Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Newsletter/May 2011

Archives The WikiProject United States Newsletter May 2011 American television District of Columbia Library of Congress Superfunds  U.S. counties  U.S. Government
Scope and Mission of WikiProject United States Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out WikiProject guidelines.	Articles of note This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States. New featured articles: 1911 Atlantic hurricane season Broad Ripple Park Carousel Flowing Hair dollar Sherman Minton U.S. Route 113 New featured lists: Alabama Crimson Tide Atlanta Braves first-round draft picks Grammy Award for Best New Age Album Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance Highest paid Major League Baseball players Huskies of Honor Longest rivers of the United States (by main stem) Los Angeles Clippers Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (G) Project article statistics for April 30, 2011 WikiProject United States assessment table Current statistics United States articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 11 74 205 808 11 1,109 FL 2 33 51 369 3 458 FM 1,170 1,170 A 3 30 56 89 GA 18 144 574 4,442 42 5,220 B 122 819 2,010 11,538 764 15,253 C 44 802 3,400 37,314 4 6,166 47,730 Start 5 803 6,832 152,449 32 20,036 180,157 Stub 124 2,081 149,600 67 9,264 161,136 List 3 171 1,073 12,904 205 2,100 16,456 Category 164,810 164,810 Disambig 1,700 1,700 File 25,476 25,476 Portal 3,044 3,044 Project 1,610 1,610 Redirect 42 219 5,386 43,743 49,390 Template 25,773 25,773 NA 105 105 Other 3 3 Draft 1,388 1,388 Assessed 205 3,015 16,475 374,866 269,127 38,389 702,077 Unassessed 2 328 12 7,696 8,038 Total 205 3,015 16,477 375,194 269,139 46,085 710,115 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 2,114,777 Ω = 5.15
Project news We are happy to report that the project continues to grow every day with several more editors joining the project this month. We welcome them to the project along with all the other editors who have joined since the relaunch of the project in January. This month at least five articles relating to United States topics were promoted to Featured article status and at least nine articles have been promoted to Featured list. Additionally, there are multiple articles including the USS Chesapeake (1799), Jefferson nickel and Frank Buckles, the last American World War I veteran who recently died, pending review for Featured article status. The full list can be found here. There is also a large selection of Lists pending featued list status here including several relating to sports and music, List of tallest buildings in Austin and List of U.S. state horses. We continue to look for editors interested in reviewing these articles so any help no matter how big or small is greatly appreciated. After nearly two months of discussions and preperations WikiProject United States Government has joined the family of WikiProjects supported by WikiProject United States. The initial phase of including this project have already begun and should conclude in the next couple weeks. This project represents a core topic relating to the United States and collaboration between the two projects will make both stronger.
Portal The portal is really looking good and a lot of things have been put in place to make the portal work in a semi automated fashion but it needs help with filling in some of the Anniversaries pages. Most of the days up to mid May have been started but there is still work to be done from the middle of May through December. More help is always appreciated with new events as they occur so any assistance there is also appreciated.
Collaboration The collaboration for May 2011 is Wall Street A lot of improvements were made to last months collaboration, Chesapeake Bay so thanks to all who helped with that. The collaboration for May is Wall Street. Tomwsulcer has already done a major rewrite and expansion of the Wall street article while it was a collaboration candidate and with just a little more work I believe we can get it to GA. The current articles up for vote are: Lake Erie Thanksgiving (United States) United States Bill of Rights United States dollar FBI Academy List of Medal of Honor recipients Activity in the collaboration has slowed this month and we continue to look for editors to submit their suggestions for articles they would like to see collaboration on and we continue to seek editors interested in improving those articles. Whether they are designated as the collaboration of the month or they are just a candidate editors are encouraged to edit any of them and make improvements. Please take some time to submit and vote for the article(s) you think should be the next collaboration for June. Over the next couple of months we will be implementing some bot tasks to automate some of the things that are currently done manually in the Collaboration. If anyone has a bot or wants to start one and is willing to take on one of the tasks please let the project know by leaving a note on the projects talk page.
Things you can help with Ideas for next months newsletter Help with the Anniversaries in the portal Help with the assessments Help with the Collaboration Comments in active discussions
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