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Invitation to particpate in the December 2010 Wikification Drive
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 19:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC).

November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 00:05, 3 December 2010 (UTC).

Newsletter
I have begun developing the end-of-year GOCE newsletter here. Feel free to make any changes you feel necessary. The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 00:44, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Please confirm your membership
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 20:33, 22 December 2010 (UTC).

Wikipedia Ambassador Program is looking for new Online Ambassadors
Hi! I noticed your activity as a Good Article reviewer, and wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.

If you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:54, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The December 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Wikiproject Wikify at 01:29, 28 December 2010 (UTC).

GOCE Year-end Report
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Mid-drive newsletter
I'm going to start the mid-drive newsletter for the January drive soon. It will be here. The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 14:48, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive news
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 21:03, 16 January 2011 (UTC).

February 2011 Wikification Drive
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Wikiproject Wikify at 00:39, 20 January 2011 (UTC).

WikiProject Wikify's Coordinator Election
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 22:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC).

The Wikifier, WikiProject Wikify's First Newsletter (January 2011)
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 02:49, 28 January 2011 (UTC).

Newsletter time
It's time to develop the final newsletter for the Guild's January Backlog elimination drive, but instead of developing it in my subpage, I'm thinking we should create a Guild page dedicated to the development of our newsletters. We could create WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters and add links to all of our newsletters. We could put the newsletters themselves into subpages, such as WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters/December 2010, or something along those lines. The newsletters can be developed at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters/Development area. What do you think? The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 14:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds great! I also thought it was a bit odd that we were developing newsletters in your user space. -- Tea with toast  (talk)  20:19, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That's what I thought, as well. It'll be speedied as soon as I get some newsletters from the page history. The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 20:26, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun!
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 00:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC).

GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 15:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC).

March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away
 WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 23:52, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 04:14, 24 February 2011 (UTC).

WikiProject Wikify's March Mini Drive
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 04:08, 9 March 2011 (UTC).

Talkback
-- The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 22:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Newsletter available for editing
here is a link to the initial draft of the newsletter. Any help with copy edits would be appreciated. Thanks -- Diannaa (Talk) 22:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:48, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your participation in the March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive


On behalf of User:Wizardman and myself, we would like to take the time and thank you for your contributions made as part of the March 2011 Good articles backlog elimination drive. Awards and barnstars will go out shortly for those who have reviewed a certain number of articles.

During the backlog drive, in the month of March 2011,
 * 522 GA nominations were undertaken.
 * 423 GA nominations passed.
 * 72 GA nominations failed.
 * 27 GA nominations were on hold.

We started the GA backlog elimination drive with 378 GA nominations remaining, with 291 that were not reviewed at all. By 2:00, April 1, 2011, the backlog was at 171 GA nominations, with 100 that were left unreviewed.

At the start of the drive, the oldest unreviewed GA nomination was 101 days (Andrei Kirilenko (politician), at 20 November 2010, reviewed and passed 1 March 2011); at the end of the drive the oldest unreviewed GA nomination was 39 days (Gery Chico, at 24 February 2011, still yet to be reviewed as of this posting).

While we did not achieve the objective of getting the backlog of outstanding GA nominations down to below 50, we reduced the GA backlog by over half. The GA reviews also seemed to be of a higher quality and have consistently led, to say the least, to marginal improvements to those articles (although there were significant improvements to many, even on the some of the nominations that were failed).

If you would like to comment on the drive itself and maybe even make suggestions on how to improve the next one, please make a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/March 2011. Another GA backlog elimination drive is being planned for later this year, tentatively for September or October 2011. Also, if you have any comments or remarks on how to improve the Good article process in general, WikiProject Good articles can always use some feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles.

Again, on behalf of User:Wizardman and myself, thank you for making the March 2011 GA backlog elimination drive a success.

MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 21:52, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 14:39, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:59, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Mid-drive newsletter
The mid-drive newsletter is now available for editing. User:Diannaa/Sandbox -- Diannaa (Talk) 19:18, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive update
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:58, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

The Wikifier: March 2011
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 01:55, 16 May 2011 (UTC).

June 2011 Wikification Drive
Sumsum2010 · T · C 04:14, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Newsletter available for editing
I have started a wrap-up newsletter for the May drive and it is now available for editing, here. Thanks. -- Diannaa (Talk) 01:40, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:26, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify Discussion Invitation
 Sumsum2010 · T · C  23:23, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:04, 21 July 2011 (UTC)