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Hello, good luck with the project! Just thought the project ought to point out it is based on the county of Hampshire, UK, and not Hampshire County, Massachusetts! I'm also from the former, but why not collaborate with any would be US Hampshire Hogs :) LeeVJ ( talk) 01:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I begun the article on Woolmer, describing it as a 'village'. Is this strictly accurate? What is its connection to the military? Anypone who knows the place please do look over the stub Grunners ( talk) 19:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
is there one for this project yet? Grunners ( talk) 15:45, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
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It seems to me that we need to work out an Importance Criteria to rate articles.
General Guidelines: The importance of articles is a more local criterion. It mirrors the project-wide importance scheme, but in relation to a publication purely about Hampshire as opposed to a general encyclopaedia. For example, articles on Hampshire's subdivisions and prinicpal settlements might not appear as stand-alone entries in a general print encyclopaedia but would be essential inclusions in an encyclopaedia of Hampshire.
Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. |
High | Subject is exceptionally important. |
Mid | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge. |
Low | Subject fills in important details. |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. |
My Thoughts/Proposal:
Top | Large settlements, very notable from outside. | Southampton, New Forest |
High | Smaller settlements and places of interest/awareness outside the county. | Aldershot, Southampton F.C., University of Southampton. Winchester Cathedral |
Mid | Smallest settlements/areas. Places of importance to residents, including more notable schools/colleges. Overviews of whole of county. | Marwell Zoological Park, Netley, History of Hampshire, Peter Symonds College |
Low | Everything else, generally only important to a small number of people in the county. | Sholing railway station, Cantell Secondary School, Southampton Music Services |
Items/people from/in Hampshire that are non-notable | The General (TV series) |
Hmmm, just realised we could 'copy' someone elses. Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Assessment phrases it well:
Label | Criteria | Examples |
---|---|---|
Top | Places, icons or topics recognisable or of interest to the whole UK or further. | Cornwall, Saint Piran's Flag, Eden Project |
High | Articles with recognition in the Westcountry or all of Cornwall. | Camborne, Media in Cornwall |
Mid | Articles with recognition in most of Cornwall or specialist topics. | Looe, Diocese of Truro |
Low | Articles with very localised recognition. | Lanner |
-- Fluteflute Talk Contributions 16:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia of Hampshire | Hampshire, cities and major towns, scheduled ancient monuments |
High | Subject is exceptionally important within Hampshire | Grade I and II* listed buildings, smaller towns and particularly notable villages, local government districts, Portsmouth and Southampton football clubs, Hampshire Cricket Club, major rivers, particularly notable schools (eg Winchester College), particularly notable people from Hampshire |
Mid | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to Hampshire. | Grade II and III listed buildings, villages and larger city suburbs, parishes, urban area articles, tributaries to major rivers, secondary schools, not-very-famous people who's sphere of influence is related to the county |
Low | Subject fills in important details. | Smaller city suburbs, hamlets, primary schools, people from Hampshire who's sphere of influence doesn't relate directly to the county |
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Can this article be reassessed please? Mjroots ( talk) 07:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Done waggers ( talk) 11:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know where i can find more info on this. Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Simply south ( talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Simply south ( talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
I am proposing to merge a number of low or moderately active projects in south east England. The discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England#Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater South East MRSC ( talk) 21:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
I've created a stub for Neatham. Feel free to improve it. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 10:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
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I've started a stub for Up Nately. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 08:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I have created a stub for Winslade. It is needing a infobox and a map, please help if you can. Thank you. Jaguar ( talk) 11:46, 10 June 2010 (GMT)
Could this article be reassessed please? Jaguar ( talk) 20:10, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Can this be reassessed please, a lot of work from a few people have gone into remaking this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Terminus_railway_station ( Zeoace ( talk) 10:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC))
I've created a stub for Tufton. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 08:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I started working through the Basingstoke and Deane settlements and them branched out in Jaguars footsteps to more general Hampshire village articles, adding templates, governance and infoboxes. I've noticed that the Hampshire subdivision navigational boxes are quite different and in some cases missing:
And missing (unless I just haven't found them yet) Rushmore, Fareham (borough) and Havant (borough). So, which one should they all look like? And is New Forest Towns just New Forest (the national park) or should it be New Forest (district) like the other boxes? Scillystuff ( talk) 21:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I've added the {{ Hants}} to the talk page of Charles Fryatt (a GA). I've assessed the importance as low, feel free to change this if you wish. Mjroots ( talk) 14:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been building this page (on the back of Jaguar's start). I hope to add images soon (have to find out how to do so). Also, I hope this is the right place - apologies if not - but Weston Colley is shown as in the civil parish of Stoke Charity. Is this correct? I thought - as do all the fellow residents with whom I spoke - that Weston Colley was within Micheldever. I have, however, left it as is for now, pending feedback. When I know for certain, I shall be able to re-write the first paragraph better than I have it now. Also: I am citing references where I can, though many aspects are only verifiable from visiting, rather than from known records (which may or may not exist). I may be able to offer further proof via the photographs when I discover how to submit them. Any comments appreciated. Druidbroga. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Druidbroga ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a new weekly section on the main page called "Today's featured list" and I have nominated Timeline of Jane Austen to have a spot here. There has been some opposition to the nomination and it looks like the list could become a removal candidate very soon unless the quality of the list is improved. If you are interested in maintaining the list's featured status and seeing a summary of it up on the main page, your help in improving the article would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 21:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
According to various maps - both printed and online - Swanwick village is here, and Swanwick railway station is to the south of that, here. Yet a succession of IP editors seem bent on transposing their relative positions, see editing history of Swanwick, Hampshire and editing history of Swanwick railway station. I cannot revert again, because I would then have violated WP:3RR. Can anybody assist please? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:51, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating the status of this article to B-class on your project, as it has been expanded by a factor of five, and now meets the criteria for that designation. I hope this is ok, but if not, feel free to re-assess it. Regards. Bob1960evens ( talk) 07:44, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. to discuss whether the article, which falls within the domain of this wikiproject, should be deleted — Rod talk 15:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello as we are a very major project I think it would be constructive to create some task forces for example Basingstoke or Winchester may need a good task force each. If you think so please tell me below. Ideally we need at least five to start one and ten to be really effective
<-Please put more ideas at bottom of list.-> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calu2000 ( talk • contribs) 00:32, 4 January 2013
I have just created a list of hills of Hampshire which I hope readers will find useful. Feel free to check and enhance. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 19:20, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study#Proposed reinstatement of content. -- Trevj ( talk) 10:00, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I just redid the intro for this page. Hopefully it is a big improvement on what we had before. -- Jwikiediting ( talk) 00:31, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
This September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed buildings of significant importance (grades I or grade II*), as recorded by English Heritage. The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?
