Hello Delzen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I noticed you created Davidson High School (Saskatchewan), which is good, but could you add a link to the school's web site (and/or other links related to the school). When I do a Google I only find the web sites of other school(s) with an identical name, but a different location. --Rob19:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, as Nandesuka appears to be busy, I've taken a look at that article. Was the original taken from another website? I just need to know so that I know whether to delete the original as a copyvio and move the temp page in, or merge the histories. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks! Hermione198002:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for stepping in, Hermione -- I've been absolutely swamped. Delzen, I apologize for my unseemly delay, and I hope you'll forgive me. The stuff on the temp page looks good to me. The stuff on the main page was a copyvio from a web site (where should be in the copyvio notice). I'd suggest deleting the existing main page, and then re-creating the article with the text from the temp page. Nandesuka02:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I want to thank you for being so patient and understanding about this article! If there's anything else you need help with, just let me know. Hermione198001:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
A good place to start is Wikipedia:Deletion policy. The short form is that there are a set of criteria for "Speedy deletion" that any admin can use to delete an article quickly (see WP:CSD), and then there is a more involved process called "articles for deletion" (WP:AFD) where people spend a few days trying to reach a consensus as to whether to keep or delete an article. My honest advice is that you stay as far away from all the deletion stuff as possible, because it will only depress you.
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there! -- user:zanimum
If you look in "my preferneces," I think you can set your local time. Alternatively, some people choose to display and work in UTC, since editors work from many different time zones. Tom HarrisonTalk22:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. A new WikiProject about Saskatchewan has been started as an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can Saskatchewan articles, add Saskatchewan content, or visit the project page, where you can join / edit the project and/or contribute to the discussion.WikiProject Saskatchewan
This is an excellent idea! I think this particular date will be awkward for me, it is our busy season, and one is off on holidays already :-( But if another is planned, I will get there. Will see what happens with this one if I can make it or not... Thanks for the note about this meeting. SriMesh | talk05:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot16:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please help to create the first newsletter for WP SASK ? ... a pilot perhaps could start similar to....WP SASK Newsletter Do you have any other ideas ... it seems like other WP projects have tried to use newsletters, would it be helpful for WP SASK to also have one?.... SriMesh | talk23:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have just started a new WikiProject on Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods. I encourage you to join. You can find it here at WP:SKCN. Mr. C.C.08:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to many contributors like you, we're proud to state that our province is coming together to provide direction related to Saskatchewan article content and format. Saskatchewan Wikipedians have also helped to identify missing or unfinished Saskatchewan articles. There is already one featured Saskatchewan related article and two featured Saskatchewan related lists followed by several "B-Class" rated articles. (Featured Articles).
Two New Articles On Saskatchewan Communities:by Fishhead2100
Two news articles have been created. One on Osler, Saskatchewan and the other on Cadillac, Saskatchewan. Those two articles need some attention with formating, information, and much more.
Articles needing adoption require people to take on the task of reasearching, editing, revising, and more. Anyone can adopt an article. If you are unclear on which articles need adopting, don't hesitate to ask.
WikiProject Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that the Outreach Department has been established. It is designed to be a centralized location where we will work on recruitment and member interaction efforts. Thanks to WP:NV for the idea and codes.
Thanks
Thanks to WP:INO for some newsletter ideas and codes.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Advertisements for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. If you see a new Saskatchewan created article by a Wikipedian who has not signed up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan, please extend a welcome to them. We'll run special sections, and recurring columns in the coming issues.
The Saskatchewan Roads Wiki Project has been merged within the scope of WikiProject Canada Roads recently. It is a group of wikipedians who work on providing information about Saskatchewan roads and highways. Their contributions gain more significance as we try to provide more information about our thoroughfares. You can help too. Contact the members on the Saskatchewan Roads wiki project pages to learn how you can help in making the best highway pages in Wikipedia!
Saskatchewan collaboration is another branch for the WikiProject Saskatchewan. First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable Saskatchewan subjects and the improvement of existing articles.
An invition is extended to members / subscribers to design a new WP Sask newsletter name with its own banner or font style. This would give a similar appearance to the WP Sask newsletter as the Wikipedia community newsletter name the Signpost which used the old english font for its unique naming. A proposal could be offered up for our own Wiki Project name for the new WP Sask newsletter similar to....Star Phoenix, Leader Post, Herald, Booster, or Times Herald (which are already in use for SK newspapers)....Something is needed for the WP Sask Newsletter.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subcribers
Thank you for your vote!!!! Will soon change, and add U of S to the peer review pages...will wait to see how the Collaboration and Improvement Drive goes until it expires.....New article begun...University of Saskatchewan Academics as well.
Have begun a new newsletter in its fomrative stages, and added wiki meet up notes....WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2 - July 2007 Do you think it is a good to go, or should it be amended? Do any of your students wish to propose ideas or how they enjoy learning about information processing / Saskatchewan in this or another newsletter. Maybe in the school year... (summer probably not so good) September / October issue could be devoted to the students opinions about Saskatchewan / Wikipedia and what they are doing/learning....? SriMesh | talk02:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and Saskatchewan Wikipedia / Wikimedia activity as known/reported.
