Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/November 2007

 WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 6 - November 2007 Navigation:  Archives | Tip Line | Editors | Subscribers | {| style="text-align: left;border-spacing:8px;margin:0px -8px; font-size:0.90em;" {| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background-color:#f5fffa" ! ==Spotlight Department ==
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 * A new department has been created, and amongst the many several marvellous WikiProject Saskatchewan members and Saskatchewan editors, it was hard to begin nominating folks who deserve the Spotlight as there are so many. For the initial nominations, Royalguard11 and Ultraflame have been mentioned along with their many and several contributions.  Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read their brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio.  Congratulations are sent out to  Royalguard11 and Ultraflame at this time.
 * A new department has been created, and amongst the many several marvellous WikiProject Saskatchewan members and Saskatchewan editors, it was hard to begin nominating folks who deserve the Spotlight as there are so many. For the initial nominations, Royalguard11 and Ultraflame have been mentioned along with their many and several contributions.  Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read their brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio.  Congratulations are sent out to  Royalguard11 and Ultraflame at this time.


 * Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour.  For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service!  Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

== Season's Greetings! == Add your season's greetings to the other Saskatchewan Wikipedians! Pop into December 2007 Volume 1 Issue 7 and add your message to the list which has been started.
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The Election

 * The Saskatchewan general election, 2007 is on now ( November 7, 2007 ), so as Wikipedians we need to be prudent in enforcing traditional guidelines (especially WP:NPOV, WP:RS and WP:V). It doesn't matter what side we're all on for the election, we need to all make sure that articles are accurate and especially neutral. Larger election usually have enough people looking after articles to make sure they're fair, but we're only a small group here. Especially the last week of the election there will probably be a jump in the edits based on political promises, adverts and other things. So let's make sure we don't have anything about who will probably be the next premier, cabinet, ect. Let's make sure that we've got accurate information (if you looked at Calvert lately...). So, let's make this a good first election for this wikiproject to handle. -Royalguard11 (T•R!) 03:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC) quoted from wikiproject discussion page with date revision for is now on

Portal:Saskatchewan

 * The portal is growing with new articles, images, DYK and news items to help introduce the WWW visitor to the Saskatchewan area of Wikipedia. Please add your impressive or notable items to the portal, and they will rotate through on the main page. Thank you!!
 * Could a two or three sentence news article about the last election be added to the portal please?
 * Likewise could a short news item about the Saskatchewan Roughriders entering the Western Finals, and that the Hilltops won the Canadian national championship also be added to the portal.

January 2008

 * Time to peek into WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - January 2008. December is a busy and hectic time of year.  Please help to develop this January newsletter.  Wish Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project a new year resolution for changes and direction WP Sask should undergo in 2008.

Tender Loving Care Needed / To Do

 * Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, Rama, Saskatchewan need to be wikified
 * Cleanup needed Colonsay No. 342, Saskatchewan, Gabriel Dumont Institute, Range road
 * Expansion needed Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Western Canada
 * Clean Up needed Saskatchewan Highway 22 Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
 * Family Day Wikipedia's quality standards improvements needed
 * Grant MacEwan unsourced statements List of University of Saskatchewan alumni citations needed
 * Saskatchewan general election, 1944, Crown corporation need help to improve the articles as well.

Saskatchewan articles growth

 * Thank you enormously to all the contributors who have helped to make the requested articles list receive answers and additions to the requests wanted.

Visitor Attractions

 * There is an awesome Category tree for visitor attractions which would benefit from additions about Saskatchewan. Articles about our province should be checked that they are included in this venture.

Assessment Department
BC, Vancouver, AB, NB. Other Canadian projects: Canada Roads, CFL MB, PQ, ON, NS, NL. Cities: Toronto, Ottawa, Prescott-Russell to WPMILHIST (see the instructions for more details on the exact syntax) This will automatically place it into Category:Canadian military history task force articles. ! Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing !! ! 
 * Which option should Wikiproject Saskatchewan adopt for assessing articles?
 * Currently Wikiproject Saskatchewan has been tagging talk pages with the Wikiproject Canada banner for assessment of articles.
 * The Canadian provinces which have their own assessment departments as part of their wikiprojects are:
 * The Canadian provinces which do not assess their own articles at their wikiprojects are:
 * The only Canadian province without a wikiproject set up is PEI. All the territories have no wikiproject NT, YT, NU.
 * A request could be made at Canada Wikiproject to set up an additional parameter in their banner such as...how the Canadian military history task force uses WikiProject Military history banner and addes an additional syntax parameter.
 * WikiProject Canada (currently no separate parameter)

Complete To Do List

 * WikiProject Saskatchewan Requests
 * Wikiproject Saskatchewan tasks Help, please! 
 * WikiProject Saskatchewan TO DO 
 * Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods TO DO
 * SK Communities & Neighbourhoods tasks Help, please! 
 * To contribute to WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan TO DOcheck out the  red  links on Highways, or Roads and adopt one of these.
 * SK Wikiproject Road tasks Help, please! 
 * University of Saskatchewan TO DO list

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 * This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's sixth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 1, Issue 5,October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007. Other newsletters


 * This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter editions - Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007 and  WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - January 2008.


