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En masse replacement of dead Courier-Journal references

This is becoming a major problem for Louisville articles, as The Courier-Journal is stupidly making its articles go completely missing (instead of displaying a snippet of the article and linking to an archive). So, we're ending up with a lot of dead references. I recommend that we find alternative sources for these references (such as WFPL articles) and create a kind of guideline that the C-J will never be used for references again until they stop the practice of disappearing articles. Sound good? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 06:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Jack warden

I was reading Jack warden on wikipedia and looked at his tv credits. The article does not mention the epidoe he did on route 66 titled the clover throne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.205.8.61 (talk) 23:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:33, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Is there an administrator that can contact me?

I have a small embossed brick that was a part of H.S. Tyler's 1893 campaign. I would like to post a picture of it, but do not have autoconfirm rights. Can you contact me?

Thanks, Matthew

--Matthewhuested (talk) 20:14, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Louisville articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Louisville articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:17, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:53, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:13, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Leaving the Wikipedia and this project - Please somebody do something with it

For personal and business reasons, I am leaving the Wikipedia indefinitely, and this includes leaving this project. I am proud to have started this project nearly five years ago, but I feel it's high time to pass the torch and see what others can do with it. I think we have accomplished a lot of excellent work for the city we love. I hope this work will continue. So long! (and yes, it's been very long. :) ) Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:43, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProjects Kentucky and Louisville

Someone recently suggested that these 2 projects may be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there has been no activity on either the project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 16:19, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

This discussion has been open for 11 days so far with no comment. Does anyone have any comments or concerns about this suggestion? --Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Since this discussion has now been open for 16 days I am going to go ahead and add it to WikiProject United States. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 19:52, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 01:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion

Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_30#File:LVilleCards.png.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:25, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Changes to the LMPD page

There are some fairly extensive changes that need to be made to the Louisville Metro Police Department page, to reflect organizational changes and whatnot. Is that OK to do? Spastic Legend (talk) 05:26, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process

There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

List of major employers in Louisville, Kentucky Article

List of Major Employers in Louisville, Kentucky article created. Any further action required to link it to WikiProject Louisville? Cskcsk (talk) 14:28, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Just drop {{WikiProject United States}} with the appropriate parameters set on the talk page. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 14:42, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC

I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

ACC 

As a current or past contributor to a Atlantic Coast Conference-related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject ACC, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the ACC and its member institutions. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! CrazyPaco (talk) 07:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:01, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navigation templates

Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:27, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Modernizing and relaunching this project

Hello all! I would like to modernize and relaunch this project sometime in the near future. I basically would like to cleanup the project pages as much as possible while integrating all the latest project-related bells/whistles or any other recent web/wiki advancements. Relaunching would be about getting the public to become interested (or reinterested in many cases) in getting involved here. There's a lot of articles that could be written that still haven't been started, and we have many existing articles that could use a good deal of attention.

If you have any ideas/suggestions or are interested in helping out with this modernization/relaunch, please reply to this post. Thanks for reading! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Full project change patrol is usable again

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville#Change patrol for details and change patrol links. If you're not aware, change patrol is a tool for ensuring that changes to any page included in our project are sound. Any Wikipedian can use this tool, but it is especially intended for use by our project members. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:13, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

RfC:Louisville Metro

See the move proposal here at "Government of Louisville, Kentucky". In the alternative, see Talk:Louisville Metro and leave comments about turning the redirect there into a disambiguation page between Louisville, Kentucky; government of Louisville, Kentucky; and neighborhoods of Louisville. (Personally, I don't think that's warranted. All incoming links to Louisville Metro I've looked at are looking for the governmental entity.) — LlywelynII 03:00, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Discuss rework of "Universities and colleges" template

Please join the discussion about breaking down universities and colleges into categories in the template {{Universities and colleges in the Louisville metro area}}. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:47, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Louisville articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 23:18, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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)

Here are the most viewed articles from our project determined from this monthly WikiProject U.S. report (#1 is the most viewed):

  1. Jennifer Lawrence
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Tom Cruise
  4. Rajon Rondo
  5. Jim McElwain
  6. Nicole Scherzinger

The WP US report determines their top 500 articles using Wikipedia server logs. I compared the links on their page to the articles in our project list. And voila. What do you think? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 01:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Early next month, we're going to start having our own "popular pages" list generated. It will show 1,000, but I will report the Top 10 here. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 02:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

25% of our articles need some form of cleanup - here's an easy way to find what needs fixing

You may have seen the box with the broom on the project's front page. It contains a link to all the current cleanup issues (updated once a week) for our entire set of articles. If you have a particular kind of issue you enjoy correcting more than others, this is the page for you, because it breaks it all down for you. You can also sort article cleanup lists by various factors, including the quality assessment (class) and the importance to our project. If you have any questions about the listings, I will do my best to answer them. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 06:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Louisville to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 15:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for January:

  1. Jennifer Lawrence
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Tom Cruise
  4. Hunter S. Thompson
  5. Nicole Scherzinger
  6. Clem Haskins
  7. Lewis and Clark Expedition
  8. KFC
  9. Jennifer Carpenter
  10. Louisville, Kentucky

In terms of assessments, one (KFC) is a GA article, 6 are 'B', 2 are 'C' and 1 is 'Start'.