In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible buildings are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the link to Listed buildings in England, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?
Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by English Heritage. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.
The data still needs the attention of local editors:
For further information, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom.
If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.
Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.
-- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 06:37, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be able to help with this request. Thanks heaps. Schwede 66 10:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. You've probably already heard about WP:FLOW, the new talk page system that's going to be introduced across Wikipedia. The Flow team are currently looking for WikiProjects to volunteer to be early adopters of the system, and I was thinking we could put our hat into the ring. I know this talk page isn't hugely busy but in some ways that makes us good contenders to try out the new system. Any objections? Waggers TALK 08:32, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
That's great, thanks Jaguar. Having addressed Redrose64's concerns above and with no other forthcoming objections, I think we're ready to roll. Waggers TALK 11:05, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Should Portsea have its own article, or just be Portsea Island#Portsea? It was turned into a dab page on 17 October, with as yet no attention to the incoming links which now lead to a dab page. Someone with local knowledge might like to have a look at it. I've also left a note on the talk page of the editor who made the change. Pam D 23:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey all, We've reached the stage with Flow where it's relatively stable, and we'd like to invite you to take some time to try it out and chase bugs. It currently lives on a staff-run test server, which means it isn't hooked up to Single User Login - you can either edit anonymously or, preferably, create a new account under your current username.
The software has a minimal set of features at the moment; normal discussions with wikitext and templates should work fine (although Quiddity has only imported a few hundred templates), but there are some known bugs (and features that we're working on this fortnight) with the software. We're not looking to deploy Flow to enwiki in its current form, nor asking you to give your seal of approval to that.
What we'd like is for you to use the software, test it out and let us know two things:
On the off chance that Flow is really, really broken for you, to the point where you can't post (maybe a browser issue?) you can of course use the enwiki talkpage for both purposes. If you have any questions about the test, you can post them there too :). We're going to be holding this testing open for a week to allow people to really hammer on the software, although we may not be around Thursday or Friday (it's Thanksgiving). If not, don't worry: we'll reply to you when we return.
Thanks! – Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. First off, thank you for greatly assisting with the feedback and suggestions on Flow's development - the team can only build it as well as our support enables them to.
They'd like us to confirm that we're all ready and willing to try it out right here, so that we can find out what works well, what needs more changes, and what additional features are mostly prominently desired or dreamed of over the next few months. The trial would start during the week of January 6th (specific day to be set closer to launch) and will last for as long as your WikiProject is interested in using the software (more details on ending the trial below).
Here's a synopsis of what's been added recently (which you can test at mw:Talk:Sandbox):
Here's a list of items that they're working on this month as top-priority, which will be added to the live software as soon as possible (some likely before the WikiProject trial period).
Next two weeks:
Next four weeks:
Beyond that, there's a long list of brainstormed features, at mw:Flow Portal/Release planning#Feature buckets - your feedback and suggestions would, as ever, be most appreciated.
The transition: The current talkpage will be archived in-full in the regular way. The page will be Flow-enabled, and the WikiProject header templates added. After that, we hope that normal WikiProject discussions will resume as usual, and that any Flow-related discussions will take place at Wikipedia talk:Flow.
The "opt-out" mechanism: If there's WikiProject consensus to back out of the trial once it is underway, that will take about 24 hours from once you've decided. The Flow team will then convert the Flow Board into a wikitext page, add default signature+timestamps, and place that here. However, they do of course strongly hope that you'll weather through any small problems (of which some are inevitable), and continue to give ongoing suggestions!
