Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
New software release
October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.
If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the full list.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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→ Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 23:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nearly there! Sorry this is being dragged out, though this should be the final hurdle. On checking sources I encountered two examples of close paraphrasing. There may be other examples of remaining too close to sources within the article. I cannot list as a Good Article until this has been addressed, so I have put on hold until the article has been checked and any close paraphrasing has been dealt with. Let me know when you're ready, and I'll do another sources check, and if that is OK, I'll be able to list. Any remaining issues I should be able to tidy up or ignore as they are fairly minor and part of ongoing development. I won't be available until next week as I'm in Eastbourne this weekend, taking part in the Beachy Head marathon. SilkTork✔Tea time 15:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that. I'm a little bit busy with real life until Sunday, but will look at it then.--Harkey (talk) 20:06, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Some good work has been done by J3Mrs. I'd now like to list it, but it needs to be thoroughly checked for copyvio. I looked at another source today and found another example of copy and paste editing. It may just be confined to the Economics section, but it would be of benefit to check the rest of the article. I'm putting the GAN on hold for another week to allow people time to check for and clean up the copyvios. SilkTork✔Tea time 14:27, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'll have a good look. I'm becoming almost paranoid about finding copyvios on Wikipedia to the extent that I copy lines from articles into the search box on google to find the sources. Some are repeated again and again on different sites.--Harkey (talk) 18:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]