week, we put our life in the hands of WikiProject Airlines. Starting in July 2005, the project has improved articles relating to airline companies, alliances, destination lists, and travel benefit programs. WikiProject Airlines has accumulated over 4,000 pages, including 4 Featured Articles and 26 Good Articles.
Technology report:Better templates and 3D buildings As of time of writing, twenty wikis (including the English, French and Hungarian Wikipedias) are in the process of getting access to the Lua scripting language, an optional substitute for the clunky template code that exists at present.
News and notes:Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit On February 15, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) declared 'victory' in its counter-lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the owner of Wikitravel and the operator of several online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The lawsuit clears the last remaining hurdles for the WMF's new travel guide project, Wikivoyage.
In the media:Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press Sue Gardner's visit to Australia sparked a number of interviews in the Australian press. An interview published in theDaily Telegraph on 12 February 2013, titled "Data plans 'unnerving': Wikipedia boss", saw Gardner comment on Australian plans to store personal internet and telephone data. The planned measure, intended to assist crime prevention, would involve internet service providers and mobile phone firms storing customer usage data for up to two years.
Featured content:Featured content gets schooled Two articles, nine lists, and thirteen pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Hi, Gilderien. Yourrecent edit of theList of companies in the nuclear sector is somehow misleading. First, it was not only disambiguation but also re-arrangement and taking account the size, also removal of some information, Second, removal of 1,375 bites is certainly not a minor edit (except in the case of vandalism). Could you please clarify what was actually removed? Thank you.Beagel (talk)14:14, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
I was using the tool DAB solver, through which I marked it as a minor edit as there was no actual content removed, as perWP:MINOR, only changing a link and some of the template syntax (this can be verified easily as both revisions contain exactly 3,458 words of content). These changes were automatically applied by the application in order to update it to the HTML5 specifications, and only affect the rendering and ease of editing of content, and not the content itself and thus was a minor edit. So to answer your question directly, nothing was removed, only rearranged and syntax updated. Thanks for bringing this to my attention though, as making me consider how I am marking my edits cannot be a bad thing.--GilderienChat|List of good deeds14:31, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. The issue was that the edit history shows that the size of the article was decreased by 1,375 bites and due to re-arrangements it was very hard to say if this was due to formatting or removal of the content. Thank you for clarifying this.Beagel (talk)14:39, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
In the media:Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency On 13 February 2013,PR Report, the German sister publication ofPR Week, published an article announcing that PR agency Fleishman-Hillard was offering a new analysis tool enabling companies to assess their articles in the German-language Wikipedia: the Wikipedia Corporate Index (WCI).
Recent research:Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers "Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production" by Jeff Loveland (a historian of encyclopedias) and Joseph Reagle situates Wikipedia within the context of encyclopedic production historically, arguing that the features that many claim to be unique about Wikipedia actually have roots in encyclopedias of the past.
News and notes:"Very lucky" Picture of the Year The Wikimedia Commons 2012 Picture of the Year contest has ended, with the winner beingPair of Merops apiaster feeding, taken by Pierre Dalous. The picture shows a pair of European Bee-eaters in a mating ritual—the male bird(right) has tossed the wasp into the air, and he will eventually offer it to the female(left).
Featured content:Blue birds be bouncin' Six articles, three lists, and twelve images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this month.
WikiProject report:How to measure a WikiProject's workload How can we measure the challenges facing a project or determine a WikiProject's productivity? Several prominent projects have been doing it for years: WikiWork.
Technology report:Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) this week committed itself to funding the Wikidata development team, ending fears that phase three would be abandoned.
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.
Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
Casliber (submissions), due in no small part toCanis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission withKeilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.
Other contributors of note include:
Sven Manguard (submissions), whosePortal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, acurious contribution has been offered byThe C of E (submissions): did you know that there is aShit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
March sees theWikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid thewomen's history WikiProject to coincide withWomen's History Month andInternational Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has ato-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is anan effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!
A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the reviewonly. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.J Milburn (talk •email) andThe ed17 (talk •email)J Milburn (talk)17:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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 10,371 last month to 10,390 on February 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 95 is ahead ofWP:GM who have 74.WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,190 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Interwiki links
There has been a major change this month to the way that interwiki links are handled with the introduction ofWikidata. Wikidata is a central place to record meta-data about an article and the initial phase was rolled out this month to cater for interwiki links. The links in the language area are served from this project and can be edited by use of the "edit links" icon at the bottom of the list. These links in articles are now redundant but if present override the information supplied by wikidata. Check each of the links to ensure that they exist and are correct on wikidata before removing the entry from an article. BOTs are in the process of removing these links from articles but will leave behind missing or conflicting links for someone to investigate and fix appropriately.
Be aware that when moving articles to change the destination for the en interwiki link on wikidata to point to the new article location. The redirect will normally take care of thisbut if the original name is reused for a different article then other wikis will be pointing to an incorrect location.
Wikidate also does not handle section links in the interwiki link so these must remain as part of the article code.
Watchlists have been changed to give an extra option to Show/Hide changes to wikidata entries for articles on the watchlist.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to aclean-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 thewatchlist 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.
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Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
Casliber (submissions), due in no small part toCanis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with
Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.
Sven Manguard (submissions), whosePortal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
Sasata (submissions), whoseMycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
Muboshgu (submissions) and
Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in theMajor League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with theCasting Crowns studio albums topic.
The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is aShit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
