There is a bot currently going round tagging deadlinks; in optimum cases, it replaces them with archived links, but some remain dead. In particular, the change of Wiltshire County Council to a unitary authority last year has left some links as "not found". Some can be changed from e.g. "northwilts.gov.uk" to "wiltshire.gov.uk" as pages have been moved, but some of them haven't. Rodhull andemu 18:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Under the Resources heading on the main page, I have added a couple of dozen links to online books which may help others. I'm sure this could be greatly improved. Moonraker ( talk) 03:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
This is a serious conern for me here. Assumung that everybody knows this, but (probably nearly) every county in England has district templates. Wiltshire is the only one who hasn't got any district councils! Taking Hampshire for an example, Hampshire has 13 district councils (with two unitary). Each district has its own template including all the settlements within the district. District templates are almost vital for all settlements in Wiltshire to be linked together - which is why we need them.
Hampshire's districts, Wiltshire's districts.
Wiltshire doesn't have any districts which makes it impossible for a template with all the settlements to be listed on. There is only Wiltshire Council (which is number 1 in the picture) and Swindon (borough) (as number two in the picture). Since Wiltshire Council is far too big (it covers 75% of the county) a template cannot be created to list all the settlements within Wiltshire Council. However, until 2009 Wiltshie actually had district councils. They were North Wiltshire, West Wiltshire, Kennet (district), Salisbury (district) and Thamesdown. If in reality, there hadn't been any changes to the districts, we would have templates today but unfortunately we don't. Does anyone have any suggestions? How can we make district templates if Wiltshire doesn't have any? Jaguar ( talk) 19:03, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
Winchester}}
? If so, Wiltshire is not alone: County Durham is also single-layer, and they have the navbox {{
Durham}}
: note the lack of small settlements. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I have made a beginning with Template:Civil Parishes of South West Wiltshire. Moonraker ( talk) 05:23, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot which created article alerts and cleanup listings for projects stopped working months ago, however within the last few weeks new bots have started working offering this functionality. Wikipedia:Article alerts is a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their WikiProject/Taskforce template enter workflows (such as Articles for Deletion, Requests for Comments, Peer Review, and many more). Cleanup listings identify articles within the projects scope which have tags showing problems eg "citation needed" and are updated weekly (examples WP Somerset cleanup listing & UK Geo cleanup listing). Recognised content bot lists project articles with FA, FL, GA, DYK etc. All of these can help a project monitor what is happening with the articles within a projects scope. If you would like any help with setting any of these up just let me know.— Rod talk 17:47, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I notice that Jaguar has designed a new flag (called Wiltshire Flag.png) and added it to the project. I understand the confusion caused recently by the various competing "county flags", but I don't think that is resolved by yet another new design, and Wiltshire Flag.png has non-standard proportions. The one flag with undoubted status is the Wiltshire County Council banner, designed and granted by the College of Arms, which is the one we were previously using. Does anyone mind if that is reinstated? Moonraker ( talk) 18:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
If you missed the Wikibanner, full details of the above at { http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/} Jezhotwells ( talk) 00:50, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
There is a bot currently going round tagging deadlinks; in optimum cases, it replaces them with archived links, but some remain dead. In particular, the change of Wiltshire County Council to a unitary authority last year has left some links as "not found". Some can be changed from e.g. "northwilts.gov.uk" to "wiltshire.gov.uk" as pages have been moved, but some of them haven't. Rodhull andemu 18:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Under the Resources heading on the main page, I have added a couple of dozen links to online books which may help others. I'm sure this could be greatly improved. Moonraker ( talk) 03:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
This is a serious conern for me here. Assumung that everybody knows this, but (probably nearly) every county in England has district templates. Wiltshire is the only one who hasn't got any district councils! Taking Hampshire for an example, Hampshire has 13 district councils (with two unitary). Each district has its own template including all the settlements within the district. District templates are almost vital for all settlements in Wiltshire to be linked together - which is why we need them.
Hampshire's districts, Wiltshire's districts.
Wiltshire doesn't have any districts which makes it impossible for a template with all the settlements to be listed on. There is only Wiltshire Council (which is number 1 in the picture) and Swindon (borough) (as number two in the picture). Since Wiltshire Council is far too big (it covers 75% of the county) a template cannot be created to list all the settlements within Wiltshire Council. However, until 2009 Wiltshie actually had district councils. They were North Wiltshire, West Wiltshire, Kennet (district), Salisbury (district) and Thamesdown. If in reality, there hadn't been any changes to the districts, we would have templates today but unfortunately we don't. Does anyone have any suggestions? How can we make district templates if Wiltshire doesn't have any? Jaguar ( talk) 19:03, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
Winchester}}
? If so, Wiltshire is not alone: County Durham is also single-layer, and they have the navbox {{
Durham}}
: note the lack of small settlements. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I have made a beginning with Template:Civil Parishes of South West Wiltshire. Moonraker ( talk) 05:23, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot which created article alerts and cleanup listings for projects stopped working months ago, however within the last few weeks new bots have started working offering this functionality. Wikipedia:Article alerts is a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their WikiProject/Taskforce template enter workflows (such as Articles for Deletion, Requests for Comments, Peer Review, and many more). Cleanup listings identify articles within the projects scope which have tags showing problems eg "citation needed" and are updated weekly (examples WP Somerset cleanup listing & UK Geo cleanup listing). Recognised content bot lists project articles with FA, FL, GA, DYK etc. All of these can help a project monitor what is happening with the articles within a projects scope. If you would like any help with setting any of these up just let me know.— Rod talk 17:47, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I notice that Jaguar has designed a new flag (called Wiltshire Flag.png) and added it to the project. I understand the confusion caused recently by the various competing "county flags", but I don't think that is resolved by yet another new design, and Wiltshire Flag.png has non-standard proportions. The one flag with undoubted status is the Wiltshire County Council banner, designed and granted by the College of Arms, which is the one we were previously using. Does anyone mind if that is reinstated? Moonraker ( talk) 18:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
If you missed the Wikibanner, full details of the above at { http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/} Jezhotwells ( talk) 00:50, 22 March 2011 (UTC)