The more we/you speak up with good insights, the faster it will turn into the discussion&collaboration system we've always wanted and needed. Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:45, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. This is a very brief note, to let you know the current plans. January 23 (Thursday 27 (afternoon PST) is the current target date for release on this page, and at
WP:WikiProject Breakfast, as well as at
WT:Flow and
WT:Flow/Design FAQ (
WT:Flow/Developer_test_page). This will give the devs time to work on a bug-sprint, so that they can concentrate on the fresh feedback from us when it goes live. :) Thanks again,
Quiddity (WMF) (
talk)
02:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
There's been a delay of one week, due to differences between the mediawikiwiki and enwiki codebases, so the deployment is now scheduled for Monday, February 3, between 11-13 PST. Thanks for your patience. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 22:37, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've requested a better quality map here. If you have any specific requests please ask there.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you again for volunteering to help test out Flow. Please direct all feedback on the software to the Flow talk page to avoid distractions here. Thanks!
Please remember that this is early-stage beta software, and the intent of this trial is to get your feedback on what's missing and what needs to be changed. We urge you to give Flow a good-faith try – it can only become as good as you help us make it! – but if you find things not working out, we can stop the trial and return your conversations to a talk page. We'll be asking directly in 2/4 weeks whether you're happy to continue testing, but will greatly appreciate all the feedback you can give in the meantime. Thanks again! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, when I look at the "hidden" topic below - I'm not sure if that hides it from only non-admins, or it simply collapses the topic - it seems to have also hidden an image whose provenance is not clear. I can't see anything in the history that indicates the image was added after Flow was added. It is also enormous when the topic below is uncollapsed. I suspect the image is of somewhere in (you guessed it!) New Hampshire. Risker ( talk) 22:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, Okeyes, my point there was that there's an image on this page and I have no way of knowing whether or not it was there before the change, whether it was put there as a test, whether it was put there by someone who normally participates in the project and it accidentally got caught in your "hiding" - which is in no way analogous to rollback; it's analogous to hatting. Remember, the page history also is completely uninformative. Risker ( talk) 23:03, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Hence my comment that I could not tell how it got there, or whether or not it was something that ought not to be included in the "hiding". The page history doesn't include the edit that inserted it. Risker ( talk) 23:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm not seeing the image mentioned by Risker, although I doubt it was related to New Hampshire.
S Philbrick
(Talk)
02:54, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I agree that there is a lot of space on this page being wasted - large margins to the left and right are just plain white. And I find the font quite large and the space between posts too much - but otherwise I like it! Sorry if I sound like I'm moaning, I just want to test this for myself. ~~~~ JAG UAR 23:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh. Don't use '~~~~' any more, I get it... this is going to take some getting used to! JAG UAR 23:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
This is a horribly jarring experience, speaking as a confident, computer-literate and experienced Wikipedian. Goodness knows what effect it will have on novices, who have only just learned to use regular talk pages, I don't believe such testing should be carried out in the live workspace, and that if and when flow is introduced, it should happen no all talk pages at once. Until than testing should be done only in sandbox pages. ~~~~ Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I've just added the red box ("This page is an early adopter...") to the page header, below {{ Flow-enabled}} as we've been getting a few more test edits. I'm aware the header area is looking quite busy - perhaps we should remove the "To do" template. Any thoughts? Waggers TALK 13:43, 6 February 2014 (UTC) (Edited by Baffle gab1978 ( talk))
Can you make the wikiproject banner hide itself? It doesn't add anything for the reader, afaict. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 20:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
The wikiproject banner is redundant to the title. Could that go? (posted yesterday but lost to the ether?) Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 11:54, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there's been a proposal to create a WikiProject Netley, see the proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Netley 70.24.244.161 ( talk) 05:32, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Bit of a strange idea if you ask me - too localised for a project. It would make a lot more sense for it to be a task force of this project. We haven't really gone for task forces yet.
That said, even then I think it's too localised / arbitrary a subject area. A Borough of Eastleigh task force would make more sense to me (along with similar task forces for the other council districts). I'd be interested to know what others think. Waggers TALK 12:50, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello sorry for very late reply, I'm the creator of WikiProject Netley. I could make it less localised and make it a task force for you if you want at a later date. I think the WikiProject is a good idea because most articles about Netley and the local area are not very good as they are Start or Stub class.
Thank you
-JoshCooler- JoshCooler ( talk) 17:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, WikiProject Hampshire!
Now that you've had a chance to use Flow in your discussion space, we wanted to check in and see how you feel about the current set of features.
As a quick recap, in the past 4 weeks, we've updated the visual design and behavior of some of our features per your and other users' feedback:
Check out the screenshots of the first iteration and the second iteration of the visual design/UI of Flow, to see our progress.
