The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 9 - November 2008
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- Project At a Glance
As of November 2008, the project has:
- 109 Featured articles
- 24 Featured Lists
- 13 Featured Topics
- 1 articles in Featured Article Review
- 5 articles for Peer review
- 21 A-Class articles
- 258 Good Articles
- 2 Good Topics
- 2 articles in Good Article Review
- Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics
Promoted FA/FL:
Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, Ico, List of One Piece video games, List of songs in Guitar Hero World Tour, List of StarCraft media, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Myst V: End of Ages
Promoted FT:
None
Demoted FA/FL/FT:
None
Promoted GA:
Characters of Myst, Combine (Half-Life), Crash: Mind over Mutant, F-Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Decay, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Halo 3 marketing, Ico, Iori Yagami, Jim Raynor, LittleBigPlanet, Marble Madness, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Myst (series), Sam & Max Hit the Road, Silent Hill Homecoming, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
Promoted GT:
None
Demoted GA/GT:
Call of Duty 2, Fate/stay night, Make Love, Not Warcraft
- News
- There were 275 new articles in November 2008
- Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
- WikiProject Test Drive has been deleted
- WikiProject Sega has been moved to a page under WP:VG. See the new Sega task force page.
- A Sega task force has become a Video game task force: Sonic task force.
- WikiProject Sims has been moved to a page under WP:VG. See the new The Sims task force page.
- Feature: Article Importance
Article importance is an assessment of a topic's importance in understanding a specific higher level topic. Assessments are maintained by WikiProjects and reflect the project's view of what is essential to understanding their scope. In the VG Project's case, all importance scales are in terms of understanding video games.
A video game article's importance is listed and set in the {{WikiProject Video games}} template on its talk page. An assessment of importance can be done by the Assessment Department by submitting a request.
Recent discussions at the VG Project's talk page have called for revisions to the practice of assigning article importance. The discussion began in mid-November with the goal of clarifying what level of importance should be assigned to certain type of articles. It eventually expanded to creating a standardized table of importance to serve as a guide for current and future editors.
The discussion has focused on and shifted to several topics including flaws of previous practices, new ways to view assessment, other project practices to emulate, and specific articles which are exceptions to proposed guidelines. A brief pole and discussion determined most editors felt that the bulk of some topics—specifically individual video game, series, and character articles—were not essential to understanding video games, making them ineligible for top importance. The discussion then shifted to tweaking the wording and layout of the table.
The current proposed table is being discussed on the project's talk page, and the issue of whether some topics—specifically character articles—should be allowed to be rated importance has also been brought up. As always, member are encouraged to voice their opinions and engage in discussion to determine consensus so the new assessment scale can be implemented.
See past newsletter feature for more information about the Assessment Department.
- Things you can help with:
- GAN: Crash Team Racing, PlayStation, Silent Hill 2, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, Lula 3D, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Backbreaker (video game)
- Article status review
- Peer review
- Incentives
- Bounty board: Wario (FA), Toontown Online (GA by August 12, 2010)
- Reward board: Beyond Good & Evil 2 (GA by August 2, 2010), Re-link PlayStation games (by June 29, 2011)
Assist with project tasks
Deletion • New articles (Requests) • Images • Assessments • Cleanup • Articles needing attention • Character lists • Translations from Japanese
Other ways to help:
Monitor changes to WP:VG and changes to this to-do list, or sign up for the VG Newsletter.
Also remember to add {{WikiProject Video games}} to every video game article, template, category, image and project Talk page.
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