Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New South Wales/Archive 1

Archive 1

Adding parameter to WikiProject Australia

I am investigating adding a parameter to WP Australia for Outback NSW=yes Garrie 02:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

stub template

I take it that is only a mock-up of what the template should look like. Could you go ahead and create it? I'm not sure how... 8-( Garrie 03:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Propose it here first before making it: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals. They'll help you out in making it if meets the requirements of a stub - Nomadic1 11:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:16, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Renaming project

Given the advent of Australian state projects (WA, VIC and TAS, so far), perhaps it would be worthwhile to utilise this project for a broader Wikipedia:WikiProject New South Wales? Such a project would include the area already covered, but would broaden the scope to also cover other non-metropolitan areas in New South Wales (the metropolitan areas being already covered by WikiProject Sydney and WikiProject Lake Macquarie). Would there be any reasonable objections to this?--cj | talk 13:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

This was a proposed project - initially GoldenWattle and I were tossing around getting contributions to (from my viewpoint) a region around the NSW Riverina. But lack of interest / failed promotion saw little eventuate...Garrie 07:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Renaming/rescoping

Have renamed accordingly and redone the front page. I'd like to get a few people involved and see if we can get the front page fixed up and get this thing going properly. Will look into once I come off wikibreak :) Orderinchaos 06:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Riverina

It appears that the New South Wales project is about to become a reality. Well done to those involved. How do others see the Riverina project fitting in with this one. Is Riverina a child of this project? Should Riverina articles be assessed for NSW and Riverina projects or will this filter up to the NSW project? Not knowing enough about how projects are put together I don't really have an opinion at this stage. -- Mattinbgn/ ^talk 23:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know it has two parents - NSW and Places - much like the city ones. Currently the focus with NSW is with incorporating places that are orphaned from any mid-low level project, and with things which relate to the entire State such as government organs, statewide organisations and politics, and local government areas. Orderinchaos 00:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

"Hunter region" vs "Hunter Valley"

There was some discussion over at WP:WSS/P about the difference between the Hunter region, and the Hunter Valley. As I understand it, the former is an officially-defined region for statistical and quango-ish purposes, being defined as an agglomeration of council areas; and the latter is a more informal term, corresponding to at least roughly the same area. But the latter is completely unsourced, and being not at all familiar with NSW, I could be quite mistaken. Can someone knowledgeable look at these articles with a view to refactoring, cross-referencing, and sourcing? Alai 18:22, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

You are almost right. As a native of "the Hunter" I can say that your definition of "Hunter region" is correct. The "Hunter valley", although, is generally used to cover a smaller area - mostly using the geographical definition (i.e. the land around where the Hunter River and its tributaries flow). Even though Newcastle is situated at the mouth of the Hunter, it is not normally included in the definition "Hunter Valley". But it does include a lot of smaller "country" cities (Maitland, Cessnock, Scone, etc.). Similarly, Lake Macquarie is not in the Hunter Valley, but it belongs to the Hunter region.
I have no references for this, only many years of personal experience :)
Just to add a bit more confusion, the term "Newcastle/Hunter" is sometimes used - this is identical to "Hunter region" - 52 Pickup 07:37, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

There's definitely scope for improvement in the articles for both, one's basically a short list and the other is, well, in need of help. :) Orderinchaos 09:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do, but I can't promise anything in the short term. Working on Aussie stuff isn't so easy for me any more, since I left there a couple of years ago and so I concentrate more on my new home. Plus I can see that I'll have to take a long break from Wikipedia very soon. - 52 Pickup 11:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I was telling someone recently that the big thing about Wikipedia is that it *is* a volunteer endeavour, no-one's obliged to do anything and people contribute as much or as little as they're able to do or have the desire to do at any given time. I contribute a lot because I'm a uni student and have a lot of loose ends, but that will probably be *very* different next year when I'm fully employed and my days are taken up preparing for the next. Best of luck with it and if you need anything just shout :) Orderinchaos 18:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I'll just put it on my long list of things to do. Working on far too many things at once is a good thing - if you're running stale, you can then switch to something completely different. It's a quiet period for me at the moment, but next month I'll be changing jobs and moving to another country, so spare time will come down to zero. Also, it's summer here at the moment, which is another distraction :) - 52 Pickup 18:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Formatting