Compared to December's listing, Rajon Rondo (#11) and Jim McElwain (#75) fell out of the Top 10. Normally, I would cover new articles in the list, but December's list wasn't a complete "top 10", so there's no method for drawing accurate conclusions. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:12, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for March:

  1. Tom Cruise ↑2
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Jennifer Lawrence ↓2
  4. Nicole Scherzinger ↑1
  5. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↑1
  6. KFC ↑3
  7. Colonel Sanders ↑9 *new*
  8. Hunter S. Thompson ↓1
  9. Rick Pitino ↑33 *new*
  10. Louisville, Kentucky ↑1 *returning*

In terms of assessments, one (KFC) is a good article ('GA'), 7 are 'B', and 2 are 'C'.

Compared to February's listing, Clem Haskins (no longer included in project), Old Fashioned (#16) and Zachary Taylor (#12) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 05:32, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for February:

  1. Jennifer Lawrence
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Tom Cruise
  4. Clem Haskins ↑2
  5. Nicole Scherzinger
  6. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↑1
  7. Hunter S. Thompson ↓3
  8. Old Fashioned ↑7 *new*
  9. KFC ↓1
  10. Zachary Taylor ↑4 *new*

In terms of assessments, two (KFC and Zachary Taylor) are GA articles, 5 are 'B', 2 are 'C' and 1 is 'Start'.

Compared to January's listing, Louisville, Kentucky (#11) and Jennifer Carpenter (#12) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 05:32, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Head's up for next month: Clem Haskins will no longer appear in the rankings because I've removed that article as part of a group of articles that I realized recently are only very narrowly (at best) within the scope of our project. Haskins and the others were only draft picks and not actual players for the Kentucky Colonels, and they had no other significant notable connection to the Louisville area. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for April:

  1. Muhammad Ali ↑1
  2. Tom Cruise ↓1
  3. Jennifer Lawrence
  4. James Best ↑58 *new*
  5. Diane Sawyer ↑24 *new*
  6. Nicole Scherzinger ↓2
  7. Kentucky Derby ↑21 *new*
  8. KFC ↓2
  9. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↓4
  10. Hunter S. Thompson ↓2

In terms of assessments, one (KFC) is a good article ('GA'), 5 are 'B', 3 are 'C', and 1 is 'Start'.

Compared to March's listing, Colonel Sanders (#16), Rick Pitino (#35) and Louisville, Kentucky (#13) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:11, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for May:

  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Tom Cruise
  3. Jennifer Lawrence
  4. Kentucky Derby ↑3
  5. Nicole Scherzinger ↑1
  6. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↑3
  7. Colonel Sanders ↑9 *returning*
  8. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) ↑63 *new*
  9. KFC ↓1
  10. Hunter S. Thompson

In terms of assessments, one (KFC) is a good article ('GA'), 6 are 'B', and 3 are 'C'.

Compared to April's listing, James Best (#48) and Diane Sawyer (#29) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:45, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Several upcoming Wikipedia events in Kentucky

Meet up with Wikipedians in Kentucky! All are welcome to attend!

Lexington, KY Wiki Loves Pride 2015

Lexington Pride Festival : June 27, 2015. Location: Lexington Pride Festival venues. Take photographs of the Lexington Pride Festival and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon : June 30, 2015. 7:00 pm. Location to be determined.
  • If anyone is interested in taking photos of the Kentuckiana Pride Events this month, and wants to have an edit-a-thon in Louisville, that can be arranged.

Lexington, KY/Wiknic 2015

Meet up for a picnic with other Wikipedian in Kentucky on July 25, 2015 from 12:00-3:00pm.

Sign up on event pages. For questions contact Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 03:24, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present). --Lucas559 (talk) 15:36, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for June:

  1. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) ↑7
  2. Tom Cruise
  3. Muhammad Ali ↓2
  4. Jennifer Lawrence ↓1
  5. David Blatt ↑6 *new*
  6. Rob Riggle ↑22 *new*
  7. Nicole Scherzinger ↓2
  8. D'Angelo Russell ↑48 *new*
  9. Kentucky Derby ↓5
  10. Colonel Sanders ↓3

In terms of assessments, 4 are 'B', 3 are 'C' and 3 are 'Start'.

