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Saskatchewan collaboration The goal of this project is to improve the Wikipedia's coverage of Saskatchewan-related articles. The aim of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped Saskatchewan-related topic and improve it. This effort seeks to identify articles within the area of Saskatchewan interest that require improvement. The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. It is also hoped that the successful execution of this initiative will a) Attract new editors to work on the Project; b) Improve the writing skills of existing editors; and c) Demonstrate the value of collaboration on Wikipedia.

Goals

• First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable Saskatchewan subjects and the improvement of existing articles.
• To parlay the efforts made from contributing editors into more lasting contributions to the encyclopedia.
• To have fun in the process.

For a discussion on the correct format of Canada-related articles, please see Assessment Canada articles

First, decide if it is necessary for the article to require a collaboration. Minor grammatical errors, article development and other simple tasks can be done by one person. Be bold! Recall the meaning of a stub is an article where "an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial Web search or a few minutes in a reference library".

This is available only for unrated articles and articles rated as "Stub-Class", "Start-Class", or "B-Class". See the assessment department for more details.

For an article to qualify for B-class it must meet 5 points.

• B-Class-1 – Is the article suitably referenced, and are all major points appropriately cited?
• B-Class-2 – Does the article reasonably cover the topic, and not contain major omissions or inaccuracies?
• B-Class-3 – Does the article have a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content?
• B-Class-4 – Is the article free from major grammatical errors?
• B-Class-5 – Does the article contain appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams?

In order to appear on the Canada Portal as a selected article an article should be of at least Good Article (GA) standard. Saskatchewan articles that have achieved GA or higher status are listed here. If you are aware of an article of this standard that is not on this list, please list it. It is unlikely that in one week any article will rise to the standards of a featured article. However, it should not be uncommon for an article to rise to the standard of good article after getting the attention of our membership. Being an article featured in the Saskatchewan Collaboration, pursuant to the membership focus, each article will go through a good article nomination. It will also give us a chance to perform some cleanup tasks that may take more than a few days. Furthermore, it will give us feedback to continue improving articles after their good article review. Also, part of a good article evaluation articles are assess for stability to make sure no controversial information has been added that has led to edit wars or other forms of instability. Articles that are not of GA standard will need to be improved before they can appear as selected Canada Portal articles.

On a monthly basis the article which has had the most votes here will be the subject of an improvement drive. The article will be assessed against the Good Article standard and members of the Saskatchewan Wikiproject will be asked to help improve the article to meet that standard.

After an article has been nominated, then take these steps.

1. Send the article chosen for the improvement drive to Requests for expansion to involve more editors.
2. Request also assistance from Reference Desk Article Collaboration.
3. Offer an award to a copy editor at the Reward board and or at the Bounty board !!!
4. Check out more paths of assistance / growth at the Department directory
5. Nominate the article on related Wiki projects collaboration drives.
6. Place the relevant Wiki project templates on the article talk page, to acquire copy editors from multiple WP projects.
7. Discover if there are any outline sbustitution templates, infoboxes or templates developed on any other related Wiki projects.
8. Add appropriate categories to article, and add article to appropriate lists to find more copyeditors who are also interested in this article!

We will nominate the most interesting fact from the article for the WP:DYK feature. This will hopefully get our article on the Main_Page for 6 hours or so. Such exposure will help bring our article to the attention of many wikipedians who may be able to help us improve it. Each week watch the article's talk page for discussion about the DKY nomination. Generally, once an article reaches a critical mass of well-cited information, or 1,500 characters, we can nominate facts.

At the conclusion of the collaboration or article improvement drive for each article, then we will send the article to the Assessment page to check where it falls on the grading scale following the upgrade.

Whoever contributes the most to the article and improves it will get a barnstar. This will be determined at the end of each improvement drive process and the article improved has achieved at least B class.

Current Articles

The current Saskatchewan collaborations are:
Person	SaskatchewanPerson article
Place	SaskatchewanPlace article
Thing	SaskatchewanThing article
Every week three Saskatchewan-related topics, stubs, or articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTW is organized by Saskatchewan collaboration. Help improve it to match the quality of an ideal Saskatchewan article as shown in the Style Guidelines.

Add the above template to your user page by adding: {{ Saskatchewan I DRIVE Current}}

Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Considerations for nominators and voters

• Giving reasons as to why an article should become the Saskatchewan Article Improvement Drive may convince others to cast their vote.
• Can the wider Saskatchewan community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
• Is the article one which you are prepared to work on?
• Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a Peer Review?
• Be about any Saskatchewan or directly Saskatchewan-related topic.
• Need a significant amount of work in terms of content, organization, prose, etc.
• Not be in any edit conflict or be under protection.
• The article does not currently exist, but is notable
• The article is 2 paragraphs or less.
• The article is 1000 characters or less.
• The article is in poor condition, and likely needs to be rewritten or extensively revised

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Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{ SK I DRIVE}}	WikiProject Saskatchewan This is a nomination for this month's Saskatchewan article improvement drive collaboration! Cast your VOTE to select the next collaboration! Nominate an article that could be greatly improved	On discussion pages of nominated articles.
{{ SK I DRIVE Current}}	The current Saskatchewan collaborations are: Person SaskatchewanPerson article Place SaskatchewanPlace article Thing SaskatchewanThing article Every week three Saskatchewan-related topics, stubs, or articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTW is organized by Saskatchewan collaboration. Help improve it to match the quality of an ideal Saskatchewan article as shown in the Style Guidelines.	On discussion pages of the current collaboration.
{{ SK I DRIVE reminder}}	WikiProject Saskatchewan Hello! You showed support for the current Saskatchewan collaboration, Hope you can help improve it to match the quality of an ideal Saskatchewan article as shown in the Style Guidelines. Thank you!	On the talk pages of those who showed support for the current collaboration. (as a friendly reminder)
{{ User Good Articles}}	This user has helped promote [1] good articles on Wikipedia.	Used to commend significant contributions to GA success.
{{ subst:WPSK Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	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.	On the talk pages of those who helped improve the standard of the nominated article

If you have made significant changes to a B-class or GA-class article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please list it at Peer Review stating in the introduction you would like the article reviewed to see if it is A-class.

If you have made significant changes to a Saskatchewan related article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it here