User talk:Delzen

The Performing Community: New WikiProject: by SriMesh

• Thanks to many contributors like you, we're proud to state that our province is coming together to provide direction related to Saskatchewan article content and format. Saskatchewan Wikipedians have also helped to identify missing or unfinished Saskatchewan articles. There is already one featured Saskatchewan related article and two featured Saskatchewan related lists followed by several "B-Class" rated articles. (Featured Articles).

Wiki Meetup: by SriMesh

• Here is yet another first for Saskatchewan Wikipedians established by Victor D! There is a Saskatchewan Meet up scheduled to further the planning and development of WikiProject Saskatchewan and WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads!

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan has 17 members. No new members have signed up as of yet.

Two New Articles On Saskatchewan Communities: by Fishhead2100

• Two news articles have been created. One on Osler, Saskatchewan and the other on Cadillac, Saskatchewan. Those two articles need some attention with formating, information, and much more.

Articles Up For Adoption: by Fishhead2100

• Articles needing adoption require people to take on the task of reasearching, editing, revising, and more. Anyone can adopt an article. If you are unclear on which articles need adopting, don't hesitate to ask.

Outreach Department Establish: by Fishhead2100

• WikiProject Saskatchewan is pleased to announce that the Outreach Department has been established. It is designed to be a centralized location where we will work on recruitment and member interaction efforts. Thanks to WP:NV for the idea and codes.

• Thanks to WP:INO for some newsletter ideas and codes.

Welcome: by SriMesh

• This would be our first full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us.

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition.

• Advertisements for recruitments within your WikiProject sub-groups are also welcome. If you see a new Saskatchewan created article by a Wikipedian who has not signed up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan, please extend a welcome to them. We'll run special sections, and recurring columns in the coming issues.

Saskatchewan Roads: by SriMesh

• The Saskatchewan Roads Wiki Project has been merged within the scope of WikiProject Canada Roads recently. It is a group of wikipedians who work on providing information about Saskatchewan roads and highways. Their contributions gain more significance as we try to provide more information about our thoroughfares. You can help too. Contact the members on the Saskatchewan Roads wiki project pages to learn how you can help in making the best highway pages in Wikipedia!

Article Improvement Drive collaboration by UserSriMesh

• Saskatchewan collaboration is another branch for the WikiProject Saskatchewan. First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable Saskatchewan subjects and the improvement of existing articles.

Invitation by SriMesh

• An invition is extended to members / subscribers to design a new WP Sask newsletter name with its own banner or font style. This would give a similar appearance to the WP Sask newsletter as the Wikipedia community newsletter name the Signpost which used the old english font for its unique naming. A proposal could be offered up for our own Wiki Project name for the new WP Sask newsletter similar to....Star Phoenix, Leader Post, Herald, Booster, or Times Herald (which are already in use for SK newspapers)....Something is needed for the WP Sask Newsletter.

• Please comment about the formation of a new concept - a Saskatchewan Portal

Take a peek at the Canadian Portal. There are four provinces, BC, ON, PQ, and Nunavut. There are also four Canadian cities with portals of their own as well.

Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution.^[1]

A unique concept by Portal India was to add a quiz as well India/Quiz

Portals introduce the Wikipedia reader to new developments by the wikiproject showing selected biographies, articles, pictures to feature periodically, and archive the previous suggestions. The portal may list information introducing the portal subject, categories, did you know, to do, other wikiprojects and news features as well.

Whereas Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan is an organization created to promote Saskatchewan usage and participation in Saskatchewan article editing and development.

• The Academics and alumni articles have been created to assist the U of S article
• Category sorting - more to do - ensure all articles are within a category/multiple categories.
  • Photographs on Wiki commons have been resorted into categories and subcategories.
• Prepare a welcome/invitation template for recruiting potential members
  • Completed the welcome/invitation template Fishhead2100 04:35, 4 August 2007
• Create new articles (e.g. Sports in Saskatchewan, Health in Saskatchewan)...
  • Sports in Saskatchewan is a newly created article, and is receiving help from afield to further the sections and edit copy.
• Associate famous personalities to their home communities (e.g. Lorne Babiuk to Canora, Saskatchewan)...
  • As New articles are created check the wiki link at the bottom of the article title 'What Links Here. Here related articles and biographies are listed which should have reciprocal links or information upon the newly created main article page.
• Geographical classification of Saskatchewan (consensus needed, e.g according to Weather Canada/Environment Canada)
  • Discussion is invited to help organize the areas of the Saskatchewan Wikiproject.