Compared to May's listing, Lewis and Clark Expedition (#13), KFC (#11) and Hunter S. Thompson (#12) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:04, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Update: David Blatt was just discovered to be included in our project by mistake, so this month is the last month his article will appear in the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:26, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Major Kentucky gubernatorial candidates

Since both major gubernatorial candidates are included in our project, let's compare their article views between now and the election. For June 2015, here's how they rank:

Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:08, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for July:

  1. Tom Cruise ↑1
  2. Jennifer Lawrence ↑2
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Enid Yandell ↑997+ *new*
  5. Nicole Scherzinger ↑2
  6. Hunter S. Thompson ↑6 *returning*
  7. Colonel Sanders ↑3
  8. Richard Mentor Johnson ↑215 *new*
  9. KFC ↑2 *returning*
  10. Chris Hardwick ↑6 *new*

Note: Enid Yandell wasn't even in the Top 1,000 articles in June. That means her article went from 628 or fewer views for June all the way up to 88,993 for July. That's pretty amazing!

In terms of assessments, 2 are good articles, 5 are 'B', 2 are 'C' and 1 is 'Start'.

Compared to June's listing, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) (#51), David Blatt (no longer included in project), Rob Riggle (#24), D'Angelo Russell (#15) and Kentucky Derby (#47) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:04, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Major Kentucky gubernatorial candidates (Round 2)

Since both major gubernatorial candidates are included in our project, I am comparing their views between now and the election. For July 2015, here's how they rank:

As you can see, Bevin moved up over twice as many positions in rank, but Conway improved his views spread by over 7 percentage points. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:13, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for August:

  1. Tom Cruise
  2. Colonel Sanders ↑5
  3. Jennifer Lawrence ↓1
  4. Muhammad Ali ↓1
  5. Nicole Scherzinger
  6. Victor Mature ↑54 *new*
  7. KFC ↑2
  8. Hunter S. Thompson ↓2
  9. Louisville, Kentucky ↑2 *returning*
  10. Jennifer Carpenter ↑2 *returning*

In terms of assessments, 1 is a good article, 6 are 'B', 1 is 'C' and 2 are 'Start'.

Compared to July's listing, Enid Yandell (#65), Richard Mentor Johnson (#145) and Chris Hardwick (#13) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Major Kentucky gubernatorial candidates (Round 3)

Since both major gubernatorial candidates are included in our project, I am comparing their views between now and the election. For August 2015, here's how they rank:

As you can see, Bevin moved up 12 1/2 times as many positions in rank, and Conway's views spread worsened by 16 1/2 percentage points. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Rename Louisville, Kentucky to Louisville?

Please participate in this new straw poll: Talk:Louisville, Kentucky#Straw Poll: Rename this article to simply "Louisville". Please leave !votes and comments in that discussion only. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for September:

  1. Tom Cruise
  2. Muhammad Ali ↑2
  3. Jennifer Lawrence ↓1
  4. Colonel Sanders ↓2
  5. Happy Birthday to You ↑16 *new*
  6. Jim Beam ↑40 *new*
  7. Deion Sanders (played for Louisville RiverBats) ↑12 *new*
  8. Nicole Scherzinger ↓3
  9. Hunter S. Thompson ↓1
  10. KFC ↓3

In terms of assessments, 1 is a good article, 7 are 'B', 1 is 'C' and 1 is 'Start'.

Compared to August's listing, Victor Mature (#20), Louisville, Kentucky (#14) and Jennifer Carpenter (#11) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:44, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Major Kentucky gubernatorial candidates (Round 4)

Since both major gubernatorial candidates are included in our project, I am comparing their views between now and the election. For September 2015, here's how they rank:

As you can see, Conway and Bevin moved up a similar number of positions in rank, and Conway's views spread worsened again, but only by 1.9 percentage points. Therefore, Bevin's advance toward Conway has slowed dramatically from the previous month.

Now, let's add independent candidate Drew Curtis from the new WikiProject Kentucky's most popular articles, by estimating his rank as if he were in our list:

As you can see, Curtis has less than half the views of the 2nd-place Bevin. However, his wiki view share (17%) is considerably better than his strength in public polls. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:44, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Facelift

I'm in the process of giving this WikiProject a facelift. My goal is to make it more welcoming and less clunky. One major thing I want to do is move the Tasks to a separate page like is done in other WiiProjects. If anyone has any suggestions for further changes, please reply. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:19, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Membership department revamped

I have just revamped our Membership department. Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions for improvements. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:34, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Here's our most popular articles for October:

  1. Tom Cruise
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Jennifer Lawrence
  4. Amobi Okoye ↑79 *new*
  5. Nicole Scherzinger ↑3
  6. Hunter S. Thompson ↑3
  7. Colonel Sanders ↓3
  8. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↑4 *returning*
  9. Jennifer Carpenter ↑2 *returning*
  10. KFC

In terms of assessments, 1 is a good article, 6 are 'B', 1 is 'C' and 2 are 'Start'.