Please comment about the formation of a new concept - a Saskatchewan Portal
Take a peek at the Canadian Portal. There are four provinces, BC, ON, PQ, and Nunavut. There are also four Canadian cities with portals of their own as well.
Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution.[1]
A unique concept by Portal India was to add a quiz as well India/Quiz
Portals introduce the Wikipedia reader to new developments by the wikiproject showing selected biographies, articles, pictures to feature periodically, and archive the previous suggestions. The portal may list information introducing the portal subject, categories, did you know, to do, other wikiprojects and news features as well.
Whereas Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan is an organization created to promote Saskatchewan usage and participation in Saskatchewan article editing and development.
As New articles are created check the wiki link at the bottom of the article title 'What Links Here. Here related articles and biographies are listed which should have reciprocal links or information upon the newly created main article page.
SuggestBot uses your prior contributions to predict other articles you might want to edit. This robot may give you some recommendations you may like to attempt. SriMesh | talk01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Quite a few of the topics of debate have been addressed by visiting editors who have helped in various ways to address ongoing concerns. Requests for assistance with online existing Wikipedia Saskatchewan articles were given improvements / changes where needed.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's third full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives:
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
When looking through some Saskatchewan Highway articles (especially those containing intersection lists), you may notice that there are red links to potential Saskatchewan road articles (especially Range and Township Roads). However, many of these roads do not appear on the List of Saskatchewan provincial roads. If you happen to read over any highway articles, and you notice a red link to a road that does not appear on the provincial roads list, please add the road's name to the appropriate section on that list. Eventually, I believe that we will have a list of all known Saskatchewan rural roads. Thank you. Ultraflame | talk 01:35, 7 August 2007
There are still articles needing attention and please pick one at the Adopt-An-Article department of the the Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods project.
If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created or substantially expanded article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.|
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
The Assessment Department is new. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} along with the Assessment guidelines.
See also wikiproject template for other work groups with their wikiprojects as well as provinces which can be added to the Canadian template
The new template and assessment table worklist is produced periodically and was created by Arctic Gnome. Thank you very much! Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition
New Template Saskatchewan
AT Bot requests, another very kind user has also offered to help with the transition process (Thank you also to Ρх₥α )
The request conglomerated together the following tasks to help show the quantity / quality of Saskatchewan related articles:
tag all articles in Category:Saskatchewan and all of its subcategories with {{WikiProject Canada |sk = | class=| importance=}}and if{{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
all articles which have a Saskatchewan related stub Saskatchewan-politician-stub / Saskatchewan-stub / Saskatchewan-geo-stub to be tagged in their talk pages for wikiproject Saskatchewan and be classified as stub as such: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=stub| importance=}}
add GA or FA to to the class parameter of {{WikiProject Canada}} articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
add stub to the class parameter if a stub tag is present on the article page.
Replace the old tag {{Saskatchewanproject}} with the new parent wikiproject tag: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=| importance=}}and if{{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
add to the class area FL for any Featured-class lists articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
add to the class area List if the Saskatchewan related item in category:Saskatchewan articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
What's New?:Portal:Saskatchewan has a new section! This new section gives access to complete instructions on adding articles and images directly into the portal - step by step. The Saskatchewan Portal was created via instructions in creating a boxportal. Clicking the edit button on the main Saskatchewan Portal page does not help at all to add to the various sections as is usually the case with creation of wikipedia articles. The instruction page give immediate access to the transcluded pages which need to be accessed to change additions to the Saskatchewan Portal!
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's seventh full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. The actual WikiProject Saskatchewan began on April 19, 2007, with its first newsletter delivered in June, and the Saskatchewan Portal with its randomly featured articles and images of Saskatchewan was created August 18, 2007. As the year 2007 comes to an end, Saskatchewan has a stronger presence on wikipedia and we look forward to exciting innovations and expansion in 2008.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
New template See Template:WikiProject Canada for the full template, however for Saskatchewan roads, add {{WikiProject Canada |class=
|importance= | sk=yes |road =yes}} to the talk pages.
A pilot project has also started in the creation of the to do listing. This project helps to narrow down the scope of Wikipedia's tags which relate to existing Saskatchewan articles.
Did You Know
The will help to identify articles which should be noted on the "Did you know?" talk page. Those articles selected should be added to Portal SK Did you know creation page. Just click on a red link, and add the DYK question. This will make the new DYK article randomly appear on the main portal page.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
Thanks for uploading Image:DHSlogo.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
A time to reflect on 2007 and prepare for the future bringing in the new 2008 year. Personal wikipedia Saskatchewan members new year's resolutions are here:
Add your one or several Personal member New Years Resolutions here!
Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project New year's resolution
If the Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project pages could talk - what would they wish for - the types of growth and changes for 2008 for Wikipedia Saskatchewan pages.
Develop a bizzilion awesome articles about Saskatchewan so the WWW visitor is wowed by our province ( and survive those silly AFD tags!!! ) SriMesh | talk02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Add your one or several Wikiproject New Years Resolutions here!
