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you may not realise this, but in your reversion of my usertalk page you removed two legitimate comments that were on display. I would restore them, but since it's my edit you reverted, it might look better coming from you.--RivRubicon (talk) 18:43, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Welcome!WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.
Last year, an informal pact/commitment was made late in the year to aim for 100 good articles by the end of the year. As a result, a net increase of 24 GAs was achieved in December 2007 and the GA count hit triple figures, ending the year on 106 GAs. This year seasonally adjusted, the GA production has been slower than in last during the May-November periods (see graphs below). At the start of the month, our WikiProject had 178 good articles. Another GA Drive has been organised, with the hope of reaching the double century by the end of the year or Australia Day 2009 at the least. As of 16 December, there are 180 GAs and 15 currently nominated, primarily in response to the GA appeal. Everyone's help is requested to make the drive a success.
Following the 2008 Summer Olympics, some Australian Wikipedians attended the various welcome home parades for the athletes, with one objective being to help create free images of the athletes. Previously, less than ten had photos. However, there are now over 100 athletes that do have photos, but unfortunately in some cases, they have not yet been identified. Help is requested for this purpose at the link above.
Wikimedia Australia
After much hard work in slogging through paperwork and government regulations, Wikimedia Australia was incorporated on 6 August, and membership was opened on 12 November. Its stated purpose is to be "an independent, not-for-profit organisation, whose primary aim is to promote equality of opportunity to access and participate in the collaborative creation of Free Cultural Works, especially educational works, and works about Australia, its culture, natural environment, and Australian news and media". It will be developing a joint publication with Creative Commons Australia, and members are in the process of spreading the Wikipedia message, with Wikipedia being introduced into the curriculum in some courses in Australia next year. The first AGM is planned for 11 January 2009.
Well known Australian Wikipedian and polyglot FA writer Casliber, known for his writings on Australian wildlife among other things, has placed first in this year's arbitration election and appears certain to be appointed.
Quality watch
Mattinbgn is rather camera shy, so here is Harry Trott.
2008 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: 100 articles were promoted to featured article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for all of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics online from the best of sources. Congratulations to Mattinbgn, who wrote the 100th FA, Harry Trott. Also of note was the promotion of national icon Sir Donald Bradman, which then appeared as the main page FA on his 100th birthday. WikiProject Australia's maiden featured topics arrived early in the year, with Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and Powderfinger albums, both about the band Powderfinger. New South Wales and Music of Australia became featured portals. A further 13 featured lists have been produced.
Recent events
January-February: The first two Australian featured topics promoted.
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Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia in terms of 2008's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 116 featured articles, and 178 good articles. So far this year, a net 36 FAs and 72 GAs have been added. The areas of FA growth were cricket (+12), military history (+7), swimming (+5), Powderfinger (+4), birds (+4), Silverchair (+2), Holden (+1), Wiggles (+1). These areas have been traditional strengths of the project, and this year, Abraham, B.S. has started another strong tradition, with a series of articles on Australian Victoria Cross awardees (1FA, 8GA). It would be great to see a wider range of Australian topics represented at FA in future. Two FAs were sent to Featured article review, but Bilby was instrumental in renovating and saving both Shrine of Remembrance and Waterfall Gully, South Australia.
Hi - you wrote: Can you please discuss this somewhere else? That discussion was about category merging, not this disambiguation discussion!
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. My first comment in the renaming debate specifically pointed to where the discussion on disambiguation should - and did - take place. My last comment specifically pointed out what the outcome of that discussion was. As such, in both cases I attemptyed to remove the topic of disambiguation from the CfD debate. The fact that other chose to discuss disambiguation at CfD rather than where the debate on renaming Hastings was actually taking place is not my fault. As it is, the general consensus at Hastings seems to have been to leave the article on the English town at that site (as I pointed out in my last comment at CfD), it should not in any way slow down the closure of the CfD debate. There has been no debate on the article-renaming since consensus was reached nearly two weeks ago. If anything, it should have speedied it up, since it is now clear that the preferred site of the category should be Category:People from Hastings rather than Category:People from Hastings, Easst Sussex. Grutness...wha?23:25, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
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Sorry, I did not make any reference to the timing, so I am not sure what you are referring to when you said "it was only 10 minutes after he had been blocked not 31 hours." Regardless, the best thing to do in a situation like that is just revert your warning. Adding an {{anonblock}} template is not appropriate because those instructions will not work; since I hard-blocked the IP, logging in will only result in that account being autoblocked. --Kralizec! (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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