Compared to September's listing, Happy Birthday to You (#12), Jim Beam (#70) and Deion Sanders (#15) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Major Kentucky gubernatorial candidates (Round 5-Final)

Here's the final comparative ranking from October 2015:

As you can see, Bevin enjoyed a late surge, and he obviously won the election. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Louisville's Top 10 (most viewed) – November 2015

Here's our most popular articles for November:

  1. Jennifer Lawrence ↑2
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Tom Cruise ↓2
  4. Nicole Scherzinger ↑1
  5. Colonel Sanders ↑2
  6. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↑2
  7. KFC ↑3
  8. Matt Bevin ↑69 *new*
  9. Bryson Tiller stub ↑4 *new*
  10. Hunter S. Thompson ↓4

In terms of assessments, 1 is a good article, 6 are 'B', 1 is 'C', 1 is 'Start', and 1 is a stub. It's unusual for a stub to make it to the top ten, so I recommend that anyone who has the wherewithal to expand Bryson Tiller, please do so.

Compared to October's listing, Amobi Okoye (#128) and Jennifer Carpenter (#11) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:52, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Louisville's Top 10 (most viewed) – December 2015

Here's our most popular articles for December:

  1. Jennifer Lawrence
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Tom Cruise
  4. Bryson Tiller ↑5
  5. Nicole Scherzinger ↓1
  6. Hunter S. Thompson ↑4
  7. Lewis and Clark Expedition ↓1
  8. KFC ↓1
  9. Colonel Sanders ↓4
  10. Jennifer Carpenter ↑1 *returning*

In terms of assessments, 1 is a good article, 6 are 'B', 1 is 'C' and 2 are 'Start' (Bryson Tiller is no longer a stub, actually).

Compared to November's listing, Matt Bevin (#41) fell out of the Top 10. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:14, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

HotArticles subscription

The HotArticles subscription for this project is now live:

43 edits Nick Baker (Kentucky politician)
26 edits Honus Wagner
14 edits Presbyterian Church (USA)
14 edits Trey Sweeney
14 edits Emergence (2024)
13 edits 1961 Louisville Cardinals football team
12 edits The Women's Cup
12 edits Ohio River Bridges Project
11 edits Peter Lee Atherton
9 edits Indiana University Southeast

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 19 August 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Feel free to add this to your project page using {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Hot articles}}. Kaldari (talk) 18:48, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I immediately added this to the project's infobox on the front page. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Louisville Action Items - Why and What

In December 2015, I created a table on our main page listing "WikiProject Louisville Action Items", initially starting with 3 rows. Today, I expanded it to 5. These are, by statistics and/or editorial judgment, articles needing the most action right now.

My motivations for creating this table were:

  1. I thought there should be a centralized, obvious, honking yellow spot which showed our project members what articles should get the most attention right now. I am hopeful of potential team efforts on the listed articles. And focus is good.  :)
  2. The project's front page needed more dynamic content, which based on my web development experience, tends to attract more viewers to the page and thus the project. (This is also partly why I added "Most Edited Articles" to the infobox recently)
  3. The project's front page needed interesting things added to it. Most project front pages are boring, and I wanted something to make our project look original and lively. (This is also why I've been doing other visual improvements)

Following is an explanation of the action categories:

  • Priority Articles with Issues – These are priority articles (articles graded by quality/importance from High/C to Top/FA) which have the most cleanup issues. Generally ordered by importance, quality and recentness of issues. These are revised as cleanup issues are addressed or new cleanup issues are identified.
  • Subpriority Articles with Issues – These articles are ones not meeting the priority criteria which have the most cleanup issues, excluding articles with a minor connection to the Louisville area. Generally ordered by importance, quality and recentness of issues. These are revised as cleanup issues are addressed or new cleanup issues are identified.
  • Popular Stubs – These are stub articles which have more views than other stub articles in our project. Therefore, they should have a higher priority for expansion. Ordered by views. These are revised as stubs are expanded/de-stubbed or the popularity (by views) of stub articles fluctuates.
  • Needed Articles – These are Louisville area-related subjects which seem to be the ones most needing an article. These are decided and ordered entirely by editorial judgment. These are revised as articles in the list are created or upon a realization of a more important subject that needs an article.