We're still just getting started with the visual design and features of Flow. We're currently working on an overhaul of our frontend code and design, which will make it look better across multiple screens (large and small) and more browsers. You can see the early stages of this work in this prototype: http://area51.yar.gs/wmf/flow1/#, including a new navigational feature to the right of discussions. In addition, we'd like to do the following in the next month or so:
If you'd like to end the trial and return to using a talk page here, just let us know, and we can return your Flow posts to wikitext. Whatever you choose, thanks for trying out the software and helping us improve it! Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 01:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed the unassessed article count is currently sitting at 43. I've just been through and assessed all those but unfortunately it looks like the page to get the bot to update immediately is currently down. Hopefully next time the bot runs we should be back to zero unassessed articles though. Waggers TALK 15:11, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks. I've noticed there's a bit of a slow burning battle going on at the Fareham article, related to this talk thread. It seems to be proceeding in reasonably good faith so far but I'll try and keep an eye on it. Would appreciate it if other project members do likewise. Waggers TALK 12:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that Basingstoke (currently listed as a good article) is having its Good Article status reviewed. If you'd like to take part in the review, or (even better) take any necessary remedial action, please do so. As one of the most prominent settlements in the county the article merits High Importance on our scale, and it would be good to make sure our top/high importance articles are as good as they can be. Waggers TALK 13:17, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I've created the above navigation template; any help with adding it to the relevant articles, and adding new ones (I'm sure I've missed some of the wetlands articles and we must have more notable ordinary watercourses) would be much appreciated. Waggers TALK 11:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Now wouldn't it be useful if we could click that link (or if we didn't have the dead as a dodo flow test here anymore)... Fram ( talk) 14:34, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ Hydrology of Hampshire}} — HHHIPPO 19:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I've now added the template to all the linked articles but there may be more relevant articles that we need to include on the template. Waggers TALK 07:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
(Topic title edited by ― Mandruss ☎, — HHHIPPO)
The following was posted on the project page since this talk page doesn't seem to be editable for everybody:
Please transfer to talkpage
There's a problem for me with the talkpage: I have no edit facility there, so I'm posting this here - please transfer it to the talkpage.
GA article being reassessed: Basingstoke
Basingstoke was reviewed and listed in Aug 2007. It has been tagged with sourcing concerns since June 2012. I have done a GAR, which indicates that the article doesn't meet GA criteria. The main contributors have been notified, though are unavailable, so work has not been done. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, this WikiProject is being informed as editing assistance will be needed to prevent the article being delisted. See Talk:Basingstoke/GA1 for more details. SilkTork ✔Tea time 18:15, 17 May 2014 (UTC) — HHHIPPO 19:48, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Yep, this is mentioned in the "Basingstoke GAR" topic below.
Wonder why SilkTork (thought) they couldn't add a topic to this page - I guess the lack of an "Edit" tab was offputting and the "Start a new topic" box isn't hugely prominent. I'll mention it at WT:FLOW - maybe they can add a "new topic" tab where the "Edit" tab used to be. Waggers TALK 11:56, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Looks like there's been an influx of newly {{ hants}}-tagged articles that need assessment. 130 at present with no class or importance! I'll get started... Waggers TALK 11:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
All assessed for quality now. We still have quite a few articles awaiting assessment for importance though. Waggers TALK 09:34, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
This is just a heads up to anyone who is in the area that the first Wikimedia meetup in Portsmouth will be happening on 29 June 2014.
Full details are on the event page on Meta at [m:Meetup/Portsmouth/1 m:Meetup/Portsmouth/1]. All are welcome, but please do not feel pressured into coming if it is not your thing.
For those not in the south Hampshire area, there are other meetups regularly around the UK and elsewhere in the world. The sidebar and footer on the linked meta page contain the list of planned meets. ~~~~ Thryduulf ( talk) 14:59, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
There's a really useful tool that lists articles tagged by a wikiproject that have cleanup tags on them. Our listing is now up and running, and can be found here. There's also a link to it towards the bottom of our project page.
I can see this being a really useful way of improving the quality of WP:HANTS articles and focussing our efforts. Waggers TALK 07:22, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see News and Notes, at Wikipedia talk:Flow#July 10 Flow Update, for the major update today. Feedback there is appreciated. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 18:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Looking at the map of FAs and GAs, the one district of Hampshire that doesn't have any is the New Forest. Should we select an article to work on together to bring up to GA standard? Or perhaps there's a New Forest article that's already up to scratch that we should submit for GA assessment? What do you think? Waggers TALK 12:01, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps Lyndhurst would be a good place to start? The content is mostly already there but could do with copyediting. Lyndhurst is looking in better shape compared to other towns such as New Milton and Fordingbridge. JAG UAR 15:52, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Back in 2006 the New Forest article itself was a good article nominee (but failed) - do you think Lyndhurst is a better bet? Waggers TALK 10:01, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
They seem both interesting targets, the New Forest needs a major cleanup and prose restructuring but Lyndhurst just needs a copyedit. The content is all there, it just needs cleaning up... I'll get to copyediting Lyndhurst tomorrow? JAG UAR 18:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Yep, let's go for Lyndhurst Waggers TALK 14:41, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I'll start up improving Lyndhurst tomorrow. There are also no GAs in the Hart District. JAG UAR 17:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Good spot re Hart. Sorry I haven't managed to find time to spend on Lyndhurst yet but will muck in when I can. Waggers TALK 08:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost last week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. After the first week, over eight thousand new maps have been identified, with 40% of the target books looked at -- see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
A part that may specifically interest this project is
which currently shows pink templated links for 309 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or [:c:Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Uploading_to_Commons uploading] for articles on Hampshire and elsewhere in the South-East. (If uploading, please use the [:c:Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Image_descriptions ingestion template described here], which sets up some appropriate image templates and categories).
Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 21:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC) Jheald ( talk) 21:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
I think the Hampshire stuff is done now but this is still a great resource to look at. I recently started the Grove Place article off the back of seeing an image of it in that collection and doing a little more research. I'd never heard of the place before seeing that image. I've also found some great images for other existing articles, such as Northam Bridge, King Edward VI School, Southampton and North Stoneham Park. I'm sure there are plenty more we can make good use of. Waggers TALK 15:15, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, good luck with the project! Just thought the project ought to point out it is based on the county of Hampshire, UK, and not Hampshire County, Massachusetts! I'm also from the former, but why not collaborate with any would be US Hampshire Hogs :) LeeVJ ( talk) 01:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I begun the article on Woolmer, describing it as a 'village'. Is this strictly accurate? What is its connection to the military? Anypone who knows the place please do look over the stub Grunners ( talk) 19:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
is there one for this project yet? Grunners ( talk) 15:45, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
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It seems to me that we need to work out an Importance Criteria to rate articles.
General Guidelines: The importance of articles is a more local criterion. It mirrors the project-wide importance scheme, but in relation to a publication purely about Hampshire as opposed to a general encyclopaedia. For example, articles on Hampshire's subdivisions and prinicpal settlements might not appear as stand-alone entries in a general print encyclopaedia but would be essential inclusions in an encyclopaedia of Hampshire.
Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. |
High | Subject is exceptionally important. |
Mid | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge. |
Low | Subject fills in important details. |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. |
My Thoughts/Proposal:
Top | Large settlements, very notable from outside. | Southampton, New Forest |
High | Smaller settlements and places of interest/awareness outside the county. | Aldershot, Southampton F.C., University of Southampton. Winchester Cathedral |
Mid | Smallest settlements/areas. Places of importance to residents, including more notable schools/colleges. Overviews of whole of county. | Marwell Zoological Park, Netley, History of Hampshire, Peter Symonds College |
Low | Everything else, generally only important to a small number of people in the county. | Sholing railway station, Cantell Secondary School, Southampton Music Services |
Items/people from/in Hampshire that are non-notable | The General (TV series) |
Hmmm, just realised we could 'copy' someone elses. Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Assessment phrases it well:
Label | Criteria | Examples |
---|---|---|
Top | Places, icons or topics recognisable or of interest to the whole UK or further. | Cornwall, Saint Piran's Flag, Eden Project |
High | Articles with recognition in the Westcountry or all of Cornwall. | Camborne, Media in Cornwall |
Mid | Articles with recognition in most of Cornwall or specialist topics. | Looe, Diocese of Truro |
Low | Articles with very localised recognition. | Lanner |
-- Fluteflute Talk Contributions 16:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia of Hampshire | Hampshire, cities and major towns, scheduled ancient monuments |
High | Subject is exceptionally important within Hampshire | Grade I and II* listed buildings, smaller towns and particularly notable villages, local government districts, Portsmouth and Southampton football clubs, Hampshire Cricket Club, major rivers, particularly notable schools (eg Winchester College), particularly notable people from Hampshire |
Mid | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to Hampshire. | Grade II and III listed buildings, villages and larger city suburbs, parishes, urban area articles, tributaries to major rivers, secondary schools, not-very-famous people who's sphere of influence is related to the county |
Low | Subject fills in important details. | Smaller city suburbs, hamlets, primary schools, people from Hampshire who's sphere of influence doesn't relate directly to the county |
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Can this article be reassessed please? Mjroots ( talk) 07:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Done waggers ( talk) 11:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know where i can find more info on this. Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Simply south ( talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Simply south ( talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
I am proposing to merge a number of low or moderately active projects in south east England. The discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England#Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater South East MRSC ( talk) 21:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
I've created a stub for Neatham. Feel free to improve it. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 10:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
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I've started a stub for Up Nately. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 08:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I have created a stub for Winslade. It is needing a infobox and a map, please help if you can. Thank you. Jaguar ( talk) 11:46, 10 June 2010 (GMT)
Could this article be reassessed please? Jaguar ( talk) 20:10, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Can this be reassessed please, a lot of work from a few people have gone into remaking this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Terminus_railway_station ( Zeoace ( talk) 10:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC))
I've created a stub for Tufton. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 08:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I started working through the Basingstoke and Deane settlements and them branched out in Jaguars footsteps to more general Hampshire village articles, adding templates, governance and infoboxes. I've noticed that the Hampshire subdivision navigational boxes are quite different and in some cases missing:
And missing (unless I just haven't found them yet) Rushmore, Fareham (borough) and Havant (borough). So, which one should they all look like? And is New Forest Towns just New Forest (the national park) or should it be New Forest (district) like the other boxes? Scillystuff ( talk) 21:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I've added the {{ Hants}} to the talk page of Charles Fryatt (a GA). I've assessed the importance as low, feel free to change this if you wish. Mjroots ( talk) 14:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been building this page (on the back of Jaguar's start). I hope to add images soon (have to find out how to do so). Also, I hope this is the right place - apologies if not - but Weston Colley is shown as in the civil parish of Stoke Charity. Is this correct? I thought - as do all the fellow residents with whom I spoke - that Weston Colley was within Micheldever. I have, however, left it as is for now, pending feedback. When I know for certain, I shall be able to re-write the first paragraph better than I have it now. Also: I am citing references where I can, though many aspects are only verifiable from visiting, rather than from known records (which may or may not exist). I may be able to offer further proof via the photographs when I discover how to submit them. Any comments appreciated. Druidbroga. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Druidbroga ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a new weekly section on the main page called "Today's featured list" and I have nominated Timeline of Jane Austen to have a spot here. There has been some opposition to the nomination and it looks like the list could become a removal candidate very soon unless the quality of the list is improved. If you are interested in maintaining the list's featured status and seeing a summary of it up on the main page, your help in improving the article would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 21:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
According to various maps - both printed and online - Swanwick village is here, and Swanwick railway station is to the south of that, here. Yet a succession of IP editors seem bent on transposing their relative positions, see editing history of Swanwick, Hampshire and editing history of Swanwick railway station. I cannot revert again, because I would then have violated WP:3RR. Can anybody assist please? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:51, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating the status of this article to B-class on your project, as it has been expanded by a factor of five, and now meets the criteria for that designation. I hope this is ok, but if not, feel free to re-assess it. Regards. Bob1960evens ( talk) 07:44, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. to discuss whether the article, which falls within the domain of this wikiproject, should be deleted — Rod talk 15:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello as we are a very major project I think it would be constructive to create some task forces for example Basingstoke or Winchester may need a good task force each. If you think so please tell me below. Ideally we need at least five to start one and ten to be really effective
<-Please put more ideas at bottom of list.-> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calu2000 ( talk • contribs) 00:32, 4 January 2013
I have just created a list of hills of Hampshire which I hope readers will find useful. Feel free to check and enhance. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 19:20, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study#Proposed reinstatement of content. -- Trevj ( talk) 10:00, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I just redid the intro for this page. Hopefully it is a big improvement on what we had before. -- Jwikiediting ( talk) 00:31, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
This September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed buildings of significant importance (grades I or grade II*), as recorded by English Heritage. The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?