Hope nobody minds but I decided the original format of the front page was unmaintainable (works for a portal, not so well for a WP) so subst'd it back in, got rid of the pretty boxes (apart from the header) and created a heading system and TOC. Have left old page for Participants intact for edit history/summary purposes. Orderinchaos 09:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. Better to keep project pages at low maintenance. - 52 Pickup 11:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

The portal style are good for getting people in, but don't really encourage participation IMO, and plus it was getting too difficult to maintain them as they were. Orderinchaos 18:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

True, portals always look to me a little set in stone. For project layout, maybe you should make more use of {{WPAustralia Navigation}}. It has links to all other Aussie projects and clearly shows that each subproject is not totally isolated. I maintain WikiProject Former countries and the sidebar there is pretty handy for taking care of this. - 52 Pickup 18:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

New portal

I've created the New South Wales portal, and it's still a work in progress. ~ Sebi _[talk] 5th October 2007 (UTC)

Articles on regions

Hi - we have two articles with significantly overlapping content that shoudl be merged: Geographic Divisions of New South Wales and Regions of New South Wales. Any preference as to direction of merger - ie which name should prevail?--Matilda ^talk 02:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Good question! No preference on name but the content in GD looks more sound, although content from Regions may be usable to improve its scope. Orderinchaos 03:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Discussion on merger at Talk:Geographic Divisions of New South Wales --Matilda ^talk 03:38, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

List

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Government_schools_in_New_South_Wales has been noticed and is being discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board - cheers SatuSuro 00:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Help please

Could SKS please tell me why "The neutrality of this article is disputed" (Nundle) and /or if it still stands since I contributed additional info and the photos. I also wrote an article on Hanging Rock, New England, NSW as there was also another Hanging rock in NSW. Should the title be left as is or located to the original entry, which seems secondary to the N Eng village? Cgoodwin (talk) 03:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

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Illawarra Steam Navigation Company under GA review

Just noting it here to attract more eyes. Notice and discussion here. Orderinchaos 02:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Wikiproject Blue Mountains

Would anyone here be interested in a wkiproject for the Blue Mountains.De Mattia (talk) 06:27, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

The only regional project I know that has succeeded is WikiProject Riverina. Others failed basically because there wasn't the commitment behind them to keep them going, which was how the state projects came to be formed in the first place. From personal experience I'd suggest starting something in your userspace, advertise it on WP:AWNB and on this project's talk page, and see how you go in terms of article improvement. Orderinchaos 07:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Would I have your support in any project of the sort? When a Wikiproject becomes inactive, it just sits there waiting to be kick-started again doesn't it? I'll just wait and see what happens. De Mattia (talk) 07:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I would certainly *like* to assist, although whether time permits is another matter (I'm a full time student, soon to be full time employee, and I already look after quite a few sections of the Politics and Places wikiprojects.) I'm Perth-based although I have a fairly good understanding of the various resources available online, and if you are local to the area then you'd likely have access to book sources as well. In terms of starting a new WikiProject - wouldn't it be possible to work through this one? Usually a new project is created when the top level is too busy to worry about the details. In Perth for example we merged the Perth project into the WA one as the Perth one had become dormant and WP:WA editors were doing all the maintenance. Orderinchaos 09:09, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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Photos required from New South Wales

I am currently working on many various articles for which I require photos from around the world. I am currently requiring photos from New South Wales for these articles, and I was hoping that this message would reach a photographer who can take the photos for me. The photos I currently require are listed at User:Russavia/Required_photos#Bombala.2C_New_South_Wales, User:Russavia/Required_photos#Dungog.2C_New_South_Wales, User:Russavia/Required_photos#Sydney and User:Russavia/Required_photos#Wollongong.2C_New_South_Wales. If any photographers can assist with this, I would be most appreciative. Please leave any comments or questions for me on my talk page at User_talk:Russavia as I am unlikely to read replies. Thanks in advance for any assistance which can be provided. Cheers, --Russavia ^{I'm chanting as we speak} 06:20, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Copied to Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board#Photos required from New South Wales. You will get a better response there. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 07:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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RM

