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Newsletter draft

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This is the pre-publication draft for the upcoming newsletter.


Newsroom

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Submission deadline: 10 years ago!  Publication scheduled for early Monday.
Once all tasks are complete, editors will complete the publication process.


Notices for contributors and interested editors

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  • Schedule
  • Start: Start all pages that are to be included in the next edition. Please note that "News and notes", "In the media", and WikiProject U2 and other reports are typically drafted in the latter, but suggestions for them are always welcome through our suggestions page.
  • Draft: A rough outline of topics to be covered should be in place by the middle of ???, so that if a regular reporter is unavailable, the editor can find a replacement for that issue.
  • Mature version[s]: Aim to have reasonably mature drafts of all pages for comments by the managing editors, fellow journalists, and other interested editors. WIkiProject U2 Newsletter editors recommend any structural changes, reductions in length, expansions in scope, necessary coordination between pages, postponement to subsequent issue.
  • Finish: Last-minute tweaks and copy-editors go through the drafts; publication in the morning of the following day.
  • Those wishing to submit an irregular article, such as (but certainly not limited to) interviews and op-eds, should [[Special:Emailuser/Example|email]] the editor-in-chief at least one week prior to your desired publishing date.

Current discussion

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Proposals

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In development

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Article status

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Section Status Link
From the editors  In progress   Start/Edit 
Featured content
This section covers several aspects of the issue theme (an article related to U2 within the main namespace): its lead, revision history, rating, statistics, and etcetera, plus interviews with editors involved with this article. It can also include the "best of" → quote, picture, and DYKs.
 In progress   Start/Edit 
Irregular articles  Not started   Start/Edit 
In the media  Not started   Start/Edit 
Recent research  Not started   Start/Edit 
WikiProject report
Tasks, to-do list, articles allerts and tools, statistics, logs, reports, new members and their interviews, and etcetera.
 In progress   Start/Edit 
Best of
"Best of" article or included within the issue theme (featured content)
  • Best quote
  • Best picture
  • Did you know...
 Not started   Start/Edit 
News and notes
  • U2 news – within this section or on the right side of other articles.
  • Project (and memebrs) news – same as the above or within "WikiProject report".
 Not started   Start/Edit 

Themes

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Themes' archive

Resources

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Fonts

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File:WP U2 Newsletter.png The WikiProject U2 Newsletter (2013)
Font stack: 'Engebrechtre Bold',engebold,Engebrechtre,'Britannic Bold',Impact,'Franklin Gothic Bold',Charcoal,'Helvetica Inserat','Bitstream Vera Sans Bold','Arial Black','Arial Bold','Arial Rounded MT Bold',Gadget,Haettenschweiler,fantasy

From the editor – Featured content (2013)
Font stack: 'BudHand Bold',BudHand,Kristen,Irregularis,Andy,Chalkboard,'Ashley Script',Cézanne,'Dom Casual',Fontoon,Jefferson,'Rage Italic',Rufscript,Scribble,Soupbone,Tekton,'Lucida Handwriting','Lucida Casual','Chancery Hand','Comic Sans MS','Lucida Calligraphy','Lucida Blackletter','ITC Zapf Chancery','URW Chancery L','TeX Gyre Chorus','Zapf Chancery',Coronet,Zapfino,'Monotype Corsiva','Apple Chancery',cursive

U2 • BOY – Boy (1980)
Font stack: 'Berling Roman',...,times,serif

U2 OCTOBER – October (1981)
Font stack: 'Bernhard Condensed Regular','Bernhard Bold Condensed',...,times,serif

U2 WAR – War (1983)
Font stack: 'Block Gothic Bold Extra Condensed','Block Gothic',...,sans-serif

U2 L  I  V  E “UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY” – Under a Blood Red Sky (1983)
Font stack: 'Zurich Bold Extra Condensed','Nimbus Sans',...,sans-serif

U2 The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
Font stack: Bolide,'Bolide Regular','Bolide Script','Brush Script MT','Brush Script',Brush-Script,'Freestyle Script','Dom Casual',Pristina,Mistral,Kaufmann,'Lucida Handwriting','Caflisch Script',cursive

U2 THE JOSHUA TREE – The Joshua Tree (1987)
Font stack: 'Legacy Serif Ultra',Palatino,'Palatino Linotype','Palatino LT STD','URW Palladio L','Nimbus Roman No9 L','Book Antiqua',Georgia,'Times New Roman',times,serif

