- Project News
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4284 last month to 4532 on November 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1746 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 31.
Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
 Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:
Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine
There are also eight featured lists:
List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
- Article Activity
 Geoff Horsfield was nominated at GA on November 16th
 M62 motorway on FAR on November 26th
- Member News
There are now 52 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:
No members left the project this month:
- Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Since the last newsletter Northallerton has also been selected to go onto the DVD having recently achieved GA status.
- Thanks
- Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
- There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
- The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
- WikiProject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
- A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
- 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.
| Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
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| Quality
|
Importance
|
| Top
|
High
|
Mid
|
Low
|
NA
|
???
|
Total
|
| FA
|
2
|
1
|
15
|
60
|
|
|
78
|
| FL
|
|
|
1
|
16
|
|
|
17
|
 GA
|
2
|
7
|
36
|
175
|
|
|
220
|
| B
|
9
|
66
|
137
|
359
|
|
|
571
|
| C
|
5
|
144
|
295
|
1,502
|
|
|
1,946
|
| Start
|
1
|
242
|
1,259
|
8,693
|
|
|
10,195
|
| Stub
|
|
21
|
353
|
5,663
|
3
|
|
6,040
|
| List
|
|
4
|
12
|
948
|
|
|
964
|
| Category
|
|
|
|
|
3,888
|
|
3,888
|
| Disambig
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
21
|
| File
|
|
|
|
|
22
|
|
22
|
| Portal
|
|
|
|
|
95
|
|
95
|
| Project
|
|
|
|
|
226
|
|
226
|
| Redirect
|
|
|
2
|
194
|
1,360
|
|
1,556
|
| Template
|
|
|
|
|
620
|
|
620
|
| NA
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
1
|
| Other
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
|
10
|
| Assessed
|
19
|
485
|
2,110
|
17,610
|
6,246
|
|
26,470
|
| Unassessed
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
| Total
|
19
|
485
|
2,110
|
17,610
|
6,246
|
1
|
26,471
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 97,147
|
Ω = 5.10
|
|
- New Aims
After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.
Specific aims for the project are:-
- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
- To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
- To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
- 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
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
- Co-ordinates
Just to let you know that a bot is currently sub-dividing the articles with missing co-ordinate data into sub-categories for ease of use. You can now find the articles by looking at the categories for each area as — East, North, South and West. From the discussions it looks like only the co-ordinates in the title area are being used by external sites so articles with multiple co-ordinates are not being handled correctly as yet.
- Happy Christmas
Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.
Though if you are at a loose end then many of you will be getting some new toys to play with which can be used to enhance wiki articles. Those new digital cameras can be used to get photographs for some of the articles which are currently without and for which the Geograph site has nothing suitable. May be it is a new PC that you just need to play with then spend some time checking out the watchlist for vandalism which tends to go unnoticed when there are fewer regular editors around. It may even be a book which can be used to add references to an article. May be you want to do something different then try creating spoken articles see the Spoken article project.
 The project is now 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.
- Monitor
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.
- Infoboxes
Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
- Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
The changes are:
- 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.
- 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.
- A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
- References
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
- 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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Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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