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Happy New Year

Hello Scott, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ...and further nationalist conquests. Also, I hope to see you at a meetup that needs to be organised! ;) All the best!.... ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC) [reply]

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WikiProject Australia newsletter

Issue 2, Volume 1 — January 1, 2008

Welcome! WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.

Australian Wikimedia chapter

Wikimedia chapters are independent organisations run by Wikimedians to further promote the Wikimedia projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". This means that we in the chapter can promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis and their contributor's work in our area. Currently, a chapter for Australia is in discussion. If you're interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation in more ways than just creating articles, and by promoting Wikipedia and other projects so people can start to read your work and become contributors, then consider adding yourself to the interested participants list at www.wikimedia.org.au

Th e proposed chapter also has an IRC channel on the freenode network: join #wikimedia-au next time you are online. The seventh IRC meeting for Wikimedia Australia will also be held in this channel at 8 pm (AEDT-UTC+11) on January 6 (WA at 6pm, SA at 7:30pm and QLD at 7pm). For more information, visit this page.

Recent happenings

2007 has been an excellent year for WikiProject Australia and its members – a sudden rise in article quality (see "Quality watch"), more article collaboration, portal creation, gap-filling article creation, image requests fulfilled, newsletter writing and award awarding. Success!

A sudden surge in new Portals took place late in the year, with numerous new portals being created and later being promoted to featured status, the best a young portal can get. Among the portals currently being worked on are: South Australia, New South Wales, Australian cars, Music of Australia, Powderfinger, Queensland, with portals for a lot of other topics to come very soon in the new year.

Portals and "topics" go hand in hand (not really), and many within the project and throughout Wikipedia aspire to achieve featured topic status for a particular topic. Goals to promote all capital cities to featured status, and among others, a Powderfinger featured topic, and a featured topic on The Invincibles cricket team. It's for sure that 2008 will be filled with Aussie pride, so hang in there with those flags, everyone! Especially on Australia Day, *hints surprises* :)

Of course, writing featured articles and making up clever hooks for use on "Did you know" isn't the only way to contribute. Many users contribute day-in, day-out, maintaining the project and portals, tagging and assessing articles, making suggestions at featured article candidacies, coordinating collaborations within the project, responding to peer reviews, save valid articles in deletion debates, in short, the stuff that if not done, will cause the whole project as we know it to slowly deteroriate. Many users who don't qualify for awards like Durova's Triple Crown award, qualify for others.

Moondyne recognised the users who work tirelessly every day to make sure that every thing is running smoothly by introducing a new award – the Drover's Award. Initiated in December, eight users have already received an award that is set to become a prestigious award for all Australia-related topic editors; SatuSuro, Longhair, Spebi, Moondyne, Grahamec, Mattinbgn and ScottDavis and more are sure to be awarded. If you know of any users who work tirelessly behind the scenes and have not yet been recognised for their greatly appreciated efforts, award them the Drover's Award.

More users have been awarded Durova's Triple Crown award for WikiProjects. This award was given to WikiProject Australia after 5 users who qualified for Durova's standard crown (one DYK, GA, FA). New recipients include Matilda, Moondyne, Mattinbgn, VirtualSteve, Gnangarra, RaNdOm26, and Thebainer. If you believe you qualify, leave a note at Durova's talk page.

Recent events

Jan 6: The seventh IRC channel meeting will take place on the freenode network at 8 pm (AEDT – UTC+11) in #wikimedia-au. See this page for more information.
Dec 26: One hundred Australia-related articles have been promoted to good article status.
Dec 20-31: New portals are created, old ones are revamped, some are promoted and others are soon to be among them.
Nov 15: "1967 in Australia" has been chosen as Wikipedia's Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.

This month's newsletter was written by Spebi and published by BrownBot. If you wish to stop receiving it, receive it in a different format, or submit items for consideration next month, see our co-ordination page.

Issue 2, Volume 1, January 2008. See newsletter archive for previous issues, or view this issue directly.

Newly-promoted content

Good articles

Featured articles

Removed articles

The Ashes

Recent collaborations

Quality watch

2007 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: one hundred articles were promoted to good article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for the whole of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics from the best of sources available on the Internet. A huge congratulations to all involved. And congratulations to Underneath-it-All, who wrote "2 Hearts", which passed as a good article, officially making him WikiProject Australia's "Good Article Centurian" and the article the one hundredth Australia-related article to be promoted to good article status at any one time.

Speaking of statistics nearing the number 100, WikiProject Australia has also seen an increase of the number of articles being promoted to featured article status. In November last year, seven articles were promoted, earning the month its official title of "Featured article month" of WikiProject Australia, and making it the month with the highest featured article achievement. Viva la featured article revolution! Also seeing some activity were featured portals – many have already been promoted, and a wave of excellently-crafted ones hitting our shores very soon.

