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WikiProject Amusement Park Quarter 3, 2013 Newsletter

22:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

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Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
9   Grand Rapids Christian High School (talk)         Add sources
2   Doug Coleman (talk)           Add sources
342   Super Bowl XXXVIII (talk)     Add sources
73   Jets–Patriots rivalry (talk)     Add sources
17   Alan Axelrod (talk)           Add sources
57   Chris Redman (talk)       Add sources
8   USS Dale (DD-353) (talk)       Cleanup
751   Ben Roethlisberger (talk) Cleanup
148   BYU Cougars football (talk)   Cleanup
3   Béni Egressy (talk)         Expand
6   Sanderao (talk)         Expand
74   1997 Michigan Wolverines football team (talk) Expand
14   Thomas Clayton (American football) (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
170   Andre Norton (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,256   San Francisco 49ers (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
9   Dublin Metropolitan Area (talk)           Merge
4   Georges Quay (talk)           Merge
98   Self-Realization Fellowship (talk)       Merge
276   Max Steel (2000 TV series) (talk)     Wikify
39   Ted Thompson (talk)       Wikify
70   United States House of Representatives elections, 2006 (talk)   Wikify
1   Dublin City University RFC (talk)           Orphan
4   Nawzad Jaadan (talk)           Orphan
2   Dublin Buddhist Centre (talk)           Orphan
4   Frank Pratt (talk)           Stub
4   Charles Kent (actor) (talk)           Stub
12   Niels Mueller (talk)           Stub
2   Dublin City Moorings (talk)           Stub
1   Handel Ice Piedmont (talk)           Stub
1   Buriram united Futsal Club (talk)         Stub

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Views/Day
Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality
Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

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Headings
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Images
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Links
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Sources
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GOCE July 2013 news report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 
  • Participation: Out of 30 people who have signed up for this drive so far, 18 have participated. If you have signed up for the drive but have not yet participated, it isn't too late. If you haven't signed up for the drive, sign up now!
 
  • Progress report: Thus far we have reduced the number of May/June 2012 articles to just 124 articles, so we're on the right track. Unfortunately, for the first time in GOCE history, the number of articles in the backlog has actually gone up during this drive. While all participants are currently doing a fine job, we just don't have as many of them as we have had in the past. We have over 500 editors on our mailing list, but only 18 editors who have done a copy edit for the drive. If you're receiving this newsletter, it's because you have an interest in copy editing. Join the drive! Even if you only copy edit one article, it helps. Imagine how much progress we could make if everyone chipped in just one article.

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013

 
Your Military History Newsletter

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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's   Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's   Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today,   Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by   Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by   Piotrus (submissions),   Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 23:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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