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Issue 44, January 2015

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Editor's Message

Bienvenue! Willkommen! Welcome!

What a year 2014 has been. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 saw Austria become triumphant for their second time in Eurovision history, when Conchita Wurst won with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix". A mere week later and Austria found victory again when Ziyu He won the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014, in Cologne, Germany. ABU Radio Song Festival 2014 took place in Sri Lanka, whilst the ABU TV Song Festival 2014 took place in Macau. In November, the southern Mediterranean archipelago of Malta hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014, their first ever hosting of any Eurovision Family of Events, of which Italy won in their débutante year. And finally, Kazakhstan won the Türkvizyon Song Contest 2014 also held in November.

And so 2015 is now upon us, with so many events scheduled to take place that will keep us busier than ever before, we take a look ahead to see what's in store for us. In May 2015 we have the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, and the ABU Radio Song Festival 2015 in Yangon. Sometime in the Spring will see the return of the Intervision Song Contest 2015, scheduled to take place in 2014 Winter Olympic Games city of Sochi. Then in June we have the Eurovision Young Dancers 2015 in Plzeň. In Asia, Istanbul play hosts to the ABU TV Song Festival 2015 on 28 October, whilst both Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Türkvizyon Song Contest 2015 expected to take place around November/December. The fun-packed season doesn't just end there; we also have Cân i Gymru, Bundesvision Song Contest, a special 60th Eurovision Anniversary Show hosted by the BBC, and many national pre-selection events taking place in the run up to their respective contests. So keep that team spirit momentum running as there is loads that needs to be worked upon and keep us all preoccupied throughout the year.

Please also remember to keep an eye on the project talk page as there are several active debates still taking place that require thorough input from as many project members as possible. Some of you may also wish to join WikiProject Song, especially when the topical area we deal with surrounds itself primarily by songs. You never know, you may even pick up a few hints and tips from their project which will help you flourish as a Wikipedian editor too. Encourage potential new members to the project by posting {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced this template) on their talk pages. If you would like something to appear in the next edition of Eurovision Monthly, then please inform us at the Project Newsdesk.

And so it bring me great pleasure to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous 2015. Happy editing! Wesley Mouse

Did you know that... the winner of Cân i Gymru goes on to represent Wales at the Pan Celtic Festival?

Project news

  • The following debates are taking place on the project talk page. Please try and participate in as many as possible, thanks.
  • Requests for a few new articles have been submitted to the newsroom, if anyone would like to help then here are the list of articles.
  • If there is an article you think we should have? Request it here.
Page milestones

Contest news

ABU Radio Song Festival
  • In a change to the normal biennially format, the Radio Song Festival is now annually with the 2015 Radio Festival taking place in Yangon, Myanmar. Two countries have confirmed their participation so far.
ABU TV Song Festival
Eurovision Song Contest
  • Thirty-nine countries have been confirmed as partaking in 2015. Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed their withdrawal, after first announcing their comeback. While the Czech Republic returns after a five year break, along with Cyprus and Serbia who return after a year absence. Ukraine has withdrawn due to the current unrest in the region. Austria's Udo Jürgens, winner of 1966, died 21 December 2014 at the age of 80.
Eurovision Young Dancers
  • The 2015 Event will take place in the Czech Republic city of Plzeň on 19 June. Four countries have so far confirmed their participation, with Malta making their début and Slovenia withdrawing from the competition.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
  • Lisa Ajax, participant in Lilla Melodifestivalen 2012, won Idol 2014 in Sweden. Vincenzo Cantiello, representing Italy, won 2014. This was Italy's first appearance and win in the contest. It is unknown where the 2015 Contest will take place; although the EBU have given Italy the first refusal of hosting rights. The Bulgarian broadcaster have also shown a keen interest to host the contest; but it is unknown if they have expressed such interest to the EBU. A final decision is expected to be announced by the European Broadcasting Union in the upcoming months.
Türkvizyon Song Contest
  • Voting fraud from Turkmenistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Türkvizyon 2014 Semi-Final forced event organisers to qualify 15 countries, instead of the usual 12. Kazakhstan were crowned winners of the contest.
See also

Maintenance & Statistics

Maintenance tasks

The following is a list of some selected Project Eurovision-related articles that need some extensive improvement work doing them.

Add sources
Clean up
Expand
Unencyclopaedic
Merge
Wikify
Stubs
Former featured article
Former good article

Statistics

Eurovision articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Total
FA 1 1
FL 3 3
GA 3 34 95 74 206
B 23 39 61 123
C 10 111 635 392 1,148
Start 6 176 626 1,625 2,433
Stub 94 445 860 1,399
List 7 12 5 24
Category 696 696
Disambig 6 6
File 211 211
Portal 4 4
Project 113 113
Redirect 40 13 309 1,635 1,997
Template 442 442
Other 7 7
Assessed 19 488 1,865 3,327 3,114 8,813
Total 19 488 1,865 3,327 3,114 8,813
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 25,932 Ω = 4.88

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