User:Sm8900/Community forum

 

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Welcome to this draft page for a possible new community resource. this draft is intended as a possible place to exchange information about activities at various WikiProjects.

Please note this page is transcluded from the page shown below. if you came here from somewhere else to make any edits, that is totally fine; however, please be sure to use your browser history to navigate back to the page that you came from, in order to view this data at the specific WikiProject that you came from.
 * Link: User:Sm8900/forum_draft_1

the idea for this page is based on the discussion at the following page. you are welcome to go there and to add your comments.
 * Village pump (proposals)

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the purpose of this page is to help all interested editors to find their way to active group efforts, including WikiProjects or anywhere else.

We will be adding links and resources as this goes forward. We appreciate your presence here. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 11:54, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Page structure
Facilitator. The facilitators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues.

Intro notes from moderator
These sections are still in process; we would like to allow time for a discussion to occur at Village Pump, to receive ideas on some good ways to use this page.

to anyone adding items here, please be sure to include your signature. we welcome any items or data added here, and we want to make it as easy as possible for individual editors to comment. we appreciate all of your input. thanks!!

we are experimenting with and considering different options here; since this page is meant as a collaborative workspace, it is possible that even our project page can be treated as an active talk page and forum; by doing so, we would be no different from Village Pump, or Teahouse, both of which are collaborative spaces, where the project page is treated as a talk page, for ongoing discussions. so if you wish, feel free to do so here. we will see how the page evolves, based on actual usage. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:21, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020

 * Women in Green -
 * On 10 February 2020 the project became a WikiProject in its own right after about four and half years as a task force. The project is dedicated to promoting articles on women to Good Article status. Currently only about 4% of GAs are about women, and very few core articles have reached GA status. New members and interest in this would be appreciated.
 * The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon
 * The Great Britain/Ireland De-stub-athon is an edit-a-thon contest that aims to vastly decrease the number of stubs we have for the UK and Ireland. This focuses particularly on places and listed buildings, but the contest will include everything. It aims to eliminate as many of our 44,000-odd stubs as possible, and to see content improved for every single county of the UK and Ireland as evenly as possible. It covers all 48 counties of England (as well as the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man), 32 in Scotland, 32 in Ireland and N Ireland, and 22 of Wales, 134 counties in total. Wouldn't it be great to be able to browse a Google map of the UK and Ireland and to read a consistently good quality article for every village and monument you zoom in on? That's the primary goal we have in mind long term here!
 * WikiProject_Military_history/March_Madness_2020
 * March Madness is a backlog reduction drive, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 March through to 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2020. The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project; however, only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. This year the drive is focused on the following areas:
 * tagging article and non-article talk pages that fall within the project's scope, including adding articles to MILHIST task force
 * assessing articles that fall within the project's scope, including Good Article nominations
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist task force pages (e.g. Template:WPMILHIST Announcements/Japanese military history)
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages (e.g. WikiProject Military history/African military history task force)
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2020
 * This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 16 February 2020, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 22 February 2020, at 23:59 (UTC).
 * The theme(s) of this blitz is/are:
 * Articles tagged for copy-edit in August 2019
 * Requests
 * Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.
 * The blitz is open to all; you don't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, be competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advise you to read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you begin working. If you're unsure about spelling, grammar or punctuation, consult the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Skilled use of English is especially important for articles listed on the Requests page.

Art+Activism: 2020 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

 * Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
 * Art+Feminism is pleased to announce the theme of its seventh annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is Art+Activism. Activism is something that is deeply rooted in the fiber of this organization. Art has long been a vehicle to reflect and urge social, political and cultural change. Just like the word “feminism” can have different meanings to the individual, “activism” can as well. We welcome all interpretations, wide and narrow, of Art+Activism to be part of our 2020 campaign. Visit our Tumblr to learn more about this year's theme.
 * Click here to view the edit-a-thons taking place across the globe for the months of March and April 2020.
 * To Organize an Event
 * 1) Consult our Organizers Quick Guide. Currently available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
 * 2) Contact us by email at info@artandfeminism.org to learn more and to let us know that you are organizing an event.
 * 3) Create a program on the Program & Events Dashboard (instructions below).
 * 4) List your editathon by submitting your event details via this form.
 * 5) Learn how to edit clicking the Resources tab on this Meet up page.
 * How We Organize
 * From the beginning Art+Feminism has paid careful attention to how and where we organize our events, prioritizing off-wiki channels of communication. We use the Programs & Events Dashboard instead of meetup pages, and we are collecting the list of events on our website, rather than here. We do this because our UX/UI review found that, because we had so many events and the wiki interface is confusing to new users, this main meet up page was difficult to parse and folks were missing events in their towns.

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