Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2018/Project news

Your military history newsletter – Issue CXLII, February 2018 Front page • Project news • Article news • Book reviews • Op-ed • World War I timeline

From the editors

We would like to take the opportunity to announce an upcoming edit-a-thon, which will take place in April. The April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive aims to target several areas including tagging and assessment, improving our task forces, and content creation. This year's drive will also see collaboration with Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red to try to improve our coverage of topics related to women in the military. The drive will begin on 1 April and continue through to the end of the month. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now at the link mentioned above.

Awards and honours

• The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
  • Sturmvogel 66 for German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele, Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894), and HMS Vanguard (1909)
  • Sturmvogel 66 for Petropavlovsk-class battleship, German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz, and Type 1934-class destroyer

• The A-Class medal has been awarded to:

Contest department

• The contest department has completed its 127th round of competition in January 2018. A total of 75 articles were submitted by 15 editors. Kges1901 came first with an amazing 99 points from 16 articles, while Sturmvogel narrowly came in second with 98 points from 11 articles. Kges1901 has been awarded the Chevrons for their achievement, and Sturmvogel has received the Writer's Barnstar. AustralianRupert, Catlemur, Djmaschek, Ian Rose, Iazyges, Kees08, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Lord Ics, Parsecboy, Peacemaker67, The Bushranger, Gog the Mild and and Zawed also contributed entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for the next round of the competition now. The monthly totals cumulatively go towards the 2018 Military History Writers' Contest Cup, which will be awarded at the end of the December 2018 contest.

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