Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Outreach

Music of Hawaiʻi

TUF-KAT is the primary author of Music of Hawaii. The article was listed as GA-Class in December 2005, but by September 2007, a great deal of anonymous editing left the article considerably weaker from its last good version in April 2006. As a result, Music of Hawaii was delisted due to a failure to meet the broadness criteria, as well as the addition of unsourced content, original research, poor formatting, and "stubby" sections needing expansion. One of the drawbacks of an encyclopedia that "anyone can edit", is that unless a core group of editors are watching articles closely on a daily basis, over time, articles tend to deteriorate in quality rather than improve, resulting in a telephone game where formerly good articles become incomprehensible. This is a perfect example of how important the project watchlist is to this project; Please check it at least once a day to avoid this type of problem in the future.

B-Class to GA-Class Push

Including Music of Hawaii, there are 63 B-Class articles that need to be checked against criteria for B-Class status; this criteria also needs to be added to the {{WPHawaii}} template. Articles should be referenced with inline citations, accurately discuss the topic in appropriate detail, adhere to WP:LAYOUT and WP:MOS, and include any necessary images or infoboxes. Of these 63 articles, about 20 are close to GA-Class status. Please take a moment to sort through the category and bring potential GA-candidates to the attention of the project. Or, you can perform cleanup, review the GA criteria, and nominate the articles yourself.

Unreferenced articles

While by no means comprehensive or complete, Category:Unreferenced Hawaii articles currently contains ~105 articles which are flagged in the {{WPHawaii}} project tag on the talk page as unref=yes. MPerel notes that if each of the 39 members of this project added references to at least one article per week, we could clear out the category well before the end of June. Please take a moment to review the category and find an article that catches your eye.

New and unassessed articles

AlexNewArtBot identifies new Hawaii-related articles on a project subpage. Please browse through these articles for review and assessment; If you run into a false positive, just ignore it. Category:Unassessed Hawaii articles should usually be empty, but if you find articles within this category please take a moment to assess as many as you can and help empty out the category.

Collaboration

Aloha shirt has been proposed as a collaboration candidate with the Fashion WikiProject. Please join the discussion on the fashion project talk page. If you own vintage aloha clothing, photographs are needed. A new subsection on the original Aloha Friday casual day and its relation to the Aloha clothing industry is in development. Anyone is welcome to help add this material to the main article or continue to expand it.

ABOVE RIGHT: A statue of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii, is shown holding a copy of "Aloha `Oe" (Farewell to Thee) in her hand, a popular song she wrote in 1878. The Queen composed more than 165 songs and played guitar, piano, organ, 'ukulele and zither.

Learn the Hawaiian language at Wikibooks

Singularity has begun working on a Hawaiian language textbook at Wikibooks. Upon finishing the book, users should be able to contribute to Wikipikia Hawai'i, the Hawaiian language Wikipedia. Singularity has already started two pages: About Hawaiian and Numbers. Questions or suggestions can be left for Singularity on his talk page. Singularity also maintains a to-do list that has even more Hawaiian language-related tasks.

Genealogy

KAVEBEAR has embarked upon an ambitious project creating family trees for the Royal Family of Hawaii, beginning with the Alii Aimoku of Hawaii. A very rough work-in-progress can be seen at Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Genealogy. Help is needed formatting and presenting the diagrams, using the formats available in Wikipedia:Family trees. It is unknown if WikiProject Genealogy is active, but it might be helpful to instead create a Royalty and nobility task force like WikiProject Japan in order to collaborate and benefit from active projects like WikiProject Royalty.

Dispute resolution update

Jonny-mt has reviewed eight significant article disputes on the project and has posted his findings here. Four of the eight disputes have either died down or have been solved. Ongoing disputes include Kingdom of Hawaii (NPOV) , Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy (NPOV), Liliuokalani (overthrow), and Hawaii (use of diacritics and completion of MOS:HAWAII). Please visit the talk pages and help contribute to a solution.

Watchlist update

MPerel manually updated the project watchlist, adding 400 articles that were left behind since Ingrid last ran WatchlistBot in August 2007. The project still needs a dedicated bot for automation, routine maintenance, and generating reports. Meanwhile, checking the project watchlist on a daily basis not only helps us keep an eye on vandalism but gives a quick overview of the most edited articles and ongoing, live discussions.

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• Hawaiian religion - Makana Chai leads July's article improvement drive.