Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/July 2009 Newsletter - Wikipedia
- Project news
- A tag and assess drive will be starting later this month. Details are currently being finalized by the coordinators, and the drive will focus on reassessing all of the Start, Stub, and Unassessed articles. In addition, articles will be tagged with the proper task forces and improvement tags. Keep an eye out for details of the drive, as awards will be provided to editors who review even just a few articles for the drive.
- The featured criteria has been expanded to include alternative text for images within articles and lists. The purpose is to allow for replacement text for an image when it cannot be seen. Alt text differs from the caption, as it provides details of the image's appearance instead of technical details of the image. The {{Infobox film}} template has been modified to allow for the addition of alt text so any movie poster or video cover can be described. For examples of how to develop alternative text descriptions, as well as how to format images to include alt text, see the guideline page. In addition, examples can be seen at Fight Club and Little Miss Sunshine. WikiProject Films requests editors to add alt text to its current Good and Featured Articles, and if you are working to improve an article to either FA or GA status, it is encouraged to add alt text to the article's image(s).
- Erik started a discussion for input on how to approach studios to ask for free images to be used in film articles. If you are interested in helping out, know the best way to contact studios, or have experience asking for image permissions, please consider weighing in on the discussion.
- Our project currently has over 56,800 film-related articles, with 55,100 that have been assessed by our 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. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class.
- Are you looking to get involved with more areas of the project? Remember to keep an eye on the announcements page, which constantly updates current articles that need assistance or are attempting to be upgraded in class. There are a variety of task forces open for various genre and regional film topics. If working on backlogs interest you, there are multiple articles that you could use your help.
- Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in July 2009. In addition, one film was delisted as a GA.
- Member news
- New members to the project since the last issue include: Lemminginstinct, Wool Mintons, Faronshapter, Tennis 52, Skoupitsa, Sprite7868, Dstern1, Snigdh.Chandra, Pedro thy master, Poisonborz, and HCEandme.
- Recipients of the WikiProject Films Award: Moviefan for expanding a stub article; Henry Merrivale for work on Soviet/Russian cinema; and Shawn in Montreal for work on categorizing documentaries.
- 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
|
188 | ||||||
| FL
|
481 | ||||||
 A
|
1 | ||||||
 GA
|
1,424 | ||||||
| B | 1,455 | ||||||
| C | 10,381 | ||||||
| Start | 70,998 | ||||||
| Stub | 96,463 | ||||||
| List | 13,126 | ||||||
| Category | 54,332 | ||||||
| Disambig | 370 | ||||||
| File | 110,191 | ||||||
| Portal | 19 | ||||||
| Project | 228 | ||||||
| Redirect | 11,576 | ||||||
| Template | 9,471 | ||||||
| NA | 27 | ||||||
| Assessed | 380,731 | ||||||
| Unassessed | 23 | ||||||
| Total | 380,754 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 982,506 | Ω = 5.43 | |||||
- Current proposals and discussions
- Coming to theaters
Opened last weekend (7/31):
Opening this weekend (8/7):
Opening next weekend (8/14):
Other August releases:
- Inglourious Basterds (8/21)
- Post Grad (8/21)
- Shorts (8/21)
- The Final Destination (8/28)
- Halloween II (8/28)
- Taking Woodstock (8/28)
- Did you know...
- ... that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school?
- ... that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall?
- ... that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?
- ... that the horror film Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep received its name through a 2006 contest held by the Sci Fi Channel?
- ... that the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917?
- ... that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor?
- ... that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?
- ... that French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
- From the editors
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Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 8 – August 2009). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
- Contributors to this issue
- Nehrams2020 (Lead Editor, Distributor)
- Erik (Editor)