Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Outreach/January 2008 Newsletter

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The Films WikiProject Newsletter
Volume III, no. 1 - January 2008
Project News
  • This month, Portal:Film became a Featured Portal with the dedicated work of WP:FILMS member Cirt. The portal includes a list of all featured content within the project and includes articles on select featured articles.
  • Lead Coordinator Girolamo Savonarola has announced a Core list of films and film-related articles that our project should focus on improving. The selected films were complied using a variety of lists based on critical reception, box office performance, and all-time lists. The creation of the list will also eliminate the importance parameter of the film banner. Visit the talk page of the list to help develop the list further and assist in creating a new contest department.
  • We have now reached over 37,600 film-related articles that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class and importance.
  • There are currently about 30 film and film-related articles at WP:GAN waiting to be reviewed. If you have not considerably edited one of the articles, you can perform a review by following these instructions. The list of articles can be seen here.
  • A new subpage for the project has been created to help members keep track of current film-related FACs. Visit the current FAC page to help review, comment on, and assist articles in reaching featured status. Additionally, the project now has a new Review Department where peer reviews and A-Class assessments will be conducted.
  • Some of the new film-related free images that were uploaded this month include: Image:EvaGreenFeb07.jpg, Image:BruceWillisLFDHpremiere07.jpg, Image:Gulliverstravelsopening1939.JPG, Image:AlamoFilming.jpg, Image:Cloverfieldwarning.jpg, and Image:A Jitney Elopement Escena de la película.jpg. Consider uploading some of your own free images that you may have or spending some time searching for free images and asking authors for permission to use their images so that our film-related articles can continue to improve.
  • A new national task force was created this month, Australian cinema. It currently has three members and is seeking more. If interested in assisting in improving Australian-related articles, visit the project's page.
  • The Korean cinema task force that was mentioned last month has now been moved from WikiProject Korea to WP:FILMS. A new link for the article has been added to the project's sidebar under task forces. It currently has four members and would benefit from more editors.
  • Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in January 2008. This month has been one of our most successful months ever in bringing articles up to GA status. Interestingly, last January had similar results. Keep up the excellent work!
Member News
Film
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 12 22 20 14 5 73
Featured list FL 1 10 11
Good article GA 16 44 63 33 22 178
B 72 160 222 263 623 1340
Start 33 230 465 1957 5061 7746
Stub 5 97 448 14427 14192 29169
List 2 1 4 21 3721 3749
Assessed 140 554 1223 16715 23634 42266
Unassessed 1 1
Total 140 554 1223 16715 23635 42267
Current proposals and discussions
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