- Project News
- We have another new department, Categorization, with the ambitious goal of defining a clear categorization system for the thousands of film articles and other WP:FILMS pages. This involves improving the general order of Category:Films and creating guidelines for which Categories are to be added in film articles. The department is having a difficult start, but look ahead to when we will have all of our articles not only assessed but properly categorized as well.
- While our Peer Review Department has helped eight articles achieve good article status and two achieve featured article status, it would benefit from more participation.
- The project is currently in the process of attempting to add film infoboxes to all of our articles. There are approximately 800 articles tagged with {{needs film infobox}}. Adding an infobox takes only a few minutes, so if you have the time, please consider helping to tackle these infobox requests. You can also consider adopting a section to tackle here.
- The project List of films without article has extended its scope in three lists: One by decade, compiling red-linked films found in various filmographies and articles, one by country, compiling films from other countries and one by notability, focusing mostly on awarded films.
- Thanks to the efforts of our members, we have over 18,500 articles tagged! The Assessment Department has more information on the statistics of our project.
- You may have noticed a new template on the talk pages of all of our stub-class articles. The template was added to provide instructions to editors on what additional information an article needs to be upgraded from a stub to a start class. If you see that the article meets the listed requirements, change the class to start, and the template will automatically be removed. Hopefully this template will help to improve the quality of articles within our project.
- There is also a new template that may be added to talk pages for articles that need a film-related image. This new template is {{filmimage}}, which should be used instead of {{reqscreenshot}} or {{reqphoto}}. Talk pages that have this template are accessible from Category:Wikipedia requested film images.
- Several countries' film lists are also being developed. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, after a hard start, has been working on the list of Austrian films and the list of Argentine films. He has encouraged several other members to work on other countries, and so Shawn in Montreal has started helping in the list of Canadian films. Our congratulations to all concerned editors' efforts. Keep up the good work!
- The Collaboration Department has collaborated on two articles this month, Pulp Fiction (improvements) and A Trip to the Moon (improvements). The current article, Film, was chosen on January 20 and will continue until February 3.
- Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in December and January. January so far has been our most successful month in improving articles to GA. Keep up the good work!
- There were also two GA films that were recently delisted which could use some assistance to return to GA status.
- Member News
- It's hard to tell who is new and who isn't with all the old members signing the list this month, but some of the new names were: Ganfon, Peter, Mallanox, SUIT, Troubleshooter, happylobster, Modelwatcher, Aubin, Al Fecund, Trebor, mctan, Crazed Ewok, Oscarthecat, Crzycheetah Guitarhero777777, Maria, Shawn in Montreal, Jbmas99, Salamurai, Stabby Joe, Dmanning, zadignose, MDonfield, ychennay, Ffocuser, DurinsBane87, Darrenhusted, Dev920, Jmartinsson, Sand Squid, Richard, Erik, Anas Salloum, Smcafirst, and Jonathan D. Parshall
- Please add your name to the member list if you have not already.
- Supernumerary, Nehrams2020, and Wisekwai were awarded the film barnstar, congratulations to them!
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- Current proposals and discussions
The issue of which films are notable enough to be included in Wikipedia and what guidelines should apply has been recently discussed in Village pump, trying to clear out the issue. Additionally Wikipedia:Notability (films) has been changed from inactive to proposal (in development). Discussion or other constructive participation is most welcome.
We are currently thinking about creating a "Film Board" and a "Tech Board" for all help related to the management and operation of our project, both in the content areas and the technical ones. Also a "Translation Board" has been proposed to help with film articles from other Wikipedias.
- Coming to theatres
Opened last weekend (1/26):
Opening this weekend (2/2):
Opening next weekend (2/9)
Other February Releases
- From the Editors
If you've just joined or if you haven't already, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Films. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. 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 next issue (Issue 2 – February 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
- Contributors to this Issue
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