This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use. We interviewed Keith D.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Yorkshire? Have you contributed to any of the project's Good or Featured Articles? Do you participate in any other projects related to the United Kingdom?
Are some of Yorkshire's cities and counties better represented on Wikipedia than others? What can be done to improve articles about all of Yorkshire?
When we interviewed WikiProject Somerset last year, we discovered that many of that project's most active members lived elsewhere and had little or no connection to Somerset. Have you found the same to be true with WikiProject Yorkshire?
Part of the project's scope includes a statement that "We acknowledge the efforts and work of other projects, and will focus our attention on those articles which do not fall within the scope of any other active regional project." What kinds of articles does the project improve that are outside the traditional boundaries of Yorkshire? Have you helped maintain semi-active or inactive WikiProjects for neighbouring counties and regions?
How difficult has it been to acquire photographs for articles related to Yorkshire? How might people in Yorkshire and surrounding areas be able to help?
Has the project's monthly collaboration motivated editors to improve Yorkshire articles? What could be done to improve this feature of the project?
What are the project's most pressing needs? How can a new member help today?
Next week, we'll celebrate
Human Rights Day. Until then, feel free to explore the
archive.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use. We interviewed Keith D.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Yorkshire? Have you contributed to any of the project's Good or Featured Articles? Do you participate in any other projects related to the United Kingdom?
Are some of Yorkshire's cities and counties better represented on Wikipedia than others? What can be done to improve articles about all of Yorkshire?
When we interviewed WikiProject Somerset last year, we discovered that many of that project's most active members lived elsewhere and had little or no connection to Somerset. Have you found the same to be true with WikiProject Yorkshire?
Part of the project's scope includes a statement that "We acknowledge the efforts and work of other projects, and will focus our attention on those articles which do not fall within the scope of any other active regional project." What kinds of articles does the project improve that are outside the traditional boundaries of Yorkshire? Have you helped maintain semi-active or inactive WikiProjects for neighbouring counties and regions?
How difficult has it been to acquire photographs for articles related to Yorkshire? How might people in Yorkshire and surrounding areas be able to help?
Has the project's monthly collaboration motivated editors to improve Yorkshire articles? What could be done to improve this feature of the project?
What are the project's most pressing needs? How can a new member help today?
Next week, we'll celebrate
Human Rights Day. Until then, feel free to explore the
archive.
Discuss this story
What a great article, what a great wikiproject - lots of good ideas such as:
…and most of all this [link http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/] which I discovered while snooping around.
Thanks once more, Mabeenot. Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:24, 11 December 2012 (UTC) reply