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Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for German cinema
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:11, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Article Incubator/List of German actors (from 1895 to the present)
I just incubated this article, but have little interest in thse subject. Any assistance on this article would be appreciated. Does anyone in this project know an editor who is a big fan of German cinema who maybe interested? Please let them know. Thanks. Ikip (talk) 15:21, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Annemarie Düringer
I saw that this was on your want-list; I've gone and stubbed it because she was in a film I watched not too long ago. Just thought I'd alert you in case you'd like to expand it. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:47, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

New articles related to German cinema of the 1930s
Over the last month, I have created a number of new articles based on (admittedly wretched) translations of the German Wikipedia articles. I would like to enlist the help of those with a better command of German than mine to improve these articles related to German cinema of the 1930s.


 * Terra Film


 * Peter Paul Brauer
 * Otto Lehman (movie producer)


 * Bruno Mondi
 * Wolfgang Schleif
 * Albert Florath
 * Emil Heß


 * Malte Jaeger
 * Eugen Klöpfer
 * Hilde von Stolz


 * Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation


 * Friedrich Schiller - The Triumph of a Genius

Any help in improving the translation or expanding these articles would be much appreciated.

--Pseudo-Richard (talk) 16:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

VHS and DVD versions of Jud Süß (1940 film)
I am working on getting Jud Süß (1940 film) up to FA status. The following text has been flagged as unsourced: The film has been available for sale on VHS in the United States at least since 1983 (the copyright date on a commercially marketed video cassette). In 2008, a digitally restored subtitled DVD became generally available online with commentary by film historian Eric Rentschler.

The DVD is available through Amazon but the Amazon online catalog is not really the ideal source for the above text. I'm pretty sure that the supporting info I need can be found in Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War; by Anton Kaes but the relevant pages (pp. 256-258) are not available via Google Books preview. Can anyone help?

--Pseudo-Richard (talk) 16:59, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

List worth maintaining ?
Does anyone think List of German-language films should be kept? Comments at Talk:List of German-language films.--Traveler100 (talk) 05:37, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Women's History Month is in March
Hi everyone at WikiProject German cinema!

Women's history month is around the corner, in March, and we're planning the second WikiWomen's History Month.

This event, which is organized by volunteers from the WikiWomen's Collaborative, supports improving coverage about women's history during the month of March. Events take place both offline and online. We are encouraging WikiProjects to focus on women's history related to their subject for the month of March. Ideas include:
 * Improving coverage about German women filmmakers, actors, directors, producers, and executives
 * Developing content about women owned German film businesses

We hope you'll participate! You can list your your project focus here, and also help improve our to-do list. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia! SarahStierch (talk) 21:48, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

DVD cover image?
I'm fairly new contributor to wikipedia and have a question about adding an image to an article on German film. I wanted to add an image to Der Verlorene, one of my personal favorites, but I don't really know the legal guidelines for images. Would the cover of a DVD copy (from a website) be covered under fair use? I also have some images copied from original 1951 German newspapers (articles and advertisements) that I previously used in my dissertation. They are admittedly poor quality printouts from microfilm, but there might be fewer legal issues with using those. Would those be better? What exactly are the guidelines for using images from films or advertisements of films? --TheCookTravels (talk) 00:40, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa (timestamp may not be accurate) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Believer (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Golden Bear winners has been nominated for discussion
Category:Golden Bear winners, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:20, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

An RfC of interest
An RfC of possible interest to the editors of this article can be found here.

Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

How do I make sure my article is good enough to publish?
I apologize as this is my first time creating an article, specifically about films. Earlier, my article Draft:Head Burst was rejected because it didn't show significant coverage that are published from reliable, secondary sources.

I tried to make sure I added reliable sources for my article. I posted earlier on Teahouse about my problem and someone pointed out some mistakes I made in the article which I've since removed.

Despite that, I feel my article is lacking. How do I know if my article is good enough to publish? Is there any mistakes in my article I should fix? Any help is appreciated as I want to contribute to Wikipedia's growth. Virp2022 (talk) 15:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)