  • Captive Soundtrack: Quaint Gothic SG Regular
  • Rattle & Hum: Compacta Bold BT, Univers Black Italic
  • Achtung Baby: Helvetica Cyrillic Upright, Staccato555, Grunge, Handscript SF
  • One: Migraine Serif
  • Zooropa: Traffic Type Sweden D
  • Passengers: News Gothic SH Bold, News Gothic Bold Extra Condensed
  • Pop: Helvetivca 45 Light
  • Best Of: Swiss 721
  • Electrical Storm: Swiss 721
  • Sweetest Thing: Helvetica Ultra Compressed
  • All That You Can't Leave Behind: Metrostyle, Eurostile Extended, Eurostile Extended Roman, Square Extended
  • Elevation Tour Live From Boston: BASE_PXL7, 04b_08, 04b_19, 04b_31
  • Elevation Tour Live From Slane Castle: Clarendon Bold, Clarendon
  • How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: Clarendon BT Roman, Clarendon

How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb + File:U2.svg
Font stack: 'Clarendon Light','Clarendon-Light-DTC',Clarendon-Light,Clarendon,'URW Clarendon','Clarendon Text','Monotype Clarendon','Clarendon No 1',Egyptienne,'URW Egyptienne','Egyptienne F','Bodoni Egyptian Pro',Sanchez,'Sanchez Slab','Geometric Slabserif 712',Playbill,Rockwell,Memphis,Lubalin,Perpetua,Felicity,Baskerville,'Big Caslon','URW Palladio L','Nimbus Roman No9 L',Didot,'Bodoni MT','Century Schoolbook',Utopia,serif

  • Vertigo Tour: Housebroken Clean
  • Larry Mullen Band: Cooper Black
  • The Complete U2 Digital Box Set: Conduit ITC Bold
  • U218 Singles: Eurostile Bold Extended #2
  • The Saints Are Coming: Aachen Bold Plain
  • Propaganda: Grunge
  • u2propaganda logo: Prosper Open Cd-Book
  • EDUN logo: QuaintGothicSG Regular, Quaint Gothic SG Regular
  • Music Rising: Regulator Medium
  • RED campaign: Trade Gothic Bold Condensed No. 20
  • U2 by U2: Eurostile Bold Extended #2
  • No Line On The Horizon: Bureau Grot Comp Bold, NLOTH.ttf, Bulldozer
  • 360° Logo: Samson Bold
  • U2360° 2010–2011 Logo: Princetown LET, Normal
  • Zoo TV Live From Sydney: Serpentine Bold, Serpentine Bold Obligue
  • From The Ground Up / Um die Welt in 760 Tagen – U2360 Official Photobook: ITC Machine Medium LT
  • Other U22 / From The Ground Up: Grotesque No. 9
Serif

Georgia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,'Times New Roman',times,serif

Palatino,'Palatino Linotype','Palatino LT STD','URW Palladio L','Nimbus Roman No9 L','Book Antiqua',Georgia,'Times New Roman',times,serif

'ITC Bookman','Bookman Old Style','URW Bookman L','Book Antiqua'

Most common serif fonts
Font Win Mac Lin
Times New Roman 99.81% 98.39% 69.43%
Georgia 99.51% 98.64% 69.63%
Palatino Linotype 99.51% 0 0
Sylfaen 98.20% 0 0
Cambria 88.95% 49.07% 0
Constantia 88.46% 47.96% 0
Garamond 85.49% 61.19% 5.33%
Book Antiqua 85.44% 60.32% 0
Bookman Old Style 85.35% 60.07% 98.42%
MS Mincho 82.13% 66.51% 0
Lucida Bright 82.04% 99.75% 50.30%
Times 3.60% 99.51% 0.20%
Baskerville 64.51% 95.80% 0
American Typewriter 0 95.55% 0
Didot 0 95.30% 0
Hoefler Text 0.83% 95.30% 0
Big Caslon 0 94.68% 0
Hiragino Mincho ProN 0 93.04% 0
Palatino 3.65% 87.52% 0.39%
Kokonor 0 83.51% 0
Kailasa 0 83.06% 0
PCMyungjo 0 77.82% 0
Century Schoolbook 59.54% 59.95% 98.82%
URW Palladio L 0 0 98.42%
Nimbus Roman No9 L 0 0 98.22%
DejaVu Serif 34.95% 0 97.83%
DejaVu Serif Condensed 34.83% 0 94.48%
Bitstream Charter 0 0 91.52%
Liberation Serif 0 0 89.35%
FreeSerif 0 0 85.21%
Sans serif
Most common sans serif fonts
Font Win Mac Lin
Lucida Sans 100.00% 99.75% 50.89%
Tahoma 100.00% 95.92% 0
Arial 99.90% 98.89% 69.43%
Verdana 99.90% 99.26% 70.02%
Microsoft Sans Serif 99.85% 0 0
Trebuchet MS 99.81% 97.90% 68.84%
Lucida Sans Unicode 99.51% 0 0
Franklin Gothic Medium 99.37% 67.09% 0
Tunga 97.61% 0 0
Estrangelo Edessa 97.57% 0 0
Gautami 97.52% 0 0
Arial Black 97.47% 96.79% 68.24%
Mangal 97.47% 0 0
Raavi 97.42% 0 0
Latha 97.37% 0 0
Shruti 97.32% 0 0
Kartika 94.26% 0 0
Vrinda 94.06% 0 0
Calibri 89.09% 52.41% 0
Candara 88.70% 47.96% 0
Corbel 88.61% 48.08% 0
Arial Narrow 87.59% 97.03% 2.76%
Century Gothic 86.95% 62.55% 0
Helvetica 6.43% 100.00% 0.79%
Lucida Grande 0 100.00% 0
Geneva 1.80% 99.88% 0
Helvetica Neue 1.41% 99.26% 0
Gill Sans 59.98% 97.28% 0
Arial Rounded MT Bold 60.22% 96.42% 0
Futura 1.22% 96.29% 0
Skia 0 95.80% 0
Optima 2.09% 95.43% 0
Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN 0 93.04% 0
URW Gothic L 0 0 98.82%
Nimbus Sans L 0 0 98.42%
DejaVu Sans 0 0 97.83%
Cursive
Most common cursive fonts
Font Win Mac Lin
Comic Sans MS 99.56% 95.67% 68.44%
MV Boli 98.15% 0 0
Monotype Corsiva 83.06% 59.58% 0
Apple Chancery 1.17% 95.43% 99.01%
Zapfino 0 95.30% 0
Brush Script MT 63.00% 93.82% 0
Lucida Handwriting 68.35% 60.07% 0
Fantasy