Develop quality articles. Increase the amount of good and Featured articles about Saskatchewan related content.
Develop top importance articles about Saskatchewan such as those about crown corporations. the provincial government and its several departments. From the Saskatchewan wiki meeting held back on 23 June 2007 it was discussed to develop an article on Health in Saskatchewan, and to improve to feature status articles: Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Regina.
The University of Saskatchewan became a good article to celebrate the 2007 anniversary of campus, and should now have a peer reveiw to continue on to becoming a feature article. The List of University of Saskatchewan alumni was developed to assist this article and help would be appreciated providing citations for each entry, and to help add to the list.
What's New?
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter!
Improve articles of Saskatchewan quality which have been tagged. Some of these are listed [[3]] and have been compiled with AWB.
Outreach
Create a Saskatchewan Roads and Highways outreach template to help new members become informed about the presence of this project online.
Highway Picture Template
Just as there is only one image needed for upload for Saskatchewan locator maps, and then various towns can be updated upon this image. So, too there should be a highway picture template, so that the various numbered highways 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914, etc can all have their own image without needing to create a bizzilion numbered images online.
2004 Election
Our 2004 Saskatchewan election has resulted in an amazing number of politician biographies coming online! This was an awesome achievement, and something to be proud of!
Qyd (talk·contribs) and Arctic.gnome (talk·contribs) are editors of a wide variety of Canadian related articles, and of note as of this date is the enormous amount of work they have undertaken to help amalgamate all the various provincial wikiprojects and Canadian sub projects into one umbrella assessment department. This unique assessment department means that Saskatchewan related articles can be assessed for their own provincial merit, and also belong to the Canadian wikiproject as well. It also means that editors from both Canada wikiproject and Saskatchewan wikiproject can unite in their efforts to provide banners and ratings to articles. This will result in a huge improvement in quality on wikipedia, resulting in Saskatchewan's spotlight award for Qyd (talk·contribs). January 2008 newsletter Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read all the brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio. Congratulations are sent out to Qyd (talk·contribs)] and Arctic.gnome (talk·contribs) at this time.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Just as panic begins to settle in as to what in the world the next newsletter should mention, new areas of development and growth come about. The coming year of 2008 should provide not only more Saskatchewan articles, but also more articles with higher ratings with the assistance of more editors, and a new assessment department umbrella. The highways and roads project has given a good base for development, and to strengthen the presence and notability of roads and highways and effort is being called upon to help these articles improve, now that they too are under the assessment umbrella.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
The WikiProject Canada Roads is undergoing an overhaul. It is aiming to produce some Good articles and Featured articles of highway content pertaining to Canada, and for the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways for Saskatchewan highways. As Saskatchewan is still a work in progress this is a challenging endeavour for as the guidelines are followed as laid out at either Highway wikiproject, they become red link farms because wikilinked articles have not been developed regarding the communities, provincial and regional parks and rural municipalities which the highways meander through. Please keep apprised of the progress, and if any Saskatchewan articles rise above stub we will list it on the main page.
There is also discussion started about assessment and navigation boxes on the talk page. Please peek in to add any comments you may have.
Recently articles Saskatchewan Highway 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914 have been improved, but they need more help so they can become articles nominated as Good articles. Please help out if you are able, even to create community and rural municipality articles for these Highway articles would be an enormous help.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are featured by our editors.
Welcome to our We Love Saskatchewan Valentine Day Contest.
Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.
Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know.
Or write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of stubs, or other short articles that have expanded fivefold and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!!
On 24 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Transportation in Saskatchewan Did you know...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Looking forward toward more to contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's ninth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At WikiProject Saskatchewan New articles please check our new Saskatchewan related articles. There are approximately 50 new articles since the last news letter!
There has been quite a number of Saskatchewan community articles created as of late. Experienced editors are requested to help improve articles to good article or feature article status.
{{Saskatchewan topics}} template needs new articles such as Tourism in Saskatchewan. The template currently wikilinks to articles, lists and categories. The lists and categories should be replaced with new articles where appropriate.
Drm310 (talk·contribs) is our current editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Drm310 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through creation. Articles already existing have seen improved lead paragraphs, sections, section headings, consistency and standardized formatting. Drm310 has tirelessly contributed to the expansion and improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Drm310 at this time. Pop by and give Drm310 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
....Your participation will contribute enormously to the success of future newsletter editions! We look forward to working with you and thank you for your support.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
Thanks for uploading Image:CSLP logo.png. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
These aforementioned editors have made considerable additions and improvements to the content and quality of Saskatchewan related articles, and have received an I love Saskatchewan award on their talk pages.
Article Improvement Drive
Article Improvement Drive: Articles can now be assessed, and this is the showing for top rated GA and FA class articles as well as stub articles. Please help rate articles, and contribute to improved status.
There are currently about no Saskatchewan articles at WP:GAN waiting to be reviewed. :-( If you have not considerably edited one of the articles, you can perform a review by following these instructions.
There are currently no Saskatchewan related articles waiting to be assesed for feature article... :-( FACs.
