Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Wines task force/Newsletter/03-18-2007
The Wine Project Newsletter! Issue III - March 18, 2007 | |
Welcome to the latest edition of the Wine Project Newsletter! Feedback is always welcome. Please consider dropping a comment on the Newsletter talk page to let us know how we improve future editions. In this edition: News & Notes[edit]
User:Scharks has worked his magic again. After setting up the Wine Portal with User:Charleenmerced, Scharks gave the Wine Project Home Page a new look with improved navigation links and more user-friendly interface. Now everything you need to know about the Wine Project is just a click away. Be sure to check out the page and let us know what you think!
We did it! Wine Project members accepted the challenge from our last newsletter to get every wine related article assessed by March 18th and accomplished that task with ease. We now have 990 articles with the wine project banner. Though with the assessments now done, there are some interesting insights to be gleamed.
With this knowledge, it is clear that the focus of the Wine Project should be on improving the quality of our wine articles. In addition to such features as our Wine Improvement Drive, lets work on some broader goals for the project.
User:Bduke has created the Template:Infobox Australian Winery to use on Australian wineries like Penfolds. Category:Wineries of Australia has quite a few Australian wineries that could use this new template. Consider lending Bduke a helping hand.
User:Bethling has proposed several new wine stub categories to make sorting some of our 744 stubs easier. Wiki-Winos - Christopher Tanner, CCC[edit]1 What got you first interested in wine?
2 What brought you to Wikipedia?
3 What type of wine articles do you enjoy editing?
4 What non-wine related activities do you also enjoy on Wikipedia?
5 What is your favorite wine? Least favorite wine?
6 What is the most under appreciated wine, in your opinion?
7 What efforts on a wine related article are you the most proud of to-date?
8 Know any good wine jokes/quotes?
9 Have you ever had a "Wine snobbish" moment? If so, tell us about it.
10 What area of the wine project would you like more editors to focus on?
11 What are some wine related reliable sources (i.e. a wine book or web site) that you like using when editing wine articles?
12. What is your favorite non reference wine book?
Wine Improvement Drive - Pinot Gris[edit]User:Charleenmerced has suggested that we share some wiki-love on this white wine grape of a dozen names and a dozen different histories. The article is currently at Start level. We had another great success with last issue's WID article Languedoc wine taking the article from a stub to an article that the Wine Project is proud to submit for GA consideration. We had several new pictures uploaded for the article, including the gorgeous picture you see to the left. Grab a bottle[edit]Sometime during the next two weeks, Wine Project members are encouraged to grab a bottle of Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris to enjoy and share your thoughts about it on the WID talk page. This will also present the perfect opportunity to take a picture of this wine in the glass for use in the article. If we have several photos submitted, we will take a vote among project members for which one is the best. Be sure to properly license and tag any photos that you upload with {{GFDL-no-disclaimers}} . | |