Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking/Archive 3

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
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If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:19, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

New Photos
I just uploaded some kayaking photos and added them to the gallery. I propose that we make the following photo replacements on the Whitewater kayaking page:


 * 1) Swap Thesinks with Hazard_Creek_Kayaker - This photo gives a better illustration of creeking, paddler is in a creekboat,...
 * 2) Swap Playboating1 with Kayaker_Air_Loop_Reno - photo gives example of more recent playboating style

I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is for changing photos, so let me know what you think.

Seek writ awe there (talk) 00:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships up for GA Nomination
FYI. The 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships is up for WP:GAN. Chris (talk) 15:32, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It just got GA! Chris (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation
As you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Template created
This template for canoeing and kayaking has been createdby me as shown below:

Chris (talk) 21:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)