Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Outreach

The outreach department of the Virginia WikiProject is a centralized work are for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The task currently underway is a welcoming message for new members of the project; further ideas are always welcome, of course!

Inviting new members

Please do not use this indiscriminately, but if an editor catches your eye as someone that might be interested in this project, you can use this to paste into their Talk page.

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Welcoming new members

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Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Virginia WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the state of Virginia.

A few features that you might find helpful:

The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but several other formats are available.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every Virginia article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!

From 2006 to 2007, the WikiProject produced a monthly newsletter. It has since been discontinued, though if anyone is interested in reviving it, feel free to!

Last issue

The Virginia WikiProject Newsletter
Volume II, no. 2 - October 2007

Project News

We are up to 3163 articles, which means we offically have more articles than the entire Amharic Wikipedia. Look out Limburgish Wikipedia, we are coming for you next!
Please continue to help the project grow by adding the {{WikiProject Virginia}} to the talk page of any Virginia related article that you want to be within the scope of this project.
We also have a new page - Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Article Improvement - designed to help coordinate efforts to improve Virginia articles. You can use this page to tell us about articles that need work or let us know about articles you are preparing for a WP:GA or WP:FA nomination. Consider adding this page to your watch list and helping out.
Special thanks to VirginiaProp and User:Neutralhomer for creating and tagging lots of new Virginia articles, to T Rex for developing our article improvement page, and to everyone who has helped improve Wikipedia's Virginia articles.

Member News

New members to the project since the last issue include....

Emeil, Hunter209, Don Braffitt, WAVY 10 Fan, VirginiaProp, Terrenjpeterson, Carla, Sageofwisdom, Chrisfortier, Faithlessthewonderboy, Okisize, Old Guard, Unixluv, and the return of T Rex (boy, we really need to have more frequent newsletters).

If you have good reliable online sources, don't be afraid to add them to the main project page. Under "External links".

Current proposals and discussions
From the Editors

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. 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 next issue (Issue 3 – November 2007, or whenever we get around to doing another one). We could use more editors and any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Contributors to this Issue

Kubigula (Lead Editor, Distributor)
Dinosaur puppy (Editor)

Complete To Do List

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To do list

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- Virginia • Virginia geography • Virginia politicians • Virginia schools

FAC:

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Virginia}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

No results were found.

FAR: none
FARC: none

GA Noms:

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Virginia}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

No results were found.

- Harrison family of Virginia · Gessner Harrison
Review: none
Article Improvement and Requested Help: Add Articles that you need help with, or articles that are in bad condition
Assess:
- Assess articles that have tags but no quality or importance assessment.
Infoboxes are Needed on these articles
Photos have been Requested on these articles:
Miscellaney:
- Many of the "unincorporated communities" in Template:Richmond County, Virginia are in fact neighborhoods of the City of Richmond, Virginia, not the unrelated county; the articles need to be changed (text + name) to reflect this (click on their coordinates for proof)

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