User talk:Moni3/Sandbox1/Workspace4

Section headers
I'm not sure why my change didn't work properly. I formatted the sections like we did in the March newsletter (viewable, among other places, in my archive. Revert me if you want, or maybe someone knows what went wrong? Aleta  Sing 20:38, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You fixed it! What was wrong with it? (I'd like to be able to avoid in the future whatever I did wrong.)Aleta  Sing 19:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure. I couldn't fix it, so I stole the layout from WP:GA and changed the colors. I think it has something to do with columns. The March newsletter had one column, and the one we were playing with had two. But I think stealing is much more efficient. --Moni3 (talk) 19:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed. big grin Aleta  Sing 20:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Reanimating the newsletter
Hi Moni3 - thought we could start working on this much-vaunted newsletter and try and rally the troops a bit.

We've talked about this as a way to increase enthusiasm and participation in the project, so I was thinking we could list as many areas wanting work as possible, so readers know what's out there and have their interests piqued. I will also be working on WILD ENTHUSIASM of tone and perhaps offering bribes.

The template you've got looks great; I don't think we need to devote much effort to changing anything there. The priority, I guess, is just coming up with content.

So how about we try:
 * A list of projects we know we want to mention
 * LGBT themes in comics's GA nom, for example
 * Culling material from the project's Article Alerts and previewing some of the most interesting
 * Soliciting contributions on the project talk page (is there anything the good people of WPLGBT particularly want us to be mentioning?)

Gonzonoir (talk) 11:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey Gonzonoir. As has been done in the past, it's a good idea to mention all the DYKs, GA and FA promotions since the last newsletter. This is listed on the WP:LGBT page, so that's not hard to find. It's also been practice in the past to summarize the longest fussy-fuss topics on our talk page, and welcome new members who have signed up as part of the project. That will take up 3 sections. The other sections I'm not sure what to put, so any fresh ideas would be great. Once I interviewed a couple of folks for the newsletter (Benjiboi and Becksguy). Although I don't quite know what should be said, we should probably address the leadership of the project. We've done it in the past and nothing was decided... Bummer. --Moni3 (talk) 12:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Cool. So, we've got:
 * Collaboration on Lesbian
 * Live issues from the talk page: project direction/involvement; promiscuity articles; replacing LGBT rights series box with country-specific infoboxes; suggested articles on same-sex marriage state-by-state; existence of article alerts
 * Promoted to FA: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, others? Noel Coward
 * Promoted to GA: LGBT themes in comics, Themistocles, Norbert Basil MacLean III, others? Lesbian
 * Nominated for GA: Homosexual transsexual, others?
 * Assessments requested? Liza with a Z is there atm.
 * New members - will add from here.


 * It would also be great to have another quote/point of real-world political connection like the "please don't go home" line you had in the last newsletter. So what else am I missing? Gonzonoir (talk) 12:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The last few quotes I put in newsletters came from books I had just leafed through and the statements stood out to me. I have a little library at my home. I can find a few here and there. I usually try to make it match whatever theme the newsletter has. If we're trying to figure out some way to run the project, I'll try to find something that has to do with organization and leadership. I also tried, in the few newsletters I completed, to get folks to voice their opinions about things on the talk page of LGBT. --Moni3 (talk) 12:46, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Raiding your library sounds like a great plan. In the last sentence, did you mean you use the newsletter to encourage people to participate over at LGBT talk, or that you use LGBT talk to try to get people to contribute at the newsletter?
 * I've been much slower on this than I'd like - RL's got a bit fraught the last week. But why don't we aim to finish something ready for distribution for the end of this week? OK if I create a draft version as a new section on the Workspace4 page? Gonzonoir (talk) 14:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)