Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Newsletter April 2008

April 2008 Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter Volume II, no. 4 - April 2008
Project News There are currently 5,612 articles attributed to the project, an increase of 399 over the last two months. There are currently 2,812 stubs attributed to the project, it would be great to see a large dent taken out of this pile. Help us out here if you can. Sixteen articles are at FA level and twenty are GA level articles, with an increase of one at FA status and an increase of four at GA status. We also have an entrant into the A category. The project would also like to continue an article improvement drive attempt. The Food Portal has been switched to a random portal version in order to keep the topics changing on a regular basis. The Wine Portal which is associated with this project has also been changed to a random portal version, this portal was also updated as a Featured Portal a couple months ago. There is a lot of work for this Wikiproject. Go to WikiProject Food and drink/Tasks to find out how to help. Please continue to help with the Destubbification Drive. There are currently two merge proposal listed for the project. Please help by going to the pages and giving your opinion on these merge proposals. Merge Cooker with Cook stove - Discuss here Merge 7-Bone Steak‎ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) into 7-Bone Roast (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Discuss here Articles can be "tagged" currently by placing {{WikiProject Food and drink}} in an article's talk page. Please help out with accessing articles for the project once they are tagged as well. This is a tedious job for the few people who are doing it right now. Listed here are other tags you can use for identifying articles as well as yourself as a member of the project and some other useful items as well. Current members of this task force include: --Christopher Tanner, CCC 18:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC) --Jeremy Brown 1 July 2007 -- GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 17:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC) --Applejaxs 1 October 2007 --Jacksinterweb 15 December 2007 --Green caterpillar (talk) 15:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC)	Please welcome these new members who have joined in the month of February and March, we are now up to sixty-nine members. Shlishke (talk · contribs · count) - Spanish, French, Hungarian cooking; food writing Anton Ego (talk · contribs · count) - I like food, but only fine ones. Dentren (talk · contribs · count) - Writes about South American cuisine Octane (talk · contribs · count) - Culinary student (sort of on hiatus atm) ichbinjenny (talk · contribs · count) - Asian (Taiwanese) food, can provide pictures Staka (talk · contribs · count) 5faizan (talk · contribs · count) Shruti14 (talk · contribs · count) - food and drink save lives FiveRings (talk · contribs · count) - I'm a cookin' fool Redhookesb (talk · contribs · count) - Interested in biomolecular aspects of taste New articles created in December Sloppy giuseppe Templates UserBox template and WikiProject Food and Drink rating banner template 34 different food and drink related stub templates This page will assist you in creating or editing an article on a cuisine Food Templates Info Box Templates QSR Restaurants We're sorry if you did not want to receive this newsletter. If you would like to not receive this in the future, please make a note next to your name on the project's participant list here. Past issues- February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007
WikiProject Food and Drink Articles by Quality Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Food and drink articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 13 28 48 FL 2 1 3 FM 139 139 GA 13 24 73 251 5 366 B 56 235 331 580 63 1,265 C 81 389 955 2,722 467 4,614 Start 22 322 1,642 9,851 5 3,787 15,629 Stub 17 559 7,837 5,040 13,453 List 11 69 109 466 23 271 949 Category 9 1 7,602 7,612 Disambig 156 156 File 2,999 2,999 Portal 614 614 Project 384 384 Redirect 10 71 537 2,682 3,300 Template 947 947 Other 3 187 190 Assessed 183 1,084 3,754 22,276 15,738 9,633 52,668 Unassessed 20 1,952 1,972 Total 183 1,084 3,754 22,296 15,738 11,585 54,640 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 181,836 Ω = 5.14
This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (May 2008). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to Chef Tanner