In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible buildings are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the link to Listed buildings in England, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?
Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by English Heritage. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.
The data still needs the attention of local editors:
For further information, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom.
If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.
Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.
-- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 06:37, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be able to help with this request. Thanks heaps. Schwede 66 10:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. You've probably already heard about WP:FLOW, the new talk page system that's going to be introduced across Wikipedia. The Flow team are currently looking for WikiProjects to volunteer to be early adopters of the system, and I was thinking we could put our hat into the ring. I know this talk page isn't hugely busy but in some ways that makes us good contenders to try out the new system. Any objections? Waggers TALK 08:32, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
That's great, thanks Jaguar. Having addressed Redrose64's concerns above and with no other forthcoming objections, I think we're ready to roll. Waggers TALK 11:05, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Should Portsea have its own article, or just be Portsea Island#Portsea? It was turned into a dab page on 17 October, with as yet no attention to the incoming links which now lead to a dab page. Someone with local knowledge might like to have a look at it. I've also left a note on the talk page of the editor who made the change. Pam D 23:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey all, We've reached the stage with Flow where it's relatively stable, and we'd like to invite you to take some time to try it out and chase bugs. It currently lives on a staff-run test server, which means it isn't hooked up to Single User Login - you can either edit anonymously or, preferably, create a new account under your current username.
The software has a minimal set of features at the moment; normal discussions with wikitext and templates should work fine (although Quiddity has only imported a few hundred templates), but there are some known bugs (and features that we're working on this fortnight) with the software. We're not looking to deploy Flow to enwiki in its current form, nor asking you to give your seal of approval to that.
What we'd like is for you to use the software, test it out and let us know two things:
On the off chance that Flow is really, really broken for you, to the point where you can't post (maybe a browser issue?) you can of course use the enwiki talkpage for both purposes. If you have any questions about the test, you can post them there too :). We're going to be holding this testing open for a week to allow people to really hammer on the software, although we may not be around Thursday or Friday (it's Thanksgiving). If not, don't worry: we'll reply to you when we return.
Thanks! – Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. First off, thank you for greatly assisting with the feedback and suggestions on Flow's development - the team can only build it as well as our support enables them to.
They'd like us to confirm that we're all ready and willing to try it out right here, so that we can find out what works well, what needs more changes, and what additional features are mostly prominently desired or dreamed of over the next few months. The trial would start during the week of January 6th (specific day to be set closer to launch) and will last for as long as your WikiProject is interested in using the software (more details on ending the trial below).
Here's a synopsis of what's been added recently (which you can test at mw:Talk:Sandbox):
Here's a list of items that they're working on this month as top-priority, which will be added to the live software as soon as possible (some likely before the WikiProject trial period).
Next two weeks:
Next four weeks:
Beyond that, there's a long list of brainstormed features, at mw:Flow Portal/Release planning#Feature buckets - your feedback and suggestions would, as ever, be most appreciated.
The transition: The current talkpage will be archived in-full in the regular way. The page will be Flow-enabled, and the WikiProject header templates added. After that, we hope that normal WikiProject discussions will resume as usual, and that any Flow-related discussions will take place at Wikipedia talk:Flow.
The "opt-out" mechanism: If there's WikiProject consensus to back out of the trial once it is underway, that will take about 24 hours from once you've decided. The Flow team will then convert the Flow Board into a wikitext page, add default signature+timestamps, and place that here. However, they do of course strongly hope that you'll weather through any small problems (of which some are inevitable), and continue to give ongoing suggestions!
