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Hello Shane, welcome to Knowledge. Here's some tips:

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Other useful pages are: how to edit, how to write a great article, naming conventions, manual of style and the Knowledge policies. SriMesh | talk 03:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC) I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 04:21, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks — I just thought, after seeing the state the page was in last year, that he deserved a much more detailed article. Thanks for fixing those little errors, I so often miss that sort of thing when I'm going back over pieces I've written. Angmering 00:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Saskatchewan WikiProject

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Barnstar
WikiProject Saskatchewan barnstars are the official award for outstanding, extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to WikiProject Saskatchewan Or they can be awarded by anyone, to anyone who has showed significant efforts to improve WikiProject Saskatchewan.

Thank you for your contributions related to Saskatchewan. Come join our project! SriMesh | talk 01:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


Saskatchewan Wiki Meetup Notice

This is just a notice to inform you of the Wiki Meetup happening in Craik.

Knowledge:Meetup/Saskatchewan1/Craik

Mr. C.C. 06:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject on Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

I have just started a new WikiProject on Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods. I encourage you to join. You can find it here at WP:SKCN.


WP SK Newsletter

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1 - June 2007

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Project News

The Performing Community: New WikiProject: by SriMesh

  • Thanks to many contributors like you, we're proud to state that our province is coming together to provide direction related to Saskatchewan article content and format. Saskatchewan Wikipedians have also helped to identify missing or unfinished Saskatchewan articles. There is already one featured Saskatchewan related article and two featured Saskatchewan related lists followed by several "B-Class" rated articles. (Featured Articles).
What's New?

Wiki Meetup: by SriMesh

Member News
Other News

Two New Articles On Saskatchewan Communities: by Fishhead2100


Articles Up For Adoption: by Fishhead2100

  • Articles needing adoption require people to take on the task of reasearching, editing, revising, and more. Anyone can adopt an article. If you are unclear on which articles need adopting, don't hesitate to ask.


Outreach Department Establish: by Fishhead2100

  • WikiProject Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that the Outreach Department has been established. It is designed to be a centralized location where we will work on recruitment and member interaction efforts. Thanks to WP:NV for the idea and codes.


Thanks
  • Thanks to WP:INO for some newsletter ideas and codes.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome: by SriMesh

  • This would be our first full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us.
  • Advertisements for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. If you see a new Saskatchewan created article by a Wikipedian who has not signed up at Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan, please extend a welcome to them. We'll run special sections, and recurring columns in the coming issues.
Specials

Saskatchewan Roads: by SriMesh

  • The Saskatchewan Roads Wiki Project has been merged within the scope of WikiProject Canada Roads recently. It is a group of wikipedians who work on providing information about Saskatchewan roads and highways. Their contributions gain more significance as we try to provide more information about our thoroughfares. You can help too. Contact the members on the Saskatchewan Roads wiki project pages to learn how you can help in making the best highway pages in Knowledge!
Collaboration Of The Month

Article Improvement Drive collaboration by UserSriMesh

Newsletter Naming

Invitation by SriMesh

  • An invition is extended to members / subscribers to design a new WP Sask newsletter name with its own banner or font style. This would give a similar appearance to the WP Sask newsletter as the Knowledge community newsletter name the Signpost which used the old english font for its unique naming. A proposal could be offered up for our own Wiki Project name for the new WP Sask newsletter similar to....Star Phoenix, Leader Post, Herald, Booster, or Times Herald (which are already in use for SK newspapers)....Something is needed for the WP Sask Newsletter.


Signed...


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University of Saskatchewan Celebrate the Anniversary

Please vote for the University of Saskatchewan article at the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. Please also notify other Saskatchewan editors that you know of to vote. Thank you. Ultraflame 16:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the vote!!! Will soon change and place U of S into peer review I think, will keep you informed.... SriMesh | talk 02:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Communities

The WP biography project started an outline template to make writing biographies easier, and faster...There is a new SK community template which is optional to try out/modify/use...All you need do, is click on any red link community you wish to start...add {{Template:Saskatchewan Communities}} then save...Now fill in the template with information pertinent to your community...SriMesh | talk 02:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter July 2007

Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/July 2007 one more revision underway, and then delivery will commence....SriMesh | talk 02:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

SriMesh | talk 05:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

August Volume 1, Issue 3 Newsletter

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 3 - August 2007

The WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and Saskatchewan Knowledge / Wikimedia activity as known/reported.

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Saskatchewan Portal Creation Drive
  • Please comment about the formation of a new concept - a Saskatchewan Portal

Take a peek at the Canadian Portal. There are four provinces, BC, ON, PQ, and Nunavut. There are also four Canadian cities with portals of their own as well.

Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Knowledge, and should promote content and encourage contribution.

A unique concept by Portal India was to add a quiz as well India/Quiz

Portals introduce the Knowledge reader to new developments by the wikiproject showing selected biographies, articles, pictures to feature periodically, and archive the previous suggestions. The portal may list information introducing the portal subject, categories, did you know, to do, other wikiprojects and news features as well.

Whereas Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan is an organization created to promote Saskatchewan usage and participation in Saskatchewan article editing and development.

  • The Academics and alumni articles have been created to assist the U of S article
  • Category sorting - more to do - ensure all articles are within a category/multiple categories.
    • Photographs on Wiki commons have been resorted into categories and subcategories.
  • Prepare a welcome/invitation template for recruiting potential members
  • Create new articles (e.g. Sports in Saskatchewan, Health in Saskatchewan)...
    • Sports in Saskatchewan is a newly created article, and is receiving help from afield to further the sections and edit copy.
  • Associate famous personalities to their home communities (e.g. Lorne Babiuk to Canora, Saskatchewan)...
    • As New articles are created check the wiki link at the bottom of the article title 'What Links Here. Here related articles and biographies are listed which should have reciprocal links or information upon the newly created main article page.
  • Geographical classification of Saskatchewan (consensus needed, e.g according to Weather Canada/Environment Canada)
    • Discussion is invited to help organize the areas of the Saskatchewan Wikiproject.

Original Reporter - Victor D

What's New?

Northern Saskatchewan Focus' For the northern areas of Saskatchewan these are newly created articles: Ajawaan Lake, Nistowiak Falls. There are major expansions made to Prince Albert National Park, Churchill River. These are primarily natural areas, landforms etc. If others have this interest, there is a lot to do such as obvious entries such as Lac La Ronge (and the provincial Saskatchewan parks ), and some of the famous lakes in the north, some named for explorers and fur traders. Fremte 03:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Member News
Other News

University of Saskatchewan

Suggest Bot

  • SuggestBot uses your prior contributions to predict other articles you might want to edit. This robot may give you some recommendations you may like to attempt. SriMesh | talk 01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Current debates:

  • Quite a few of the topics of debate have been addressed by visiting editors who have helped in various ways to address ongoing concerns. Requests for assistance with online existing Knowledge Saskatchewan articles were given improvements / changes where needed.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Wiki Project Saskatchewan growth and development

WikiProject Saskatchewan/Request Progress of Wikiproject articles known to be created or expanded recently.

