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 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of active members is still currently low.
Thanks
Thanks to all those who took part in the Great Backlog Drive raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
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.
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 (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
WikiConference UK 2011
Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the WikiConference UK 2011 that takes place in Bristol on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the Wikimedia UK's annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them here.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
The 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.
Monitoring is essential 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.
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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