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Jon513 (
talk) 17:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)reply
I understand your concern with the pictures on the wikiproject page, but I try to focus on writing an encyclopedia and not create unnecessary controversy.
Jon513 (
talk) 18:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Hi, and welcome to
WikiProject Plants! Our scope includes any and all taxa of plants, botanists, and botany topics. We're glad to have you working with us on our project!
A few features that you might find helpful:
Our
navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
Images: There are
articles that need images. You can search
Wikimedia Commons for images. When you find one, add it to the Wikipedia article in the taxobox and remove the "needs-photo=yes" parameter from the
project banner on the talk page of the article. You could also help
identify plant photos on Commons.
Taxobox: We also have
articles that need taxoboxes. See
the taxobox usage guide for information on how to add a taxobox. When complete, don't forget to remove the "needs-taxobox=yes" parameter from the talk page banner.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page or the project at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!
Rkitko(
talk) 19:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Shavuot celebrates Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
What's This? Shalom aleichem sports fans, and welcome to the first of what I hope will be a monthly newsletter with the need-to-know information about our fair WikiProject. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to recommend a story for the newsletter, click
here to leave a message on the Newsletter Coordinator's talk page. In the News
WikiProject Good Articles is doing sweeps over all our current good articles to ensure they still meet criteria. For more information and how you can help, check out
WikiProject Good Articles Sweeps.
GA status for the article
Jew has been put on hold pending a few minor revisions. A list of things that need to be done to return this top importance article to its proper status can be found
here.
Jerusalem is a Featured Article Candidate! Go forth, my people, and
!vote!
To Do
One new Judaism-related article was created this month, the long requested
Hebrew Punctuation. Thanks to
Epson291 for creating it. Remember, folks, there are over forty
standing requests for Judaism articles, so whenever you get the opportunity make sure to go create a few.
In the right column you will see a listing of our most popular articles. All of these articles got 170,000+ page hits in the past month, and they should be on everyone's watchlist so we can keep them vandalism-free.
Spread the word! No, not the Word... (well, you can do that too) I'm talking about inviting knowledgeable users to join the project. You can proclaim your undying love of WikiProject Judaism in methods mild to wild, check the
project template page and
member list for examples. We also now have a flashy advertisement, to use it add {{
Wikipedia ads|ad=148}} to your userpage.
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Now with 200% more Jewishness!
Yes, folks, we're moving on up. This newsletter is now the newsletter for both WikiProject Judaism, WikiProject Jewish History, and WikiProject Kabbalah. In the future, I may split them, but for now I think we'll be just fine with one. As always, any questions or comments should be directed to me,
L'Aquatique.
A Special Dispatch
Just a note, not aimed at anyone in particular. By order of the administrative cabal, it is officially not cool (and possibly
dickish) to call someone an anti-semite when they aren't being anti-semitic. Anti-semitic is a very charged word, and it's important only to use it when you're absolutely sure it applies, lest it become the subject of a
Godwin-esque law. Remember Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In the News
A new class on the importance scale has been added- C Class- which covers articles better than start but not quite to B Class yet. It is up to the WikiProjects to decide whether to adopt them or not. Currently, there has been little discussion within our Projects, so if you feel strongly either way be sure to note so at your Project[s].
Thanks largely to the efforts of
Xyz7890, a new navbox has come into being featuring Halakha topics. See:
Template talk:Halakha to join in the conversation about how it can best be improved.
To Do
The
Simple English Wikipedia is beginning a project of creating and improving articles related to religion, including Judaism. At the present time, volunteers are needed to propose our most important subjects for articles to be created. The official working list is
here and a more extended list is
here. If you are unsure of proper topics, you might try checking our lists of top importance level articles:
Judaism and
Jewish History. (WikiProject Kabbalah currently doesn't have such a list)
[Simple English] WikiProject Christianity is considering running a monthly drive wherein two or three top importance articles from English Wikipedia are simplified and moved over to S.E. They have extended an offer to work with us in creating a similar project for Judaism related articles. For questions or volunteer opportunities, please contact
User:John Carter.
WikiProject Kabbalah is in dire need of an article rating system for quality and importance. If you are familiar with that system and have some time on your hands, please create one. It could also use some infoboxes...
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Sir Moses Montefore, a Jewish activist who died 123 years ago this month
"Censorship" of names of G-d
There is an interesting discussion currently taking place regarding whether or not it is acceptable to censor (i.e. G-d, HaShem->YodHey) names of G-d in articles to protect Jews who may be reading or editing the article. You can weigh in here:
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Yahweh.
Article Cleanup Lists User:B. Wolterding has generously offered us use of his bot to generate lists that show which articles of ours are tagged for cleanup. You can read more about this service here:
User:B._Wolterding/Cleanup_listings and if you would like to take him up on his offer, contact him on
his talk page.
WikiProject Kabbalah's only Featured and Good articles have been removed from the WikiProject, on the grounds that neither article (
Diane Keaton and
David Beckham, respectively) actually mention the subject's affiliation with
Kabbalah. If you have sourced information linking either of these people to Kabbalah, please add it so the articles can be returned to the WikiProject.
After a rather heated discussion, there are now two barnstars for use by the Jewish WikiProjects, {{
The Jewish Barnstar}} and {{
The New Jewish Barnstar}}, and you can choose which one you would like to use.. Remember: barnstars are for rewarding users who are doing good work on the project or on Judaism, Jewish History, or Kabbalah articles, and anyone can give anyone else a barnstar. If you see a user who you thinks deserves a thank you, give them a barnstar!
To Do/Help Requests
If you have some spare time on your hands, we could use an article about a Kabbalah scholar named
Moshe Idel. According to
HG there are quite a few sources easily available, you can contact him if you have questions. Be sure to nominate it for
DYK if the finished article is eligible.
The folks at
Shimon Peres need some assistance from someone familiar with both the Hebrew calendar and language to help them figure out the subject's birthday. If you can help, please see
Talk:Shimon_Peres#Birthday.
We get a lot of articles that are being created and not announced! By announcing new articles, you attract attention to them, and the more people looking and editing the better they will get. If you would like your new article to appear in the newsletter, add it
here for Judaism and Kabbalah and
here for Jewish History.
There are some 40 odd standing requests for Judaism related articles. Please make them! I would, but I'm too busy writing this. .
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Science lovers wanted!
Science lovers wanted!
Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the
Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate
here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our
to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the
request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the
outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation!
Sarah (
talk) 01:27, 18 April 2012 (UTC)|}reply
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