  • Charles Agar has been created but needs a re-direct for the Saskatchewan Charles Agar biography.
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways Red links to Saskatchewan roads

When looking through some Saskatchewan Highway articles (especially those containing intersection lists), you may notice that there are red links to potential Saskatchewan road articles (especially Range and Township Roads). However, many of these roads do not appear on the List of Saskatchewan provincial roads. If you happen to read over any highway articles, and you notice a red link to a road that does not appear on the provincial roads list, please add the road's name to the appropriate section on that list. Eventually, I believe that we will have a list of all known Saskatchewan rural roads. Thank you. Ultraflame | talk 01:35, 7 August 2007

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

  • New articles on Saskatchewan communities have been started. A few of them have little to no information. The articles are:
  • There are still articles needing attention and please pick one at the Adopt-An-Article department of the the Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods project.

Signed..User:Fishhead2100 04:35, 4 August 2007 (UTC).

Updated DYK query

If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created or substantially expanded article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.|

Editors of Volume 1 Issue 3


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Please pop by and check out our latest newsletter additions. SriMesh | talk 03:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Noticed your additions to the Northwest Rebellion....Thought I would let you know...

Louis Riel has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. I am in the process of adding inline citations to help the review process...Can you also help out..? SriMesh | talk 02:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello! Here is the new October newsletter for WikiProject Saskatchewan, showing recent developments, challenges, and successes for the 'Saskatchewan wikipedia community. Thank you for perusing our newsletter!

Please help develop the November newsletter by adding your new Saskatchewan related article contributions on wikipedia. Also add any considerations for WikiProject Saskatchewan|SK articles, roads, communities and neighbourhoods article growth on Knowledge. Or just pop a note in to add a seasons greetings to others on Wiki Saskatchewan. Thank you!SriMesh | talk 02:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 7 - December 2007

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Christmas wishes for others!
  1. Wishing you'se all a happy, joyous holiday season! SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  2. Thanks for all your work. All the best in the New Year! Delzen (talk) 18:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  3. Add your greetings here!


New Year Resolutions

Pop into the 2008 first edition for January and add your new year's resolutions online at Knowledge Saskatchewan! WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - January 2008. SriMesh | talk 03:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

What's New?

The Assessment Department is new. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} along with the Assessment guidelines.

See also wikiproject template for other work groups with their wikiprojects as well as provinces which can be added to the Canadian template

The new template and assessment table worklist is produced periodically and was created by Arctic Gnome. Thank you very much! Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition

New Template Saskatchewan

  • AT Bot requests, another very kind user has also offered to help with the transition process (Thank you also to Ρх₥α )

The request conglomerated together the following tasks to help show the quantity / quality of Saskatchewan related articles:

  1. tag all articles in Category:Saskatchewan and all of its subcategories with {{WikiProject Canada |sk = | class=| importance=}} and if {{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
  2. all articles which have a Saskatchewan related stub Saskatchewan-politician-stub / Saskatchewan-stub / Saskatchewan-geo-stub to be tagged in their talk pages for wikiproject Saskatchewan and be classified as stub as such: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=stub| importance=}}
  3. add GA or FA to to the class parameter of {{WikiProject Canada}} articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
  4. add stub to the class parameter if a stub tag is present on the article page.
  5. Replace the old tag {{Saskatchewanproject}} with the new parent wikiproject tag: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=| importance=}} and if {{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
  6. add to the class area FL for any Featured-class lists articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
  7. add to the class area List if the Saskatchewan related item in category:Saskatchewan articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.

Watch Arctic Gnome's assessment table worklist for progression undertaken by Ρх₥α. It is a very exciting time. Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition

Progress Report

Unassessed Saskatchewan Articles See this category: Unassessed Saskatchewan articles which bear the old template, and also this page Unassessed SK Articles

Want to add a new article/image to Portal Saskatchewan? Help Page!

What's New?:Portal:Saskatchewan has a new section! This new section gives access to complete instructions on adding articles and images directly into the portal - step by step. The Saskatchewan Portal was created via instructions in creating a box portal. Clicking the edit button on the main Saskatchewan Portal page does not help at all to add to the various sections as is usually the case with creation of wikipedia articles. The instruction page give immediate access to the transcluded pages which need to be accessed to change additions to the Saskatchewan Portal!

  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Member News
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome and Seasons Greetings!:

  • This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's seventh full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. The actual WikiProject Saskatchewan began on April 19, 2007, with its first newsletter delivered in June, and the Saskatchewan Portal with its randomly featured articles and images of Saskatchewan was created August 18, 2007. As the year 2007 comes to an end, Saskatchewan has a stronger presence on wikipedia and we look forward to exciting innovations and expansion in 2008.

Archives:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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

New template See Template:WikiProject Canada for the full template, however for Saskatchewan roads, add {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes |road =yes}} to the talk pages.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods


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

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


Other News

New Articles

New wikipedia members

Pages needing attention

  • A pilot project has also started in the creation of the to do listing. This project helps to narrow down the scope of Knowledge's tags which relate to existing Saskatchewan articles.

Did You Know

Editors of December 2007


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2008

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Happy New Year! Member's personal resolutions.

A time to reflect on 2007 and prepare for the future bringing in the new 2008 year. Personal wikipedia Saskatchewan members new year's resolutions are here:

  1. Learn something new about Saskatchewan. SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  2. To be more involved in the project. Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 22:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  3. Add your one or several Personal member New Years Resolutions here!
Knowledge Saskatchewan Project New year's resolution

If the Knowledge Saskatchewan Project pages could talk - what would they wish for - the types of growth and changes for 2008 for Knowledge Saskatchewan pages.

  1. Develop a bizzilion awesome articles about Saskatchewan so the WWW visitor is wowed by our province ( and survive those silly AFD tags!!! ) SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  2. Add your one or several Wikiproject New Years Resolutions here!
  3. Develop quality articles. Increase the amount of good and Featured articles about Saskatchewan related content.
  4. Develop top importance articles about Saskatchewan such as those about crown corporations. the provincial government and its several departments. From the Saskatchewan wiki meeting held back on 23 June 2007 it was discussed to develop an article on Health in Saskatchewan, and to improve to feature status articles: Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Regina.
  5. The University of Saskatchewan became a good article to celebrate the 2007 anniversary of campus, and should now have a peer reveiw to continue on to becoming a feature article. The List of University of Saskatchewan alumni was developed to assist this article and help would be appreciated providing citations for each entry, and to help add to the list.
What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Knowledge: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!

Member News
Other News

Tagged articles

  • Improve articles of Saskatchewan quality which have been tagged. Some of these are listed ] and have been compiled with AWB.

