This week we interviewed one prominent member of the Tropical Cyclones WikiProject, Mitchazenia. A relatively small project, it has transformed into a high-achieving group with seventy-five featured articles or featured lists, eleven A-class articles, one hundred and fifty three good articles, four featured topics, a featured portal, and five featured pictures - ranking among the small group of other projects which have very high numbers of good or featured content.
The Tropical Cyclones Project is considered by some to be the best represented on Wikipedia in terms of the quality of the articles under its wing. Started on 5 October 2005 by Jdorje ( talk · contribs), the Project (as with last week's report on the Professional Wrestling WikiProject) has been active for over 2½ years. The participant list has grown from just six people to (currently) around forty-five members, and, unlike some other projects, it also has a list of inactive members and retired editors. Its goal is to "provide an encyclopediac overview for tropical cyclones, including individual storms, historical warning of cyclones, and the structure of a cyclone", and as of 17 March 2008, it seems to be well on its way in achieving that. The quality of the Project's articles can be at least partly attributed to its " adopt an article" process, which lets members become more involved in the editing of a page, and has been likened to the popular Collaboration of the Week, which many projects have. A full list of the sister-projects and departments can be seen here.
This week we interviewed one prominent member of the Tropical Cyclones WikiProject, Mitchazenia. A relatively small project, it has transformed into a high-achieving group with seventy-five featured articles or featured lists, eleven A-class articles, one hundred and fifty three good articles, four featured topics, a featured portal, and five featured pictures - ranking among the small group of other projects which have very high numbers of good or featured content.
The Tropical Cyclones Project is considered by some to be the best represented on Wikipedia in terms of the quality of the articles under its wing. Started on 5 October 2005 by Jdorje ( talk · contribs), the Project (as with last week's report on the Professional Wrestling WikiProject) has been active for over 2½ years. The participant list has grown from just six people to (currently) around forty-five members, and, unlike some other projects, it also has a list of inactive members and retired editors. Its goal is to "provide an encyclopediac overview for tropical cyclones, including individual storms, historical warning of cyclones, and the structure of a cyclone", and as of 17 March 2008, it seems to be well on its way in achieving that. The quality of the Project's articles can be at least partly attributed to its " adopt an article" process, which lets members become more involved in the editing of a page, and has been likened to the popular Collaboration of the Week, which many projects have. A full list of the sister-projects and departments can be seen here.
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