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WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.

• C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.

• A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles for instance is a new list List of company towns. Saskatchewan company towns could be added to this list as well. Coal in Canada is another new article, which could be added to with the new coal development near Hudson Bay. Also check out the new Higher educaiton task force

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 37 members.
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

List of basic Canada topics

• Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.

Automate Deletion sorting to Candidates for Deletion

• Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.

Ghost towns

• Please contribute to the converstation regarding ghost towns of Saskatchewan, as there is a robot deleting pages from the Category:Ghost towns

Barnstar Contest

• Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.

Trivia Question

• The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.

• Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?

Answer Trivia Quesion #3: , Saskatchewan. (From July Newsletter -Answer the Skytrail in Outlook a part of the Trans Canada Trail

• Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?

• Trivia Question #5: Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008.

??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???

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• Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive

  Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 103 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status. Please leave a note on the tip line, if you are able over the next month to make improvements to the provincial article.

• A class reviews

  Some of the larger wikiprojects are doing their own peer reviews to pass articles from GA to A. See the introduction at A class reviews Is Saskatchewan membership large enough for this undertaking? Should there be a collaboration with Canada wikiproject in this regards?

• Community and Neighborhood Assessments

  There are now 769 community articles tagged and assessed for Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods using the new addition to the Canadian template.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• Trivia Question

  • Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?

  August newsletter answer #4 --> Prince Albert National Park

• Spotlight Award

  Leafschik1967  (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Leafschik1967 . Amongst several editors, it was again hard to select only one for representation in this latest edition of the newsletter. This editor is diverse, editing a variety of SK sports related articles, SK communities and SK flora articles, helping out with Good article nominations and contributing to talk pages. Thank you for your assistance as Saskatchewan grows on wikipedia.

• Most Commonly Visited Pages

  • To help keep Saskatchewan current and visited at wikipedia... The Beijing Olympics, Summer Games and athletes were amongst the most commonly visited wikipedia pages last month. It would be good to have articles about our Saskatchewan Olympic competitors started, upgraded, and tagged on the talk pages as belonging to SK wikiproject. As well as Saskatchewan competitors in the upcoming September paralympics. Saskatchewan at olympics. Up and coming in the news is the international interest in the Arctic waters, and Greg Poelzer, associate professor of Political Studies has related that there will be growth in the Mining sector of northern Saskatchewan during this impetus.

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

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• Version 0.7 Saskatchewan articles

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC) - Articles selected for Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Cougar, Gray Wolf, Louis Riel, Beaver, Leslie Nielsen , Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canoe, Canadian English, Bobcat, New France , Hudson's Bay Company, Moose, First Nations, Elk , Great Plains, Sitting Bull, Sioux, Wilfrid Laurier, Joni Mitchell, Reindeer, Northern pike , American Black Bear, Trans-Canada Highway , John Diefenbaker, American Bison, Muskrat , Cree, Bigfoot, Louisiana Purchase, Tommy Douglas, University of Saskatchewan, Taiga, White-tailed deer, Lloydminster, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Gordie Howe, Athabasca River , Métis people (Canada), Government of Canada, University of Regina, Wolverine , Rainbow trout, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Wendigo, American Beaver, Geography of Saskatchewan

• Corner Gas

  • Should development be made on the article Corner Gas in its last season and the necessary forms filled out for inclusion to Version 7?

• Community and Neighborhood Assessments

  There are now 769 community articles tagged and assessed for Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods using the new addition to the Canadian template.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• Canadian Election 2008

  • The election has now been called, so as with all elections we'll need to keep a close eye on the main article, party articles and candidate articles to make sure everything is conforming to policy (read: NPOV) and to watch out for likely edit wars.

Of course it will all be nothing compared to what happens on election night, October 14th, as packs of anon editors update ridings according to who won the first 1% of the vote, so mark that date on your calendar too. -Royalguard11(T) 18:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC) -Canadian Federal Election 2008

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

→ If a user has an asterisk (i.e. *) in front of their membership name, it denotes this user does not wish to receive the monthly newsletter.

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• Rural municpalities

  Individual categories for each rural municipality are being created. It would be good to gather consensus as to which articles should be tagged with an individual RM category. The places names which an RM provides rural government for should be within the individual category for the RM. However, should these areas also be added into the individual RM category: political divisions, points of interest, notable people from the RM, towns with their own urban governments which host the RM office? Add your comments.

