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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008

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July special events • Sk error tags • Image moving • Work the wiki • Quick links template • Canada commons wikiproject and Canada wikimedia • Higher Education in Saskatchewan • Spotlight • Road news - Trans Canada • Community news - Two million new articles • Trivia question

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008

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Summer Days!
July 1 Canada Day Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2008. Please help develop our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Site in Saskatchewan articles! Museums Several community museums are only open during the summer months in Saskatchewan. Virtual Museum of Canada - Calendar of Events - Discover events which are offered during the summer months. Parks July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 12 to 18 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan. "Take A Hike" is the theme in 2008. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.
Articles Needing Attention
According to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Canada, a merger is proposed: Delta Bessborough or Hotel Bessborough join the discussion Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology needs clean up and citations. According to Articles with minor POV problems from February 2008 this pages need work: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,Regina, Saskatchewan,Regina, Saskatchewan neighbourhoods Saskatchewan Bill of Rights introduction needs work. Saskatoon has a section needing citations. According to uncategorized Saskatoon Royal Connections needs categories Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory needs to be wikified. Crystal Lake (Saskatchewan) , Kannata Valley, Saskatchewan are orphaned as few or no articles link to them. Briercrest College and Seminary and Saskatchewan River Sturgeon Management Board both need a re-write. List of Cree topics needs to be translated from English to Cree. Saskatchewan photographs needed.
What's New?
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. Take time to adopt a user. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles.
Member News
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 37 members. Please welcome M@sk (talk · contribs) and Wandering_canadian (talk · contribs) to the project! The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 11 members. The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.
Other News
Move images to commons From the US roas newsletter - A handy tool has been developed for moving images to the Commons. Work the Wiki Saskatchewan Work the Wiki Saskatchewan is an independent article about wikipedia and writing Saskatchewan articles for this encylopedia. Are there any comments in regards to work the wiki web site. Saskatchewan quick links template Add this template {{Saskatchewan quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Wikipedia. This template has been modeled after the {{Canadian quick links}} template. Canada wikimedia / Canada wikiproject on Commons Discussion started regarding a Wikicommons Canadian wikiproject to help create consistency amongst image naming and categories on commons for Canadian related images. This could also be cross wiki linked to Wikimedia Canada's project to organise drives to produce free photos of Canadian locations. Please comment about French English image description or naming for Canadian images to enable both the English and French wikipedias access to images for articles in either language. Class Project - Higher Education in Canada Please assist students of this Class project to wikify and produce citations for the various provincial articles coming online. The article for Saskatchewan has been started, and if there is any assistance you may be able to offer the students please mention it on the appropriate talk page. Watch also for tags on the articles such as AFD and guide the students for Wikipedia principles. Thank you.
Spotlight Department
Cccleo (talk · contribs) is the student who has created the Higher education in Saskatchewan article, a class project which has a deadline of June 30, 2008. The class project has improved wikipedia's coverage of higher education of Canada, and this article in particular is an excellent beginning for coverage of Higher education in Saskatchewan. A thank you and Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight goes out to you at this time. Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Complete To Do List WikiProject Saskatchewan Requests Wikiproject Saskatchewan tasks Help, please! WikiProject Saskatchewan TO DO Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods TO DO SK Communities & Neighbourhoods tasks Help, please! To contribute to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan TO DO check out the red links on Highways, or Roads and adopt one of these. SK Wikiproject Road tasks Help , please! University of Saskatchewan TO DO list

The Editor's Desk

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's fifteenth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2008, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2008, Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2008,Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2008, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008 Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007 Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

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News Article

Wikipedia talk WP SK :

For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Range road clean up and citations needed.

Trans Canada Highway new template has been created!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

2 Million New Articles:

Discussion re commmunity or settlement started at WP CA noticeboard. .... FritzpollBot creating up to two million new articles which will give placenames an article page on wikipedia. There is also a discussion on the Canadian wikiproject discussion page about compiling a listing of incorporated placenames of Canada as a response to this discussion on the village pump. Please add to the Saskatchewan discussion about adding Saskatchewan placenames.

According to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Canada, Colonsay No. 342, Saskatchewan needs clean up.
Moose Jaw needs a citation.
Whitewood, Saskatchewan needs clean up.
According to uncategorized Pangman, Saskatchewan is uncategorized.
Wolseley, Saskatchewan is being disputed regarding its neutality.
Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan needs to be wikified.
Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan needs a re-write in encyclopedic style.

The user template: {{user Saskatoon}} needs some TLC as its image has disappeared! If someone has some photographic / image manipulation talents, and a good idea to improve the user template, it is much appreciated.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods

Trivia Question

Trivia Question

The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to Trivia question #3 before month end. The answer to Trivia Question #3 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - August 2008 newsletter.

Trivia Question #3: Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?

Answer Question #3: Will be announced August 1, 2008

Trivia Question #2: Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan? from the June Newsletter

Answer Question #2: Kenaston, Saskatchewan

Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008.

		??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
		The correct editor/s will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008

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Communities & Neighbourhoods Uprade • A and C class ratings • Basic topics • Deletion and promotion article sorting • Ghost Towns

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.

C class assessment

C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.

A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.

What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles for instance is a new list List of company towns. Saskatchewan company towns could be added to this list as well. Coal in Canada is another new article, which could be added to with the new coal development near Hudson Bay. Also check out the new Higher educaiton task force

Member News

The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 37 members.
The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.
The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

Other News

List of basic Canada topics

Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.

Automate Deletion sorting to Candidates for Deletion

Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.

Ghost towns

Please contribute to the converstation regarding ghost towns of Saskatchewan, as there is a robot deleting pages from the Category:Ghost towns

Barnstar Contest

Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.