 * If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!


 * Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

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 * For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK

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See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads  As of late the topic of discussion has been notability of highways and which roads and highways warrant articles to be written about them. Enter your comments and notes as well to help this wikiproject.

New articles created have been ‎Circle Drive. Thank you very much

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Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!
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 * Can anyone add to the article Prairieland Park which has been hit with 4 tags?!?

‎Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan, Mount Royal, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, ‎Prairieland Park, ‎Bredenbury, Saskatchewan, ‎Bracken, Saskatchewan, ‎Orkney, Saskatchewan, ‎Mankota Saskatchewan, ‎Frontier, Saskatchewan, Central Butte, Saskatchewan , ‎University Heights Suburban Centre, Saskatoon , ‎Lemberg, Saskatchewan, ‎Willowgrove, Saskatoon, ‎The Willows, Saskatoon, Stonebridge, Saskatoon, and Neville, Saskatchewan.
 * New articles in November have been added, which is fabulous for the progress of Saskatchewan communities and placenames coming online.

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A number of contributors have added a plethora of articles covering a wide variety of areas related to Saskatchewan in the last period. Some of those created in November, 2007 are: Wascana Trail,, ‎Vincent Sakowski, Bernie Lukowich, Saskatoon City Hospital, Ron Ashton, Dave Parker (Canadian Politician) , ‎24th Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, Deer Forks No. 232, Saskatchewan, ‎Jim Melenchuk, 26th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, ‎Darryl Hickie, ‎Warren Michelson, ‎Rob Norris, ‎Joceline Schriemer, ‎Laura Ross (politician), ‎Bill Hutchinson (politician) , ‎Darcy Furber, ‎Trent Wotherspoon , ‎Christine Tell, Greg Ottenbreit, ‎Nadine Wilson , Fred Bradshaw, ‎Tim McMillan, ‎Jim Reiter , Big Muddy Badlands‎ , Corey Holmes‎ , ‎CJWW (AM) , ‎CJWW (AM) , ‎CJMK-FM, Chris Tarry, , Sharon Murrell , ‎Pat Lorje, ‎Carena Roller, Cecil Frederick Patterson.


 * This section is to give you information about progress at the project. Please be inspired by these contributions to let others know about our wonderful province!


 * Also consider adding it to Portal:Saskatchewan. Please add these articles to your watchlist to help fight vandals.


 * Please pop by and help the new article Chris Tarry which has received a tag! Please also help a very new member to Wikipedia with their article Vincent Sakowski, which has also recently received a tag. Please help wikify this article Cecil Frederick Patterson

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 * New articles Deer Forks No. 232, Saskatchewan, Dave Parker (Canadian politician)  , Cecil Frederick Patterson  have been created by two other new users, new to wikipedia, which is absolutely awesome!  Pop on by and welcome these above aforementioned new users to the wikipedia community and to Wikiproject Saskatchewan!
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 * The WikiProject Saskatchewan has 28 members. Please welcome ;;  ;  to Wikiproject Saskatchewan.
 * The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 10 members. Please welcome, , to the project.
 * The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.
 * The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.
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 * Has anyone worked on a Saskatchewan article to good or featured status, or knows of an article that should undergo overhaul to achieve good or featured status? Has anyone put a Saskatchewan related article into peer review to improve its content?
 * Would like assistance citing sources for List of University of Saskatchewan alumni so it can achieve good or featured status as a list to honour the 100th anniversary of the U of S similar to this list.
 * Would like assistance citing sources for List of University of Saskatchewan alumni so it can achieve good or featured status as a list to honour the 100th anniversary of the U of S similar to this list.
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Delivery

 * Can anyone help set up this newsletter on an automatic robot delivery system similar to User:Ralbot? Does one work better than another? Some online wikipedia robots used by other wikiprojects have been: R Delivery Bot Grafikbot ST47 Betacommand  Discussion has been initiated here.  Some folks have been able to use AWB for this task

Saskatchewan articles identity disclosed

 * A robot to identify wikiproject articles which should be included in wikiproject Saskatchewan is also under review. This robot: User:AlexNewArtBot is being tested by many wikiprojects such as WikiProject Military history for one example.  It is fairly easy to find articles entitled Lemberg, Saskatchewan as Saskatchewan is inherent, however, for a biography such as ‎Carena Roller it is harder to properly find and place wikiproject banners on Saskatchewan related people.