Please help B class articles move into GA class and GA class articles move toward Feature status.
Add content to stub articles to improve their status.
In December there were over 797 articles which needed template changes from the original Saskatchewan talk page banner to the new Canada - provincial talk page banner. This has been completed!!!
Wikiproject Saskatchewan now has 0.5% FA articles 0.22% GA articles, about 5% B class articles, about 35% Start class articles and 68% stub class articles.
Saskatchewan related articles contribute 1,799 / 19,566 articles, or 9.19 % of Canadian related articles!!!
Please help to tag articles! On the assessment page are the actual articles listed which have been tagged with Canadian projects and Saskatchewan content. The result is...please, if you read this, help to tag Saskatchewan sports articles with both Saskatchewan, and Canadian sports project templates checked off as yes! Some sports articles may also need the appropriate general sports wikiproject talk template or a Wikiproject biography talk template as well.
There are 6 articles written which overlap both the 1850 tagged Saskatchewan and the 870 tagged Canadian Music articles.
Canadian Federal Government articles which relate to Saskatchewan are the following 14 articles, a couple of which are rated FA.
The most tagged articles are Saskatchewan communities. Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods comprise 551 articles - tagged with both the Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods template, as well as the new Canadian - provinces template.
The Portal Saskatchewan peer review has produced some excellent suggestions, many of which have been enacted. Some of the portal categories should be added to Saskatchewan wikiproject such as the instructions on how to add content to a box portal concept.
To go forward to apply for PORTAL feature status, 10 articles, 10 biogrphies, 10 images which are qualified as good or feature should be added to the portal in the various areas.
Shanemcd (talk·contribs) has contributed to the organization of which placenames are town, villages, hamlets, etc by going above and beyond the call of duty. Sorting out List of communities in Saskatchewan and the various section lists have shown significant improvements. Consistency and attention to detail on the various incorporation dates, and status of the many and several communities is producing more accurate lists for visitors to wikipedia viewing Saskatchewan articles. This provides an improvement in quality on wikipedia and so a large thank you goes out to Shanemcd at this time.
So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Rschen7754 commented about Highways notability guidelines in the latest USRD newsletter. To see how discussion is coming along, and how it may affect Canadian / Saskatchewan roads and highways see:
The several new templates, and template revisions have been included in the highway template for standardization and improvements for highway articles.{{subst:Saskatchewan Highways}}
Saskatchewan There is a new Saskatchewan related article on Wikiquote. If you know of any notable quotations which refer to Saskatchewan, please add them to Wikiquote.
Wikinews Saskatchewan
Category:Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan news articles entered into wikinews are also now a part of the Saskatchewan Portal. If you know of a late breaking news story that would be awesome to add to Wikinews, and would like to try being a wiki-reporter, add it to Wikinews!
Wikicommons Saskatchewan
2007 Grey Cup There are new Saskatchewan images on WikiCommons! Please let us know of anymore images which have been added. If you are a photographer or artist and would like to add Saskatchewan related media, sign in to Wikicommons. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when uploading images for any Saskatchewan related content.
Wikisimple Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan There are some Saskatchewan articles on Wikisimple! If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, add the content to Simple English using easy words and shorter sentences. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when adding new articles for any Saskatchewan related content.
Wikitionary / Simple English Wiktionary: Saskatchewan
Wiktionary: Saskatchewan and Simple English Wiktionary There is a definition on Wiktionary for Saskatchewan. If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, and have used a term unique to Saskatchewan, add the definition to either wiktionary.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
Obtain this awesome javascript code from this page,(not the edit page ) to help assess articles. It will supply the banner template, allow you to place your default rating in, and show the current rating of the article on the article page if any banners have rated the article. So you are allowed to check out the talk page banner from viewing the article page. Install the following code on your User:YourUserName/monobook.js file page.
see full code for Canada talk page banners on this talk page
It is time to award the April Fools barnstar to April Fool pranksters who have made an April Fool prank in good faith...From April Fools' Day; Quotes about April Fools' Day; :"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." — Mark Twain
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter!
There is now a Wiki for left handed viewers of wikipedia. Please help to edit our right handed articles for the new left handed wikipedia! The new format will be ready to view on April 1, 2008! Please help rotate all content on existing Saskatchewan related articles from the left side of the article to the right side of the article by 180 degrees for ease of clicking on links and handling article content for left handed viewers.
New Talk Page Banner Addition
The Saskatchewan communities has been joined by Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities. Now all communities, neighbourhoods, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rural municipalities, and any place name can have a rating within the Canada talk page banner. In this way, all articles can be rated as belonging to Canada, and any province or territory as well as any demographic can have their own rating.
The full Canada template is located at Template:WikiProject Canada. When rating articles for Saskatchewan related content, add supporting work groups also such as: cangov, ppap, riding, canlaw, education, tvshow, music, road, sport, geography, and now community!!
Hackers have infiltrated Saskatchewan related articles
Hackers have "hacked" into Wikipedia, and into this wikiproject site, breaking through our security. For some time now the hacker who was named ap®1L_f001$’ has been making attempts to break through our security on this site, and has now gained access and has made changes to website articles on wikipedia and wikiproject Saskatchewan articles. Please see this article for how you can help.
