Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/February 2009

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 2 - Feburary 2009
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We Love Saskatchewan Valentine Day Contest.

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.

Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know. We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are selected by our editors.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan articles and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles

		I Love Saskatchewan Award
		The editor will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/March 2009 newsletter !!!

We Love Saskatchewan Family Day Contest.

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Biography Just How Much You Care On Family Day.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan biography and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Saskatchewan biographies are harder to find unless they have a category relating to Saskatchewan or the wikiproject Saskatchewan banner on the talk page. Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles

Saskatchewan articles of increase
Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport has had joint editors expanding this article significantly. New topics have been started on Saskatchewan to improve the Geography of Saskatchewan main article so it may perchance run at GA again. Flora, Fauna, and Geology of Saskatchewan articles have been started. There is an article started for almost every highway listed at List of Saskatchewan provincial highways. Since the election, several electoral district articles have been updated with the current information which is fabulous and a large undertaking. The cities and towns of Saskatchewan have articles of representation. Redlinks for villages are disappearing from the List of communities in Saskatchewan. Hamlets, rural municipalities and Indian reserves, still need more help in regards to their red links. (BTW there is a discussion First Nations reserves v.s. Indian reserves naming)

Spotlight Department
Jwkozak91 (talk · contribs) is a new editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Jwkozak91 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through updates of current information mainly to political articles joining the editorial crew there. Jwkozak91 has shown significant additions to the improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Jwkozak91 at this time. Pop by and give Jwkozak91 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.

Bearcat (talk · contribs) The February 2009 award is presented to Bearcat who has kept abreast of political party and people (PPAP) articles and their content. Bearcat not only improves and updates politically inclined articles but provides guidance and coaches others in their edits of political articles as well. Swing on over to the talk page of Bearcat and present them with a barnstar or two, along with a thank you or two for their contribtions to wikipedia as a veteran editor, and for keeping articles with dated content up to date.

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

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- This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Add something here for March. Well. Some other wikiproject newsletters have become inactive. Quite a few newsletters do not post their newsletter at wikiproject newsletters. Some newsletters have reverted to blog format and remained current. Is there an opinion about the Saskatchewan wikiproject newsletter?

Selected picture:Sampling of fungi collected from summer, 2008 foray in Northern Saskatchewan mixed woods, near LaRonge. Sasata

Member news
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 42 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

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 2 - Feburary 2009 edit

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 2 - Feburary 2009
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