Saskatchewan articles categorized

 * Likewise there have been requests to categorize articles into respective categories such as biographies about Saskatchewan people into the Category:People from Saskatchewan or into Category:University of Saskatchewan alumni which have been completed as a task by User:Betacommand/Bot Tasks This task would look at mainspace articles that prioritize repetition of the word Saskatchewan in articles tagged by a wikiproject biography template on the talk page.  Higher priorities come up first in the results list.  See the WikiProject Stagecraft request.  This would be similar to the above request to identify articles which need a wikiproject banner

Wikiproject banners on Saskatchewan categorized articles

 * Previously there have been requests to have a Bot that could add  to the talk page of each article in the several Saskatchewan categories and sub-categories.  Should our project similarly make such a request at Bot Requests?  Likewise the WP SK Communities & Neighbourhoods banner and WP SK Roads talk page banners could be added to their respective category articles.

Automatic Banner Assessment

 * If the front of the article is tagged with Template:Stub or some other stub template on its front page and is tagged with WikiProject Saskatchewan in its talk page it should automatically be rated for stub class for wikiproject Canada. It would also be good to add cat to the class parameter for Saskatchewan wikiproject items in category space, add dab to the class parameter for Saskatchewan wikiproject articles with  or  tags, add GA or FA to to the class parameter of Saskatchewan wikiproject  or to the wikiproject Canada template if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page add needs-photo= yes to the Saskatchewan wikiproject } if no image is on the article page. Should the robot also automatically add the article to Wikiproject Canada as they have an assessment department for articles, or should Wikiproject Saskatchewan also have an assessment department?  In which case a robot should add  and the template would need to be modified.  Also would  WP SK Communities & Neighbourhoods banner and WP SK Roads talk page banners fall into the assessment department of Saskatchewan or each singularly assess their own articles?  See this request: Autotagging for the Chicago Wikiproject.

SK or CA Wikiproject Assessment Departments

 * If the decision is made currently to remain with the article talk page banner of without assessment and a robot is requested to make article talk page additions, is it hard to change the talk page banner to one with assessments  at some later date?

Periodic To Do List

 * To make a to do list of a compilation of Wikiproject Saskatchewan articles tagged or Saskatchewan categorized articles tagged. Regarding WikiProject Saskatchewan articles needing attention should the project likewise pursue a robot which could go through all articles tagged with a Saskatchewan WikiProject banner or Saskatchewan category to find articles that are tagged with a cleanup template or any error tag, and place these articles into a Category:Saskatchewan articles needing attention to assemble them into one place? It has been said that SatyrBot does something like this for WP:LGBT.  Take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies/to do short list and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies/to do full list for what the bot produces.  The first one is a random subset of the second one, suitable for adding to a project page, like we do on WT:LGBT.   It also looks like Betacommand or AutoWikiBrowser may be able to do such a project.
 * With AutoWikiBrowser, load a list of articles in category A, and load a list of articles in category B, and use the list comparer to come up with a list of articles in both categories. Category A could be an error tag listing such as Category:Articles with unsourced statements since February 2007 and category B could be Category:Saskatchewan, and the list comparer would show duplicates. Scan specific categories for Unsourced Statements or Various Cleanup Tags  A periodic list entitled To Do once a month would be awesome to submit in the newsletter for the Tender Loving Care Section to alert members to articles which have tags upon them.

What links here

 * An automated program should be able to add additional articles to the List of University of Saskatchewan alumni based on biographies that link to the University of Saskatchewan article via the "What links here" page. Has anyone heard of this being accomplished?  As well the bot should be able to additionally add any biographical article alisted in the category University of Saskatchewan alumni which is absent from the List of University of Saskatchewan alumni.

Welcoming bot

 * At the page; Welcoming bot; it was asked if a robot could welcome new users, and was decided it would be impersonal. Would it be practical to request a robot to alert the wikiproject of new pages created which relate to Saskatchewan and which are created by a new user, and then wikiproject members could then greet the new user and welcome them to the project?

Compilation of Requests
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