Copperplate,'Copperplate Gothic Light','CopprplGoth BT',fantasy

Most common fantasy fonts
Font Win Mac Lin
Impact 99.22% 96.91% 68.84%
Marker Felt 0 96.04% 0
Papyrus 71.28% 94.93% 0
Copperplate 67.23% 94.44% 0
Copperplate Gothic Bold 67.19% 59.33% 0
Herculanum 93.82% 0 0
Haettenschweiler 68.26% 59.33% 0
Britannic Bold 64.51% 58.34% 0
Wide Latin 64.51% 58.34% 0
Playbill 64.46% 58.71% 0
Algerian 64.41% 0.99% 0
Broadway 64.36% 8.52% 0
Matura MT Script Capitals 64.36% 58.22% 0
Colonna MT 63.92% 58.47% 0
Gabriola 63.89% 33.77% 0
Imprint MT Shadow 59.01% 0 0.59%
Braggadocio 3.07% 58.96% 0
Desdemona 2.04% 58.34% 0
Kino MT 3.07% 57.85% 0
Monospace

'Courier New',Courier,'Nimbus Mono L','Liberation Mono',FreeMono,monospace

'Lucida Console',Monaco,Consolas,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace

Most common monospace fonts
Font Win Mac Lin
Courier New 99.76% 96.79% 69.03%
Lucida Console 99.42% 0 0
Consolas 88.56% 48.58% 0
Monaco 2.24% 99.88% 1.97%
Courier 0 99.75% 14.20%
Lucida Sans Typewriter 78.72% 99.75% 50.10%
Andale Mono 3.89% 96.29% 66.47%
Nimbus Mono L 0 0 98.22%
DejaVu Sans Mono 0 0 97.83%
Liberation Mono 0 0 89.15%
FreeMono 0 0 85.21%
Fonts test
The WikiProject U2 Newsletter
("Engebrechtre Bold", engebold, Engebrechtre, "Britannic Bold", Impact, "Franklin Gothic Bold", Charcoal, "Helvetica Inserat", "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold", "Arial Black", "Arial Bold", "Arial Rounded MT Bold", Gadget, Haettenschweiler, fantasy) bold italic bold-italic a0123456789A{[()]}èé+*çò@°#à§ù_-:.;,€|!"£$%&/()=?^–—°″′≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→§
The Unforgettable Fire
(Bolide, "Bolide Regular", "Bolide Script", "Brush Script MT", "Brush Script", Brush-Script, "Freestyle Script", "Dom Casual", Pristina, Mistral, Kaufmann, "Lucida Handwriting", "Caflisch Script",cursive) bold italic bold-italic a0123456789A{[()]}èé+*çò@°#à§ù_-:.;,€|!"£$%&/()=?^–—°″′≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→§
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
("Clarendon Light", "Clarendon-Light-DTC", Clarendon-Light, Clarendon, "URW Clarendon", "Clarendon Text", "Monotype Clarendon", "Clarendon No 1", Egyptienne, "URW Egyptienne", "Egyptienne F", "Bodoni Egyptian Pro", Sanchez, "Sanchez Slab", "Geometric Slabserif 712", Playbill, Rockwell, Memphis, Lubalin, Perpetua, Felicity, Baskerville, "Big Caslon", "URW Palladio L", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Didot, "Bodoni MT", "Century Schoolbook", Utopia, serif) bold italic bold-italic a0123456789A{[()]}èé+*çò@°#à§ù_-:.;,€|!"£$%&/()=?^–—°″′≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→§
From the editor
Featured content
("BudHand Bold", BudHand, Kristen, Irregularis, Andy, Chalkboard, "Ashley Script", Cézanne, "Dom Casual", Fontoon, Jefferson, "Rage Italic", Rufscript, Scribble, Soupbone, Tekton, "Lucida Handwriting", "Lucida Casual", "Chancery Hand", "Comic Sans MS", "Lucida Calligraphy", "Lucida Blackletter", "ITC Zapf Chancery", "URW Chancery L", "TeX Gyre Chorus", "Zapf Chancery", Coronet, Zapfino, "Monotype Corsiva", "Apple Chancery", cursive) bold italic bold-italic a0123456789A{[()]}èé+*çò@°#à§ù_-:.;,€|!"£$%&/()=?^–—°″′≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→§