If any project members want to join the editorial staff that selects the entries for the Action Items, please add your username here. Please feel free to reply with any questions. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

More revamp

I just revamped the navigation banner again to include more common tasks, specifically those related to developing and expanding articles. It is also somewhat reformatted and includes a link to our Action Items. I've also made updates to the Tasks department to expand and clarify. Feedback is welcome as always. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:20, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Spelling bee, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

---Another Believer (Talk) 21:21, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Greetings WikiProject Louisville/Archive 5 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey - Proposals related to "Recent Changes"

Hello again WP Louisville members! Since we also make extensive use of RecentChangesLinked to produce our Change Patrol, here's a couple Wishlist Survey proposals related to making these patrols more productive:

  1. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  2. RecentChangesLinked should search associated pages

Please consider and vote on these by December 12. Thank you again for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:48, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

FAC for Jennifer Lawrence

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jennifer Lawrence/archive1 is open. Hoping to gain input. Snuggums (talk / edits) 02:23, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Transit Authority of River City

Transit Authority of River City, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community 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. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:10, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Louisville Male High School needs lots of love, or an editathon?

Louisville Male High School has been leading the pack in our vast project with the most issues (around a dozen dated issues) for a quite a long time. Would somebody interested in this subject or interested in working on high school articles like to take it on? Or should we set aside a day in the near future to have an editathon for it? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 23:03, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages -- the list of the top 1,000 most viewed Louisville area-related articles -- is back after a year hiatus. The original maintainer of the bot that produced it decided to discontinue his work with the bot. It has taken quite a monumental effort to get it back online, including pushing for it in the meta:2016 Community Wishlist Survey (where it ended up as the #9 choice!) and a lot of redevelopment. I hope everyone enjoys the fresh data. Especially note that the data now includes mobile device views of articles where it didn't before, so we have even better accuracy.

Starting next month, given the bot continues to run normally, I will start doing month-to-month comparisons in the Top 10 again. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Updating information that is incorrect for an article on Edward Worthington, the Irish Captain

Hello,

I am new to Wikipedia and I updated the information on Captain Edward Worthington from Ireland, Maryland and Kentucky yesterday, but today it is gone. I realize that it might not have been in the correct format, but I would like to know how I can have the new information posted on Edward's page. There were two notable Edward Worthingtons living in and around Mercer and Boyle Counties in Kentucky in 1800. I have the information on the second Edward Worthington who was a Judge and State Representative for Danville, Kentucky. If someone would assist me, I would gladly forward the information with cited links and references to have them update the data on Edward Worthington's Wikipedia page.

The following information is incorrect and should be linked to the second Edward Worthington of Mercer and Boyle Counties in Kentucky, not Captain Edward Worthington: "His grandson, William H. Worthington, was an officer with the 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.[1] Historian and author, Kathleen L. Lodwick is a direct descendant of Edward Worthington.[2] Noted attorney, Greg A. Jennings of Owensboro, Kentucky is also, a direct descendant of Edward Worthington."

Please advise me in how to correct the information listed for the Irish Captain Edward Worthington under General George R Clark's command.

Regards, Charles B Cameron — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camworth (talk • contribs) 03:19, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

@Camworth: this article isn't a part of WikiProject Louisville. You may want to inquire at WP:WikiProject Kentucky. Basically, an article shouldn't be used to distinguish between two people. It would be better to write a separate article for the other person with the same name and then have a hatnote at the top distinguishing between the two. Covering both in one article is ordinarily confusing to readers. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:01, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Archive 5/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Louisville.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

  • The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
  • The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
  • The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Louisville, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Bob Beatty

For those who are unaware, Bob Beatty is the head football coach at Trinity. Since he is a notable figure in Louisville, would his article be considered under the scope of WikiProject Louisville? Firstclass306 (talk) 18:38, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, and I just added our banner to the article's talk page. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:04, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Reassessing an article with {WP US} already in place

I am working to request that Trinity High School (Louisville) be reassessed. The problem is that the page already has the {WikiProject United States} project banner with |Louisville=yes. I have tried every variant of "reassess=yes", and the talk page still says in preview "unknown parameter." I was wondering if someone could provide assistance in the reassessment of the article, or tell me how to add the "reassess" tag with the {WP US} parameter. An assistance is appreciated. Firstclass306 (talk) 12:22, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

TFAR for Jennifer Lawrence

There is a request for Jennifer Lawrence to be featured on the main page for her upcoming birthday on August 15th. See Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Jennifer Lawrence for more. Would prefer responses sooner rather than later. Snuggums (talk / edits) 20:17, 2 July 2017 (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.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

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   07:45, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Cheeseburger, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject Louisville

Template:WikiProject Louisville has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. PC78 (talk) 17:27, 7 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)

Brown-Forman article desperately needs history

I just noticed the Brown-Forman article skips any history of the company from its founding in 1870 to 2005! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frappyjohn (talk • contribs) 2:23, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Category:Louisville articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion

Category:Louisville 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) 21:44, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Merge into WikiProject Kentucky?