Original Reporter - Victor D ^PARLE

Northern Saskatchewan Focus' For the northern areas of Saskatchewan these are newly created articles: Ajawaan Lake, Nistowiak Falls. There are major expansions made to Prince Albert National Park, Churchill River. These are primarily natural areas, landforms etc. If others have this interest, there is a lot to do such as obvious entries such as Lac La Ronge (and the provincial Saskatchewan parks ), and some of the famous lakes in the north, some named for explorers and fur traders. Fremte 03:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan has 22 members. 3 new members have signed up. Welcome Shootmaster 44, Realc and Fremte to our project.
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 5 members. One new member has joined the project. Welcome Realc and Fishhead2100 to the project.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members. 2 new members have signed up. Welcome Realc to the project.

University of Saskatchewan

• The University of Saskatchewan Talk article has been nominated for the Article Creation and Improvement Drive. Please vote for the article so that we can get it up to FA! Thank you to those who have already voted.

• • Due to a time limit, as the centennial year is 1907-2007, this article is the current drive for improvement. The University of Saskatchewan article has also been posted for assistance at Requests for expansion as well as at WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration for further assistance. SriMesh | talk 01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggest Bot

• SuggestBot uses your prior contributions to predict other articles you might want to edit. This robot may give you some recommendations you may like to attempt. SriMesh | talk 01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Current debates:

• Quite a few of the topics of debate have been addressed by visiting editors who have helped in various ways to address ongoing concerns. Requests for assistance with online existing Wikipedia Saskatchewan articles were given improvements / changes where needed.

Welcome:

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's third full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives:
  • Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007
  • Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition.

• WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 4 - September 2007 blank template awaiting / inviting submissions and articles for publication in September, 2007.

• Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

WikiProject Saskatchewan/Request Progress of Wikiproject articles known to be created or expanded recently.

• Next of Kin Memorial Avenue , Moose Mountain Provincial Park, George Richardson (Canadian politician), Terry Nylander, Jack Scowen, Saskatchewan Prairie Ice, and Saskatoon Accelerators are some wonderful additions. These are articles that have been started from the to do list.

• Charles Agar has been created but needs a re-direct for the Saskatchewan Charles Agar biography.

• Corner Gas, John Diefenbaker, Peter MacKinnon, List of University of Saskatchewan alumni have recently made it to B Status.--SriMesh | talk 03:41, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

When looking through some Saskatchewan Highway articles (especially those containing intersection lists), you may notice that there are red links to potential Saskatchewan road articles (especially Range and Township Roads). However, many of these roads do not appear on the List of Saskatchewan provincial roads. If you happen to read over any highway articles, and you notice a red link to a road that does not appear on the provincial roads list, please add the road's name to the appropriate section on that list. Eventually, I believe that we will have a list of all known Saskatchewan rural roads. Thank you. Ultraflame | talk 01:35, 7 August 2007

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

• New articles on Saskatchewan communities have been started. A few of them have little to no information. The articles are:

• • Bethune, Saskatchewan
  • Bienfait, Saskatchewan
  • Carlyle, Saskatchewan
  • Colonsay, Saskatchewan
  • Lampman, Saskatchewan
  • Storthoaks, Saskatchewan

• There are still articles needing attention and please pick one at the Adopt-An-Article department of the the Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods project.

Signed..User:Fishhead2100 04:35, 4 August 2007 (UTC).

A time to reflect on 2007 and prepare for the future bringing in the new 2008 year. Personal wikipedia Saskatchewan members new year's resolutions are here:

1. Learn something new about Saskatchewan. SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
2. To be more involved in the project. Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 22:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
3. Add your one or several Personal member New Years Resolutions here!

If the Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project pages could talk - what would they wish for - the types of growth and changes for 2008 for Wikipedia Saskatchewan pages.

