Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Newsletter/December 2007
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Many people don't understand how the sweeps work, or even know its existence! So this issue I'll briefly talk about the purpose of sweeps, as well as how we do them. It was first suggested and created by LaraLove on August 23, 2007. The project aims to check all previously reviewed Good Articles, based on the 2,808 articles classified as GA by August 27, 2007, to ensure that each article continues to meet the current Good Article criteria. Articles promoted after that date will be swept in the next sweeps cycle. Currently, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 14 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 47 articles in August, 163 in September, 146 in October and 45 in November. Of those that are swept, 232 articles are kept as GA, 107 articles are delisted, and 1 promoted to FA. ![]()
Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of November, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen hails from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since December 2005. He has written and/or contributed to an astounding number of articles, including seven featured articles, two featured lists, 15 Good articles, and 152 Did You Know? articles. Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of October include:
There are now 162 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 12 new members that joined during the month of November:
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! |
You may have noticed or read about a talk page template called {{ArticleHistory}}. If you've tried to use it, you may have been surprised by its complexity. So what is this all about? Well, the ArticleHistory template is a way of recording events in the history of an article's development. The idea is to record each time the article passes or fails a Good article nomination, a Good article reassessment, Featured article candidates, or Featured article review. ArticleHistory also tracks a few other things, such as peer review, AfD, appearing on the main page, appearing under did you know?, and other featured processes, such as featured lists and featured topics. So, how does this affect GA reviewers? Although the template is pretty complicated, using it for GA is not so bad once you get used to it. However, the first piece of advice we would like to give is: if you are not comfortable using ArticleHistory, then just use the usual GA templates ({{GA}}, {{DelistedGA}} and {{FailedGA}}), even if there is already an ArticleHistory template on the talk page. A more experienced GA reviewer will then merge the GA template into the article history later. On the other hand, the more reviewers that master the ArticleHistory alchemy, the better, so what do you need to know? Well, almost everything can be found in the documentation, so here we just give a summary and a few tips. The main components of the ArticleHistory are:
The three most important things to remember when you edit the article history of an article are the following.
If you master all this, you can truly call yourself an ArticleHistory Jedi! Good luck!
We are looking for additional participants in the GA Sweeps. Those individuals should have a very strong understanding on good article criteria and all GA processes. Active participation in GA would be a major asset. If you are interested, please leave a message on OhanaUnited's talk page. We thank everyone for their interest, but only individuals selected will be invited to participate in the sweeps.
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