Outreach

Highway Picture Template

  • Just as there is only one image needed for upload for Saskatchewan locator maps, and then various towns can be updated upon this image. So, too there should be a highway picture template, so that the various numbered highways 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914, etc can all have their own image without needing to create a bizzilion numbered images online.

2004 Election

  • Our 2004 Saskatchewan election has resulted in an amazing number of politician biographies coming online! This was an awesome achievement, and something to be proud of!
  • Qyd (talk · contribs) and Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs) are editors of a wide variety of Canadian related articles, and of note as of this date is the enormous amount of work they have undertaken to help amalgamate all the various provincial wikiprojects and Canadian sub projects into one umbrella assessment department. This unique assessment department means that Saskatchewan related articles can be assessed for their own provincial merit, and also belong to the Canadian wikiproject as well. It also means that editors from both Canada wikiproject and Saskatchewan wikiproject can unite in their efforts to provide banners and ratings to articles. This will result in a huge improvement in quality on wikipedia, resulting in Saskatchewan's spotlight award for Qyd (talk · contribs). January 2008 newsletter Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read all the brief introductory Knowledge Saskatchewan bio. Congratulations are sent out to Qyd (talk · contribs)] and Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs) at this time.
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome and Happy New Year!:

  • Just as panic begins to settle in as to what in the world the next newsletter should mention, new areas of development and growth come about. The coming year of 2008 should provide not only more Saskatchewan articles, but also more articles with higher ratings with the assistance of more editors, and a new assessment department umbrella. The highways and roads project has given a good base for development, and to strengthen the presence and notability of roads and highways and effort is being called upon to help these articles improve, now that they too are under the assessment umbrella.
  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways The WikiProject Canada Roads is undergoing an overhaul. It is aiming to produce some Good articles and Featured articles of highway content pertaining to Canada, and for the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways for Saskatchewan highways. As Saskatchewan is still a work in progress this is a challenging endeavour for as the guidelines are followed as laid out at either Highway wikiproject, they become red link farms because wikilinked articles have not been developed regarding the communities, provincial and regional parks and rural municipalities which the highways meander through. Please keep apprised of the progress, and if any Saskatchewan articles rise above stub we will list it on the main page.

There is also discussion started about assessment and navigation boxes on the talk page. Please peek in to add any comments you may have.

If you want to add your name as a particpant to the Canada Roads wikiproject . To join the Saskatchewan Roads wikiproject sign on the main here please.

Recently articles Saskatchewan Highway 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914 have been improved, but they need more help so they can become articles nominated as Good articles. Please help out if you are able, even to create community and rural municipality articles for these Highway articles would be an enormous help.

To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

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

The List of ghost towns in British Columbia has given a base to create a new article named Ghost towns in Saskatchewan. Please help to contribute, as Saskatchewan has about 1/5 the number of towns that it had in its heyday between the boom years of the 1920's and the industrial revolution of the 1940's. Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).


Editors of January 2008



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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 2 - February 2008

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Happy Valentine's Day! Articles we Love!!

We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are featured by our editors.

Welcome to our We Love Saskatchewan Valentine Day Contest.

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.

Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know.

Or write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of stubs, or other short articles that have expanded fivefold and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!!

I Love Saskatchewan Award
The editor will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 2008 newsletter !!!
Congratulations are extended out to Victor D!


Congratulations! Your image Image:Elizabeth II Sask.jpg was the random picture of the day for October 7, 2007. It looked like this: . Again, Congratulations! - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 11:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations are extended out to Victor D! (October 8, 2007)

Congratulations! Your image Image:Sask Legislative Bldg.jpg was the random picture of the day for October 8, 2007. It looked like this: . Again, Congratulations! - Presidentman
Did You Know?
Updated DYK query On 24 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Transportation in Saskatchewan Did you know...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Looking forward toward more to contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome and Happy Valentine's Day!!:

  • This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's ninth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us.
  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Portal Saskatchewan is now under peer review for improvements.

What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At WikiProject Saskatchewan New articles please check our new Saskatchewan related articles. There are approximately 50 new articles since the last news letter!

News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

  • For more updates and current new items amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Knowledge talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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. Input is requested relating to notablity and which SK roads and highways merit articles.

There have been two highway articles up for peer review. Saskatchewan Highway 11, Saskatchewan Highway 58 and Saskatchewan Highway 1 are still at highways peer review. Saskatchewan Highway 913 could go for a good article nomination. Achievement of good article or Feature article status would give direction for the project to follow.

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

There has been quite a number of Saskatchewan community articles created as of late. Experienced editors are requested to help improve articles to good article or feature article status.

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

Member News
Template {{Saskatchewan topics}}
  • {{Saskatchewan topics}} template needs new articles such as Tourism in Saskatchewan. The template currently wikilinks to articles, lists and categories. The lists and categories should be replaced with new articles where appropriate.
Quality growth. Phase II
  • Drm310 (talk · contribs) is our current editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Drm310 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through creation. Articles already existing have seen improved lead paragraphs, sections, section headings, consistency and standardized formatting. Drm310 has tirelessly contributed to the expansion and improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Drm310 at this time. Pop by and give Drm310 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Editors of March 2008

SriMesh | talk 06:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hope this delivery is finding you well!SriMesh | talk 02:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Feb March Saskatchewan Newsletter Award Announcement

I Love Saskatchewan Award
The editor will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 2008 newsletter !!!

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 2008

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Welcome to March 2008!

Folks who have received the February I Love Saskatchewan Award!! are .... (in no particular order)....:

  • These aforementioned editors have made considerable additions and improvements to the content and quality of Saskatchewan related articles, and have received an I love Saskatchewan award on their talk pages.


Article Improvement Drive

Article Improvement Drive: Articles can now be assessed, and this is the showing for top rated GA and FA class articles as well as stub articles. Please help rate articles, and contribute to improved status.

  • We have now reached over 1,799 assessed articles!
  • There are currently about no Saskatchewan articles at WP:GAN waiting to be reviewed. :-( If you have not considerably edited one of the articles, you can perform a review by following these instructions.
  • There are currently no Saskatchewan related articles waiting to be assesed for feature article... :-( FACs.
  • Please help B class articles move into GA class and GA class articles move toward Feature status.
  • Add content to stub articles to improve their status.
  • In December there were over 797 articles which needed template changes from the original Saskatchewan talk page banner to the new Canada - provincial talk page banner. This has been completed!!!
  • Wikiproject Saskatchewan now has 0.5% FA articles 0.22% GA articles, about 5% B class articles, about 35% Start class articles and 68% stub class articles.
  • Saskatchewan related articles contribute 1,799 / 19,566 articles, or 9.19 % of Canadian related articles!!!
Saskatchewan articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 5 1 2 8
FL 1 1
GA 1 2 4 26 33
B 3 22 44 72 141
C 8 88 292 388
Start 15 824 2,082 2 2,923
Stub 369 3,148 1 3,518
List 1 4 46 66 1 118
Category 1,024 1,024
Disambig 8 8
File 26 26
Project 13 13
Redirect 774 774
Template 133 133
Assessed 5 57 1,376 5,688 1,979 3 9,108
Total 5 57 1,376 5,688 1,979 3 9,108
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 37,719 Ω = 5.39
  • Please help to tag articles! On the assessment page are the actual articles listed which have been tagged with Canadian projects and Saskatchewan content. The result is...please, if you read this, help to tag Saskatchewan sports articles with both Saskatchewan, and Canadian sports project templates checked off as yes! Some sports articles may also need the appropriate general sports wikiproject talk template or a Wikiproject biography talk template as well.
What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot. The archives of new articles for Saskatchewan are listed at Saskatchewan Search Result archive 1, the current search results, not yet archived are at, Saskatchewan Search Result.

