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Always in the newsletter
- Intro
- Selected article / picture from portal
- Leaderboard / stubs update
- Featured stories, if anything important happened
- Project news
- State updates
- From the editor
Issue 1 (Spring 2017)
Publication deadline: 12 PM Pacific-3 PM Eastern on TBD.
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Introduction
- Contributors: Philroc, Morriswa (copy-editing)
Welcome to the first issue of The Center Line since winter 2015, which was over a year ago. Firstly, because 2016, the year we were so excited about in the last issue, has come and gone without a new issue, we hope 2016 was a good year for you. Secondly, since it is now 2017, happy belated New Year! We hope that this year will bring new improvement for USRD. We will focus on the completion of two initiatives on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, *Topic of Feature 2*, and *Topic of Feature 3* in this issue. We hope to publish another issue this summer, so please be patient. ❖Philroc
Commons and Wikidata revamp
- Contributor: Rschen7754
2012 and 2013 were momentous years in the history of USRD: the consolidation of the state highway WikiProjects, the deployment of KML files, and a record-breaking number of featured articles and good articles. But behind the scenes, two initiatives on Wikimedia sister projects were started, and were only completed last year.
Commons:WikiProject U.S. Roads completed the initial work of tagging all the highway shields properly. In the past, shields were tagged with templates like {{PD-self}} or {{CC-BY-SA 3.0}}, even though the design of the shields themselves was done by the state department of transportation. For example, the shield to the left was created by the California Department of Transportation and should be tagged {{PD-MUTCD-CA}}, because it appears in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and is thus in the public domain. A full list of the templates to use is on c:COM:USRD/L.
[to be continued]
Feature 2 (if needed)
- Contributor:
Note: If you suggest a story then you are volunteering to write it, unless someone else decides to do so.
Feature 3 (if needed)
- Contributor:
Note: If you suggest a story then you are volunteering to write it, unless someone else decides to do so.
Project news
- Contributors: Philroc, Morriswa (copy-editing)
- There is an ongoing discussion here about whether sets of articles about highways that travel through multiple states, have the same number, and are connected to each other should each be combined into one article, and how the articles that are made from this process should be named. Your input is needed, so, please voice your opinion at the above link. PhilrocMy contribs 13:56, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Be sure to look through Article Alerts and WT:USRD.
State updates
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- California: Since the last issue, California State Route 11 became a Good Article, and California State Route 94 and California State Route 76 became Featured Articles. File:McClure Tunnel west.jpg also became a Featured Picture. A source for replacing the California postmile with actual mileages was found at [1]. And finally, Interstate 8 was featured on the Main Page on March 26, 2017 and got 32,800 page views. --Rschen7754 05:05, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Georgia: The List of state routes in Georgia (U.S. state) page was made standards compliant and still is in the midst of a major revamp to include all previous and current state highways. Also, the List of former state routes in Georgia (U.S. state) page has had a major revamp started to include all previous state highways and make each section cited and include complete histories. The process on both pages is still ongoing, with various current state highway articles having properly-cited "History" sections added or revamped to be proper. Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) (talk) 11:13, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Idaho: All current state highways now have articles, with the final redlink of Idaho State Highway 81 being created on February 21. The main list of state highways was made standards compliant and split thrice. SounderBruce 06:44, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Michigan: With the promotion of Interstate 675 (Michigan) (and the previous promotion of Interstate 94 in Michigan) to Featured Article status, the Interstate Highways in Michigan topic automatically promoted to Featured Topic status on March 4, 2017. Imzadi 1979 → 00:59, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Leaderboard and stub count
- Contributor: Dough4872
Note: I will insert it right before we are ready to publish.
Selected article/picture from portal
- October
- US: Arizona State Route 67
- MI: Interstate 196
Recently selected: Arkansas Highway 7 • West Virginia Route 28/55 • Interstate 395 (District of Columbia–Virginia)
- November
- US: Interstate 81 in West Virginia
- MI: M-67 (Michigan highway)
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Recently selected: Skyline Drive • Arkansas Highway 7 • West Virginia Route 28/55
- December
- US: U.S. Route 67 in Iowa
- MI: Interstate 496
Recently selected: U.S. Route 66 in California • Skyline Drive • Arkansas Highway 7
From the editors
While you read this issue of The Center Line, did you notice how it looked minimal and a bit bare? This is because not enough stories were suggested for this issue. If you would like to see more issues of The Center Line with more stories, please suggest some stories here. The next issue should be out this summer, and if more stories get suggested, it will look more normal than this issue.
Special thanks to Morriswa for copy-editing parts of this issue.