MyWiki:WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron/Newsletter/20090901/News
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Article rescue squadron/Tabbed header}} {{Wikipedia:Wikiproject Article Rescue Squadron/Newsletter/Header|title= Volume 1 No. 1| date = 20090901|News and Announcements}}
Article Rescue Squadron events
[edit source]Membership increases
[edit source]In 2009, the membership of Article Rescue Squadron has more than doubled. At the end of 2008 there were 117 members,[1] just 9 months later, there are 277 members, making Article Rescue Squadron one of the largest Wikiprojects on Wikipedia.
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The ARS was put up for deletion[edit source] The Article Rescue Squadron was put up for deletion in May of this year, the result of the discussion was keep. Thank you to everyone who supported this project in the MfD. |
Five media outlets mentioned ARS[edit source]It was recently discovered that five media outlets mentioned the Article Rescue Squadron.
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Studies and articles about deletion
[edit source]Articles for deletion affect new users the most
[edit source]Article rescue squadron member User:Ikip studied one random day of Article for Deletion. In the study he found, 67% of all articles which were put up for deletion were created by editors who had 100 contributions or less when they created the article.
This means a lot of new editors are having their work deleted, which may have a negative effect on editor retention.
The full study is here User:Ikip/AfD on average day. Note the see also section which has some very interesting articles.
Journalists views on deletion
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New tools and pages for the Squadron
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ARS Hall of Fame[edit source]The Article Rescue Squadron Hall of Fame was developed in January 2009, as an expansion of the "examples of rescued articles" section on the main page. A small medal File:Life Preserver.svg was created, which floats at the top right of a user's talk or user page, similar to the good article Error creating thumbnail: or featured article medal Error creating thumbnail: . Anyone can award anyone else this medal. |
List of articles tagged for rescue
[edit source]Keep up with all of the articles currently tagged for rescue, you can add this to your user page by adding:
- {{Template:ARS/Tagged}}
| Articles tagged for deletion and rescue |
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Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found
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ARS dashboard
[edit source]Created in August 2008, and tweeked in March, you can add this to your user page by adding:
- {{Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Dashboard}}
{{Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Dashboard}}
Invite and Welcome new members
[edit source]This year the Article Rescue Squadron created two new templates, which any editor can use to invite new members
| Invitation and Welcome |
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Add {{subst:WP:ARSI}} to invite an editor to join the Article Rescue Squadron. Add {{subst:WP:ARSW}} to welcome a new member. |
New tools for all of wikipedia
[edit source]New notification for all new articles
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Anytime any editor starts a new article the text above the text box states:
- You can also start your new article at Special:MyPage/Article name. You can develop the article, with less risk of deletion, ask other editors to help work on it, and move it into "article space" when it is ready.
Article Rescue Squadron members petitioned for this change. Article Rescue Squadron hope it will allow more new users the chance to develop new articles without the risk of deletion.
Articles for deletion notification bot
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User:Erwin85Bot is now up and running, thanks to User:Erwin. User:Erwin85Bot notifies the creator of the Articles for deletion. According to User:Erwin, the bot is also designed to notify "all authors [of an article] with more than 5 non-minor edits." The idea to create a new Articles for deletion notification bot was first discussed on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page, before being petitioned for on Wikipedia:Bot requests.