  • Check these new articles out, expand stubs, rate articles, add banners, welcome new members to wikipedia.
Member News
Other News

Articles for Deletion

  • Tried to add discussions for these...

Portal Saskatchewan

  • The Portal Saskatchewan peer review has produced some excellent suggestions, many of which have been enacted. Some of the portal categories should be added to Saskatchewan wikiproject such as the instructions on how to add content to a box portal concept.
  • To go forward to apply for PORTAL feature status, 10 articles, 10 biogrphies, 10 images which are qualified as good or feature should be added to the portal in the various areas.
  • Shanemcd (talk · contribs) has contributed to the organization of which placenames are town, villages, hamlets, etc by going above and beyond the call of duty. Sorting out List of communities in Saskatchewan and the various section lists have shown significant improvements. Consistency and attention to detail on the various incorporation dates, and status of the many and several communities is producing more accurate lists for visitors to wikipedia viewing Saskatchewan articles. This provides an improvement in quality on wikipedia and so a large thank you goes out to Shanemcd at this time.
  • So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome to March 2008!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Saskatchewan Wikiproject News

Knowledge talk WP SK :

  • For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Knowledge talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways - Life is a highway...

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

  • Rschen7754 commented about Highways notability guidelines in the latest USRD newsletter. To see how discussion is coming along, and how it may affect Canadian / Saskatchewan roads and highways see:
Sources: Knowledge:Notability (highways), Knowledge talk:Notability (highways)
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

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

I, Fishhead2100 aka Mr. C.C. have been organzing the project as of late. Moving and adding items to the appropriate pages.

As was mentioned many months ago, we want to also bring Indian reserves to the forefornt. Start those articles on Indian reserves.

There is going to be a new banner for the project, but it still on the works. Once completed it will alow for assesments via the banner.


Signed... Mr. C.C..

Wikiquote Saskatchewan

Wikiquote logo Saskatchewan There is a new Saskatchewan related article on Wikiquote. If you know of any notable quotations which refer to Saskatchewan, please add them to Wikiquote.

Wikinews Saskatchewan

The current Wikinews logo Category:Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan news articles entered into wikinews are also now a part of the Saskatchewan Portal. If you know of a late breaking news story that would be awesome to add to Wikinews, and would like to try being a wiki-reporter, add it to Wikinews!

Wikicommons Saskatchewan

2007 Grey Cup There are new Saskatchewan images on WikiCommons! Please let us know of anymore images which have been added. If you are a photographer or artist and would like to add Saskatchewan related media, sign in to Wikicommons. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when uploading images for any Saskatchewan related content.

Wikisimple Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan There are some Saskatchewan articles on Wikisimple! If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, add the content to Simple English using easy words and shorter sentences. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when adding new articles for any Saskatchewan related content.

Wikitionary / Simple English Wiktionary: Saskatchewan

Wiktionary: Saskatchewan and Simple English Wiktionary There is a definition on Wiktionary for Saskatchewan. If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, and have used a term unique to Saskatchewan, add the definition to either wiktionary.

Editors of March 2008


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 4 - April 2008

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Article rating on Article page!

Obtain this awesome javascript code from this page,(not the edit page ) to help assess articles. It will supply the banner template, allow you to place your default rating in, and show the current rating of the article on the article page if any banners have rated the article. So you are allowed to check out the talk page banner from viewing the article page. Install the following code on your User:YourUserName/monobook.js file page. see full code for Canada talk page banners on this talk page

For these and other helpful scripts see WikiProject User scripts


April Fool's

It is time to award the April Fools barnstar to April Fool pranksters who have made an April Fool prank in good faith...From April Fools' Day; Quotes about April Fools' Day; :"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." —


What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Knowledge: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!

Member News
Other News

Knowledge launches new project!!

  • There is now a Wiki for left handed viewers of wikipedia. Please help to edit our right handed articles for the new left handed wikipedia! The new format will be ready to view on April 1, 2008! Please help rotate all content on existing Saskatchewan related articles from the left side of the article to the right side of the article by 180 degrees for ease of clicking on links and handling article content for left handed viewers.

New Talk Page Banner Addition

  • The Saskatchewan communities has been joined by Knowledge:WikiProject Canadian communities. Now all communities, neighbourhoods, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rural municipalities, and any place name can have a rating within the Canada talk page banner. In this way, all articles can be rated as belonging to Canada, and any province or territory as well as any demographic can have their own rating.
  • The full Canada template is located at Template:WikiProject Canada. When rating articles for Saskatchewan related content, add supporting work groups also such as: cangov, ppap, riding, canlaw, education, tvshow, music, road, sport, geography, and now community!!

Hackers have infiltrated Saskatchewan related articles

  • Hackers have "hacked" into Knowledge, and into this wikiproject site, breaking through our security. For some time now the hacker who was named ap®1L_f001$’ has been making attempts to break through our security on this site, and has now gained access and has made changes to website articles on wikipedia and wikiproject Saskatchewan articles. Please see this article for how you can help.

Wikinews

  • Does anyone have the notion to be a news reporter for Saskatchewan events. Saskatchewan wikinews content has very historical news reports.

Notability

Portal Saskatchewan

DYK?

Updated DYK query
The Editor's Desk

Welcome and April's Fools!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

  • New highway change for Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan adopted the International metric system in 1971, and even though school trustees would like the imperial system returned to the classrooms, there is a new change intended for Saskatchewan. The latest news to hit the province of Saskatchewan is to adapt the new traffic directionality concept that Saskatchewan drivers will undertake. As of the beginning of the month, drivers will begin driving on the left side of the road rather than the right side. Which Side Of The Road To Drive On? Left Or Right For more information on changes to Saskatchewan Highways.
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

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

Prince Albert is one of the Saskatchewan city articles which has been growing by leaps and bounds. Many communities are being created and are picked up by the new article robot. Please help to tag these and all community articles with the new assessment talk page banner at Template:WikiProject Canada. *Stub class just barely introduces the topic, much is missing.

