Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Outreach

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Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Copyedit : Any articles with "attention needed" Infobox : Make Infoboxes for Robotics articles which need robotics standards Stubs : 213 stubs exist of which around 50% could be improved to Start-class Update : Begin tagging and assessing all related robotics articles with project banner, located on the Template page.

The outreach department of WikiProject Robotics is a centralized work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The new programs currently underway are a monthly project newsletter and a welcoming message for new members of the project; further ideas are always welcome, of course!

An open letter to our new members

If you would like to write articles on robotics, please join us by adding your username to our Participants page. If English is not your native language, you might prefer to work on articles with us at the Simple English Wikipedia. Robotics is a difficult subject, but you don't have to be a genius and you don't need to know much about Wikipedia. You do need to read the pages WP:V and WP:OR, in order to understand what kinds of newspaper articles and other sources you'll need to support your point. Admins have suggested that you probably want at least two good sources before you start a new robotics article...and don't be disappointed if they delete your article even if you do have sources that you think are good, just tell us about it, and we'll try to fix the problem. It's also very important not to write about anything that would help you or people you know if it got published in Wikipedia...so don't write about the robot you created, or your school's robotics team and how great they are, or work your grandfather did in robotics. But it's completely alright to leave a message for us, or leave a message on the discussion (talk) page of an article, telling us where to find your information, or inviting someone else to write the article because of your conflict of interest. Even if you don't have a direct connection to what you want to write about, it's important to maintain a Neutral point of view, as best you can.

There are many experienced editors involved in this project, and we will be happy to answer any questions you have and help you write your articles. And it's worth the trouble: Wikipedia is the top .org site in the world by number of hits, and the number one site in the world in credibility and goodwill. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 21:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Note to people I referred to this page: I am no longer involved with WikiProject Robotics. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 18:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

This newsletter was created in February 2008 and is based on the WikiProject Universities newsletter. Each issue will be published twice a month summarizing the happenings in the past two weeks. Feel free to help with the process!

Current issue

The WikiProject Robotics Newsletter Issue I (July 2008)
Project news Project now covers 1000 articles on Wikipedia and is continuously growing in coverage and in members New article assessment drive! Please help by assessing articles with no class assessment or importance rating! New {{Robotics Barnstar}}! Give it to someone who has improved significant portions of robotics articles or WikiProject Robotics! Four new DYKs were featured this month.		Articles of note New Featured articles: Automatic number plate recognition Hell Is Other Robots Three Laws of Robotics Make an article featured! New Good articles: ASIMO Robot Nominate a good article!
Current proposals and discussions Discussion on whether to add subcategories into this WikiProject and whether to create separate task forces per subcategory.
Awards and honors User:Jiuguang Wang was recently awarded the Wikipedia Barnstar for his continued efforts in the article assessment drive.
The current Robotics Collaborations of the Fortnight are: Editor Nominated Topic Robotics B-Class Improvement Drive FIRST Robotics Start/Stub Improvement Drive Home automation Every fortnight three robotics-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTF is organized by WikiProject Robotics. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.) This WP:ROBO/COTF is effective: February 29, 2008—March 13, 2008.		Things to do Continue upkeep of Robotics Portal Assign a class and importance level to unassessed articles Place {{WikiProject Robotics}} on every related talk page.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate section here.

Delivery options

By default, we will provide a link to the current issue of the newsletter on your talk page when it comes out. If you would prefer, you may choose to have the contents delivered to you directly (in other words, to have the full newsletter added to your talk page), or to not receive the newsletter in any form.

If you are not a member of the project but would like a copy of the newsletter, for whatever reason, you may add you name here as well.

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Instructions

Link-only delivery

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Outreach/Newsletter link|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} —~~~~

Full content delivery

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Outreach/Newsletter {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} —~~~~

Inviting new members

To invite members who actively contribute to robotics articles (note: please do not spam), paste: {{subst:Invite User WikiProject Robotics}} along with your signature.

Sample Output

Welcoming new members

To welcome new members using this message, paste: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Outreach/Welcome|—~~~~}}

Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Robotics! Our goals are to standardize the structure and content of all Robotics articles, improve Wikipedia's coverage of these articles (hopefully propelling them to featured article status), and serve as the central resource for all discussions and information related to Robotics on Wikipedia.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has a few expanding departments, which handle article quality assessment, member recruitment and project awareness and article improvement collaborations.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask one of the project participants or post a question on the talk page. We'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!

Project advertisements

Paste [[File:Wikiprojectrobotics.png]] to use this banner

Our ad is now in the Wikipedia Ads circulation. Help promote WikiProject Robotics by displaying this image on your userpage, or to place Wikipedia Ads to your user page, you may add {{Wikipedia ads}}.

• Display only certain ads: Here's the script to only display certain ads (so you can have people see our Robotics ad more often (or just only display this ad only). Note: WikiProject:Robotics Ad is #116.

{{Wikipedia ads|ad={{#switch:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 12}} <!-- mod 12 is the number of ads total-->
|0=24  <!--Change the the ad number of your choice here.  Remember, -->
|1=45  <!--this is an array, so the count starts with 0, and ends   -->
|2=73  <!--with one number lower than the total number of ads.  :-) -->
|3=77 |4=86 |5=94 |6=104 |7=106 |8=116 |9=116 |10=116 |11=116}}}}