Trivia Question

The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.

Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?

Answer Trivia Quesion #3: , Saskatchewan. (From July Newsletter -Answer the Skytrail in Outlook a part of the Trans Canada Trail

Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?

Trivia Question #5: Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008.

		??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
		The correct editor/s will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!

Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!

Complete To Do List

WikiProject Saskatchewan Requests
Wikiproject Saskatchewan tasks Help, please!
WikiProject Saskatchewan TO DO
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods TO DO
SK Communities & Neighbourhoods tasks Help, please!
To contribute to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan TO DO
check out the red links on Highways, or Roads and adopt one of these.
SK Wikiproject Road tasks Help , please!
University of Saskatchewan TO DO list

The Editor's Desk
Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!: Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2008. If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Spotlight Department
Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Mitchazenia. Even though he might not be heavily involved all things Saskatchewan, one area he is greatly involved in is roads and highways. Not only that he started the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways WikiProject. His other edits don't go un-notice. So much so that he was even awarded the WP: Sask Barnstar for his contributions to highway and road articles of Saskatchewan. Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
News Article
Wikipedia talk WP SK : For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News\|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads There is conversation covering the usage of exit list guides ELG's and junction tables ({{jctint}} Please join this M of S conversation!
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods The SKCN navigation template has been slightly re-designed. The colours have been changed. Let us know what you think. The assesment template for SKCN is still in the works. Stayed tuned for more developments on this issue. The Assesment Department has been undergoing some updates, additions, and changes. The new sections have of the Assesment Department have modeled after the WP: Saskatchewan Assesment Department. Many articles need assesments or re-assesments. Go to the Requesting an assesment of Assesment Department to see what needs an assesment. As always, we are looking for new members. Don't hesistate to join WP: SKCN. We look forward to welcoming you to the project. Signed..Mr. C.C. .
Articles needing attention
Articles with error tags Felix Douma, Saskatoon railway station and Carlos Windiz need citations. The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Centre for the Study of Canada needs citations and categories, and added to the U of S article. James Curry needs to be wikified and citations. Father Mercredi High School needs expansion and is orphaned.
Editors of April 2008

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Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive
Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 103 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status. Please leave a note on the tip line, if you are able over the next month to make improvements to the provincial article.

A class reviews
Some of the larger wikiprojects are doing their own peer reviews to pass articles from GA to A. See the introduction at A class reviews Is Saskatchewan membership large enough for this undertaking? Should there be a collaboration with Canada wikiproject in this regards?

Community and Neighborhood Assessments
There are now 769 community articles tagged and assessed for Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods using the new addition to the Canadian template.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
Saskatchewan articles	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
This is an article written about the Wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
Saskatchewan articles	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

Trivia Question
- Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?
August newsletter answer #4 --> Prince Albert National Park

Spotlight Award
Leafschik1967 (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Leafschik1967 . Amongst several editors, it was again hard to select only one for representation in this latest edition of the newsletter. This editor is diverse, editing a variety of SK sports related articles, SK communities and SK flora articles, helping out with Good article nominations and contributing to talk pages. Thank you for your assistance as Saskatchewan grows on wikipedia.

Most Commonly Visited Pages
- To help keep Saskatchewan current and visited at wikipedia... The Beijing Olympics, Summer Games and athletes were amongst the most commonly visited wikipedia pages last month. It would be good to have articles about our Saskatchewan Olympic competitors started, upgraded, and tagged on the talk pages as belonging to SK wikiproject. As well as Saskatchewan competitors in the upcoming September paralympics. Saskatchewan at olympics. Up and coming in the news is the international interest in the Arctic waters, and Greg Poelzer, associate professor of Political Studies has related that there will be growth in the Mining sector of northern Saskatchewan during this impetus.

Selected picture: North Saskatchewan River

Member news
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008

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Please help with Version 7 Saskatchewan articles before October 20, 2008!!

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Version 0.7 Saskatchewan articles

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC) - Articles selected for Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Cougar, Gray Wolf, Louis Riel, Beaver, Leslie Nielsen , Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canoe, Canadian English, Bobcat, New France , Hudson's Bay Company, Moose, First Nations, Elk , Great Plains, Sitting Bull, Sioux, Wilfrid Laurier, Joni Mitchell, Reindeer, Northern pike , American Black Bear, Trans-Canada Highway , John Diefenbaker, American Bison, Muskrat , Cree, Bigfoot, Louisiana Purchase, Tommy Douglas, University of Saskatchewan, Taiga, White-tailed deer, Lloydminster, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Gordie Howe, Athabasca River , Métis people (Canada), Government of Canada, University of Regina, Wolverine , Rainbow trout, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Wendigo, American Beaver, Geography of Saskatchewan

Corner Gas
- Should development be made on the article Corner Gas in its last season and the necessary forms filled out for inclusion to Version 7?

Community and Neighborhood Assessments
There are now 769 community articles tagged and assessed for Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods using the new addition to the Canadian template.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
Saskatchewan articles	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
This is an article written about the Wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
Saskatchewan articles	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

Canadian Election 2008
- The election has now been called, so as with all elections we'll need to keep a close eye on the main article, party articles and candidate articles to make sure everything is conforming to policy (read: NPOV) and to watch out for likely edit wars.

Of course it will all be nothing compared to what happens on election night, October 14th, as packs of anon editors update ridings according to who won the first 1% of the vote, so mark that date on your calendar too. -Royalguard11(T) 18:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC) -Canadian Federal Election 2008

Selected picture:'55 Bel Air dragster 'Touch 'N' Go' at SIR

Member news
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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