  • Start class gives a bit more knowledge but it shows one of these to expand upon a stub article;
    • a particularly useful picture or graphic
    • multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
    • a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
    • multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
  • B-Class checklist
    • 1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited.
    • 2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.
    • 3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content.
    • 4. It is free from major grammatical errors.
    • 5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.

This months Spotlight Award goes to SriMesh (talk · contribs). She is the creator of the Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan, the project newsletter, and countless other departments within the project including starting the Saskatchewan portal. She has also took it upon herself to start, edit, revamp many Saskatchewan based articles. As well, she is an active member of Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods. SriMesh has tirelessly worked towards improving the quality of Saskatchewan related Knowledge articles.

Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Editors of April 2008


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Invite To WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

I am hereby inviting you to join WP:SKCN if you haven't already. We look forward to welcoming you to the project. Mr. C.C. (talk) 18:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 5 - May 2008

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May Celebrations!

Mother's Day

Memorials

Monarchy

Spring!

Government of Saskatchewan

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?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Knowledge: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! Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles about curling, crown corporations, Government ministries, aviation pioneers, and communities are a small sampling of the newest arrivals about Saskatchewan!

Member News
Other News

DYK?

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.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

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 ;-)
  • 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!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

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 - There goes the neighbourhood!

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).

Spotlight Department

Spotlight Department

  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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 Knowledge'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.
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008

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Canada River's Day • Father's Day • Summer Solstice • National Aboriginal Awareness Day • Canada Day • WP Sports Facilities • SK elementary schools • Infobox Settlement • Barnstars • Trivia award • Spotlight • SK Communities • SK Highways


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Summer Days!

Canadian Rivers Day

  • Canadian Rivers Day occurs on the second Sunday of June, this year, June 8, 2008. Please help commemorate this special day by expanding existing SK river articles or creating Sk river articles which do not yet exist!

Father's Day

Summer Solstice

  • In 2008, the solstice occurs and summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 at 7:59 p.m. EDT or 6:59 p.m. CST. Help celebrate summer in Saskatchewan by taking pictures of various communities in Saskatchewan as things are greening up and submitting them to wikicommons with the proper Saskatchewan category.

National Aboriginal Awareness Day

  • June 21 is National Aboriginal Awareness Day in Canada. In order to celebrate, honour and acknowledge the culture, heritage and achievements of Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan, please create the needed articles at Indian reserves in Saskatchewan.

July 1 Canada Day

Saskatchewan Elementary Schools

For those elementary schools which cannot stand alone due to notability, The information about current schools can be written up in the locality in the manner prescribed by WP Education in Canada. The school article title would then have a redirect to the locality such as Saskatoon Public School Division.

What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot at Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles. Come welcome to members to wikipedia, send an invite to join Saskatchewan wikiproject, and help rate new articles by added the Saskatchewan banner to the talk pages.

Member News
Other News

Saskatchewan Assessment

Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
FA 1 1 2 4 was 5
FL 3 1 4 was 5
GA 1 2 4 7 was 6
B 2 23 27 42 94 was 89
Start 1 17 140 373 6 537 was 505
Stub 4 504 1032 10 1550 was 1503
List 17 11 28 was 27
Assessed 3 46 694 1465 16 2224
Unassessed 8 8 was 0
Total 3 was 2 46 was 40 694 was 652 1465 was 1444 24 2232 was 2138

WikiProject Sports facilities

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!

Infobox settlement vs infobox neighborhood

Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

  • Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem which was on the Wikiproject user box template with another image?
  • For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Knowledge talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

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


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

  • #M@sk (talk · contribs) and Bohunk8283 (talk · contribs) have each been creating a plethora of new article on wikipedia in relation to Saskatchewan. M@sk has been filling in some requested articles and gaps in existing templates which is much needed. Bohunk828 has been creating a wide variety of Saskatchewan articles. A thank you and Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight goes out to both of you at this time.
  • Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem on the spotlight award with another image?
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Trivia Question
  • The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest - Trivia Question #2- will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to -Trivia Question #2- before the end of June. The answer to Trivia Question #2 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008 newsletter.
  • Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Answer Trivia Quesion #1: Blaine Lake, Sasaktchewan. (From May Newsletter )
  • Trivia Question #2: Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
? SK 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 7 - July 2008 newsletter !!!
Editors of June 2008
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008

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July special events • Sk error tags • Image moving • Work the wiki • Quick links template • Canada commons wikiproject and Canada wikimedia • Higher Education in Saskatchewan • Spotlight • Road news - Trans Canada • Community news - Two million new articles • Trivia question


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Summer Days!

July 1 Canada Day

Museums

Parks

  • July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 12 to 18 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan. "Take A Hike" is the theme in 2008. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.
Articles Needing Attention
What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. Take time to adopt a user. At Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles.

Member News
Other News

Move images to commons

Work the Wiki Saskatchewan

  • Work the Wiki Saskatchewan is an independent article about wikipedia and writing Saskatchewan articles for this encylopedia. Are there any comments in regards to work the wiki web site.

Saskatchewan quick links template

Canada wikimedia / Canada wikiproject on Commons

Class Project - Higher Education in Canada

  • Please assist students of this Class project to wikify and produce citations for the various provincial articles coming online. The article for Saskatchewan has been started, and if there is any assistance you may be able to offer the students please mention it on the appropriate talk page. Watch also for tags on the articles such as AFD and guide the students for Knowledge principles. Thank you.
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
The Editor's Desk

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

2 Million New Articles:

  • The user template: {{user Saskatoon}} needs some TLC as its image has disappeared! If someone has some photographic / image manipulation talents, and a good idea to improve the user template, it is much appreciated.

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

Trivia Question

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 to Trivia question #3 before month end. The answer to Trivia Question #3 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - August 2008 newsletter.
  • Trivia Question #3: Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
  • Answer Question #3: Will be announced August 1, 2008
  • Trivia Question #2: Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan? from the June Newsletter

Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008.

??? 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 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!
Editors of April 2008


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008

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Communities & Neighbourhoods Uprade • A and C class ratings • Basic topics • Deletion and promotion article sorting • Ghost Towns


WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.

  • C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.
  • A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.
What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles for instance is a new list List of company towns. Saskatchewan company towns could be added to this list as well. Coal in Canada is another new article, which could be added to with the new coal development near Hudson Bay. Also check out the new Higher educaiton task force

Member News
Other News

List of basic Canada topics

  • Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.

Automate Deletion sorting to Candidates for Deletion

  • Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.

Ghost towns

Barnstar Contest

  • Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.

