Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/June 2010 Newsletter - Wikipedia
- Project news
- Last month, significant progress was made on contributing to the discussion pertaining to the non-free images in our spotlight articles. Based on consensus, several images were removed. However, there are still multiple FA and GA articles that need some input to determine if they should be kept or not. The goal of the drive is not to remove all non-free images from the articles, but to ensure that they comply with fair use requirements. If you have not already (or if you have, please revisit) join in on the discussion to help finish off the images. Even if you comment on only a few articles, that will be very helpful in determining consensus and allow for focusing on the sources and prose of the articles.
- Our project currently has over 64,700 film-related articles, with just over a hundred unassessed articles, thanks to the 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. If you believe that an article should be assessed at a certain class, feel free to follow the assessment scale and assess the article yourself (it's not too difficult to determine the basic classes such as stubs, categories, or lists). 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: Internet Movie Database, Toy Story 3, 2010 in film, List of Toy Story characters, and Shutter Island. For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see here. Consider helping to improve one of these articles that is seen by thousands to millions of people each month.
- Spotlight Update: Several film articles reached GA status in June 2010.
- Member news
- New members to the project since the last issue include: SCFilm29, Melissaganus, LtMuldoon, DShantz, Frankdasilva, NortonFord, Jaystriker7, & Donmike10.
- Recipients of the WikiProject Films Award: Smetanahue for contributions to film articles related to the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Morenooso for expanding The Bandit Queen to a DYK.
- Remember that any editor can give the WikiProject Films Award to another WP:Films member. If you do present this award, please make mention of it here or tell one of the newsletter editors who will then include it in the next issue.
- Please add your name to the member list if you have not already.
| Film pages by quality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Total | |||||||
 FA
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188 | ||||||
| FL
|
482 | ||||||
 A
|
1 | ||||||
 GA
|
1,420 | ||||||
| B | 1,454 | ||||||
| C | 10,329 | ||||||
| Start | 70,875 | ||||||
| Stub | 96,443 | ||||||
| List | 13,096 | ||||||
| Category | 53,360 | ||||||
| Disambig | 367 | ||||||
| File | 109,753 | ||||||
| Portal | 19 | ||||||
| Project | 228 | ||||||
| Redirect | 11,543 | ||||||
| Template | 9,445 | ||||||
| NA | 19 | ||||||
| Assessed | 379,022 | ||||||
| Unassessed | 11 | ||||||
| Total | 379,033 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 981,228 | Ω = 5.43 | |||||
- Coming to theaters
Opened last weekend (6/30):
Opening this weekend (7/2):
Opening next weekend (7/9):
Other July releases:
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice (7/14)
- Inception (7/16)
- Ramona and Beezus (7/23)
- Salt (7/23)
- Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (7/30)
- Dinner for Schmucks (7/30)
- Get Low (7/30)
- Twelve (7/30)
- Did you know...
- ... that the comedy film House!, called an "Ealing-style light comedy", tells the story of how an aged bingo hall deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
- ... that Kachche Dhaage, the 1999 debut film of director Milan Luthria, stars Ajay Devgan as a smuggler delivering goods across the Rajasthan–Pakistan border?
- ... that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th-century lesbian industrialist?
- ... that Irwin Rosten's 1975 documentary Man: The Incredible Machine, which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?
- ... that the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles?
- ... that the low-budget horror film Raging Sharks has been described as a poor man’s combination of early Steven Spielberg films?
- ... that the 1950 film The Bandit Queen starred Barbara Britton in the title role as a bullwhip-wielding avenger?
- ... that in the film Horror of Dracula, actress Melissa Stribling played the victim of a vampire in an erotic role?
- From the editors
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- Contributors to this issue
- Nehrams2020 (Lead Editor, Distributor)