Where are they now? Redux
- The January 2011 Copyedit Backlog Elimination Drive is underway. Help cut down the backlog and earn barnstars along the way.
- Check out the new Syracuse, New York Portal.
- Editors are keen to revive WikiProject Music Theory and WikiProject Louisiana Tech. If interested, add yourself to the project's membership list and head to the project's talk page to get started.
- Article alerts are back! AAlertBot has received final approval and is now delivering article alerts to subscribed projects and task forces.
Starting a new year isn't complete without looking back at the accomplishments of the previous year. For WikiProject Report, 2010 was highly productive and was the section's first year without breaks in coverage. When the Report was revived at the beginning of 2010, the backlog of interview requests stretched all the way back to 2007. Today, the oldest request is from April 2010. Eight contributors reported on 49 WikiProjects and Task Forces ranging from Algae to Zoos. Four of our writers even had the opportunity to experience sitting on the opposite side of an interview.
Pretzels built a permanent home for the Report, the WikiProject Desk, which features lists where Wikipedians can suggest their favorite WikiProject for an interview, the latest schedule of future articles, and workspaces to conduct interviews and build articles. We introduced the WikiProject News Sidebar in March and it proved useful for spreading the word about many new projects, backlog elimination drives, monthly collaborations, and helpful bots. The archives, originally maintained in user space by Cryptic C62, are now an official part of the Signpost.
Before looking back at the projects covered in 2010, we'd like to make a note about our first roundup of previous WikiProject Reports. The archives were incomplete when we wrote the first Where Are They Now?, neglecting the work of Kirill Lokshin from September to early November 2009. He introduced us to WikiProject Anime and Manga, WikiProject Dungeons and Dragons, and WikiProject National Register of Historic Places in addition to revisiting WikiProject Video Games, WikiProject Military History, and WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. His tenure also featured a special report on project banner meta-templates.