Suggestions

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This section is for suggesting news to be covered in the next issue of The WikiProject U2 Newsletter. For general discussion, comments or questions regarding The WikiProject U2 Newsletter, please use Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U2/Outreach.

You can leave a tip in several ways:

Review desk

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Reviews of books about Wikipedia and WikiProject U2/U2 (unlikely)

Interviews desk

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This is The WikiProject U2 Newsletter's interviews desk, for formulating interview questions for various and sundry interview series.

WikiProject desk

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This is the place to leave short announcements regarding upcoming events, collaborations, elections, task forces, new or revived articles, and other information for the "WikiProject report" subsection.

Publishing

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Handle the actual "publishing" tasks in the following order.

  1. Update the issue header (at Wikipedia:WikiProject_U2/Outreach/newsletterdraft#Header). If there is a note from the editord, make that story #1. Rank the other stories in the order used in the newsroom or with big stories at the top. The order of these may be adjust to improve the balance of the two columns of stories on Wikipedia:WikiProject U2/newsletter. Make sure that each section's subtitle is reflected on the content page.
  2. Copy the header, all sections/stories, and the footer (one by one) to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_U2/Outreach/newsletterFULL_MONTH_NAME_IN_LOWERCASETWO_DIGITS_YEAR<!--{{#time:y}}-->]] (example for December 2013: Wikipedia:WikiProject_U2/Outreach/newsletternovember13.
  3. Change the PREVIOUS/NEXT navigation in the earlier article to point to the new one and vicevesra of that feature.
  4. Replace all the occurences of Issue #: THEME and d Month yyyy (where "#" is expressed in Roman numerals; "THEME" could be the theme of the previous newsletter or just THEME; "d" = 1 to 31; "Month" is the month name; and "yyyy" = 4-digit year) with the proper values (use "Match case") (example for the issue number 44, with "Valentine's Day" as the issue theme, published on 14 February 2024: Replace "Issue #: THEME" with "Issue XLIV: Valentine's Day" and "d Month yyyy" with "14 February 2024".
  5. Update the newsletter home (it also serves as the issue summary/talk page delivery output; see below), the Newsletter section within the Outreach department, the archives, Current and Past editions at Wikipedia:WikiProject U2 (on the righ panel), and check that all is up to date.
  6. Post the newsletter issue summary on the talk pages of subscribers. The subscribe message is loaded into User:EdwardsBot/Spam for automatic delivery. See the recent history of the page for proper formatting. Only users which are on the access list can initiate a bot run (as an admin, you can add yourself). Note: Sometimes the bot will fail to start, with an error message about the Toolserver lag being too high. This can be overridden by entering "Really start" instead of "Start" in the Status page. The drawback is that a slightly outdated version of the subscription list will be used, but this should be tolerable in most cases.
  7. Initiate the draft page for the next issue, with a generic skeleton (using the pre-generated output below), so that editors can begin creating the next issue.
  8. Clear out discussion and links related to the newly published issue in the Newsroom.

Global message delivery output

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CHECK_THIS_OUT

# RECIPIENTS (PAGE LIST)

Wikipedia:WikiProject U2/Outreach/newsletterdelivery

# SUBJECT

''The WikiProject U2 Newsletter'' – Issue #: THEME – d Month yyyy

# BODY

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Generic skeleton for the upcoming issues

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