Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-15/WikiProject report

The WikiProject Oregon "Collaboration of the Week" program, discussed above, was among the CotW's studied by Carnegie Mellon researcher Haiyi Zhu in the paper Doing what needs to be done: Effects of goals in self-governed online production groups. It's a great read, especially for WikiProject leaders looking to increase their ability to attract and motivate new contributors. -Pete (talk) 18:20, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed. It's an interesting paper.


 * In my response to the collaboration-of-the-week question, I gave some now-out-of-date information. Here's an update: User:ZabMilenko is about to be part of the project Triple Crown. Willamette River's peer review was closed and the article is currently listed at WP:FAC. Klamath River was reviewed and became a GA. Jsayre64   (talk)  00:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ZabMilenko's Triple crown was awarded on 5 August. – SMasters (talk) 04:30, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Portlandia redirects to an article about a statue; might want to look at that. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  17:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It was supposed to be a hat-tip to a TV show. I'll change it. tedder (talk) 18:36, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Update: We could easily take over Oregon's Spain as the relatively inactive WikiProject Idaho has been absorbed into WikiProject United States, partly at my suggestion. The same may happen with WikiProject Washington (WikiProject Oregon's WikiProject Canada), again, at my suggestion. Prepare to be assimilated! Resistance is futile! But seriously, I would love to see our neighbors have more active WikiProjects as there are many subjects that overlap both these projects and WP:ORE. Like Columbia River Gorge and Treasure Valley topics, just to name two examples. If you live in Idaho or Washington, consider reviving your projects! Valfontis (talk) 19:27, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Another reason that WikiWednesdays in Portland haven't been well-represented is that one long-time member had this girl enter his life, & she takes up an awful lot of his time. His edits to Wikipedia have also been way off due to her. -- llywrch (talk) 06:25, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I got an invitation to join the Oregon project today and took 'em up on it. I think I've only created two articles so far that fall under the project's banner, but who knows how these things go down the road. I will say that it would be nice if there was an easy-to-find page with a list of all the various project templates so that article creators can make sure that all groups are notified at time of creation. I've got a handful of go-to WikiProjects that I list up when I start a talk page, but a lot of the times the applicable state groups go missing for lack of easily available templates. Anyway, I'm pleased that the Oregon crew is on the case. Keep Portland Weird, y'all. Carrite (talk) 04:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)