The more we/you speak up with good insights, the faster it will turn into the discussion&collaboration system we've always wanted and needed. Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:45, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. This is a very brief note, to let you know the current plans. January 23 (Thursday 27 (afternoon PST) is the current target date for release on this page, and at
WP:WikiProject Breakfast, as well as at
WT:Flow and
WT:Flow/Design FAQ (
WT:Flow/Developer_test_page). This will give the devs time to work on a bug-sprint, so that they can concentrate on the fresh feedback from us when it goes live. :) Thanks again,
Quiddity (WMF) (
talk)
02:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
There's been a delay of one week, due to differences between the mediawikiwiki and enwiki codebases, so the deployment is now scheduled for Monday, February 3, between 11-13 PST. Thanks for your patience. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 22:37, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've requested a better quality map here. If you have any specific requests please ask there.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you again for volunteering to help test out Flow. Please direct all feedback on the software to the Flow talk page to avoid distractions here. Thanks!
Please remember that this is early-stage beta software, and the intent of this trial is to get your feedback on what's missing and what needs to be changed. We urge you to give Flow a good-faith try – it can only become as good as you help us make it! – but if you find things not working out, we can stop the trial and return your conversations to a talk page. We'll be asking directly in 2/4 weeks whether you're happy to continue testing, but will greatly appreciate all the feedback you can give in the meantime. Thanks again! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, when I look at the "hidden" topic below - I'm not sure if that hides it from only non-admins, or it simply collapses the topic - it seems to have also hidden an image whose provenance is not clear. I can't see anything in the history that indicates the image was added after Flow was added. It is also enormous when the topic below is uncollapsed. I suspect the image is of somewhere in (you guessed it!) New Hampshire. Risker ( talk) 22:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, Okeyes, my point there was that there's an image on this page and I have no way of knowing whether or not it was there before the change, whether it was put there as a test, whether it was put there by someone who normally participates in the project and it accidentally got caught in your "hiding" - which is in no way analogous to rollback; it's analogous to hatting. Remember, the page history also is completely uninformative. Risker ( talk) 23:03, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Hence my comment that I could not tell how it got there, or whether or not it was something that ought not to be included in the "hiding". The page history doesn't include the edit that inserted it. Risker ( talk) 23:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm not seeing the image mentioned by Risker, although I doubt it was related to New Hampshire.
S Philbrick
(Talk)
02:54, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I agree that there is a lot of space on this page being wasted - large margins to the left and right are just plain white. And I find the font quite large and the space between posts too much - but otherwise I like it! Sorry if I sound like I'm moaning, I just want to test this for myself. ~~~~ JAG UAR 23:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh. Don't use '~~~~' any more, I get it... this is going to take some getting used to! JAG UAR 23:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
This is a horribly jarring experience, speaking as a confident, computer-literate and experienced Wikipedian. Goodness knows what effect it will have on novices, who have only just learned to use regular talk pages, I don't believe such testing should be carried out in the live workspace, and that if and when flow is introduced, it should happen no all talk pages at once. Until than testing should be done only in sandbox pages. ~~~~ Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I've just added the red box ("This page is an early adopter...") to the page header, below {{ Flow-enabled}} as we've been getting a few more test edits. I'm aware the header area is looking quite busy - perhaps we should remove the "To do" template. Any thoughts? Waggers TALK 13:43, 6 February 2014 (UTC) (Edited by Baffle gab1978 ( talk))
Can you make the wikiproject banner hide itself? It doesn't add anything for the reader, afaict. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 20:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
The wikiproject banner is redundant to the title. Could that go? (posted yesterday but lost to the ether?) Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 11:54, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there's been a proposal to create a WikiProject Netley, see the proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Netley 70.24.244.161 ( talk) 05:32, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Bit of a strange idea if you ask me - too localised for a project. It would make a lot more sense for it to be a task force of this project. We haven't really gone for task forces yet.
That said, even then I think it's too localised / arbitrary a subject area. A Borough of Eastleigh task force would make more sense to me (along with similar task forces for the other council districts). I'd be interested to know what others think. Waggers TALK 12:50, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello sorry for very late reply, I'm the creator of WikiProject Netley. I could make it less localised and make it a task force for you if you want at a later date. I think the WikiProject is a good idea because most articles about Netley and the local area are not very good as they are Start or Stub class.
Thank you
-JoshCooler- JoshCooler ( talk) 17:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, WikiProject Hampshire!
Now that you've had a chance to use Flow in your discussion space, we wanted to check in and see how you feel about the current set of features.
As a quick recap, in the past 4 weeks, we've updated the visual design and behavior of some of our features per your and other users' feedback:
Check out the screenshots of the first iteration and the second iteration of the visual design/UI of Flow, to see our progress.