I realise this project is pretty inactive, but just in case, people may be interested in participating at Talk:List of Sydney railway stations#Moving/Renaming article to a more correct title. Jenks24 (talk) 06:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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New South Wales

Blind Cricket

• Sat, 25 Feb 2012 Burwood v Hills - T/20 (3rd Game) Vision Australia, Henley Park, Enfield [1]
• Sat, 3 Mar 2012 Hills v Burwood - T/20 (4th Game) Vision Australia, Henley Park, Enfield [2]
• Sat, 10 Mar 2012 Burwood v Hills - 40 overs (4th Game) Vision Australia, Henley Park, Enfield [3]
• Sat, 17 Mar 2012 Volunteers match/Presentation Vision Australia, Henley Park, Enfield [4]
• Sat. 24 Mar 2012 Standard Chartered Bank Vision Australia, Henley Park, Enfield [5]

Boccia

• Sydney Academy of Sport & Recreation, Wakehurst Parkway, Narrabeen, NSW 2101 Monday April 30 – Thursday May 3 2012 inclusive [6]

Goalball

• Feb. 25, 2012 Sydney City Cup/Round #1/Pool #1 15:00 — 18:00 [7]
• Mar. 3, 2012 Sydney City Cup/Round #1/Pool #2 15:00 — 18:00 [8]
• Apr. 1, 2012 Wollongong Intro To Goalball Day 11:00 — 14:00 [9]
• Apr. 8, 2012 Newcastle Intro To Goalball Day 11:00 — 14:00 [10]
• May. 6, 2012 Orange Intro To Goalball Day 11:00 — 14:00 [11]
• May. 13, 2012 Coffs Harbour Intro To Goalball Day 11:00 — 14:00 [12]
• May. 20, 2012 Sydney City Cup/Round #2/Pool #1 10:00 — 14:00 [13]
• May. 27, 2012 Sydney City Cup/Round #2/Pool #2 Time: 10:00 — 14:00 [14]

Sailing

• Sydney Harbour Regatta day 1 - Wot Eva Time: Sat March 10, 9:00 am to Sat March 10, 6:00 pm [15]

Wheelchair basketball

• Sat 10/Mar Wollongong Roller Hawks vs Victoria Dandenong Rangers Shellharbour City Stadium [16]
• Sat 24/Mar Wollongong Roller Hawks vs Adelaide Thunder Shellharbour City Stadium [17]
• Sun 11/Mar Wollongong Roller Hawks vs Victoria Dandenong Rangers Shellharbour City Stadium [18]
• Sun 25/Mar Wollongong Roller Hawks vs Adelaide Thunder Shellharbour City Stadium [19]
• Sat 12/May Sydney Uni WheelKings vs Adelaide Thunder Sydney University Sports and Aquatic Centre [20]
• Sat 24/Mar Sydney Uni WheelKings vs The Be Active Perth Wheelcats Sydney University Sports and Aquatic Centre [21]
• Sun 13/May Sydney Uni WheelKings vs Adelaide Thunder Sydney University Sports and Aquatic Centre [22]
• Sun 25/Mar Sydney Uni WheelKings vs The Be Active Perth Wheelcats Sydney University Sports and Aquatic Centre [23]
• Sat 28/Apr Wollongong Roller Hawks vs Sydney Uni WheelKings T.B.A. [24]

Wheelchair rugby

• Saturday 17 March 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm Wheelchair Rugby Sydney Slam Series [25]
• Saturday 07 April 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm Wheelchair Rugby Sydney Slam Series [26]
• Saturday 14 April 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm Wheelchair Rugby Sydney Slam Series [27]
• Saturday 05 May 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm Wheelchair Rugby Sydney Slam Series [28]
• Saturday 19 May 2012 08:00am - 05:00pm Wheelchair Rugby Sydney Slam Series [29]

List of Central Coast Mariners FC players FLRC

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WikiProject Australian Roads

Hi folks - anyone with any interest - there is a new Australian project Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads - please have a look. sats 02:02, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages

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Pageview stats

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Cheers, much appreciated. --99of9 (talk) 00:57, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Scope: all of NSW or just regional NSW?