• City naming / Missing coordinates

  Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities - Per WP:NC, an incomplete review of which cities in Canada do or don't merit moves to their undisambiguated city names.

  Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data - Follow the instructions at Template:Coord to add co-ordinates to these articles.

Bearcat has made this announcement.

• Spotlight Award

  Masalai (talk · contribs) The November 2008 award is presented to Masalai for continuous contributions to several articles focusing mainly upon southern Saskatchewan. The knowledge Masalai brings to these articles combines statistical data with diverse notable events pertinent to the topic. Thank you and in this regards please receive a Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight award. Spotlight Award

• Extinct Settlements proposed wikiproject

  A new wikiproject is being proposed .... Extinct Settlements. Please feel free to add your comments, support or opposition for such a project on wikipedia. There was initially also conversation begun here on WP Cities as well as at WP SK communities.

• Curling Wikiproject work group proposal

  A Curling task project is being proposed.... As curling is Saskatchewan's provincial sport it may help out some of our community pages. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support.

• Featured Article Drive

  A new Featured article drive is being proposed here which hopes to produce WP:FAC articles for the 25 largest cities in the United States. See how the Top 25 Canadian Cities Classes rate as was the beginning for the US city assessment classes.

• Setting weather records

  Hallowe'en was mild, above seasonal norm for temperatures, and without snow this year!!! On this note a new a new Saskatchewan Communities substitution template has been done up adding the weather statistical table. SriMesh | talk 00:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• Use of coordinates?

  • A posting from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada Roads A bot is going around tagging various articles for missing coordinates. One recent tagging was on Highway 8 (Ontario) (see [1]). Given that a road will have numerous coordinates, what sort of coordinates should be defined for Canadian road articles, if any? Terminus points, perhaps control cities would be obvious candidates. Dl2000 (talk) 02:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

→ If a user has an asterisk (i.e. *) in front of their membership name, it denotes this user does not wish to receive the monthly newsletter.

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• Season's Greetings

  • Season's greetings are extended from the Saskatchewan wikiproject to you and yours over the holiday season.

• Holiday wiki-presents

  Give out barnstars, and let each other know that what they're doing is valued.

• Create a guide to stave off burnout and to help another wikipedian expand Saskatchewan topics.
• Participate in Saskatchewan Peer reviews or Community assessments.
• Get acquainted with the characteristics of Good Articles and help a fellow member get an article to WP:GA.
• Use the Newsletter. Add a tidbit that has helped you create an article on a Saskatchewan topic such as research materials, and ideas.
• Help out another Saskatchewan editor and provide a peer review on their articles. Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps. Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.

• Happy Birthday!

Birthday Cake

• According to the December 2007 newsletter, it is one year since Saskatchewan articles have had an assessment department which enable Saskatchewan articles to be rated for importance and quality. The Canadian banner was modified one year ago to help improve Saskatchewan content. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }}

• One year ago the new article department was also established. This new articles department introduces new wikipedia editors who are interested in Saskatchewan and also helps to monitor the expansion of Saskatchewan related articles. The new article department also alerts editors to fledgling articles which may receive tags for improvement.

• Natural resources of Saskatchewan

  • A request has been sent out for information regarding natural resources of Saskatchewan. Can there be an organisation of articles, categories or a list in this regards to satisfy the query?

• Saskatchewan Wikiproject facelift request

  There will be a Saskatchewan barnstar sent out to any editors who can provide a facelift to the Saskatchewan wikiproject over the next few weeks. There has been a large influx of material to the wikiproject since its inception, and now the material should be re-organised and re-distributed for ease of access.

• Maps as reliable sources

  • There is a l-o-o-ong discussion on the use of maps as reliable primary or secondary sources for wikipedia articles at Regarding maps as primary sources. This has a direct influence on highways and roads articles as well as town and placename articles.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 39 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

• Saskatchewan Spotlight

  • Cocopie (talk · contribs) The December 2008 award is presented to Cocopie who has set up various categories and populated those categories with articles. Cocopie has updated and started various Saskatchewan articles and has also been able to start their talk pages with the wikiproject banner. Thank you for your various contributions to SK related topics.

• • So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

• Help! Adopt me. Please.