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 the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.
  • Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
Answer Trivia Quesion #3: , Saskatchewan. (From July Newsletter -Answer the Skytrail in Outlook a part of the Trans Canada Trail
  • Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?
??? 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 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!
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The Editor's Desk

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
  • Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Mitchazenia. Even though he might not be heavily involved all things Saskatchewan, one area he is greatly involved in is roads and highways. Not only that he started the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways WikiProject. His other edits don't go un-notice. So much so that he was even awarded the WP: Sask Barnstar for his contributions to highway and road articles of Saskatchewan.
  • Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.
News Article

Knowledge talk WP SK :

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Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Knowledge:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Knowledge: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

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

  • The SKCN navigation template has been slightly re-designed. The colours have been changed. Let us know what you think.
  • The assesment template for SKCN is still in the works. Stayed tuned for more developments on this issue.
  • The Assesment Department has been undergoing some updates, additions, and changes. The new sections have of the Assesment Department have modeled after the WP: Saskatchewan Assesment Department. Many articles need assesments or re-assesments. Go to the Requesting an assesment of Assesment Department to see what needs an assesment.
  • As always, we are looking for new members. Don't hesistate to join WP: SKCN. We look forward to welcoming you to the project.

Signed..Mr. C.C. .

Articles needing attention

Articles with error tags Felix Douma, Saskatoon railway station and Carlos Windiz need citations. The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Centre for the Study of Canada needs citations and categories, and added to the U of S article. James Curry needs to be wikified and citations. Father Mercredi High School needs expansion and is orphaned.

Editors of April 2008


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008

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Article drive | Assessment analysis | New format | A Class articles | Community assessments | Most commonly visited pages

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  • Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive
    Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 103 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status. Please leave a note on the tip line, if you are able over the next month to make improvements to the provincial article.


  • A class reviews
    Some of the larger wikiprojects are doing their own peer reviews to pass articles from GA to A. See the introduction at A class reviews Is Saskatchewan membership large enough for this undertaking? Should there be a collaboration with Canada wikiproject in this regards?



Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91



  • Trivia Question
    • Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?
    August newsletter answer #4 --> Prince Albert National Park


  • Spotlight Award
    Leafschik1967 (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Leafschik1967 . Amongst several editors, it was again hard to select only one for representation in this latest edition of the newsletter. This editor is diverse, editing a variety of SK sports related articles, SK communities and SK flora articles, helping out with Good article nominations and contributing to talk pages. Thank you for your assistance as Saskatchewan grows on wikipedia.



  • Most Commonly Visited Pages
    • To help keep Saskatchewan current and visited at wikipedia... The Beijing Olympics, Summer Games and athletes were amongst the most commonly visited wikipedia pages last month. It would be good to have articles about our Saskatchewan Olympic competitors started, upgraded, and tagged on the talk pages as belonging to SK wikiproject. As well as Saskatchewan competitors in the upcoming September paralympics. Saskatchewan at olympics. Up and coming in the news is the international interest in the Arctic waters, and Greg Poelzer, associate professor of Political Studies has related that there will be growth in the Mining sector of northern Saskatchewan during this impetus.


Selected picture: North Saskatchewan River


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008

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Please help with Version 7 Saskatchewan articles before October 20, 2008!!

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  • Version 0.7 Saskatchewan articles

Knowledge 0.7 is a collection of English Knowledge articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Knowledge:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Knowledge talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Knowledge:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Knowledge 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC) - Articles selected for Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Cougar, Gray Wolf, Louis Riel, Beaver, Leslie Nielsen , Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canoe, Canadian English, Bobcat, New France , Hudson's Bay Company, Moose, First Nations, Elk , Great Plains, Sitting Bull, Sioux, Wilfrid Laurier, Joni Mitchell, Reindeer, Northern pike , American Black Bear, Trans-Canada Highway , John Diefenbaker, American Bison, Muskrat , Cree, Bigfoot, Louisiana Purchase, Tommy Douglas, University of Saskatchewan, Taiga, White-tailed deer, Lloydminster, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Gordie Howe, Athabasca River , Métis people (Canada), Government of Canada, University of Regina, Wolverine , Rainbow trout, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Wendigo, American Beaver, Geography of Saskatchewan

  • Corner Gas
    • Should development be made on the article Corner Gas in its last season and the necessary forms filled out for inclusion to Version 7?



Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91



  • Canadian Election 2008
    • The election has now been called, so as with all elections we'll need to keep a close eye on the main article, party articles and candidate articles to make sure everything is conforming to policy (read: NPOV) and to watch out for likely edit wars.

Of course it will all be nothing compared to what happens on election night, October 14th, as packs of anon editors update ridings according to who won the first 1% of the vote, so mark that date on your calendar too. -Royalguard11(T) 18:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC) -Canadian Federal Election 2008

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 11 - November 2008

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Rural municipalities and cities • City naming • Coordinates • Spotlight • Curling • Defunct Communities • FA article drive

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  • Rural municpalities
    Individual categories for each rural municipality are being created. It would be good to gather consensus as to which articles should be tagged with an individual RM category. The places names which an RM provides rural government for should be within the individual category for the RM. However, should these areas also be added into the individual RM category: political divisions, points of interest, notable people from the RM, towns with their own urban governments which host the RM office? Add your comments.

Bearcat has made this announcement.

  • Spotlight Award
    Masalai (talk · contribs) The November 2008 award is presented to Masalai for continuous contributions to several articles focusing mainly upon southern Saskatchewan. The knowledge Masalai brings to these articles combines statistical data with diverse notable events pertinent to the topic. Thank you and in this regards please receive a Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight award. Spotlight Award


  • Extinct Settlements proposed wikiproject
    A new wikiproject is being proposed .... Extinct Settlements. Please feel free to add your comments, support or opposition for such a project on wikipedia. There was initially also conversation begun here on WP Cities as well as at WP SK communities.


  • Curling Wikiproject work group proposal
    A Curling task project is being proposed.... As curling is Saskatchewan's provincial sport it may help out some of our community pages. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support.


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91





Selected picture:U of S Centennial Lily by Drm310


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 12 - December 2008

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Seasons Greetings · Anniversaries · WP SK facelift · Natural resources · Maps debate · Help-adopt me!

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  • Holiday wiki-presents
    Give out barnstars, and let each other know that what they're doing is valued.
  • Create a guide to stave off burnout and to help another wikipedian expand Saskatchewan topics.
  • Participate in Saskatchewan Peer reviews or Community assessments.
  • Get acquainted with the characteristics of Good Articles and help a fellow member get an article to WP:GA.
  • Use the Newsletter. Add a tidbit that has helped you create an article on a Saskatchewan topic such as research materials, and ideas.
  • Help out another Saskatchewan editor and provide a peer review on their articles. Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps. Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.
  • Happy Birthday!
Birthday Cake
  • According to the December 2007 newsletter, it is one year since Saskatchewan articles have had an assessment department which enable Saskatchewan articles to be rated for importance and quality. The Canadian banner was modified one year ago to help improve Saskatchewan content. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }}
  • One year ago the new article department was also established. This new articles department introduces new wikipedia editors who are interested in Saskatchewan and also helps to monitor the expansion of Saskatchewan related articles. The new article department also alerts editors to fledgling articles which may receive tags for improvement.


