Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Saskatchewan collaboration

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Saskatchewan collaboration The goal of this project is to improve the Wikipedia's coverage of Saskatchewan-related articles. The aim of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped Saskatchewan-related topic and improve it. This effort seeks to identify articles within the area of Saskatchewan interest that require improvement. The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. It is also hoped that the successful execution of this initiative will a) Attract new editors to work on the Project; b) Improve the writing skills of existing editors; and c) Demonstrate the value of collaboration on Wikipedia.

Goals
 * First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable Saskatchewan subjects and the improvement of existing articles.
 * To parlay the efforts made from contributing editors into more lasting contributions to the encyclopedia.
 * To have fun in the process.

For a discussion on the correct format of Canada-related articles, please see Assessment Canada articles

First, decide if it is necessary for the article to require a collaboration. Minor grammatical errors, article development and other simple tasks can be done by one person. Be bold! Recall the meaning of a stub is an article where "an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial Web search or a few minutes in a reference library".

B-Class checklist
This is available only for unrated articles and articles rated as "Stub-Class", "Start-Class", or "B-Class". See the assessment department for more details.

For an article to qualify for B-class it must meet 5 points.


 * B-Class-1 – Is the article suitably referenced, and are all major points appropriately cited?
 * B-Class-2 – Does the article reasonably cover the topic, and not contain major omissions or inaccuracies?
 * B-Class-3 – Does the article have a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content?
 * B-Class-4 – Is the article free from major grammatical errors?
 * B-Class-5 – Does the article contain appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams?

Good Article Path
In order to appear on the Canada Portal as a selected article an article should be of at least Good Article (GA) standard. Saskatchewan articles that have achieved GA or higher status are listed here. If you are aware of an article of this standard that is not on this list, please list it. It is unlikely that in one week any article will rise to the standards of a featured article. However, it should not be uncommon for an article to rise to the standard of good article after getting the attention of our membership. Being an article featured in the Saskatchewan Collaboration, pursuant to the membership focus, each article will go through a good article nomination. It will also give us a chance to perform some cleanup tasks that may take more than a few days. Furthermore, it will give us feedback to continue improving articles after their good article review. Also, part of a good article evaluation articles are assess for stability to make sure no controversial information has been added that has led to edit wars or other forms of instability. Articles that are not of GA standard will need to be improved before they can appear as selected Canada Portal articles.

On a monthly basis the article which has had the most votes here will be the subject of an improvement drive. The article will be assessed against the Good Article standard and members of the Saskatchewan Wikiproject will be asked to help improve the article to meet that standard.

After an article has been nominated, then take these steps.
 * 1) Send the article chosen for the improvement drive to Requests for expansion to involve more editors.
 * 2) Request also assistance from Reference Desk Article Collaboration.
 * 3) Offer an award to a copy editor at the Reward board and or at the Bounty board !!!
 * 4) Check out more paths of assistance / growth at the Department directory
 * 5) Nominate the article on related Wiki projects collaboration drives.
 * 6) Place the relevant Wiki project templates on the article talk page, to acquire copy editors from multiple WP projects.
 * 7) Discover if there are any outline sbustitution templates, infoboxes or templates developed on any other related Wiki projects.
 * 8) Add appropriate categories to article, and add article to appropriate lists to find more copyeditors who are also interested in this article!

We will nominate the most interesting fact from the article for the WP:DYK feature. This will hopefully get our article on the Main_Page for 6 hours or so. Such exposure will help bring our article to the attention of many wikipedians who may be able to help us improve it. Each week watch the article's talk page for discussion about the DKY nomination. Generally, once an article reaches a critical mass of well-cited information, or 1,500 characters, we can nominate facts.

At the conclusion of the collaboration or article improvement drive for each article, then we will send the article to the Assessment page to check where it falls on the grading scale following the upgrade.

Whoever contributes the most to the article and improves it will get a barnstar. This will be determined at the end of each improvement drive process and the article improved has achieved at least B class.

Current Articles

 * Add the above template to your user page by adding: Saskatchewan I DRIVE Current

Previous collaborations can be found at /History. Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Considerations for nominators and voters

 * Giving reasons as to why an article should become the Saskatchewan Article Improvement Drive may convince others to cast their vote.
 * Can the wider Saskatchewan community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
 * Is the article one which you are prepared to work on?
 * Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a Peer Review?
 * Be about any Saskatchewan or directly Saskatchewan-related topic.
 * Need a significant amount of work in terms of content, organization, prose, etc.
 * Not be in any edit conflict or be under protection.
 * The article does not currently exist, but is notable
 * The article is 2 paragraphs or less.
 * The article is 1000 characters or less.
 * The article is in poor condition, and likely needs to be rewritten or extensively revised

Nominations
Note to contributors: To add a new nomination, please:
 * (1) Copy the template below
 * (2) Paste it at the bottom of the List of nominations
 * (3) Replace "day" with the correct date and "day + 14" with the date, plus seven days.
 * (4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated. Optionally, add a to-do list at the bottom
 * (5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
 * (6) Save your nomination
 * (7) After nominating an article please place   on the article's talk page.

ARTICLE

 * Nominated day 2007; needs at least 3 votes by day + 14 2007


 * Reason:
 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * To-do list
 * To-do list

Voting
 Add your vote to one of the existing articles by putting support, together with your rationale, using and then sign the comment with ~. A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. Feel free to vote for as many candidates as you like.

Selection criteria
 A nomination can be selected once it has received four support votes. However it can only be made the collaboration once the current collaboration has been active for four weeks. If these criteria have been met then the following should be carried out: To change to a newly selected article, first close the previous one and then prepare the new article:
 * 1) The link on the Saskatchewan I DRIVE Current template changed to that of the new collaboration/s.
 * 2) The Saskatchewan I DRIVE template on the new collaborations page replaced with Saskatchewan I DRIVE Current.
 * 3) The Saskatchewan I DRIVE Current template removed from the old collaborations page, and "past-collaboration=startdate-enddate" added to the old collaborations' WikiProject Saskatchewan template on the past Saskatchewan article.
 * 4) The current nomination placed into the newsletter, and the past nomination marked as "past-collaboration=startdate-enddate" in the newsletter.
 * 5) The nomination archived on this page.
 * 6) The Current collaboration section updated with a summary of the new featured article.
 * 7) The past collaboration history section updated to show activity.
 * 8) Contact the Wikipedians who voted for the winning article in their talk pages and add reminder template.

History

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List of nominations

 * Nominated The Chaplin, Old Wives and Reed Lake complex June 17 2007; needs at least 3 votes by July 1 2007


 * Reason: Saskatchewan sanctuary which is an international historic sites of global importance
 * Support:
 * 1) SriMesh |  talk  02:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * To-do list Article needs to be started
 * To-do list Article needs to be started

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Requests for A-Class status
If you have made significant changes to a B-class or GA-class article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please list it at  Peer Review  stating in the introduction you would like the article reviewed to see if it is A-class.

Requesting an Assessment
If you have made significant changes to a Saskatchewan related article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it here


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