  • Arnold Bernard Tusa, a stub biography has several tags for improvement.
  • Pride Week 1973 (Vancouver) has been tagged with renaming request as it refers to the Pride Week of various cities.
  • Can anyone add information regarding skating in Saskatchewan to Sports in Saskatchewan as the 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships will be held in Saskatoon?
  • Tom Freda, Wiser's Small Batch, Nosehill forest - are being considered for deletion and are related in some way to SK. These others are also being considered for deletion at google search for SK articles being considered for deletion as well as these 18 articles which supposedly don't meet notability guidelines such as Arthur Bergan which should just be wikified.
  • Moose Jaw and Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology requires clean up. Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan needs wikifying...as well as these 31 articles
  • Meadow Lake Tribal Council (Saskatchewan) needs categories as well as these 9 articles
  • Time in Saskatchewan, Kylemore, Saskatchewan, Humboldt, Saskatchewan,Loon Lake, Saskatchewan , Redvers, Saskatchewan, Provisional Government of Saskatchewan, Oxbow, Saskatchewan, MacDowall, Saskatchewan, Bladworth, Saskatchewan, Assiniboine, Davidson, Saskatchewan , Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Manitou Lake (Saskatchewan), Benson, Saskatchewan, June Draude, List of University of Saskatchewan alumni, Fort de la Corne, James Isbister , Super Dave Osborne, James Smith First Nation, One Arrow First Nation, Muskoday First Nation, Gabriel Dumont , The Sheaf, Fennel, Athabasca Basin, Paul McCallum, Battle of Cut Knife, Peter Dmytruk, Omarr Morgan , Western separatism, James Nisbet , Ken Rasmussen, Medicine Hat , Yorkton Cardinals, John L. Climenhaga, Peter Pond , Tom Jackson (actor) , William G. Hobbs, Richardson's Ground Squirrel, Sandhoff disease, Boris Karloff , Ian E. Wilson, Conrad Swan, Wide Mouth Mason, West/Central Canadian English, Dust Bowl, Joni Mitchell, Jon Ballantyne, Colin McKay, Saskatoon Police Service, Art Linkletter, Jessica Robinson (country singer) , Ben Klassen, Selwyn Dewdney, Cree Summer , Mandy Meyer, Big 6 Hockey League, Ricky Kanee Schachter , and Saskatoon as well as about 200 oithers at google search for citation Saskatchewan tagged articles have been tagged for citations.

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• Recently changed Saskatchewan articles

  Have you tried the option "Enhanced recent changes" Use one of the special pages called related to Saskatchewan

• Tagged Saskatchewan articles

  Signed up the wikiproject for article alerts via B. Wolterding robot. They should show up on the bottom of the main wikiproject page when detected by the robot.

• Spotlight Award

  Skookum1 (talk · contribs) The January 2009 award is presented to Skookum1 who has diligently upgraded articles in compliance with references, point of view and other wikipedia standards. This generally enriches the quality of articles providing more enhanced encyclopaedic content. January 2009 newsletter

• Standardisation for Saskatchewan school division naming

  Discussion initiated for Saskatchewan continuity in names/categories. Please comment on Saskatchewan school division, school district article naming and categorisation. Then could the result be put on the main page of Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide?

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• Welcome to the newsletter

  We hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of WikiProject Saskatchewan on Wikipedia. Comments and suggestions on improving this newsletter are always welcome, and help us at the wikiproject improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing articles, the portal, the project and the newsletter. Don't hesitate to contact any wikiproject member or post on the WikiProject Saskatchewan talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article. Please put a new sample picture into the next newsletter!!

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 41 members. Please welcome Wyldkat and Xorthan to the project!

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

  January 2008|One year ago

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.

Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know. We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are selected by our editors.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan articles and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles

I Love Saskatchewan Award

Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Biography Just How Much You Care On Family Day.

Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan biography and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Saskatchewan biographies are harder to find unless they have a category relating to Saskatchewan or the wikiproject Saskatchewan banner on the talk page. Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles

• Saskatchewan articles of increase

  Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport has had joint editors expanding this article significantly. New topics have been started on Saskatchewan to improve the Geography of Saskatchewan main article so it may perchance run at GA again. Flora, Fauna, and Geology of Saskatchewan articles have been started. There is an article started for almost every highway listed at List of Saskatchewan provincial highways. Since the election, several electoral district articles have been updated with the current information which is fabulous and a large undertaking. The cities and towns of Saskatchewan have articles of representation. Redlinks for villages are disappearing from the List of communities in Saskatchewan. Hamlets, rural municipalities and Indian reserves, still need more help in regards to their red links. (BTW there is a discussion First Nations reserves v.s. Indian reserves naming)

• Spotlight Department

  Jwkozak91 (talk · contribs) is a new editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Jwkozak91 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through updates of current information mainly to political articles joining the editorial crew there. Jwkozak91 has shown significant additions to the improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Jwkozak91 at this time. Pop by and give Jwkozak91 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.

