Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/May 2008

Mother's Day

• Help to celebrate May, write a biography about someone's mother to celebrate Mother's Day. Some women who are listed at Sk Requests are...MLA Anne Smart, Violet Stanger, Carol Carson, Suzanne Murray, Carolyn Jones. Here is a conversation in regards to standardization of MLAs and MPs. Please feel free to add to this listing at requests

Memorials

• Write an article about War memorials or photograph notable Saskatchewan war memorials or Commemorative plaques to celebrate the American Memorial Day which would be Monday May 26. Some articles to be expanded have been heritage sites such as Next of Kin Memorial Avenue , Memorial Gates (University of Saskatchewan), Batoche, Saskatchewan and Veterans' Memorial Highway articles. Some articles to be created are heritage sites such as Gray Burial Site , Frenchman Butte , Fort Pelly, and Pioneer (Nutana) Cemetery.

Monarchy

• May 19 demarks Victoria Day, and a wonderful Saskatchewan wikipedia project would be to expand or create articles about the Monarchy in Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Monarchy in the Canadian provinces. There are communities, schools, and landmarks which have a Royal designation which could be created or expanded. Tweedsmuir community, King George School (Moose Jaw); King George Community School (Prince Albert); Victoria School (Kamsack) ; Victoria School (Saskatoon) ; King George School (Saskatoon) ;King Edward School (Saskatoon) ;Queen Elizabeth School (Lloydminster); Queen Elizabeth School (Weyburn); Queen Elizabeth School (Saskatoon); Prince Arthur Community School (Moose Jaw); Prince Philip School (Saskatoon); Princess Alexandra School (Saskatoon); Queen Mary School (Prince Albert); Princess Margaret School (Prince Albert); Prince Charles School (Prince Albert); Connaught School Regina; Roland Michener School, Saskatoon; Vincent Massey School, Saskatoon; Massey School, Regina; Vincent Massey Community School (Prince Albert); Vanier Collegiate Institute, Moose Jaw; Earl Grey School, Earl Grey; F.W. Johnson Collegiate Regina

Spring!

• May Day, May 1, marks the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere. To celebrate May Day in Saskatchewan expand Geography of Saskatchewan climate section with photos or articles of spring weather. Expand or create some festival articles to fill out the Saskatchewan festival template.

There is new interest shown in the Government of Saskatchewan, its Crown Corporations (talk) and the Ministries (talk). The two new templates and categories need to be filled with articles. Please help out these sections if you have an interest in Saskatchewan and its Provincial Government.

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter! Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles about curling, crown corporations, Government ministries, aviation pioneers, and communities are a small sampling of the newest arrivals about Saskatchewan!

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 32 members.
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 10 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

DYK?

• Some new Saskatchewan articles are candidate entries for Did You Know?
• Saskatchewan content has been every increasing new articles and some new editors. Please also improve the quality of the articles by using a few suggestions from Article collaboration and improvement so that they may be added to the Saskatchewan Portal.

Assessment Department

• Assessment of articles has shown improvements since the last update in the March newsletter. At that time there were 1,799 assessed articles, compared to 2,138 today; a 119% increase. Feature articles and lists were at 5, and have climbed to 8 articles. 4 GA class articles for Saskatchewan have increased to 6 at GA. 39 B class articles have increased to 89 at B Class, a 228% increase. Start class are currently at 505, Stub at 1,503, and List class at 27. There are currently 2 articles which rate top importance, 40 at high, 652 at mid, and 1,444 articles rated as low importance.

• Canadian Projects which overlap with Saskatchewan articles have been listed. The Canadian projects are:Music, Television, Geography, Governments of Canada, Education, Electoral Districts, Politics, Law, Roads, Communities, Military History, Sport and CFL. There are now more than 31 sports articles with both Saskatchewan and the sports project tagged. The Saskatchewan communities have both the Saskatchewan and community tag upon several articles. The Saskatchewan TV section is the shortest listing. Please help out discussing if Electoral districts in Canada should be merged with WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. The discussion is here...Merge Proposal

Barnstar Contest

• Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
• Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards!

Trivia Question

• The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before Sunday May 18. The answer to Trivia Question #1 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008 newsletter.

• Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?

• Trivia Question #2: Does anyone wish to submit the second trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008. Pre-requisite: the answer shouldn't be in the top 10 google results.  :-)

		??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
		The correct editor/s will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008 newsletter !!!

Sports

• CA sports WP has been setting some guidelines. If you are one of the many sports contributors to WP SK you may wish to check out this new Wikiproject.

Welcome and Spring greetings!!:

• The WikiProject and newsletter keep members up to date with new research and articles, helps to expand their wikipedia editing skills and provide an outline for article creation in various Saskatchewan topics. WP SK is growing, both in terms of the range and variety of topics available about Saskatchewan, and the number of subscribers willing and able to assist. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated on how we could improve our newsletter in the coming months. This spring issue is being created during an April blizzard, very Saskatchewan for our spring months ;-)

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's twelfth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2008, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2008, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008, Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007, Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

• Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

• If you would like to get involved, we welcome feedback on existing newsletters, and suggestions for further topics. Any and all contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Wikipedia talk WP SK :

• For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Good Articles

• There have been two highway articles which are now at GA status. They are Trans Canada Highway and the Yellowhead Trans Canada Highway. If you are a member of the League of Copyeditors or wish to help improve the prose of these articles so they move onwards to become a candidate for Feature Article, it would be appreciated.

As well the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan)‎ has been started as the provincial highway network articles all link to this article.

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods

There is a discussion started for M of S procedures when providing rural municipalites in a listing, infobox or template. Please feel free to add your two cents to the discussion as well.

Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Spotlight Department

• Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

1. Wyldkat (talk · contribs) has contributed several articles about the province of Saskatchewan amongst these have been Politics of Saskatchewan, Fort Carlton, Fort Carlton, and Malcolm Norris to name a few. As well, Wyldkat keeps an eye on existing articles, categories and listings and brings them into line with many of Wikipedia's policies and Manual of Style proceedings. Presently Wyldkat has been maintaining talk page banners and initiates the rating system. For the past few years Wyldkat has provided coherency and standardization for Saskatchewan related articles.

• On May 1, 2008, the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletters will be delivered by ENewsBot which uses a program called AutoWikiBrowser. This is one of the several bots suggested at Newsletters Wikiproject Council. Let an editor know if there are any problems with the new delivery, however, they have had past successes with newsletter delivery. It will be sent out using the new condensed format with show / hide features for your talk page if your are signed up to any of these lists: WP Sk Members, WP SK C&N Members and WP Sk Roads Members.

• On 23 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 'Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan)'. "Did you know........that the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometers (123,180 mi) of roads and highways??"
• On 23 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Carlyle Clare Agar'. "Did you know.........that Carlyle Clare Agar developed new techniques for flying helicopters by flying high in the Canadian Rockies??"

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on Sk WP Members, SK WP C&N Members and Sk WP Roads Members. If you do not wish the new condensed format of the WP SK Newsletter, send an e-mail to an editor or write a note here.

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