Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20160703/News

News and announcements

New articles

• There were 90 new articles and 26 new drafts in April 2016.
• There were 114 new articles and 30 new drafts in May 2016.
• There were 147 new articles and 31 new drafts in June 2016.

Announcements

• Congratulations to the Russian and Danish Video Game WikiProjects (Proyekt:Kompyuternye igry and WikiProjekt Computerspil) on their 10th anniversaries which took place on April 1 and April 22. In total 12 different interlanguage WP:VGs have now reached this milestone!
• GamerGate issues continue to dog the encyclopedia with the early June resignation of one of Wikipedia's fourteen ArbCom members representing perhaps a high-water mark of its direct and indirect influence on Wikipedia. GamerGate arose in 2014 and was covered in the third quarter WP:VG Newsletter of 2015 (updated/reprinted in The Signpost). It stands out as one of WP:VG's most difficult editing grounds, and The Newsletter commends all editors who have made the effort to work collegially in this contentious area while adhering to Wikipedia's rules, guidelines, and other non-enumerated norms of civility.
• The Signpost's WikiProject Report of 5 June featured WikiProject Video Games and included interviews with several WP:VG prominent members. The full report can be found here.

On the Main Page

The Main Page is the most prominent page on the English Wikipedia.

Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page between July and September 2015. Congratulations to the contributing editors!

The following were Today's featured article on the following dates:

• Gravity Bone on 22 April
• Lightning on 29 April
• Half-Life 2: Episode One on 31 May
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption on 7 June
• Silent Hill 4 on 17 June

The following were the Picture of the day on the following dates:

• Charlie Murder on 17 May
• Shelter on 2 June
• WonderSwan on 20 June
• Dustforce on 30 June

The following were Today's featured list on the following dates:

• List of video games in the Museum of Modern Art on 3 June

Facts from the following articles appeared on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

• Space Travel, 1 April
• Bad Milk, 3 April
• Counter-Strike: Falklands, 4 April
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, 4 April
• Star Trek: Phaser Strike, 7 April
• Spec Ops: The Line, 14 April
• Adventure, 18 April
• Grand Theft Auto III, 20 April
• Starbreeze Studios, 23 April
• The Lab, 29 April
• Munin, 1 May
• Space Station Silicon Valley, 4 May
• WWE Road to WrestleMania X8, 7 May
• Rokh, 9 May
• Snail Mail, 9 May
• Mayday! Deep Space, 14 May
• I Get This Call Every Day, 14 May
• Battlefield 1, 19 May
• Sinon, 21 May
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, 21 May
• Give It Up!, 25 May
• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, 26 May
• Space Marshals, 26 May
• NASCAR Heat Evolution, 26 May
• Sneaky Sneaky, 30 May
• Tracer, 6 June
• Sniper Elite 4, 12 June
• VA-11 HALL-A, 15 June
• A Bird Story, 18 June
• Watch Dogs 2, 19 June
• Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, 23 June
• Steep, 25 June
• pannenkoek2012, 28 June
• Ace of Aces, 29 June