Should this WikiProject be converted into a task force of WikiProject Kentucky? ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:44, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Opposed - For posterity, in case this group's silence is taken as complacency, I would like to add my opinion. I think the Louisville metropolitan area has enough unique history and culture to justify its own project. Merging this project with the Kentucky project would also prove problematic as much of this project actually covers topics in Southern Indiana. ---CivilianArthur (talk) 16:01, 18 October 2021 (UTC) CivilianArthur (talk) 16:00, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

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

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.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 06:30, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Any interest in reawakening this WikiProject?

Frankly, I'm excited there's not a whole lot to update on various pages to bring this project current on most everything. Lots of things have continued to work in my absence (btw, I used to be Stevietheman). So, would there be any interest from my fellow Wikipedians in seeing this project becomes alive again? Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 02:47, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I went ahead and gave the front page and project navigation a fresh coat of paint, making colors more consistent and representative of colors in Louisville's flag. I also did quite a bit of reformatting and revising content. Everything is updated except "Project News". Last, since there's a newer map of our metropolitan area, I replaced the one we were using. It shows the entire CSA (combined statistical area) - I figured what's a few more counties to cover, especially as the federal government keeps adding/subtracting counties from the MSA. At least this way, it can be more stable for our use. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 09:24, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Assessment department revamped

Hi all, yesterday I finally got around to cleaning up our Assessment department, something I had meant to do when I was more active several years ago. A lot of the info there was either out of date or didn't apply well to our specific project. Please let me know if you see any issues there or have any particular concerns, and I'll be happy to address them. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Severe backlog of cleanup issues

Also, I just wanted everyone to know that our project has a severe backlog of issues for cleaning up. Currently, there are 3,090 issues identified by the CleanupWorklistBot that runs weekly. And just today they added a new cleanup category "Pages with broken anchors", which affects 34 of our articles. Broken anchors are basically links that go to sections in other articles that have been either removed or renamed.

While some of the issues are somewhat easy to clean up (such as broken anchors), others are more difficult (such as articles with a promotional tone). At any rate, if those reading would take some time to address some of the issues, it would be of great assistance for maintaining the quality of our project's included articles. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 22:24, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Beginner question about cleanup

How would one go about editing the cleanup list? There are some pages I've cleaned up so the list needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CivilianArthur (talk • contribs) 19:09, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@CivilianArthur:, I'm sorry for the very tardy reply (I just recently became active in the Wikipedia again after a hiatus). If you are referring to the cleanup list produced by the CleanupWorklistBot, that is updated weekly on Tuesday by the bot. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 22:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Membership -> Participation

Per a recent category discussion, soon Category:WikiProject Louisville members will be renamed to Category:WikiProject Louisville participants. I'd like to see if there would be any objection in our project moving away from a membership model to a participation model. Nothing much would change, as in some ways, I've already been nudging the project in that direction since the mid-2010s, and we would still keep a sign-up page for anyone who wants to be on a list associated with the project. Most of the change will be language, with the word 'member' being replaced with 'participant'. And any notion of this being a club rather than the action center it should be would be zapped. Thoughts? Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 00:06, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

 Done The new Participation and outreach department is now complete, with modifications all around the project to support it. Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 02:56, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Cleanup of online sources and references

To better assist WP Louisville participants in their research efforts, I just did a cleanup of our sources and references area, particularly the online list. There were several dead links in there. Please feel free to suggest or add more links for this area. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:53, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

How Louisville is referred to in article titles

Check out this request for comment about how we should refer to Louisville within article titles of subjects that tie in to the city. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 22:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Our very own barnstar!

The Louisville Barnstar
This new barnstar goes out to all the great work performed by Wikipedians on Louisville area-related articles ever since the beginning of Wikipedia. Because of you, Louisville is on the map! And it's only getting better. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 09:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
If you would like to give this barnstar to an individual Wikipedian who has done exemplary work in Louisville area-related articles, place {{subst:Louisville Barnstar}} on their talk page. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 09:02, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Invite to join the February 2024 Unreferenced Backlog Drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | February 2024 Backlog Drive

There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, especially for United States-related articles! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these articles and make a meaningful impact towards improving Wikipedia as a whole.

