User:Jaguar/Sandbox/WiltshireFirstAnniversery

It has now been exactly a year since WikiProject Wiltshire was set up. It started on 18:18 PM of the 18th of September (massive coinsidence?). But before that, WikiProject Wiltshire was first mentioned by User:Rodhullandemu in March 2009 with |this message on WP England. There were previous attempts on setting a project for Wiltshire up, but they never happened. The demand for a WikiProject for Wiltshire was quiet, but on 18 September the WikiProject was 'accidently' created when a village called Conholt was created. At first the village was mistakenly in Hampshire, but it was actually in the Wiltshire boundary. It appeared from changing the talk page of Conholt from to , there appeared to be no WikiProject for Wiltshire! And that's how this WikiProject 'accidently' begun.

In the past year we've gained eight (seven) members, of which one of them first mentioned the WikiProject over two years ago and I think we have a couple of users that are involved in the project, but not yet added their name to the list. This is not bad considering that we are one of the two most active WikiProjects in South West England (Somerset is the other one). And over one year we have managed to clog up 1,186 articles in which all of them are assessed and rated for importance. We currently have two Featured Articles, Joseph Priestley and Kennet and Avon Canal. We also have four Good Articles; Sheldon Manor, Great Western Railway, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and James Blunt. Along with that, we've had 17 DYK's and three Featured Lists.

However, there is still some great amount of work to do. 568 of our articles are stubs; that is at least 40% of the total (however, that is good given the fact that most WikiProjects have more than 50% stubs). 442 articles are Start class and our Top Importance articles are John Aubrey, Avebury, History of Wiltshire, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, Swindon, Wiltshire and our portal, P:WILTS. A couple of those articles would be good going off to GA Status - Stonehenge and Wiltshire notably. There are few requests for articles on the to-do list and most of the red links can be found at List of places in Wiltshire. However most of the villages are missing coordinates.

The table below show most of our assessed articles over the months. Please note that the table is approximate; there is no way (or any we've heard of) of gathering the data from WP 1.0 bot from previous months. It would have been good to see the full results in the table, but monthly logs of WikiProject Wiltshire were not recorded. The table is better than nothing as it shows how many assessed articles we did have and all the progress we have made.

I really need comments on this please - what can we do next? What about future collaborations? Is there anyway of improving the project? We need comments in order to improve the project. Thanks, Jaguar (talk) 10:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)