Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/Newsletter February 2008

Project news

• The fifth project coordinator election has now concluded. Roger Davies has been elected to serve as the project's Lead Coordinator, and Blnguyen, Eurocopter tigre, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Wandalstouring, and Woody will occupy the eight Assistant Coordinator positions. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!
• In the simultaneous referendum on project organization, you voted almost unanimously for a primus inter pares structure. As a tangible reflection of this, Assistant Coordinators are now known as Coordinators.
• The contest department has completed its eleventh month of competition, which saw 10 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 28 points, followed by Smsarmad, with 13 points, with Blnguyen, Ed! and jwillbur also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• The National militaries task force has been created.
• A new automatically-generated clean-up list is available to track articles that have various clean-up tags applied to them.
• A new logistics department has been created. The aim is to provide a pool of useful article creation skills that anyone can draw on. These include copy-editing, photograph retouching, and reference material sourcing. If you can contribute, please do so.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
2. Carlson's patrol
3. Coenwulf of Mercia
4. Glorious First of June
5. Koli Point action
6. Operation Camargue

New featured lists:

1. List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality

New A-Class articles:

1. 51st Army (Soviet Union)
2. Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999)
3. Le Paradis massacre
4. Military of East Timor
5. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

Breaking news

• A new B-Class Assessment Drive ("BCAD") will go operational no later than 11 March. Of great interest to experienced wiki-gnomes, it is small in scope, about 4,500 articles, and will be supported by the usual awards, including a golden wiki. To keep up to date with developments, and to get off to a flying start when it opens, add WP:MHA-BCAD now to your watchlist.

Awards and honors

• Kirill Lokshin has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding organizational work, his painstaking maintenance work, and his unstinting advice, throughout his two years of project leadership.
• MBK004 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding effort to improve our complement of naval ships by updating infoboxes, replacing deprecated infoboxes, and locating sources for ships in the employment of their respective countries' navies.

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