I started including WP Sydney articles in WP NSW example diff, but then I realized that the scope of WP NSW is a little ambiguous. The intro reads "articles and media related to New South Wales, Australia, particularly those relating to the state as a whole, or to areas outside the WikiProject Sydney, WikiProject Canberra and WikiProject Riverina areas of interest." So, we're not particularly covering Sydney articles, but are we covering them at all? Perhaps everything included in WP Syd/Can/Riv should be included in NSW as NSW-importance=low? --99of9 (talk) 02:27, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

considering the lack of response, and the extraordinary number of NSW articles and categories not tagged for NSW, I would suggest any project tagging is better to be able to get a better sense of what is missing or not covered. satusuro 07:44, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

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Central Coast Mariners FC nominated for removal of FA status

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AfC submission - 01/06

Draft:Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:21, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

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Murder of Leigh Leigh FAC

The article Murder of Leigh Leigh, which is listed under the scope of this project, is currently nominated for featured status. See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Murder of Leigh Leigh/archive1. It currently has two people supporting it, but more reviews are needed. For those unfamiliar with FAC, reviews most be reasonably thorough; one line reviews are not very helpful. I would be ever so grateful if someone could review my nomination. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 13:43, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

The article now has enough reviews to pass per se, though as one of the FAC coordinators has noted, none of the reviewers did a source check for accuracy and/or close paraphrasing. This is now needed in order for the article to pass. If someone could spare the time to do some source checks I would appreciate it. The article uses many offline newspaper and journal sources; I can email pdf copies of these to anyone on request, though there are plenty of online source which can be used for source checks as well. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 03:08, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

The nomination is now at the bottom of the list, and is liable to be closed without further notice. It still requires a source review; I would be eternally grateful if someone could give it one. Please state your intention to review at the nomination before reviewing as the nomination may be closed soon otherwise. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 09:57, 10 November 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)

AfC

Does anyone have any help for Draft:Guide Dogs NSW/ACT? I saved it on the off hand that it's notable but I really have no interest in working on the article myself and the creator seems to have abandoned it. --TKK! bark with me! 01:59, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

What needs verifying for the Anglo-Australian Telescope?

Please bear with me if this is answered elsewhere - I did look but could not find it. The list of "Things you can do" includes verify Anglo-Australian Telescope. I took a look at that article, and there are no flags to indicate anything needing verification. Its references are not extensive, but they don't seem to be a problem either. What am I missing: what verification is required? --Gronk Oz (talk) 15:04, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

Care to comment on Draft:Pollution in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:38, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiConfererence Australia 2015 - Save the date 3-5 October 2015

Our first Australian conference for Wikipedians/Wikimedians will be held 3-5 October 2015. Organised by Wikimedia Australia, there will be a 2-day conference (Saturday 3 October and Sunday 4 October) with an optional 3rd day (Monday 5 October) for specialist topics (unconference discussions, training sessions, etc). The venue is the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. So put those dates in your diary! Note: Monday is a public holiday is some states but not others. Read about it here: WikiConference Australia 2015

As part of that page, there are now sections for you to:

• indicate your interest in possibly attending the conference (this is not a binding commitment, of course)
• add suggestions for topics to include in the conference: what you would like to hear/discuss (again, there is no commit to you presenting/organising that topic, although it’s great if you are willing to do so), or indicate your enthusiasm for any existing topic on the list by adding a note of support underneath it

It would really help our planning if you could let us know about possible attendance and the kind of topics that would make you want to come. If you don’t want to express your views on-wiki, please email me at kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au or committee@wikimedia.org.au

We are hoping to have travel subsidies available to assist active Australasian Wikipedians to attend the conference, although we are not currently in a position to provide details, but be assured we are doing everything we can to make it possible for active Australian Wikipedians to come to the conference. Kerry (talk) 00:19, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Folks, just letting you know we will not be proceeding with Wikiconference Australia 2015 originally proposed for 3-5 October 2015. Thanks to those of you who expressed your support. You are free to attend the football finals instead :-) Kerry (talk) 08:11, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Good Article Reassessment

Wyangala, 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. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:54, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

