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The
Wine Project Newsletter! Issue VIII - December 22nd, 2007 |
Happy Holidays and welcome to the last Wine Project Newsletter of 2007! Once again a lot of has been going on over at the Wine Project so lets get to the rundown.
How are we doing? Where can we improve? What areas of wine-related coverage should we focus on in the next year? All wine project members are encouraged to share their thoughts so that the Wine Project can do even better in 2008.
Are there any wine related articles that you have felt needed some kind of illustration or diagram? The Wikimedia Foundation has found a donor to sponsor a new initiatives to get quality (and FREE!) diagram & illustration to help improve articles in Wikipedia. This is a great chance for us to submit requests for needed wine illustrations (like a diagram of the inside components of a grape or the process of fermentation in wine). If you have any ideas, take a look at the Project talk page discussion and the Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests page for more information.
Thanks to the tremendous work by User:Murgh our template for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 entries has been tidied and streamline. What is even more impressive though is that EVERY link, even the ones of the Sauternes and Barsac, are BLUE with a created article. Great work!
Lead by the bold rewrite of
User:FlagSteward and with some assistance by wine project members like
User:Amatulic, the Zinfandel article has traveled leaps and bounds
from this to
to this. The article seems poised to make it
WP:GAC debut sometime before the end of year once a few details can be hammered out. Any wine project member can help this along by sharing their thoughts on the
Zinfandel talk page about a couple issues.
Also if any Wine Project member wants to give a Pre-GAC review of how the article stacks up to the Good Article criteria, feel free to dive in. Feedback is always appreciated.
Here's a chance for the Wikipedia wine community to reach out and positively impact our brethren in the "Wine blogosphere" and their readers. Every month 50+ of the web's most influential English language wine blogs agree to blog on the same day about a common wine related theme-called Wine Blogging Wednesday. Next month's theme is the white wines of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia. A great way for the Wine Project to participate is by giving extra focus on our Friuli wine related articles to make sure that they are in terrific shape for the Bloggers and their readers to use as references. There are currently quite a few redlinks in the Friuli article, especially in regards to the region's DOCs and DOCGs. The event doesn't take place till Jan 16th, so there is still time to help out!
Welcome back the return of this feature that allows everyone to get to better know our fellow Wine Project members. If you would like to be a Wiki Wino (Say it proud!), take a look at our sample questionnaire and drop a line at the Wiki-Winos page.
1. What got you first interested in wine?
2. What brought you to Wikipedia?
3. What type of wine articles do you enjoy editing?
4. What non-wine related activities do you also enjoy on Wikipedia?
5. What is your favorite wine? Least favorite wine?
6. What is the most under appreciated wine, in your opinion?
7. What efforts on a wine related article are you the most proud of to-date?
8. Know any good wine jokes/quotes?
9. Have you ever had a "Wine snobbish" moment? If so, tell us about it.
10. What area of the wine project would you like more editors to focus on?
11. What are some wine related reliable sources (i.e. a wine book or web site) that you like using when editing wine articles?
Jmjanssen ( talk) 07:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
A new feature to the newsletter documenting notable occurrence of Wikipedia's wine articles being used as resources. A little reminder that what we do here is important and reflects upon the whole encyclopedia. We want to get it right and we want to be a great resource for wine-lovers across the web!
As a fellow project member, I'd like to thank each and everyone of you for all your hard work and dedication to the wine project. Big or small, little changes or substantial rewrites, every little bit helps and is greatly appreciated. It is the collective work of the entire Wikipedia wine community (and not just a few members of the Wine Project) that help to contribute in making Wikipedia a terrific wine resource on the web. 2008 looks to be more opportunities for us to improve and have more of a presence on the web. I wish everyone a great holiday season and be sure to pop the cork at New Years with something nice. :)
Agne
This newsletter is sent to those listed under Participants on the Wine Project page. If you wish to no longer receive this newsletter please include Decline newsletter next to your name on the Participant list. If you have any Wikipedia wine related news, announcements or suggestions drop a note in the Comments/Suggestion area of Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter. |
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The
Wine Project Newsletter! Issue VIII - December 22nd, 2007 |
Happy Holidays and welcome to the last Wine Project Newsletter of 2007! Once again a lot of has been going on over at the Wine Project so lets get to the rundown.
