Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive

The April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive is a month-long edit-a-thon, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 April through to 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project; however, only work on articles/pages that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible for editors wishing to claim points as part of the drive.

This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military, although this is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

About the drive
The backlog reduction drive is a four-week effort. It has been designed with the intent to allow members with a broad range of interests and skills to participate. This year the drive is focused on the following areas:
 * tagging articles and non-article pages that fall within the project's scope, including adding articles to MILHIST task force
 * assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * 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.

More specific notes about what these entail can be found below.

Scoring
You will receive points for each article/page you work on, based on the schedule listed below.

Points can be claimed for multiple aspects for the same article. For instance, adding a project banner and a task force to the talk page will result in two points being awarded. Additionally, if a project banner and task force are added to an article's talk page, and the article is assessed by the same editor, 7 points will be awarded to that editor. The same applies for all other aspects/categories.

As collaboration is a key part of our project, where an article or page has been improved by more than one editor, all editors are entitled to claim points as part of the drive. It is expected, though, that editors will display fair dealing in how they claim points.

Please note: It is important that all new articles created as part of this edit-a-thon comply with the site's referencing and notability requirements per WP:V and WP:GNG. As such, to be eligible for points, any created article must be well-referenced. Spot checks will be carried out by project co-ordinators before finalising points at the end of the month, and ineligible articles will be discounted.

Notes

Useful links
Tagging and assessing: The following links can be followed to find articles to tag and assess:
 * Unassessed military history articles
 * Requests for assessment of military history articles
 * New military history articles
 * Military history articles with incomplete B-class checklists
 * Military history articles with missing B-Class checklists

Adding task forces: In regards to adding task forces, it is important to note that some of our task forces are underpopulated. For instance, WikiProject Military history/Military logistics and medicine task force. As this is a relatively new task force, many articles that fall within its scope are currently listed in different task forces. Editors can help out by searching other task forces for logistics or medical related topics (or any other relevant topics for that matter), and adding the new task force to these articles.
 * Military history articles with no associated task force
 * Category:WikiProject Military history task forces

Updating task force open task lists:
 * Category:WikiProject Military history announcement templates

Updating task force resources: The following links can be used to find task force pages to update resources:
 * Category:WikiProject Military history task forces

Requested articles: The following links can be followed to find requested articles:
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Military (list of requested articles relating to women in the military)
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Military (Wikidata sourced list of missing biographies of women in the military)
 * Milhist articles to be created (individual task-force specific lists of requested articles can be found through this link)
 * Draft-Class military history articles (if a draft-class article is improved and published it can be claimed as part of this drive)
 * Requested articles/Social sciences/Military and military history
 * Missing topics about military units
 * Missing topics about military and warfare
 * Missing topics about military history
 * Missing topics about vehicles (including aircraft, ground vehicles, ships etc)
 * Missing topics about weaponry
 * Missing topics about World War II
 * Missing topics about espionage
 * Missing topics about Russian, Soviet, and CIS military history

Relevant guidelines: The following links may be helpful for writing articles that fall within Milhist's scope:
 * Manual of Style/Military history
 * WikiProject Military history/Content guide
 * WikiProject Military history/Notability guide

Awards
As a token of our appreciation for your efforts, the coordinators will be presenting service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles or pages you improve. The awards will not be cumulative, though, rather each participant will qualify for a single award based on the total number of points they accumulate.

The coordinators will post awards to your talk page within a few days of the end of the drive once entries have been checked and scores tallied.

How to participate
To take part in the drive, please add your name to the list of participants and the points table below. Then, in alphabetical order, please create a new worklist section for yourself on the worklist page, here: WikiProject Military history/April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive/Worklists.

Now you can begin working on articles in the categories listed above. For each article:
 * 1) Fix the listed problem by editing the article or its talkpage, or
 * 2) Create your article, then
 * 3) List the article under the appropriate category in your worklist section
 * 4) For any new article that is created, editors are encouraged to list the article for independent assessment at WP:MHA

Questions about the drive can be asked on the talk page here. In the first instance, please use the notification to gain a co-ordinator's attention.

Participants
To sign up, please add your sig block on a new line below (in alphabetical order):
 * 1) 47thPennVols
 * 2) Anotherclown
 * 3)    &#9749;  Antiqueight  haver 13:26, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) auntieruth
 * 5) AustralianRupert
 * 6) Catlemur
 * 7) Cdjp1
 * 8) Cdtuba
 * 9) Deb
 * 10) Donner60
 * 11) DPdH
 * 12) Dumelow
 * 13) User:Ealdgyth
 * 14) Eddie891
 * 15) Gaia Octavia Agrippa
 * 16) GELongstreet
 * 17) Gog the Mild
 * 18) Ipigott
 * 19) Kges1901
 * 20) Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
 * 21) L293D
 * 22) Lineagegeek
 * 23) Lord Ics
 * 24) Meanderingbartender
 * 25) Miyagawa
 * 26) Molestash
 * 27) Noetherian Ring
 * 28) Raavi Mohanty
 * 29) Randomness74
 * 30) Reidgreg
 * 31) Robinvp11
 * 32) Rosiestep
 * 33) Sasuke Sarutobi
 * 34) Seraphim System
 * 35) TeriEmbrey
 * 36) Toreightyone
 * 37) Vermont
 * 38) ZLEA

Points table
Please note: Participants: please do not edit this table during the drive, other than to add a new line for your name (please add them in alphabetical order). The points will be tallied and added to the table by the Milhist co-ord that closes the drive at the end of the month.