Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/News





The Right Stuff is a member-published newsletter covering stories, events and reports related to WikiProject Conservatism. A new issue is published every month and covers the preceding month. Project members are automatically subscribed.

The Right Stuff welcomes submissions including position pieces, instructional articles, or short essays addressing important issues facing conservatism. Post submissions here.

The first issue of The Right Stuff was published in September 2011. Lionelt is the founding editor. The Right Stuff is an independent publication which is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. The contents of articles are that of their authors alone, and may not reflect the opinion of the Foundation. Unlike most Wikipedia pages, Right Stuff articles carry a byline to indicate the person responsible for what often amounts to original reporting.

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Features
There are no regular features. Features are included based on availability of stories on an ad hoc basis. Following are the most commonly used features:

Project news
"Project news" is a compilation of recent events affecting Conservatism at Wikipedia including major achievements, problems, announcements and member updates. Recognition is huge!
 * WikiProject Conservatism Discussion
 * Member roster
 * Article Alerts (archive)
 * Wikipedia Main Page In the News articles
 * WikiProject Politics Discussion
 * WikiProject Donald Trump Discussion
 * Signpost

In the media
The "In the media" section reports coverage of conservatism issues in the media.
 * DuckDuckGo results for Wikipedia Why DuckDuckGo? Because Google sucks.
 * Wikipediocracy news feed
 * Wikipedia:Press coverage

Recent research
Academic studies done on Wikipedia or Wikimedia related to conservatism.

Articles report
Recognize individual editors who have recently contributed to the promotion of a Featured article, A-Class article or Good article. There are currently  conservatism articles in the English Wikipedia. This is the lightest of the regular sections and thus also carries the least serious tone, as its goal is to allow readers to marvel at recent advancements in core content on the English Wikipedia in a visually appealing, experiential way.
 * Recent FA, A-Class, GA articles
 * Showcase

Arbitration report
The goal of the "Arbitration report" is to provide a summary of the most significant ongoing and recently closed cases at ArbCom. In general items about members are reported in Project News.
 * Current cases
 * Enforcement

Discussion report
The goal of the "Discussion report" is to provide a summary of the most significant ongoing discussions and polls of Project relevance. This includes RfC, AfD, ANI, etc. In general items about members are reported in Project News.
 * Article alerts archive)
 * Dashboard
 * Articles recently mentioned at noticeboards
 * RS/N
 * BLP/N
 * NPOV/N

Op-ed
Submitted op-eds are published (or not) based on quality, originality, and relevance to the Project. Op-eds should be accompanied by an extended byline that briefly introduces the author and indicates why his or her opinion about the topic might interest the reader.

From the editor
From time to time the editor of The Right Stuff wishes to communicate information about the publication itself to the audience.

Traffic report
As with the "Featured content" section the "Traffic report", serving as a curated list, generally has a lighter tone compared to the rest of the publication.
 * Popular pages report: this report is run around the 4th of the month and data reflects the previous month.

Hot articles report
Another section with a lighter tone.
 * Hot articles report: this report lists the top 10 most edited articles on the conservatism topic area. The report is run weekly.

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