  • Natural resources of Saskatchewan
    • A request has been sent out for information regarding natural resources of Saskatchewan. Can there be an organisation of articles, categories or a list in this regards to satisfy the query?


  • Saskatchewan Wikiproject facelift request
    There will be a Saskatchewan barnstar sent out to any editors who can provide a facelift to the Saskatchewan wikiproject over the next few weeks. There has been a large influx of material to the wikiproject since its inception, and now the material should be re-organised and re-distributed for ease of access.


  • Maps as reliable sources
    • There is a l-o-o-ong discussion on the use of maps as reliable primary or secondary sources for wikipedia articles at Regarding maps as primary sources. This has a direct influence on highways and roads articles as well as town and placename articles.


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91




Selected picture:Harris, SK grain elevator taken by Limulus


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  • Saskatchewan Spotlight
    • Cocopie (talk · contribs) The December 2008 award is presented to Cocopie who has set up various categories and populated those categories with articles. Cocopie has updated and started various Saskatchewan articles and has also been able to start their talk pages with the wikiproject banner. Thank you for your various contributions to SK related topics.


    • So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Knowledge who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Knowledge 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.



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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 1 - January 2009

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  • Spotlight Award
    Skookum1 (talk · contribs) The January 2009 award is presented to Skookum1 who has diligently upgraded articles in compliance with references, point of view and other wikipedia standards. This generally enriches the quality of articles providing more enhanced encyclopaedic content. January 2009 newsletter


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91



  • Welcome to the newsletter
    We hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of WikiProject Saskatchewan on Knowledge. Comments and suggestions on improving this newsletter are always welcome, and help us at the wikiproject improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing articles, the portal, the project and the newsletter. Don't hesitate to contact any wikiproject member or post on the WikiProject Saskatchewan talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article. Please put a new sample picture into the next newsletter!!


Selected picture:Wolseley, Saskatchewan by r bribriTO


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 2 - Feburary 2009

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I Love Saskatchewan Award | Double spotlight award | Assessment and Saskatchewan article progress | Selected image

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We Love Saskatchewan Valentine Day Contest.

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.

Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know. We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are selected by our editors.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan articles and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles

I Love Saskatchewan Award
The editor will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the Knowledge:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/March 2009 newsletter !!!


We Love Saskatchewan Family Day Contest.

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Biography Just How Much You Care On Family Day.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan biography and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Saskatchewan biographies are harder to find unless they have a category relating to Saskatchewan or the wikiproject Saskatchewan banner on the talk page. Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles


  • Spotlight Department
    Jwkozak91 (talk · contribs) is a new editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Jwkozak91 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through updates of current information mainly to political articles joining the editorial crew there. Jwkozak91 has shown significant additions to the improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Jwkozak91 at this time. Pop by and give Jwkozak91 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
    Bearcat (talk · contribs) The February 2009 award is presented to Bearcat who has kept abreast of political party and people (PPAP) articles and their content. Bearcat not only improves and updates politically inclined articles but provides guidance and coaches others in their edits of political articles as well. Swing on over to the talk page of Bearcat and present them with a barnstar or two, along with a thank you or two for their contribtions to wikipedia as a veteran editor, and for keeping articles with dated content up to date.


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91




Selected picture:Sampling of fungi collected from summer, 2008 foray in Northern Saskatchewan mixed woods, near LaRonge. Sasata


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 3 - March 2009

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Contest results · Photographs · Assessment · B class and importance ratings · Coordinators ·A class reviews · TO DO

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  • Spotlight
    T. Mazzei (talk · contribs) The March 2009 award is presented to T. Mazzei who upgrades and creates numerous Saskatchewan articles on a regular basis. It is good to have an editor monitoring articles, and adding wikilinks where needed. A thank you is extended for your consistent efforts.
  • Please add to the newsletter
    Feel free to add to the newsletter, the blank format for the following month is at April issue. Any additions about the direction of the wikiproject, assessment, task forces, issues and opportunities or article improvements are welcome.
  • Saskatchewan photographs
    • when you are traveling or looking through old pictures, if there are any of Saskatchewan roads, highways or Saskatchewan highway signs that you would wish to upload to wikimedia commons, it would be appreciated. It would be good to show our highways in various seasons as well as with various geographical terrains. Of especial import when getting involved with photographing highways are junctions, scenic points of interest, historical markers, intersections, divided highways, road crews, historical road crews, historical travel on highways, overpasses, underpasses and road signs showing concurrencies between various highways.
    • Besides the above photographs, there are also these articles lacking images Knowledge requested photographs in Saskatchewan
    • If you have started an article for Saskatchewan, and wikimedia commons does not have a related Saskatchewan image, then place this code on the article's talk page below the banner for Saskatchewan {{reqphotoin|Saskatchewan}} and your request will be added to the above category.
    • If you have added a request for a map, there are now locator maps for Saskatchewan available which should alleviate some of the requests added at Knowledge requested maps in Saskatchewan For example see Saskatoon for a locator map in use.
  • Coordinators and A Class Review
    Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


posted at SK Talk page

Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91


. The video games wikiproject took some time to devleop what was important within the scope of their wikiproject for the importance assessment.


  • TO DO
    • Saskatchewan clean up and SK communities and are lists of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles.
    • There are still articles requested at the Canada WP notice board
    • Place this articles for deletion page on your watchlist to know if any Saskatchewan articles are under discussion. Likewise if there are issues with improvements for Saskatchewan check out articles to improve periodically. At the moment this article name has been changed Rural Division has been changed to Saskatchewan Rivers School Division(NPOV) and there has been discussion if placenames require the added note that it is Foo, Saskatchewan or if the article can remain as the placename name: Foo. In this regards this article which needs disambiguation has not been reduced to placename title only. Regina --> Regina, Saskatchewan
    • Please welcome new editors to wikipedia who are trying their hand at writing articles, at new Saskatchewan articles


Selected picture:Saskatchewan sky from recent SK images


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 4 - April 2009

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Wikimania 2009 · Wikimania 2010 · In the news ·

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  • Wikimania 2009
    Participate in Wikimania 2009. Wikimania 2009 will be held August 26-28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the San Martín Cultural Center. They are accepting presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open space discussions, and artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects. Deadlines are April 15 and April 30. Would anyone like to assemble a poster about WP SK?



Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the Knowledge assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91




Mendel Art Gallery & Civic Conservatory User SriMesh


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 5 - May 2009

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May celebrations · Caronport · Use the watchlist to prevent vandalism · Renovate Saskatoon ·

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  • Watchlist
    Place Saskatchewan articles on your watchlist to help prevent vandalism. Peek in on the newly created high school articles periodically as well as the Saskatoon article.
  • Saskatoon
    • There is a renovation and upgrade project being tackled on the Saskatoon article. Please Be bold and join the discussion or help promote the article to GA.


