The Tropical cyclones WikiProject was founded in October 2005 by the now-inactive Jdorje. Since then, the project has become one of Wikipedia's most successful, creating 133 featured articles and 349 good articles out of a total pool of merely 1,380 articles.
Today, we've asked Juliancolton, a member of the project, to answer a few questions about their experiences there:
1. What aspects of the project do you consider to be particularly successful? Has the project developed any unusual innovations, or uniquely adopted any common approaches?
2. Have any major initiatives by the project ended unsuccessfully? What lessons have you learned from them?
3. Featured articles dealing with tropical cyclones have occasionally been the targets of criticism for being "too short" or "formulaic". Do you believe such criticism is justified, and how has it affected the project? Have you developed any special methods for dealing with such issues?
4. What experiences have you had with the WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with yours? Are they useful collaborators, or do you feel that they have little to offer you? Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?
5. Your project was last interviewed 18 months ago. How has your project changed since then?
6. What is your vision for the project? How do you see the project itself, as well as the articles it shepherds, developing over the next year? The next five years?
The Tropical cyclones WikiProject was founded in October 2005 by the now-inactive Jdorje. Since then, the project has become one of Wikipedia's most successful, creating 133 featured articles and 349 good articles out of a total pool of merely 1,380 articles.
Today, we've asked Juliancolton, a member of the project, to answer a few questions about their experiences there:
1. What aspects of the project do you consider to be particularly successful? Has the project developed any unusual innovations, or uniquely adopted any common approaches?
2. Have any major initiatives by the project ended unsuccessfully? What lessons have you learned from them?
3. Featured articles dealing with tropical cyclones have occasionally been the targets of criticism for being "too short" or "formulaic". Do you believe such criticism is justified, and how has it affected the project? Have you developed any special methods for dealing with such issues?
4. What experiences have you had with the WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with yours? Are they useful collaborators, or do you feel that they have little to offer you? Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?
5. Your project was last interviewed 18 months ago. How has your project changed since then?
6. What is your vision for the project? How do you see the project itself, as well as the articles it shepherds, developing over the next year? The next five years?
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