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WikiProject X is live!
Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.
Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!
- What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
- When? June 2015
- How can you help?
- 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
- 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
- 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)
Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.
Thanks, and happy editing!
(timestamp may not be accurate) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Believer (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hastings Line FAC2
I've re-nominated the Hastings Line article for FAC. It failed last time due to a lack of reviews, so I'd appreciate some support this time round please. Mjroots (talk) 12:02, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Archaeologia Cantiana
The full set of Archaeologia Cantiana, the journal of Kent Archaeological Society, is now online: [1]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:29, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: Many thanks for that, will be very useful in researching and expanding Kent articles. Mjroots (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
Request for comments
For info: Talk:Royal_Tunbridge_Wells#RFC --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:09, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
AfC submission
Could anyone have a look at Draft:University of Kent, Keynes Conferences? Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 11:01, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Request for comments
I need help in removing flags on this page which ive put in quite a bit of effort into. Please help! Talk:Iden Green - see also User talk:RA0808
thanks!
VixenNo9No9 (talk) 19:43, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
oastandhopkilnhistory
please see my message to Melcous and also picture of Hadlow in 19th Century section of my website.
Patrick Grattan Patrick@oastandhopkilnhistory.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.198.143.223 (talk) 15:16, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
- This is about Oastandhopkilnhistory adding a link to his website to the oast house article. I'm willing to work with this new editor with the aim of improving Wikipedia and have offered to assist with this. Melcous is also aware of this. Mjroots (talk) 17:49, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
- @ Mjroots I see you live in Hadlow which is rich in oasts and maltkilns, and are an enthusiast for windmills. I appreciate that Wikipedia is not for promoting other peoples sites etc, but it is for giving sources and relevant organisations at the end of entries. So it seems to me relevant to add oastandhopkilnhistory.com to the sources list at the end of the feature on oasts and also Kentlife. Look forward to eharing from you and answering any questions you may have.
Patrick Grattan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.198.143.223 (talk) 09:21, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Have you had a chance to consider whether Oastandhopkilnhistory could provide added value to the wiki article on oasts? PatrickOastandhopkilnhistory (talk) 17:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Oastandhopkilnhistory: I've added a link to your website to the oast house article. As it was research when you were at university I consider that it is of sufficient quality to justify inclusion. I would encourage you to follow the suggestion I posted on your talk page and expand the oast and hopper hut articles from book sources you have. Mjroots (talk) 09:27, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I have also done some editing to the Introduction para on oasts. I take the point about hopper huts. That will involve quite a bit of research. Confess that I have not found out how ot get to my talk page to pick up your other suggestion. Patrick146.198.143.223 (talk) 08:32, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
- @146.198.143.223: You get to your talk page by logging in on your Oastandhopkilnhistory account (tick the "keep me logged in" box) and the by the tab at top of page marked "talk". You can also reach it by clicking on the blue link marked talk by your signature above. Mjroots (talk) 17:03, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Unreferenced category and |unref= on project banner template
Editors maintaining this project's banner template may be interested in this discussion on the {{WikiProject Trains}} template. The consensus was to add a |refimprove= parameter to sort articles into Category:Rail transport articles needing additional references. Slambo (Speak) 15:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Kings Hill is not a stub?
