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1 Invitation to new WikiProject
2 Project directory
3 Wikipedia Day Awards
4 Samoan Scouting
5 Rename and expansion
6 Proposed merger with Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 02:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Samoan Scouting

Can someone help render Be Prepared, the Scout Motto, into Samoan? Thanks! Chris 03:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename and expansion

Description: I propose to expand the now-inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject American Samoa into Wikipedia:WikiProject Samoa to be more inclusive of both Samoas and all Samoan-topics. Including the independent nation, with three times the population, would improve (and perhaps save) the existing Project. Not to mention the large Samoan diaspora, Los Angeles being the largest Samoan city, as well as notables who have come from the culture, like The Rock, Sosene Anesi...

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Chris 04:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Comments

You could request that the project change its scope, and, if whatever response you got was affirmative and sufficient, change the existing project page, templates, blah blah blah. At that point, you could start tagging the articles of the new broader scope and try to get members that way. Listing it on the Community Portal would probably work too. But you really should get the approval of the project itself before making such changes. Of course, if others were to join the project and agree to the changes, no one could argue that. John Carter 22:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Happy to be involved if this gets off the ground. By the way, Auckland claims to be the largest Samoan city. I wonder which is in reality. --CloudSurfer 04:45, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

That's a good question, I wonder if there is a Samoan diaspora article? Chris 06:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

There's just a little stub at Samoan American. Where could we get stats? Chris 06:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I also found Category:Samoan New Zealanders and Category:Samoan Americans Chris 06:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I have given you the wrong information. Auckland claims to be largest Polynesian city and it includes 13% of its population (1.3M) as Pacific Islanders, including Samoans. 12% are Maori. I don't know the breakdowns and I have no idea of the Samoan population of LA. However, most in LA would come from Am Samoa which now has a pop of 65K while most in Auckland would come from Samoa which now has a pop of 220K. Anyway, interesting stuff. A diaspora article would be interesting. There are other models for this listed in diaspora. --CloudSurfer 07:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The NZ Statistics site lists a total of 115,017 Samoans from the 2001 census. I can't find a city breakdown however I think a disproportionately high number live in Auckland. --CloudSurfer 07:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. Once a few people decide that the change in scope is desirable, it should be simple enough to move the page across. --Stemonitis 11:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Chris, I do really understand your intentions to bring back activity on the Wikiproject American Samoa by your proposal to expand it into a Wikiproject Samoa. But, I refuse to participate because I do believe the current Wikiproject is for American Samoa in particular, and that is why it was created as such. There will be American Samoans, US Nationals and US Citizens affiliated with this US territory who will eventually help this current Wikiproject in the future. Yes, it is inactive and I do not see any reason to change its scope and objectives just to make it active in a hurry. --Weekeejames 10:36, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

It's not a matter of "making it active in a hurry", it's a matter of keeping it from being deleted. Very well. I wash my hands of trying to save it. Chris 21:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)