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This is the place to leave short announcements regarding upcoming events, collaborations, elections, task forces, new or revived projects, and other information for the "WikiProject News" subsection.

• A reminder about the Wikipedia Motto of the day which has currently very few contributors, yet is displayed by several hundred users. Maybe something along the lines of:

Wikipedia's Motto of the day project is currently experiencing low participation levels. Please consider nominating one today!

Cheers, benzband (talk) 15:43, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Interview requests

If you'd like your WikiProject featured in an upcoming WikiProject report, feel free to add it to the list below. Note that these requests are entirely advisory, and may or may not be used in future reports. Please keep requests short and concise.

• Scheduled WP:CVU is going through a massive overhaul and it looks like the new version will be going live tomorrow morning. Major changes include an entire new homepage (currently visable at WP:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Sandbox) stripping most, if not all, of the over-the-top paramilitary aspects from it. WP:WikiProject Vandalism studies has merged with the CVU and will join the Think Tank, Task Force, and Tools Department as "Divisions" of the new CVU. Also, a brand new program, WP:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy will go live early next week. A mix somewhere between the Adopt-a-User program and the old Admin Coaching, the Academy hopes to take new editors who have an interest in Vandalism and "show them the ropes", as it were of countering vandalism. In all, most of the issues that have plagued the CVU at the various MFDs it has gone through have been removed, and it is taking on a new mission of Coordination, Collaboration, and Education. Advertising the changes made to an area that was once a Wiki-dark spot may have the tertiary benefit of showing users that other dead projects can be made into something useful. Achowat (talk) 18:38, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Mentioned in this week's news sidebar. I'll keep an eye on the project to see if the project gets back up and running. -Mabeenot (talk) 03:53, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

• ScheduledCould Project punk make its way into the rotation. thanks --Guerillero | My Talk 07:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

• From my talk page: Hey there...I notice you're the regular writer for the signpost wikiproject report, and I was wondering if you would consider featuring Wikiproject Dispute Resolution at some point (hopefully before the end of June?). We're trying to get some visibility to increase participation in dispute resolution, and think this may help. Cheers, Steven Zhang ^{Get involved in DR!} 11:39, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Schedule

Upcoming articles and authors are listed here. Before adding a new article to the schedule, please check the archive to ensure it is not a repeat and discuss the proposed schedule change with the other current authors on the talk page.

Date	Project	User	Comments
June 4	WP Visual Arts	Mabeenot	WP London on hold
June 11	Counter-Vandalism Unit	Mabeenot
June 18	WP Punk Music	Mabeenot	WP Korea on hold

Summer Sports Series

Date	Project	Event	Comments
June 25	WP Athletics	European Athletics Championships June 27 - July 1	Start of Summer Sports Series
July 2	WP Cycling	Tour de France June 30 - July 22
July 9	WP Volleyball	Beach volleyball played by amateurs and professionals
July 16	WP Rowing	World Rowing Championships July 18 - 21
July 23	WP Olympics	2012 Summer Olympics July 27 - August 12	Last interviewed February 2010
July 30	WP Gymnastics	Summer Olympics
August 6	WP Swimming	Summer Olympics	Backup WP Water Sports
August 13	WP Golf	PGA Championship August 9 - 12
August 20	WP Equine	Various equestrian and modern pentathlon events
August 27	WP Football/Soccer	FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup starts September 1	Last interviewed March 2008

Workspace

To conduct interviews, use one of the following pages:

#	Project	User
1	Punk Music	Mabeenot
2	Visual Arts	Mabeenot
3	Korea	Mabeenot
4	CVU	Mabeenot
5	Athletics	Mabeenot

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