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Nominations for the Coordinator positions are now open. The nomination process will run throughout March, with voting running throughout April. Any member of Project is welcome to nominate themselves for a Coordinator position.
The Project has a new Task Center, which allows any Project member to volunteer for as a Task Editor within the Project. Task Editor positions currently open include Project Promoter, Collaboration Coordinator, Peer Review Coordinator, New & Stub Article Monitor, and Article Monitor.
WikiProject Horror currently has over 3000 articles within its scope; unfortunately, 2600 remain at Start-Class or below. Please help bring some of these articles up to (at least) B-Class. An article does not have to be the current Collaboration of the Month to gain assistance from dedicated editors like you.
AFriday the 13th WikiProject has been proposed and while the over-ridding consensus at the moment is that the scope is too small for a WikiProject proper, the proposal bears consideration as a possible task force for our project. Please comment on the proposal with your own thoughts on the matter.
AHalloween task force has been proposed at the WikiProject Council. Please comment on the proposal with your support and/or thoughts on the matter.
The February 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:00, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
DC meet-up notices
Did Brownbot ever send out the notices about the March 7 DC meet-up? I saw the notice that SWATjester sent out, but I'm not sure if I ever heard from Brownbot. (Unless you skipped me because you knew I already knew about it....) To the extent it's not already done, if the bot could do it soon that would be great. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
That explains it; that list probably needs to be updated. But I guess the Brownbot task approval doesn't include doing that.... Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:
As you can see, this is about as bare-bones of a newsletter as you can get. The reason for this is that the newsletter has and will be inactive, but we wanted to get a last one out detailing the current state of our project. The truth is that WP:NOVELS is in bad shape. Only a few editors are active in editing inside of our project. Our Peer Review section, this newsletter, our task forces, and our collaboration center are all dead; although a collab is picked each month, not a lot of work seems to occur.
Out of these ashes, we are proposing that the project start an A-class review system. This will hopefully bring people together for reviewing, and will perhaps get the project some sorely-needed attention from others who can come in and help rehabilitate it. Final plans have not been established, but we will see about getting a mass message out to all of the project members if/when it is set up; discussion of this can be conducted on the General Forum.
This newsletter will probably be the last we will have for a long time, as neither Ed nor Kevinalewis have the time to create these every month. However, if any editor is willing to step up and create one, we would be glad to assist you in making it up.
If you don't want to create a newsletter, but would still like to help, there are plenty of things that can be done. As detailed on the right, the Novels Peer Review section has four articles needing attention, but only one review has been done; one from May, one from November, and one from December have not had any comments left on them. Please consider helping out there; even a 15-minute review would help.
Talk between Kevinalewis and the_ed17, the two project coordinators, has led to us deciding to suspend elections for coordinators indefinitely. With the exceedingly low amount of participation in the last elections (five total votes), we do not feel that it is worth it to try to set up another election.
20 positions remain unfilled at the Job Centre. Members who are active project contributors are encouraged to apply even if they can only do a position for a short time.
Collaboration of the Month
This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is : Shantaram (novel). The next collaboration is due for selection in April, so cast your vote.
Peer review and assessment news
Peer Reviews are still open for four articles – Sector General, Petals of Blood, Scenes of Clerical Life, and Flowers for Algernon. Feel free to submit any novel-related article that you are working on for review, but please consider stopping by and reviewing an article; we need more reviewers for our articles (there is a PR that has been open since May)!
Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other.
Since then a new Article alerts listing has also been added of more topic and "urgent" items worthy of our attention.
Here's the text for the first of the two messages we discussed: it can go out as soon as you're ready, to this list.
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(Header:) Nominations for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 13 March!
In the evening, we'll share dinner and friendly wiki-chat at a local Italian restaurant. This has been an automatic delivery by BrownBot (talk) 20:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Here's the text for the second message we discussed: it can go out as soon as you're ready, to this list.
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(Header:) Military history WikiProject coordinator election
The Military history WikiProject coordinator election has started. We will be selecting coordinators from a pool of eighteen to serve for the next six months. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on Saturday, 28 March! Thank you.
This goldenwiki is offered in gratitude for your outstanding assistance to the Military history WikiProject in looking after the despatch and delivery of our regular monthly newsletter - The Bugle - and also for handling our election communications over the past year. These are no small tasks; you do them efficiently and reliably, come rain or shine :) Thank you very much indeed, Roger Daviestalk18:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
WP:FILMS Coordinator Election
Voting is open for coordinator election
The WikiProject Films coordinator voting process has recently begun! We are aiming to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are still interested in running, please sign up here. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by March 28. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 17:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
That's not really its job, shouldn't they be removed from the distribution lists (or at least moved to the appropriate section)? Cbrown1023talk19:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
The bot should check for the {{retired}} template on the userpage and the user talkpage. If it is present (and added by the user, not a vandal), the bot should automatically remove the user from its list. -- IRP☎21:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
But it's not the bot's job to look for these things. :-) It delivers what it's told to who it's told. The project you're talking about routinely trims its lists for this and other reasons. Feel free to remove Anthony from the list (I doubt he'd mind). Cbrown1023talk01:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
The March 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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