How are we doing? Where can we improve? What areas of wine-related coverage should we focus on in the next year? All wine project members are encouraged to share their thoughts so that the Wine Project can do even better in 2008.
Are there any wine related articles that you have felt needed some kind of illustration or diagram? The Wikimedia Foundation has found a donor to sponsor a new initiatives to get quality (and FREE!) diagram & illustration to help improve articles in Wikipedia. This is a great chance for us to submit requests for needed wine illustrations (like a diagram of the inside components of a grape or the process of fermentation in wine). If you have any ideas, take a look at the Project talk page discussion and the Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests page for more information.
Thanks to the tremendous work by User:Murgh our template for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 entries has been tidied and streamline. What is even more impressive though is that EVERY link, even the ones of the Sauternes and Barsac, are BLUE with a created article. Great work!
Lead by the bold rewrite of
User:FlagSteward and with some assistance by wine project members like
User:Amatulic, the Zinfandel article has traveled leaps and bounds
from this to
to this. The article seems poised to make it
WP:GAC debut sometime before the end of year once a few details can be hammered out. Any wine project member can help this along by sharing their thoughts on the
Zinfandel talk page about a couple issues.
Also if any Wine Project member wants to give a Pre-GAC review of how the article stacks up to the Good Article criteria, feel free to dive in. Feedback is always appreciated.
Here's a chance for the Wikipedia wine community to reach out and positively impact our brethren in the "Wine blogosphere" and their readers. Every month 50+ of the web's most influential English language wine blogs agree to blog on the same day about a common wine related theme-called Wine Blogging Wednesday. Next month's theme is the white wines of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia. A great way for the Wine Project to participate is by giving extra focus on our Friuli wine related articles to make sure that they are in terrific shape for the Bloggers and their readers to use as references. There are currently quite a few redlinks in the Friuli article, especially in regards to the region's DOCs and DOCGs. The event doesn't take place till Jan 16th, so there is still time to help out!
Welcome back the return of this feature that allows everyone to get to better know our fellow Wine Project members. If you would like to be a Wiki Wino (Say it proud!), take a look at our sample questionnaire and drop a line at the Wiki-Winos page.
1. What got you first interested in wine?
2. What brought you to Wikipedia?
3. What type of wine articles do you enjoy editing?
4. What non-wine related activities do you also enjoy on Wikipedia?
5. What is your favorite wine? Least favorite wine?
6. What is the most under appreciated wine, in your opinion?
7. What efforts on a wine related article are you the most proud of to-date?
8. Know any good wine jokes/quotes?
9. Have you ever had a "Wine snobbish" moment? If so, tell us about it.
10. What area of the wine project would you like more editors to focus on?
11. What are some wine related reliable sources (i.e. a wine book or web site) that you like using when editing wine articles?
Jmjanssen ( talk) 07:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
A new feature to the newsletter documenting notable occurrence of Wikipedia's wine articles being used as resources. A little reminder that what we do here is important and reflects upon the whole encyclopedia. We want to get it right and we want to be a great resource for wine-lovers across the web!
As a fellow project member, I'd like to thank each and everyone of you for all your hard work and dedication to the wine project. Big or small, little changes or substantial rewrites, every little bit helps and is greatly appreciated. It is the collective work of the entire Wikipedia wine community (and not just a few members of the Wine Project) that help to contribute in making Wikipedia a terrific wine resource on the web. 2008 looks to be more opportunities for us to improve and have more of a presence on the web. I wish everyone a great holiday season and be sure to pop the cork at New Years with something nice. :)
Agne
This newsletter is sent to those listed under Participants on the Wine Project page. If you wish to no longer receive this newsletter please include Decline newsletter next to your name on the Participant list. If you have any Wikipedia wine related news, announcements or suggestions drop a note in the Comments/Suggestion area of Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter. |