1. Develop a bizzilion awesome articles about Saskatchewan so the WWW visitor is wowed by our province ( and survive those silly AFD tags!!! ) SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
2. Add your one or several Wikiproject New Years Resolutions here!
3. Develop quality articles. Increase the amount of good and Featured articles about Saskatchewan related content.
4. Develop top importance articles about Saskatchewan such as those about crown corporations. the provincial government and its several departments. From the Saskatchewan wiki meeting held back on 23 June 2007 it was discussed to develop an article on Health in Saskatchewan, and to improve to feature status articles: Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Regina.
5. The University of Saskatchewan became a good article to celebrate the 2007 anniversary of campus, and should now have a peer reveiw to continue on to becoming a feature article. The List of University of Saskatchewan alumni was developed to assist this article and help would be appreciated providing citations for each entry, and to help add to the list.

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter!

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 32 members. Please welcome Merovingian to the project!
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 10 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

Tagged articles

• Improve articles of Saskatchewan quality which have been tagged. Some of these are listed [] and have been compiled with AWB.

Outreach

• Create a Saskatchewan Roads and Highways outreach template to help new members become informed about the presence of this project online.

Highway Picture Template

• Just as there is only one image needed for upload for Saskatchewan locator maps, and then various towns can be updated upon this image. So, too there should be a highway picture template, so that the various numbered highways 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914, etc can all have their own image without needing to create a bizzilion numbered images online.

2004 Election

• Our 2004 Saskatchewan election has resulted in an amazing number of politician biographies coming online! This was an awesome achievement, and something to be proud of!

• Qyd (talk · contribs) and Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs) are editors of a wide variety of Canadian related articles, and of note as of this date is the enormous amount of work they have undertaken to help amalgamate all the various provincial wikiprojects and Canadian sub projects into one umbrella assessment department. This unique assessment department means that Saskatchewan related articles can be assessed for their own provincial merit, and also belong to the Canadian wikiproject as well. It also means that editors from both Canada wikiproject and Saskatchewan wikiproject can unite in their efforts to provide banners and ratings to articles. This will result in a huge improvement in quality on wikipedia, resulting in Saskatchewan's spotlight award for Qyd (talk · contribs). January 2008 newsletter Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read all the brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio. Congratulations are sent out to Qyd (talk · contribs)] and Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs) at this time.

• Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

Welcome and Happy New Year!:

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's eighth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

• Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 2 - February 2008 or WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 2 - March 2008

• Just as panic begins to settle in as to what in the world the next newsletter should mention, new areas of development and growth come about. The coming year of 2008 should provide not only more Saskatchewan articles, but also more articles with higher ratings with the assistance of more editors, and a new assessment department umbrella. The highways and roads project has given a good base for development, and to strengthen the presence and notability of roads and highways and effort is being called upon to help these articles improve, now that they too are under the assessment umbrella.

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

• Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Wikipedia talk WP SK :

• For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways The WikiProject Canada Roads is undergoing an overhaul. It is aiming to produce some Good articles and Featured articles of highway content pertaining to Canada, and for the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways for Saskatchewan highways. As Saskatchewan is still a work in progress this is a challenging endeavour for as the guidelines are followed as laid out at either Highway wikiproject, they become red link farms because wikilinked articles have not been developed regarding the communities, provincial and regional parks and rural municipalities which the highways meander through. Please keep apprised of the progress, and if any Saskatchewan articles rise above stub we will list it on the main page.

There is also discussion started about assessment and navigation boxes on the talk page. Please peek in to add any comments you may have.

If you want to add your name as a particpant to the Canada Roads wikiproject [here]. To join the Saskatchewan Roads wikiproject sign on the main here please.

Recently articles Saskatchewan Highway 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914 have been improved, but they need more help so they can become articles nominated as Good articles. Please help out if you are able, even to create community and rural municipality articles for these Highway articles would be an enormous help.

To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods

The List of ghost towns in British Columbia has given a base to create a new article named Ghost towns in Saskatchewan. Please help to contribute, as Saskatchewan has about 1/5 the number of towns that it had in its heyday between the boom years of the 1920's and the industrial revolution of the 1940's. Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).