  • Caronport, Saskatchewan
    Please expand city, town, village and hamlet articles especially if you have first hand knowledge of them, which would develop facts and help in knowing where to find resources, citations and sources. For example Caronport, Saskatchewan is a recent request


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 595
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2048
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 43
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2831
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 59
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2890
  • Content
    Please register new DYK, GA, FA, news articles and any photographs or media at the WP talk page, newsletter tips or the Portal talk page for inclusion into the Portal and the next news letter. The portal has been through peer review, and is awaiting more inclusion to proceed to Featured Portal nominations.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
March 3 61 1069 1668 89



  • Range road


Sceptre Saskatchewan sculpture photo by Drm310


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 6 - June 2009

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2009 Wiki Meet up · Saskatchewan growth · Biographies · List of universities in the Canadian Prairies

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  • Welcome new users
    • Use the Outreach welcome template and extend a welcome to new users who are writing about Saskatchewan.


  • Biographies
    • With father's day upcoming, focus is on writing up some biographies on some notable Saskatchewan people. Please categorise these with one of the sub categories from Category:People from Saskatchewan and use the talk page banner and check off Saskatchewan=yes as biographies are harder to trace for inclusion than other Saskatchewan titular articles. With such categories-banners being used, the articles are more likely to be found and expanded by other Saskatchewan users. Take some time to find biographies of Saskatchewan folk on wikipedia currently and categorise-banner them as well.


Saskatchewan
articles
Months 2008-09
April May August Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March May
FA 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
FL 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GA 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 13 13
B 89 94 100 101 104 104 104 105 104 106 106
C 0 0 3 5 6 9 11 0 18 19
Start 505 537 542 547 548 554 563 574 579 589 600
Stub 1503 1550 1829 1883 1912 1934 1958 1972 1972 2006 2056
List 27 26 33 35 35 36 38 42 42 42 45
Assessed na 2224 2521 2582 2618 2648 2687 2718 2727 2781 2845
Unassessed 0 0 37 33 28 30 38 46 50 60 61
Total 2138 2232 2558 2615 2646 2678 2726 2764 2777 2841 2906
  • Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
    An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
  • This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Knowledge Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
  • For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.


Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None
April 2 40 652 1444 na
May 3 46 694 1465 24
August 4 47 974 1489 44
September 3 48 1023 1498 43
October 3 48 1031 1523 41
November 3 48 1036 1546 45
December 3 48 1066 1544 65
January 3 50 1071 1566 74
February 3 50 1068 1577 79
March 3 61 1070 1618 89
April 3 62 1068 1682 91



2008 Wiki Meet Up Ro Do List

There are no active tasks for this page

List of tasks to be done:

For SK communities WP (this project too)

  • Create a blank Sask locater map (done, thanks SriMesh, {{Location map Saskatchewan}})
  • Geographical classification of Saskatchewan (consensus needed, e.g according to Weather Canada/Environment Canada)


Luthercare Communities tower Photo taken by Drm310


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 7 - July 2009

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Parks • Festivals • Museums • Conversions • Search • Clean ups

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    Amidst summer festivals, tourism and agricultural activities, the July newsletter is out amongst us. While you are out and about, take a festival photog, or photograph a visit to the park, or perhaps a flax field. Perhaps, add an article about your favourite festival or Saskatchewan tourism destination, increase what is online about our national, provincial or regional sites.
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    July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 9 to July 19 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan featuring the 2009 Saskatchewan Provincial Parks Platinum Tour. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.




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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 8 - August 2009

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 9 - Saskatchewan 2009

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 10 - October 2009

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    If there was a collaboration department, then the North-West Rebellion, and its several child articles such as its battles and people would be excellent articles to find references for, expand and achieve GA or FA status. In the words of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell who proclaimed, that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today."
  1. "Tourism agencies to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Northwest Resistance/Rebellion". Home/About Government/News Releases/June 2008. Government of Saskatchewan. June 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-09-20.


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 12 - December 2009

WikiProject Saskatchewan Volume 3, Issue 12 - December 2009
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Season's Greetings and a cup of tea | Scavenger hunt | Assessment analysis | Portal Saskatchewan | (January 2010! - Post your news years resolution)

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  • Seasons Greetings
    This is the third December newsletter for the Saskatchewan wikiproject, and two years since we inaugurated the assessment template! It is also how the anniversary of our Saskatchewan new article robot page which helps to identify new articles with Saskatchewan content and future contributors. 2007, 2008
    Holiday greetings to everyone editing on wikipedia and especially those helping Saskatchewan find its niche so others on the WWW can know something of this prairie province of Canada. Please invite a fellow editor for a nice cup of tea and a sit down
  • Photography city scavenger hunts
    • In the same vein as this Knowledge Takes The City Scavenger Hunt Contest, please roam around Saskatchewan taking important photographs of your local area, city or neighbourhood or town, school, park, forest, statue, memorial, main street, cityscape view which are needed for various wikipedia articles. If you wish just use this online tool to help upload available public domain and fair use images to wikimedia commons.


  • Assessment
    • With 2,442 stubs, there are 73% of articles relating to Saskatchewan which are stubs, describing the province in minimal detail. There are 6 articles and lists which reached feature status. These detailed, and informative feature quality sections amount to 0.2% of the Saskatchewan content. It would be nice if these percentages could be reversed. Everyone's help is requested to make the drive a success.


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    • Please make regular visits to the portal and perhaps make it your browser home page. Nominations for selected articles and pictures for the portal are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just worke on to achieve Good Article status or the super picture you took the last time you attended a festival in Saskatchewan.


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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter February 2010

Hello and welcome back to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter! I, User:Presidentman, am the new editor. You may see some changes due to the fact it's my first newsletter. I'm just going easy on myself, but it will get more complex as time goes on.

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  • Welcome
  • We’re excited to announce that User:Presidentman has joined WikiProject Saskatchewan as our Editor in Chief. Presidentman will oversee editorial content and the Saskatchewan Wikiproject community contributions on the Wikiproject newsletter. Presidentman has also successfully developed the Picture of the Day project and has been active on wikipedia for close to three years in a plethora of projects enriching wikipedia with close to 3,000 contributions. The transition between our old editor and the new has been smoother than any of us could have hoped for — SriMesh wrote their last newsletter article for January, 2010, and Presidentman started up without missing a beat for February 2010. The previous years for SriMesh, the past editor, had been richly rewarding, seeing subscriptions grow, informing interested editors of developments and changes to the Saskatchewan wikipedia community and supporting activities on the Saskatchewan Wikiproject. It is now time for me to move to new writing projects to finish, and further responsibilities which are vying for my attention. Please join me in welcoming Presidentman to the their new position! Presidentman is working on a host of new features and an updated look, which will take things to a new level. It is wonderful to have a new editor to bring in the new year! Expect great things.
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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter June 2010

Hello, and welcome back to the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Sorry about the last two months, I have just been very busy with exams and the end of my studies. Now that summer is here, hopefully I'll do better.

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter July 2010

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