I landed on the Kings Hill page. It is rated as a stub! On a cursry glance this is C / B borderline. Does anyone mind if I have a look at other Kent stubs and raise their quality ratings. I prefer to use WP:GRD- that's Be Generous, Revert, Discuss rather than leave it as it is.ClemRutter (talk) 20:20, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 07:44, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
AfD notice
The List of railway stations in Kent has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots (talk) 14:48, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
- Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
- I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
- If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
- Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Sissinghurst is currently rated Low Importance on the Kent Project page. This strikes me as odd, given it's one of the world's best known and most important gardens. I could perhaps make a case for Top Importance, but maybe High would be thought better - "the most historically and culturally significant topics are included in this level". Any thoughts much appreciated. KJP1 (talk) 17:00, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- It might be high/top importance for WP:Gardens, but not for WP:Kent. Possibly mid importance here, but definitely no higher. Mjroots (talk) 21:01, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for getting back. Could you expand a bit on the rationale? Keith Richards, Benenden School, Ashford International railway station, Bluewater (shopping centre). Not quite see how these all rank higher than Sissinghurst on the assessment scale. KJP1 (talk) 21:31, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
First off - don't sweat too much about WikiProject ratings. In particular don't think of it as "importance" but "priority for action" by a particular WikiProject. So for instance, I'm not a particular fan of adding people to county projects, particularly someone like Keith Richards who has (almost) a specific WikiProject dedicated to him. He may have Kent connections, but his article is not a particular priority for the limited resources of WP Kent. A good guideline is to look at pageviews - a bit of discretion is needed in interpreting them, but they're useful for giving a rough idea of how important an article is for our readers whilst taking one's own emotions out of it. In this case Keef gets 1411k views per year, Bluewater 61k, Benenden 47k, Sissinghurst 42k and Ashford station 37k. Biography articles of pop culture icons kinda break the system, but otherwise you can see that both Bluewater and Benenden are more "important" to our readers than Sissinghurst. There's a bit of a grey area, the boundary between Mid and High falls somewhere around the 40-50k mark so I'd say Bluewater is definitely a High but I wouldn't argue too much with the others as either Mid or High. As with Keef, it depends a bit on how it fits in with other Projects - I suspect that Sissinghurst would get more attention from the Gardening project so on that grounds I'd make it a bit less of a priority for Kent, but I wouldn't sweat it too much. PS Please don't put wikilinks in section headings here, it confuses maintenance bots. Le Deluge (talk) 17:06, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Wasn’t sweating it - just looking for a sensible calibration. And not sure I agree that the main measure of Importance ratings is the number of readers, although the figures are interesting. Anyhow, have done Mid for Kent, and High for Horticulture, which seems reasonable. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 21:21, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- I'll repeat - readership is not the whole story, there is a bit of an art to assessment which you only get from seeing a lot - "overview" type articles are obviously relatively more important for readers, even if they are less read than an article about some detail. But it's surprising how well readership ties in to one's instinctive feel for a subject's place in the scheme of things - and I'll emphasise again, it's not about "importance" but "priority for action by the Project". We have limited resources, where can they be expended to best serve our readers? Le Deluge (talk) 02:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
- – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
- A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
- We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
- Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
- WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
FAR notice
I have nominated Westgate-on-Sea for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Bacon 06:23, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Fairlawne: who are the "James family"?
Mentioned in the short article on Fairlawne, but no further details or reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.140.168 (talk • contribs) 03:26, 30 March 2021
- @Edwardx:, can you shed any light on this? Mjroots (talk) 19:34, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Category:Kent articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Kent articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 21:28, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Sheerness
I have nominated Sheerness for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 15:52, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Birchington-on-Sea
I have nominated Birchington-on-Sea for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm (talk) 20:43, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Herne Bay
I have nominated Herne Bay for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm (talk) 12:58, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Gillingham F.C.
I have nominated Gillingham F.C. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 02:15, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Parishes project
I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Kent are:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- Cranbrook and Sissinghurst
- Graveney with Goodnestone
- Lower Hardres and Nackington
- Lynsted with Kingsdown
- South Willesborough and Newtown
And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:
A total of 8, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (2)#Kent. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:12, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
- Pinging participants to get more input @Chelb, Cheveney, Chewett, Cig1705, ClemRutter, ColinBoylett, Cunningham, Danofkent, Danno uk, Davey2010, DavidAnstiss, Rjgibb, Elephantsandbacon, Epbr123, Felix Charles, Gameconsoleguide, GkgAlf, Hypnoticmonkey, Iamthenewno2, JackyR, Jamesyboy2468, John Gibbard, JoshTilley, Kent6, KevinCarmody, Lynbarn, 5464536, Martin of Sheffield, McKDandy, and Mjroots:. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:41, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging the 2nd half @Neddyseagoon, Nogbad, Oakcat, Panoramaxism, Peter Shearan, Pgr94, Pickle UK, Pratj, Rachel83, Richtom80, Ritchie333, BranStark, Shadow Fading, Animus999, Sillybillypiggy, Stealthorpe, Tallguyuk, Timrollpickering, TotTWriter, Whitstable, Backreach, and Bs1jac:. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:41, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
New page: local artist and disability activist Lizzy Rose
Draft page awaiting approval on Lizzy Rose, local artist and disability activist. There will be an exhibition of her work and life across Margate from 31 March 2023, featured in the Turner Contemporary, Crate etc - and ideally, the page would be live to provide information on Rose given the expected interest.
A discussion site has been established to help improve the content and if anyone is able to review and approve it, it would be much appreciated:
Draft:Lizzy Rose - Wikipedia Chopschopschops (talk) 12:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
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Tenterden
Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Tenterden? There are some formatting errors (e.g. citations in section headings) that need to be cleaned up, which is relatively easy to do. The main issue, however, is that it looks like COI editors have been adding promotional content to the article over the years and that stuff may need to be removed altogether. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:26, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)