Wikinews
Does anyone have the notion to be a news reporter for Saskatchewan events. Saskatchewan wikinews content has very historical news reports.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
New highway change for Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan adopted the International metric system in 1971, and even though school trustees would like the imperial system returned to the classrooms, there is a new change intended for Saskatchewan. The latest news to hit the province of Saskatchewan is to adapt the new traffic directionality concept that Saskatchewan drivers will undertake. As of the beginning of the month, drivers will begin driving on the left side of the road rather than the right side. Which Side Of The Road To Drive On? Left Or Right For more information on changes to Saskatchewan Highways.
Prince Albert is one of the Saskatchewan city articles which has been growing by leaps and bounds. Many communities are being created and are picked up by the new article robot. Please help to tag these and all community articles with the new assessment talk page banner at Template:WikiProject Canada. *Stub class just barely introduces the topic, much is missing.
Start class gives a bit more knowledge but it shows one of these to expand upon a stub article;
a particularly useful picture or graphic
multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
B-Class checklist
1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited.
2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.
3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content.
4. It is free from major grammatical errors.
5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
This months Spotlight Award goes to SriMesh (talk·contribs). She is the creator of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan, the project newsletter, and countless other departments within the project including starting the Saskatchewan portal. She has also took it upon herself to start, edit, revamp many Saskatchewan based articles. As well, she is an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods. SriMesh has tirelessly worked towards improving the quality of Saskatchewan related Wikipedia articles.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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May Day, May 1, marks the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere. To celebrate May Day in Saskatchewan expand Geography of Saskatchewan climate section with photos or articles of spring weather. Expand or create some festival articles to fill out the Saskatchewan festival template.
What's New?:
The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter! Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles about curling, crown corporations, Government ministries, aviation pioneers, and communities are a small sampling of the newest arrivals about Saskatchewan!
Assessment of articles has shown improvements since the last update in the March newsletter. At that time there were 1,799 assessed articles, compared to 2,138 today; a 119% increase. Feature articles and lists were at 5, and have climbed to 8 articles. 4 GA class articles for Saskatchewan have increased to 6 at GA. 39 B class articles have increased to 89 at B Class, a 228% increase. Start class are currently at 505, Stub at 1,503, and List class at 27. There are currently 2 articles which rate top importance, 40 at high, 652 at mid, and 1,444 articles rated as low importance.
Canadian Projects which overlap with Saskatchewan articles have been listed. The Canadian projects are:Music, Television, Geography, Governments of Canada, Education, Electoral Districts, Politics, Law, Roads, Communities, Military History, Sport and CFL. There are now more than 31 sports articles with both Saskatchewan and the sports project tagged. The Saskatchewan communities have both the Saskatchewan and community tag upon several articles. The Saskatchewan TV section is the shortest listing. Please help out discussing if Electoral districts in Canada should be merged with WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. The discussion is here...Merge Proposal
Barnstar Contest
Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before Sunday May 18. The answer to Trivia Question #1 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Trivia Question #2: Does anyone wish to submit the second trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008. Pre-requisite: the answer shouldn't be in the top 10 google results. :-)
The WikiProject and newsletter keep members up to date with new research and articles, helps to expand their wikipedia editing skills and provide an outline for article creation in various Saskatchewan topics. WP SK is growing, both in terms of the range and variety of topics available about Saskatchewan, and the number of subscribers willing and able to assist. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated on how we could improve our newsletter in the coming months. This spring issue is being created during an April blizzard, very Saskatchewan for our spring months ;-)
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
If you would like to get involved, we welcome feedback on existing newsletters, and suggestions for further topics. Any and all contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
There is a discussion started for M of S procedures when providing rural municipalites in a listing, infobox or template. Please feel free to add your two cents to the discussion as well.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Wyldkat (talk·contribs) has contributed several articles about the province of Saskatchewan amongst these have been Politics of Saskatchewan, Fort Carlton, Fort Carlton, and Malcolm Norris to name a few. As well, Wyldkat keeps an eye on existing articles, categories and listings and brings them into line with many of Wikipedia's policies and Manual of Style proceedings. Presently Wyldkat has been maintaining talk page banners and initiates the rating system. For the past few years Wyldkat has provided coherency and standardization for Saskatchewan related articles.
Bot newsletter delivery
On May 1, 2008, the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletters will be delivered by ENewsBot which uses a program called AutoWikiBrowser. This is one of the several bots suggested at Newsletters Wikiproject Council. Let an editor know if there are any problems with the new delivery, however, they have had past successes with newsletter delivery. It will be sent out using the new condensed format with show / hide features for your talk page if your are signed up to any of these lists: WP Sk Members, WP SK C&N Members and WP Sk Roads Members.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on Sk WP Members, SK WP C&N Members and Sk WP Roads Members. If you do not wish the new condensed format of the WP SK Newsletter, send an e-mail to an editor or write a note here.