We're still just getting started with the visual design and features of Flow. We're currently working on an overhaul of our frontend code and design, which will make it look better across multiple screens (large and small) and more browsers. You can see the early stages of this work in this prototype: http://area51.yar.gs/wmf/flow1/#, including a new navigational feature to the right of discussions. In addition, we'd like to do the following in the next month or so:
If you'd like to end the trial and return to using a talk page here, just let us know, and we can return your Flow posts to wikitext. Whatever you choose, thanks for trying out the software and helping us improve it! Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 01:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed the unassessed article count is currently sitting at 43. I've just been through and assessed all those but unfortunately it looks like the page to get the bot to update immediately is currently down. Hopefully next time the bot runs we should be back to zero unassessed articles though. Waggers TALK 15:11, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks. I've noticed there's a bit of a slow burning battle going on at the Fareham article, related to this talk thread. It seems to be proceeding in reasonably good faith so far but I'll try and keep an eye on it. Would appreciate it if other project members do likewise. Waggers TALK 12:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that Basingstoke (currently listed as a good article) is having its Good Article status reviewed. If you'd like to take part in the review, or (even better) take any necessary remedial action, please do so. As one of the most prominent settlements in the county the article merits High Importance on our scale, and it would be good to make sure our top/high importance articles are as good as they can be. Waggers TALK 13:17, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I've created the above navigation template; any help with adding it to the relevant articles, and adding new ones (I'm sure I've missed some of the wetlands articles and we must have more notable ordinary watercourses) would be much appreciated. Waggers TALK 11:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Now wouldn't it be useful if we could click that link (or if we didn't have the dead as a dodo flow test here anymore)... Fram ( talk) 14:34, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ Hydrology of Hampshire}} — HHHIPPO 19:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I've now added the template to all the linked articles but there may be more relevant articles that we need to include on the template. Waggers TALK 07:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
(Topic title edited by ― Mandruss ☎, — HHHIPPO)
The following was posted on the project page since this talk page doesn't seem to be editable for everybody:
Please transfer to talkpage
There's a problem for me with the talkpage: I have no edit facility there, so I'm posting this here - please transfer it to the talkpage.
GA article being reassessed: Basingstoke
Basingstoke was reviewed and listed in Aug 2007. It has been tagged with sourcing concerns since June 2012. I have done a GAR, which indicates that the article doesn't meet GA criteria. The main contributors have been notified, though are unavailable, so work has not been done. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, this WikiProject is being informed as editing assistance will be needed to prevent the article being delisted. See Talk:Basingstoke/GA1 for more details. SilkTork ✔Tea time 18:15, 17 May 2014 (UTC) — HHHIPPO 19:48, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Yep, this is mentioned in the "Basingstoke GAR" topic below.
Wonder why SilkTork (thought) they couldn't add a topic to this page - I guess the lack of an "Edit" tab was offputting and the "Start a new topic" box isn't hugely prominent. I'll mention it at WT:FLOW - maybe they can add a "new topic" tab where the "Edit" tab used to be. Waggers TALK 11:56, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Looks like there's been an influx of newly {{ hants}}-tagged articles that need assessment. 130 at present with no class or importance! I'll get started... Waggers TALK 11:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
All assessed for quality now. We still have quite a few articles awaiting assessment for importance though. Waggers TALK 09:34, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
This is just a heads up to anyone who is in the area that the first Wikimedia meetup in Portsmouth will be happening on 29 June 2014.
Full details are on the event page on Meta at [m:Meetup/Portsmouth/1 m:Meetup/Portsmouth/1]. All are welcome, but please do not feel pressured into coming if it is not your thing.
For those not in the south Hampshire area, there are other meetups regularly around the UK and elsewhere in the world. The sidebar and footer on the linked meta page contain the list of planned meets. ~~~~ Thryduulf ( talk) 14:59, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
There's a really useful tool that lists articles tagged by a wikiproject that have cleanup tags on them. Our listing is now up and running, and can be found here. There's also a link to it towards the bottom of our project page.
I can see this being a really useful way of improving the quality of WP:HANTS articles and focussing our efforts. Waggers TALK 07:22, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see News and Notes, at Wikipedia talk:Flow#July 10 Flow Update, for the major update today. Feedback there is appreciated. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 18:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Looking at the map of FAs and GAs, the one district of Hampshire that doesn't have any is the New Forest. Should we select an article to work on together to bring up to GA standard? Or perhaps there's a New Forest article that's already up to scratch that we should submit for GA assessment? What do you think? Waggers TALK 12:01, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps Lyndhurst would be a good place to start? The content is mostly already there but could do with copyediting. Lyndhurst is looking in better shape compared to other towns such as New Milton and Fordingbridge. JAG UAR 15:52, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Back in 2006 the New Forest article itself was a good article nominee (but failed) - do you think Lyndhurst is a better bet? Waggers TALK 10:01, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
They seem both interesting targets, the New Forest needs a major cleanup and prose restructuring but Lyndhurst just needs a copyedit. The content is all there, it just needs cleaning up... I'll get to copyediting Lyndhurst tomorrow? JAG UAR 18:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Yep, let's go for Lyndhurst Waggers TALK 14:41, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I'll start up improving Lyndhurst tomorrow. There are also no GAs in the Hart District. JAG UAR 17:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Good spot re Hart. Sorry I haven't managed to find time to spend on Lyndhurst yet but will muck in when I can. Waggers TALK 08:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost last week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. After the first week, over eight thousand new maps have been identified, with 40% of the target books looked at -- see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
A part that may specifically interest this project is
which currently shows pink templated links for 309 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or [:c:Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Uploading_to_Commons uploading] for articles on Hampshire and elsewhere in the South-East. (If uploading, please use the [:c:Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Image_descriptions ingestion template described here], which sets up some appropriate image templates and categories).
Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 21:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC) Jheald ( talk) 21:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
I think the Hampshire stuff is done now but this is still a great resource to look at. I recently started the Grove Place article off the back of seeing an image of it in that collection and doing a little more research. I'd never heard of the place before seeing that image. I've also found some great images for other existing articles, such as Northam Bridge, King Edward VI School, Southampton and North Stoneham Park. I'm sure there are plenty more we can make good use of. Waggers TALK 15:15, 20 November 2014 (UTC)