  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited.
  • Remember to tag your edit summary with [[WP:FEB24]], both to advertise the event and tally the points later using Edit Summary Search.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:08, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Note to all WikiProject Louisville participants, we can use this opportunity to work on our included articles that are missing references. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 20:44, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Also, for anyone dropping by during WP:FEB24, here is my curated list of priority articles included in our WikiProject that need references, with bold ones having extra priority:

  1. 1974 Super Outbreak
  2. Abraham Flexner
  3. Andy Beshear
  4. Anne Braden
  5. Bardstown, Kentucky
  6. Belle of Louisville
  7. Big Four Bridge
  8. Bourbon whiskey
  9. Boxing career of Muhammad Ali
  10. Cathedral of the Assumption (Louisville, Kentucky)
  11. Cherokee Park
  12. Colonel Sanders
  13. Corydon Historic District
  14. Fairness Campaign
  15. Floyd County, Indiana
  16. Geography of Louisville, Kentucky
  17. George Rogers Clark
  18. Greg Fischer
  19. Hillerich & Bradsby
  20. History of Louisville, Kentucky
  21. Indiana University Southeast
  22. Interstate 265
  23. Interstate 65 in Kentucky
  24. Jeffersonville, Indiana
  25. John Yarmuth
  26. KFC advertising
  27. Lewis and Clark Expedition
  28. Louis Brandeis
  29. Louisville Cardinals
  30. Louisville Cardinals football
  31. Louisville International Airport
  32. Louisville Metro Police Department
  33. Louisville and Nashville Railroad
  34. Louisville, Kentucky
  35. Louisville, Kentucky in the American Civil War
  36. Mint julep
  37. Muhammad Ali
  38. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
  39. Pee Wee Reese
  40. Presbyterian Church (USA)
  41. Sherman Minton
  42. Sports in Louisville, Kentucky
  43. Thunder Over Louisville
  44. University of Louisville
  45. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
  46. William Clark

Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:32, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! You can also take a look at Bambot's WikiProject Cleanup Listings for Wikiproject Louisville. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:34, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
The above is about focus on our greatest referencing needs at the moment, but of course, as this project is long aware of the cleanup listings, any improvement that resolves a cleanup tag is welcome. We have a huge cleanup backlog. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 01:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

While the above are project-priority articles that need additional cites, I've been informed that to actually receive points in the drive, participants are supposed to add references to articles that don't have any. So, here's our current list of those articles within our project:

  1. Bernheim Original
  2. Competitive barrel rolling
  3. Digby (band)
  4. Ford Tennis Championships
  5. Hudson Talbott
  6. John Hensley
  7. Keith Robinson (actor)
  8. Kentucky Route 49
  9. Kentucky Truck Assembly
  10. Lamar Myles
  11. Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company
  12. Louisville Classical Academy
  13. Louisville Raiders
  14. Montessori School of Louisville
  15. Ohio Valley in Kentucky
  16. Orral Humphrey
  17. Sean O'Bryan
  18. Shelby County Public Schools
  19. SonaBLAST! Records
  20. Thomas W. Riley
  21. Tiffany Granath
  22. Up the Empire
  23. Wetware (novel)
  24. William Culbertson (businessman)

Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 09:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Update: I have struck out articles addressed by the drive or otherwise, and removed one no longer in the project. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 20:53, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Anyone using project-wide change patrol?

Is anyone who does WP Louisville work using project-wide change patrol ("ALL PROJECT PAGES" and links under it)? If not, due to performance issues in updating the mammoth page it depends on, I may need to indefinitely deprecate this feature. If anyone does use it, I need to see if I can get a bot to do the updates to that mammoth page, although I don't know in advance if that will be possible. At any rate, please let me know here if you use it. Thanks! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 20:10, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Today I figured out how to get a bot to generate the list of included pages, and perhaps even update it daily. So this may be resolved, and I won't have to deprecate this feature. Enjoy! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 06:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Reorg and expansion of "Lists, logs and query results"

On our Resources page, I have reorganized various useful lists, logs and query results as tabular data with enhanced descriptions and usage information, and through some research, have expanded what's available. With these lists and such, WikiProject Louisville participants can be more productive with particular project tasks. Examples are lists of articles with the oldest issues, articles that may have too few categories, stubs that are our oldest or largest, etc. If anyone has questions about these lists, or has ideas for other lists that would help them be more productive in our project tasks, please discuss them here. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:26, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Update: As of now, all of these lists, logs and query results are automatically generated by bots or your clicks. None of them require any manual intervention, unless there is a bug of some sort. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 05:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Derby 150 Edit-a-thon?