Provide us with your news tips on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
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Canadian Rivers Day occurs on the second Sunday of June, this year, June 8, 2008. Please help commemorate this special day by expanding existing SK river articles or creating Sk river articles which do not yet exist!
In 2008, the solstice occurs and summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 at 7:59 p.m. EDT or 6:59 p.m. CST. Help celebrate summer in Saskatchewan by taking pictures of various communities in Saskatchewan as things are greening up and submitting them to wikicommons with the proper Saskatchewan category.
National Aboriginal Awareness Day
June 21 is National Aboriginal Awareness Day in Canada. In order to celebrate, honour and acknowledge the culture, heritage and achievements of Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan, please create the needed articles at Indian reserves in Saskatchewan.
July 1 Canada Day
Help to celebrate Canada day in Saskatchewan by completing a National Historic Site in Saskatchewan article!
Saskatchewan Elementary Schools
For those elementary schools which cannot stand alone due to notability, The information about current schools can be written up in the locality in the manner prescribed by WP Education in Canada. The school article title would then have a redirect to the locality such as Saskatoon Public School Division.
What's New?
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles. Come welcome to members to wikipedia, send an invite to join Saskatchewan wikiproject, and help rate new articles by added the Saskatchewan banner to the talk pages.
I am attempting to revive WP:WikiProject Sports facilities... I want to invite you stop back by the project and participate in getting things going, again.
Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem which was on the Wikiproject user box template with another image?
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
#M@sk (talk·contribs) and Bohunk8283 (talk·contribs) have each been creating a plethora of new article on wikipedia in relation to Saskatchewan. M@sk has been filling in some requested articles and gaps in existing templates which is much needed. Bohunk828 has been creating a wide variety of Saskatchewan articles. A thank you and Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight goes out to both of you at this time.
Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem on the spotlight award with another image?
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Trivia Question
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest - Trivia Question #2- will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to -Trivia Question #2- before the end of June. The answer to Trivia Question #2 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Answer Trivia Quesion #1: Blaine Lake, Sasaktchewan. (From May Newsletter )
Trivia Question #2:Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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Previous Issue | WikiProject Saskatchewan Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008 | Next Issue July special events • Sk error tags • Image moving • Work the wiki • Quick links template • Canada commons wikiproject and Canada wikimedia • Higher Education in Saskatchewan • Spotlight • Road news - Trans Canada • Community news - Two million new articles • Trivia question
Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2008. Please help develop our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Site in Saskatchewan articles!
July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 12 to 18 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan. "Take A Hike" is the theme in 2008. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.
Work the Wiki Saskatchewan is an independent article about wikipedia and writing Saskatchewan articles for this encylopedia. Are there any comments in regards to work the wiki web site.
Saskatchewan quick links template
Add this template {{Saskatchewan quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Wikipedia. This template has been modeled after the {{Canadian quick links}} template.
Please assist students of this Class project to wikify and produce citations for the various provincial articles coming online. The article for Saskatchewan has been started, and if there is any assistance you may be able to offer the students please mention it on the appropriate talk page. Watch also for tags on the articles such as AFD and guide the students for Wikipedia principles. Thank you.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
The user template: {{user Saskatoon}} needs some TLC as its image has disappeared! If someone has some photographic / image manipulation talents, and a good idea to improve the user template, it is much appreciated.
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to Trivia question #3 before month end. The answer to Trivia Question #3 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - August 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #3: Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
Answer Question #3: Will be announced August 1, 2008
Trivia Question #2:Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan? from the June Newsletter
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.
Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know. We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are selected by our editors.
Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Biography Just How Much You Care On Family Day.
Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan biography and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Saskatchewan biographies are harder to find unless they have a category relating to Saskatchewan or the wikiproject Saskatchewan banner on the talk page. Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles
Jwkozak91 (talk·contribs) is a new editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Jwkozak91 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through updates of current information mainly to political articles joining the editorial crew there. Jwkozak91 has shown significant additions to the improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Jwkozak91 at this time. Pop by and give Jwkozak91 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
Bearcat (talk·contribs) The February 2009 award is presented to Bearcat who has kept abreast of political party and people (PPAP) articles and their content. Bearcat not only improves and updates politically inclined articles but provides guidance and coaches others in their edits of political articles as well. Swing on over to the talk page of Bearcat and present them with a barnstar or two, along with a thank you or two for their contribtions to wikipedia as a veteran editor, and for keeping articles with dated content up to date.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Delzen has recived this award in 2009 for edits and additions of references and citations to raise an article up a level in rating. See also the announcement in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/March 2009 newsletter !!!
T. Mazzei (talk·contribs) The March 2009 award is presented to T. Mazzei who upgrades and creates numerous Saskatchewan articles on a regular basis. It is good to have an editor monitoring articles, and adding wikilinks where needed. A thank you is extended for your consistent efforts.
Please add to the newsletter
Feel free to add to the newsletter, the blank format for the following month is at April issue. Any additions about the direction of the wikiproject, assessment, task forces, issues and opportunities or article improvements are welcome.