  Bearcat (talk · contribs) The February 2009 award is presented to Bearcat who has kept abreast of political party and people (PPAP) articles and their content. Bearcat not only improves and updates politically inclined articles but provides guidance and coaches others in their edits of political articles as well. Swing on over to the talk page of Bearcat and present them with a barnstar or two, along with a thank you or two for their contribtions to wikipedia as a veteran editor, and for keeping articles with dated content up to date.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

• '

  • This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Add something here for March. Well. Some other wikiproject newsletters have become inactive. Quite a few newsletters do not post their newsletter at wikiproject newsletters. Some newsletters have reverted to blog format and remained current. Is there an opinion about the Saskatchewan wikiproject newsletter?

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 42 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

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• I Love Saskatchewan Contest results

  Have a look at changes and new articles to see the wonderful improvements made to Sasaktchewan related articles made by:

  • Bearcat (talk · contribs) · Delzen (talk · contribs) · Drm310 (talk · contribs) · fishhead2100 (talk · contribs) · Giants27 (talk · contribs) · Jwkozak91 (talk · contribs) · Masalai  (talk · contribs) · Webfan29 (talk · contribs) (in alphabetical order)

• Spotlight

  T. Mazzei  (talk · contribs) The March 2009 award is presented to T. Mazzei who upgrades and creates numerous Saskatchewan articles on a regular basis. It is good to have an editor monitoring articles, and adding wikilinks where needed. A thank you is extended for your consistent efforts.

• Please add to the newsletter

  Feel free to add to the newsletter, the blank format for the following month is at April issue. Any additions about the direction of the wikiproject, assessment, task forces, issues and opportunities or article improvements are welcome.

• Saskatchewan photographs

  • when you are traveling or looking through old pictures, if there are any of Saskatchewan roads, highways or Saskatchewan highway signs that you would wish to upload to wikimedia commons, it would be appreciated. It would be good to show our highways in various seasons as well as with various geographical terrains. Of especial import when getting involved with photographing highways are junctions, scenic points of interest, historical markers, intersections, divided highways, road crews, historical road crews, historical travel on highways, overpasses, underpasses and road signs showing concurrencies between various highways.
  • Besides the above photographs, there are also these articles lacking images Wikipedia requested photographs in Saskatchewan
  • If you have started an article for Saskatchewan, and wikimedia commons does not have a related Saskatchewan image, then place this code on the article's talk page below the banner for Saskatchewan {{reqphotoin|Saskatchewan}} and your request will be added to the above category.
  • If you have added a request for a map, there are now locator maps for Saskatchewan available which should alleviate some of the requests added at Wikipedia requested maps in Saskatchewan For example see Saskatoon for a locator map in use.

• Coordinators and A Class Review

  Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

posted at SK Talk page

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

• Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings

  An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class

• This is an article written about the wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classifed and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
• For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

. The video games wikiproject took some time to devleop what was important within the scope of their wikiproject for the importance assessment.

• TO DO

  • Saskatchewan clean up and SK communities and are lists of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles.
  • There are still articles requested at the Canada WP notice board
  • Place this articles for deletion page on your watchlist to know if any Saskatchewan articles are under discussion. Likewise if there are issues with improvements for Saskatchewan check out articles to improve periodically. At the moment this article name has been changed Rural Division has been changed to Saskatchewan Rivers School Division(NPOV) and there has been discussion if placenames require the added note that it is Foo, Saskatchewan or if the article can remain as the placename name: Foo. In this regards this article which needs disambiguation has not been reduced to placename title only. Regina --> Regina, Saskatchewan
  • Please welcome new editors to wikipedia who are trying their hand at writing articles, at new Saskatchewan articles

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 44 members, which is a growth of a couple of new people over the last month. Please welcome Kukamunga13 and Neonfire.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

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