User talk:Geoff Plourde/Archive 17

Can you urgently help Milhist please?

We've had a rather large bombshell dropped on us. The Wikipedia editorial team are aiming to release a version of Wikipedia on CD/DVD in time for the end of year holiday season. They've provided us with a list of 1333 Milhist articles they intend including.

The problem is that the quality of these articles varies considerably.

We've put together review page listing all the articles, in twenty-five article worklists. I'm hoping that 15-20 trusted editors can work through the list, weedying out problem articles and identifying suitable versions for release. The work is as far away from a tagging and assessing drive as you can imagine though, for convenience and ease of use, we've closely followed the traditional Milhist drive format.

This is, at the moment, an invitation-only review. The reason is that time is short and we can't afford too many mistakes. I'm only contacting experienced editors who performed very well indeed in the last two Milhist drives. I guess that working through a worklist of twenty-five articles will take between one and three hours to do. We're aiming to get the preliminary work done by next Sunday, so it's urgent too.

I do hope you can help but – if it's not too much trouble – if you are unable to participate at the moment, would you please let me know on my talk page? otherwise, please sign up here. Thank you for your time, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 17:28, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

PS: I've haven't forgotten about updating the template text. This has rather taken up my time last twenty-hours or so. All the best, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 17:28, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to trouble you but would it be possible for you to wrap up your worklist today please? If you find yourself unable to do so, it's no problem but I'd appreciate it if you let me know you won't be able to complete on my talk page. Many thanks! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 07:53, 28 September 2008 (UTC)