Saskatchewan photographs
when you are traveling or looking through old pictures, if there are any of Saskatchewan roads, highways or Saskatchewan highway signs that you would wish to upload to wikimedia commons, it would be appreciated. It would be good to show our highways in various seasons as well as with various geographical terrains. Of especial import when getting involved with photographing highways are junctions, scenic points of interest, historical markers, intersections, divided highways, road crews, historical road crews, historical travel on highways, overpasses, underpasses and road signs showing concurrencies between various highways.
If you have started an article for Saskatchewan, and wikimedia commons does not have a related Saskatchewan image, then place this code on the article's talk page below the banner for Saskatchewan {{reqphotoin|Saskatchewan}} and your request will be added to the above category.
If you have added a request for a map, there are now locator maps for Saskatchewan available which should alleviate some of the requests added at Wikipedia requested maps in Saskatchewan For example see Saskatoon for a locator map in use.
Coordinators and A Class Review
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. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
. The video games wikiproject took some time to devleop what was important within the scope of their wikiproject for the importance assessment.
TO DO
Saskatchewan clean up and SK communities and are lists 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.
Place this articles for deletion page on your watchlist to know if any Saskatchewan articles are under discussion. Likewise if there are issues with improvements for Saskatchewan check out articles to improve periodically. At the moment this article name has been changed Rural Division has been changed to Saskatchewan Rivers School Division(NPOV) and there has been discussion if placenames require the added note that it is Foo, Saskatchewan or if the article can remain as the placename name: Foo. In this regards this article which needs disambiguation has not been reduced to placename title only. Regina --> Regina, Saskatchewan
Please welcome new editors to wikipedia who are trying their hand at writing articles, at new Saskatchewan articles
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Participate in Wikimania 2009. Wikimania 2009 will be held August 26-28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the San Martín Cultural Center. They are accepting presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open space discussions, and artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects. Deadlines are April 15 and April 30. Would anyone like to assemble a poster about WP SK?
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Place Saskatchewan articles on your watchlist to help prevent vandalism. Peek in on the newly created high school articles periodically as well as the Saskatoon article.
Saskatoon
There is a renovation and upgrade project being tackled on the Saskatoon article. Please Be bold and join the discussion or help promote the article to GA.
Caronport, Saskatchewan
Please expand city, town, village and hamlet articles especially if you have first hand knowledge of them, which would develop facts and help in knowing where to find resources, citations and sources. For example Caronport, Saskatchewan is a recent request
Please register new DYK, GA, FA, news articles and any photographs or media at the WP talk page, newsletter tips or the Portal talk page for inclusion into the Portal and the next news letter. The portal has been through peer review, and is awaiting more inclusion to proceed to Featured Portal nominations.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Please vote on the featured article status of this article, as it was promoted to FA quite awhile ago, and FA status requirements have changed. The above list was merged into the List of universities in Canada.
Use the Outreach welcome template and extend a welcome to new users who are writing about Saskatchewan.
Biographies
With father's day upcoming, focus is on writing up some biographies on some notable Saskatchewan people. Please categorise these with one of the sub categories from Category:People from Saskatchewan and use the talk page banner and check off Saskatchewan=yes as biographies are harder to trace for inclusion than other Saskatchewan titular articles. With such categories-banners being used, the articles are more likely to be found and expanded by other Saskatchewan users. Take some time to find biographies of Saskatchewan folk on wikipedia currently and categorise-banner them as well.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Amidst summer festivals, tourism and agricultural activities, the July newsletter is out amongst us. While you are out and about, take a festival photog, or photograph a visit to the park, or perhaps a flax field. Perhaps, add an article about your favourite festival or Saskatchewan tourism destination, increase what is online about our national, provincial or regional sites.
Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2009. Please help develop articles about our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan!
Museums
Several community museums are only open during the summer months in Saskatchewan, please visit them, ask questions, take photographs, place them on wikipedia. Virtual Museum of Canada - Calendar of Events - Discover events which are offered during the summer months.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
It has been one year since the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods underwent a facelift and assessment banner update. The Banner helps to identify the quality of placename articles and which to focus attention on, and the wikiproject helps to coordinate the efforts of all interested editors! Thank you very much.
This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive
Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 104 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status or add main Saskatchewan topical articles or improve topics of Saskatchewan articles.
The Portal:Saskatchewan is undergoing its second anniversary showcasing to the WWW wikipedia articles about Saskatchewan content which have achieved good or featured class criteria. Please add more contributions to wikipedia and to the portal itself. If you have suggestions for the portal or want help with the "box formatting style of programming" drop a note on the portal talk page.
With fall and school starting up this late August and early September, it is time to start or upgrade the various secondary and post secondary education and Higher education in Saskatchewan articles for Saskatchewan or help with requests . Ensure that principals, vice principals, and current curricula and extracurricular activities are accurate for the 2009-2010 school year. Notable changes in curricula and extracurricular activities could be added to a history section. The newest education article seems to be an U of S article on the University of Saskatchewan Physical Activity Complex. List of universities in Canada this article was recently demoted from Featured list status. If anyone can work on this article and the new requirements to get it re-instated this would be awesome.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
If there was a collaboration department, then the North-West Rebellion, and its several child articles such as its battles and people would be excellent articles to find references for, expand and achieve GA or FA status. In the words of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell who proclaimed, that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today."[1]
At this time, as well, the articles Aboriginal peoples in Canada and First Nations are undergoing GA review. For an idea of updating the Northwest Rebellion articles watch these two articles or assist with their upgrade.
