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Images in Motion – WikiProject Animation
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- drive in September to move free images to the Wikimedia Commons. There are lots of prizes in store for those who sign up and help out.
- A request for approval has been submitted for a bot designed to create stub articles for snails and slugs.
- GLAM/ARKive invites editors to assist in merging 200 texts donated by ARKive into articles about endangered species.
- The Guild of Copy Editors will be holding another copy edit drive in September. The September Drive's pagehas already been launched, so sign up today!
WP:TOON
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under the ProjectThis week, we turn our attention to Good articles, and a portal, the Project has 19 participants and 18 work groups. The Signpost interviewed Project member Jj98.
Tell us a bit about yourself, and what motivated you to become a member of WikiProject Animation?
- The Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four. Some of the media franchises have adapted films like Star Trek, Star Wars and Stargate into animated series. There are also two Doctor Who animated serials – The Infinite Quest and Dreamland – that were produced and aired on BBCin 2007 and 2009.
Your Project has over 15,800 articles associated with it. How does the Project keep all these up to standard, and what are its biggest challenges?
- Jj98: Our biggest challenge is that fans of animated series and films who come to Wikipedia, whose intimate knowledge of certain subjects are critically important and welcome, tend to treat articles as fan sites, filling them with minutiae and fictography of interest only to hardcore fans and not the general public. The goal is to acquire some of the inactive animation-related WikiProjects and convert them into work groups of WikiProject Animation, including WikiProject Cartoon Network, which was started back in 2007 by SpongeBob SquarePants task force and Avatar: The Last Airbender task force into work groups of WikiProject Animation in near future if the Project has been overlapped with our Project and [has] low activity. The problem with the Project is keeping it active like WikiProject Anime and manga and WikiProject United States. Many of the editors who are blocked and no longer working around any animation articles on Wikipedia are moved to the inactive list. Sadly, our founder, Klingoncowboy4is no longer active since I've revamped the Project.
WikiProject Animation has a very respectable number of Featured content, and 477 Good articles. How did your Project achieve this and how can other Projects work toward this?
- Jj98: We do have a nucleus of editors who are responsibly editing some animation-related articles that have achieved Good article and Featured article like WikiProject Anime and manga. The Project has medium activity, like WikiProject Anime and manga, which is a very active Project.
Does WP:TOON collaborate with other WikiProjects?
- Jj98: Well, we do share with Manual of Style (writing about fiction)to remove any in-universe speculation.
How does your Project manage the Animation portal?
- Jj98: I've managed the portal around here myself since it got many hits back in July. We have 59 selected high quality articles and 31 selected pictures, 15 selected biographies, 5 selected quotes and 10 selected lists. Our goal is to have the Portal:Anime and Manga, which had big hits.
What are the most pressing needs for WikiProject Animation? How can a new contributor help today?
- Jj98: The former, to reduce any fictionguidelines.
Anything else to add?
- Jj98: Well, I would love to see new members [who would] learn the WikiProject Veterinary medicine, and have opportunities around the Project. I don't want to see the Project go bust like WikiProject Companies, which has been semi-active since 2010. I would also love to see Anime, SpongeBob SquarePants, South Park, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Futurama, Pixar, Toy Story, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Fairly OddParents, Rocko's Modern Life, Avatar: The Last Airbendergain Featured article quality standards.
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22 August 2011
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