Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth

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Contents 1 To increase participation 2 Project directory 3 75080 Represent 4 Wikipedia Day Awards 5 Project Membership 6 Assessments?

[edit] To increase participation

You need to put the banner up everywhere it might be relevant so that people know your project exists. I just now found out about it. Placing your banner on all the pages relating to your city, including buildings and residents, will definitely help you get the project known about. Also, I would strongly suggest that you place your project on the WikiPedia:List of WikiProjects. Badbilltucker 17:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 75080 Represent

Thanks for including us. If you'd like to expand your suburb history sections, I recommend going to your city library and asking for the local historian. I went to the Richardson Public Library and was able to attain access to a broom closet full of old photos and other historical artifacts -- they were very friendly and helped me determine which images were considered public domain (gov photos), etc. I'm now (for better or worse) scanning the entire archive and donating the digital images to the library and to the UNT Texas History Portal (another good source for North Texas history photos, many with Creative Commons licenses). --nathanbeach 16:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Membership

Is there a specific way/place to 'join' this project? Or is that not how it works? -- RedPoptarts 03:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

All you have to do is add your name to the member list! Just follow this link and add your name to the list using this syntax: # {{user2|RedPoptarts}}. You can also add {{User WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member. drumguy8800 C T 05:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments?

I've noticed that the bot that updates the Assessments page hasn't run for 3 weeks. I added the template to Roger Staubach, but it has yet to appear on the page. Caknuck 20:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Dallas-Fort Worth articles by quality log and Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Dallas-Fort Worth articles by quality, its been added. Something like WP 1.0 Bot runs it now instead of Mathbot.. also be sure you're watching the Dallas-Fort Worth, not the Dallas assessment. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drumguy8800 (talk • contribs) 07:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC).

Oh. I get it. I fixed the Assessment page to show the DFW project instead of the Dallas project.. just hadn't been fixed to reflect the project move. drumguy8800 C T 07:16, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! The log shows the article, but the worklist doesn't. Does that need to be updated as well? Caknuck 07:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

That's what it was. I fixed it so the worklist is up-to-date now. Caknuck 07:41, 21 February 2007 (UTC)