Feature articles are being re-called due to a lack of "alt tags" for the images included in the articles, as in the ongoing screening of FA articles; Canada and Territorial evolution of Canada. When beginning or updating a Saskatchewan related article, ensure the use of alt tags, which will save time later when upgrading the article.
Please make use of Wikipedia School and University projects and project instrutions on wikipedia, inform fellow students, classes, or school instructors. Higher education in Saskatchewan, was a part of a project that encompassed higher education in all the provinces and territories of Canada. As well students in public schools have been working on Saskatchewan town articles in the past.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan wikiproject and Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
This is the third December newsletter for the Saskatchewan wikiproject, and two years since we inaugurated the assessment template! It is also how the anniversary of our Saskatchewan new article robot page which helps to identify new articles with Saskatchewan content and future contributors. 2007, 2008
Holiday greetings to everyone editing on wikipedia and especially those helping Saskatchewan find its niche so others on the WWW can know something of this prairie province of Canada. Please invite a fellow editor for a nice cup of tea and a sit down
Photography city scavenger hunts
In the same vein as this Wikipedia Takes The City Scavenger Hunt Contest, please roam around Saskatchewan taking important photographs of your local area, city or neighbourhood or town, school, park, forest, statue, memorial, main street, cityscape view which are needed for various wikipedia articles. If you wish just use this online tool to help upload available public domain and fair use images to wikimedia commons.
Assessment
With 2,442 stubs, there are 73% of articles relating to Saskatchewan which are stubs, describing the province in minimal detail. There are 6 articles and lists which reached feature status. These detailed, and informative feature quality sections amount to 0.2% of the Saskatchewan content. It would be nice if these percentages could be reversed. Everyone's help is requested to make the drive a success.
Portal Saskatchewan
Please make regular visits to the portal and perhaps make it your browser home page. Nominations for selected articles and pictures for the portal are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just worke on to achieve Good Article status or the super picture you took the last time you attended a festival in Saskatchewan.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan wikiproject and Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue!(January 2010 - Post your news years resolution) Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help improve it in the coming new year. Keep contributing and editing articles, and don't hesitate to contact the wikiproject talk page if you need help. Any and all contributions are welcome.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Hello and welcome back to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter! I, User:Presidentman, am the new editor. You may see some changes due to the fact it's my first newsletter. I'm just going easy on myself, but it will get more complex as time goes on.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
We’re excited to announce that User:Presidentman has joined WikiProject Saskatchewan as our Editor in Chief. Presidentman will oversee editorial content and the Saskatchewan Wikiproject community contributions on the Wikiproject newsletter. Presidentman has also successfully developed the Picture of the Day project and has been active on wikipedia for close to three years in a plethora of projects enriching wikipedia with close to 3,000 contributions. The transition between our old editor and the new has been smoother than any of us could have hoped for — SriMesh wrote their last newsletter article for January, 2010, and Presidentman started up without missing a beat for February 2010. The previous years for SriMesh, the past editor, had been richly rewarding, seeing subscriptions grow, informing interested editors of developments and changes to the Saskatchewan wikipedia community and supporting activities on the Saskatchewan Wikiproject. It is now time for me to move to new writing projects to finish, and further responsibilities which are vying for my attention. Please join me in welcoming Presidentman to the their new position! Presidentman is working on a host of new features and an updated look, which will take things to a new level. It is wonderful to have a new editor to bring in the new year! Expect great things.
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Hello, and welcome back to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Sorry about the last two months, I have just been very busy with exams and the end of my studies. Now that summer is here, hopefully I'll do better.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Hello, and welcome to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Happy Canada Day to all!
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Hello, and welcome to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Happy Saskatchewan Day to all!
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Hello, and welcome to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Happy Labour Day to all!
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan WikiProject and Saskatchewan articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Hello, Delzen. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HELP International until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Dat GuyTalkContribs12:19, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Delzen. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hello, Delzen. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Thanks for uploading File:Briarpatch Cover.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Thanks for uploading File:Swsd logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1 - June 2007
WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1 - June 2007
Happy Canada day! Bonne fête Canada! 
Hello! Here is the new October newsletter for WikiProject Saskatchewan, showing recent developments, challenges, and successes for the 'Saskatchewan wikipedia community. Thank you for perusing our newsletter!
Please help develop the November newsletter by adding your new Saskatchewan related article contributions on wikipedia. Also add any considerations for WikiProject Saskatchewan|SK articles, roads, communities and neighbourhoods article growth on Wikipedia. Or just pop a note in to add a seasons greetings to others on Wiki Saskatchewan. SriMesh | talk 02:26, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Volume 3, Issue 12 - December 2009