Is anyone up for an edit-a-thon to celebrate Derby 150? Here's a few ideas I have about doing this:

  1. Run it during the Kentucky Derby Festival – April 20 (Thunder Over Louisville) through May 4/5 (Derby Weekend)
  2. The work would be focused in 3 areas, from highest to lowest priority:
    1. Improving and creating Derby-related articles
    2. Cleaning up known issues in WP Louisville and WP Kentucky articles (there are thousands!)
    3. Generally improving and/or creating articles within these projects
  3. As there is international interest in the Derby, especially this one, this could be fortuitous timing for our needs. It would make good sense to inform the entire Wiki community about it.

Thoughts? There's not a lot of time to organize it, but I think it's doable. We could create a one-pager for the event, perhaps hostable in WP Louisville. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 06:33, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

As there hasn't been any feedback, I'll just say that as of now, I'm settling toward making this a fairly simple drive, calling it the "Kentucky Derby 150 Article Development and Backlog Drive", including:
  1. Creating/expanding some needed Derby-related articles (list to be generated)
  2. Expanding/improving existing Derby-related articles as much as possible, moving toward at least C or B grades
  3. Working through issues backlogs in WP Louisville and WP Kentucky
Participants who work on any of the above would be asked to tag their edits for the drive (probably with [[WP:DERBY150]], which will link to the drive's page), and upon review of the edits, the participants would receive either the Louisville or Kentucky barnstars (whichever is most applicable) with a message thanking them for participating in the drive.
As for a drive goal, I would probably keep it modest, to say the goal is to have 500 or 1,000 total edits completed. And if that number is succeeded, all the better. Maybe we could have a daily tracker for this.
I'm undecided on whether there would be a formal signup list, but at the very least I'd like for the entire wiki community to know about the drive, as there is some degree of international interest in the Derby. To that end, a system message would be sent out.
As before, your thoughts are welcome. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 07:42, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
A partially complete drive page WP:DERBY150 is now set up and it has a sign-up sheet. Feel to begin signing up if you're interested in participating. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 03:56, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

It's Official: Invite to join the Derby 150 article development and backlog drive


WikiProject Louisville 		Derby 150 article development and backlog drive
Help WikiProject Louisville commemorate and celebrate the 150th Kentucky Derby! Join our article development and backlog drive taking place during the period of the Kentucky Derby Festival, April 20 – May 5, 2024. The purpose of this drive is to improve a corner of the Wikipedia related to and timed for this special rare anniversary, as a part of improving the whole encyclopedia.
  • Barnstars will be awarded for participation.
  • Tag your edit summary with [[WP:DERBY150]], both to advertise the event and tally edits for milestone tracking and a possible leaderboard.
  • Interested in helping out? Sign up here. (We're also looking for technical assistance.)
Join our festive international Derby party! Mint julep, anyone?

Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 06:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Update: So far, there has been no sign-ups beyond my own. We might have had sign-ups if I could better internally advertise it; a key approach that would have reached many editors was denied. At any rate, the work listed in the drive comprises necessary article improvements that will have to be completed sooner or later. Therefore, I will proceed with the drive with the hope that others join me along the way. I never ask anyone to do work I wouldn't do myself. Happy Derby everyone! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:46, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Update 2: Due to lack of interest and support for advertising the drive in Wikipedia, I have shut down the drive. Of course, if anyone wants to work on the eligible articles in the drive, please feel free at any time. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 20:50, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Project newsletter is out

Our latest newsletter has been sent out, delivered to our listed participants. If you would like to receive the next edition, become a listed participant. I also will accommodate special requests for delivery of the current edition for a limited time – please reply with your request here. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 07:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Improved appearance on mobile devices

Recently I have made a number of technical changes to this WikiProject to make it, and especially the front page, display better on mobile devices. Please let me know if you encounter any display issues. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 16:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

New category for Project Articles Needing Action

Located on the front page, our Project Articles Needing Action box now has a new category for articles that need special attention: "Popular with Old Issues". These are well-viewed articles which have old cleanup issues (from 2013 or earlier). They are ordered by the previous month's views, descending. These are revised as cleanup issues are addressed or the popularity statistics change. Please let me know if you have any questions. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 07:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Two more features, thanks to database reports

Thanks to the {{Database report}} tool, I have developed two more features for this project:

  1. Nursery, a list of WikiProject Louisville's 100 newest articles. Use this list to see if project-included articles newest to Wikipedia need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization.
  2. MostVolatile, a list of WikiProject Louisville's 100 most volatile articles (by size) in the past 30 days. This list can be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place size-wise.

These are linked from our navigation banner. Enjoy. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 18:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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