- Project news
- Happy new year! This is the month to make your
New Year's resolutions, and you can always have one or two related to Wikipedia! As 2009 has now ended with great progress for our project with many new FA/GAs, members, articles, and departments, we must now look forward to a new year full of great potential! Consider branching out to new areas such as joining in on more discussions, improving articles to higher levels, participating in drives and contests, and recruiting new members who may be interested in helping our project.
- The
Tag & Assess drive has completed another month. There are over 50,000 articles that need to be reviewed. We have already assessed over 6,600 articles! This will take a project-wide effort to complete, and it will be helpful if you complete even just one range. Some articles take a few seconds to complete, and you can always pick up where you left off if you want to work on other projects. With many awards available, you can review whatever ranges you feel comfortable with. Instructions can be found on the drive's page.
- At the beginning of 2009, we had over 50,000 articles. Our project currently has over 62,700 film-related articles, with 59,000 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.
- Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were:
Avatar (2009 film) (with over 4.8 million views!),
Inglourious Basterds,
Iron Man 2,
New Moon (2009 film), and
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film). For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see
here. Consider improving one of these articles that is seen by thousands of people each month.
-
V for Vendetta is currently at
FAR. Please help the article maintain its FA status by weighing in.
-
Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in December 2009.
- Member news
Film pages by quality
|
Quality
|
Total
|
FA
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188
|
FL
|
482
|
A
|
1
|
GA
|
1,413
|
B
|
1,391
|
C
|
9,843
|
Start
|
69,469
|
Stub
|
96,156
|
List
|
13,005
|
Category
|
52,408
|
Disambig
|
360
|
File
|
106,710
|
Portal
|
19
|
Project
|
228
|
Redirect
|
11,234
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Template
|
9,326
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NA
|
21
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Assessed
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372,254
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Unassessed
|
712
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Total
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372,966
|
WikiWork factors (
?)
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ω = 970,653
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Ω = 5.44
|
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- Coming to theaters
Opened last weekend (12/25):
Opening next weekend (1/8):
Other January releases:
- Did you know...
- ... that the 1905
silent film
Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
- ... that
Robert Hood Bowers'
score for the
lost
silent film
A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
- ... that after the
attack on Pearl Harbor,
director
John Huston was forced to leave
In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the
War Department, and
Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
- ... that the
1901 film
Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of
Charles Dickens' 1843 novel
A Christmas Carol?
- ... that the 1957 film
Edge of the City, starring
John Cassavetes and
Sidney Poitier, won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
- ... that the
Swedish film
Hoppa högst was written by famous author
Astrid Lindgren, who based the screenplay on a story from her book
Kajsa Kavat?
- ... that, between 1973 and 1992,
Barry Malkin edited both sequel films and both compilations of the
Godfather Trilogy, but was not involved in the
original 1972 film?
- ... that the 1951 film
Marmayogi was the first
Tamil film to receive an
"Adult" rating?
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