End of year statistics

Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia produced by Blnguyen and his Assessment Monkey of 2007's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 71 featured articles, and 106 good articles.

Australia-related featured article production

Australia-related good article production

This newsletter is a monthly newsletter with details relating to events and happenings within the Australian Wikipedian community and WikiProject Australia. If you wish to stop receiving this newsletter, or receive it in a different format, relist your name appropriately at the subscription page. Delivered by BrownBot (talk), at 21:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Mount Wellington

To see some sane editors are still around :) Satu Suro 13:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot count myself in - if you seem my contribs - with son number one inhabiting allnight internet cafes on george street sydney - Satu Suro 14:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC) And as for acotf we missed brisbane - it was perth to gold coast and we are heading south :| Satu Suro 14:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No new photos from you then :-) Have a good trip. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:22, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nullabor and places to gold coast - more than a 1,000 jpegs and mpegs but it will take months to sort thanks for the good wishes - Satu Suro 14:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On my last holiday, Wikipedia didn't feature in the planning much. I ended up finding that I had taken mostly photos for articles that already had photos, and looking later found lots of towns and articles without photos, but I hadn't taken one there either :-) --Scott Davis ^Talk 21:23, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup
Next: TBA
Last: 6 March 2020
This box: view • talk • edit

Hi Scott - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		for your efforts with Australian articles Gnan garra 00:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup
Next: TBA
Last: 6 March 2020
This box: view • talk • edit

Hi ScottDavis - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

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On behalf of Riana ⁂, 11:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Revised

Hi Scott - since Sunday is inconvenient for many people due to church, we are rescheduling for Saturday. I hope this will enable you to attend! Best, ~ Riana ⁂ 11:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent - I think I can make the Saturday :-) --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coastal fortifications of New Zealand

Hello Scott. Thank you for the reformatting you started on this page. However I am surprised you did not first raise the matter on the talk page. I have raised this formatting issue with WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Would you please now leave the page as it is until the matter has been resolved. --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have responded at WikiProject Geographical coordinates. I will now wait for any discussion to resolve before completing the task, which was intended in good faith to make the map linked from {{GeoGroupTemplate}} more helpful and appealing.. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not altogether happy about this Scott. You say that the "discussion seems generally in support". Maybe I'm missing something but I didn't see that at all – rather the discussion just seemed to bog. So I'm a little disappointed. However I accept you think you are doing the right thing and appreciate all the time and care you have put into reformatting the coordinates. --Geronimo20 (talk) 11:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, I've just seen your comment on WikiProject Geographical coordinates and I feel happier about that. --Geronimo20 (talk) 11:39, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Generally in support" was two that supported using the standard templates (for different reasons) and two others who proposed work-arounds using standard templates but proposing ways of not including the coordinate text in the table. You were the only one who opposed using the templates at all. The suggestion of a template (or perhaps monobook.css - see Template:Coord#Display) to manage the display seemed like a viable longer-term solution, while maintaining consistency with other articles, printing, etc. Thankyou for your efforts in the projet too. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

rabbit Flat

Nah no worries - the main thing was to show ref to the map as further reading and the fact that it cited the location (refs for that place are sure hard to find) - and thanks for cleaning up my exposing the main source :) - cheers Satu Suro 09:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ACOTF

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		For all your work with ACOTF. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 09:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
		_{this WikiAward was given to ScottDavis by dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) on 09:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)}[reply]

RfC

Just to let you know, further to the comments at ANI, I raised an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Template namespace#RfC: Should the collaboration template appear on the article page Regards Matilda ^talk 00:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've expresed an opinion and suggested a compromise that addresses our concerns and hopefully goes some way towards appeasing the opposing view, too. --Scott Davis ^Talk 11:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Australia incorporation meeting

Hi there ScottDavis! As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation has recently approved Wikimedia Australia as an official chapter. In order to acknowledge this, and to appoint an interim committee, approve our statement of purpose and our rules, and appoint a Public Officer, Wikimedia Australia will be having a meeting at Computerbank in Melbourne. For those of us who are located in other cities, we shall be holding conference calls to the main meeting.

The meeting will be held at 2:30PM on Sunday, 20th April 2008, Adelaide time. In order for us to organise this meeting, we need your help! Please drop by at our meta subpage with suggestions as to venues, conference calling services, etc. It will be at 2:30 so we can meet up for lunch beforehand if anyone's open for that!

Hoping to see you there! ~ Riana ⁂ 01:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you help???

this is a wiki that I made. Can you please help me with this project?? thanks.