Could anyone review Draft:History of Darlington, New South Wales? Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 17:06, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Team up to bring an article to GA class

Eden George was a colourful character; he had a career as politician and businessman in New Zealand and New South Wales. I'm looking to team up with an Australian editor to bring the article to GA class; please comment on its talk page if you'd like to help. Schwede66 18:06, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes

Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ Rob^Talk 01:16, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

New 5000 Challenge for Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge and the wider Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Australia and Oceania like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Australia but fuelled by a contest if desirable to really get articles on every state/territory and subject mass improved. After every 100 articles done for Australia this would feed into the main Oceania one. I will start a 1000 one for your state if there is the support. I would like some support from wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start anyway with some articles to make doing a Destubathon for Australia and Oceania worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject New South Wales/Archive 1 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:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

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: 18:05, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Important meetup

An important opportunity to discover more about the Wikimedia Foundation Strategy directions, in Melbourne, at

Melbourne Meetup 33 will occur during the visit of Katherine Maher, Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation, for Melbourne Knowledge Week 1-7 May 2017

Date:Wednesday 3 May 2017 Time: 5.00-6.30pm Venue: Green Room, Multicultural Hub, Level 1, 506 Elizabeth Street Melbourne

JarrahTree 00:36, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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 New South Wales/Archive 1/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject New South Wales.

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 New South Wales, 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 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move discussion at Template talk:New South Wales Railway Stations

I'm proposing a name change to Template:New South Wales Railway Stations, and decided to discuss it first, since this change would mean changes to hundreds of articles that use the navbox. This is an open invitation to pop in to voice your opinion on the matter. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · contribs · count) 06:54, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

New South Wales state heritage items - article generator

There is discussion about New South Wales state heritage items at New South Wales state heritage items - article generator. Please do not add content here.Please refer to the above link. Many thanks. Rangasyd (talk) 06:17, 21 May 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.

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   07:49, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New South Wales now reorganised

I have now reorganised all 1218 requests in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New South Wales into a tree of subcategories of the various local government areas, people, fauna and flora. Within City of Sydney, the breakdown also extends to individual suburbs for those with a lot of requests (e.g. Sydney central business district, The Rocks, et). The subcategories range from 1 to 36 entries, making the task less overwhelming. Each geographic subcategory has a link to produce a map of all of the requests in that area, to make it easier to plan your photo route. So please see if you can help with photos requested in your local area or while out and about on holidays. Kerry (talk) 11:18, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Upcoming conference - Wikimedia Australia Community Conference, Sydney, 15 June 2019

For more information, please see Wikimedia Australia Community Conference, Sydney, 15 June 2019 JarrahTree 10:38, 15 May 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)

Discussion on photomontage for Sydney

Hey there! A discussion on what to illustrate, and which images to include, in a potential {{Photo montage}} for the Sydney article is currently taking place at Talk:Sydney#Selection of images for a photomontage. Feel free to join in on the discussion and share your thoughts on the matter! – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · articles · reviews) 22:30, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

RfC: Western Sydney Airport line

I have opened a new move discussion over the article Western Sydney Airport line in hopes of finding a stronger consensus for the article name options than the original discussion provided. Any contributions would be welcome. – Nick Mitchell 98 ^talk 02:45, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

NSW Blue Plaques

Hi, just wanted to let you know I've drafted a page on the NSW Blue Plaques program, which is under development by Heritage NSW. Unlike the Victorian scheme, there isn't a 1:1 mapping with the State Heritage Register, so it would benefit from having a page of its own. In general, most of the items will have their own wiki page already, so the Blue Plaques page will be a useful summary of significant people, places & events for NSW. The page is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:New_South_Wales_Blue_Plaques

Its been 10+ years since I wrote wiki pages, and its great to see how much the editor has improved! I'm sure there are many improvements that could be made, especially linking and aligning to other NSW sites and would appreciate any input.

Not sure how & who gives approval to post the finished article?

Heritage2088 (talk) 03:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Heritage2088: And welcome back. I have made some edits to the draft in line with Wikipedia MOS, but I do not have relevant rights to move the page to mainspace. @Canley: Is this something you could help with? --Oronsay (talk) 20:40, 19 September 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

• 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.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)