Bit of a slow month in April for me, as real life commitments reduced my Wikipedia time and forced me into the more mundane topics they insist on teaching at Universities. But others in the project are happily ploughing along with !their articles.
Project news
Promoted articles:
None, in the past month.
Current nominations:
2008 Bahrain Grand Prix. Great shot!
After more than a month, 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix is still at GAN. We are almost in the backlog, which could be something to be proud of.
Fantastic work by everyone on, especially of course by the article's writer Darth Newdar, on 2008 German Grand Prix. The peer review is one of the most comprehensive I've ever seen, and the work put in by Darth Newdar to get in to the stage it is now needs to be commended, as does Diniz's copyediting. Fans of large and interesting diffs might want to see this.
Other articles:
2008 Turkish Grand Prix was taken to Peer Review by Chubbennaitor after an extensive expansion. The peer review was closed by the bot after the two week inactivity period passed. My hope is that Chubbennaitor will revisit the article in time and get it to at least GA standard.
Another of my favourite pictures, this time from the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix
If you are reading this because you are scavenging through someone else's talk page, allow me to explain the point of this project. We are here, in our electronic capacity, to make the 2008 Formula One season a Featured topic. This means at least seven articles to FA status, and the rest to GA status. Currently, as you should have been able to work out, we have two FAs and three GAs. While content writing is the key aspect, others such as copyediting, helping with peers reviews or just pointing out where the articles are just plain wrong are quite important.
Reminders
Rather than spam everyone when an article reaches PR or FAC, it would be better simply to leave a message on the project's talk page. For this reason, it may be a good idea to put the page on your watchlists if you want to be alerted to such things.
Everybody loves this picture, from the 2008 Australian Grand Prix
If you are writing an article, don't be afraid to take your lead from the existing GAs and FAs, particularly the later ones. This includes not just the format (with one section for Practice and qualifying) but paragraphs as well; the explanation of qualifying (which most recently appeared in the Bahrain article), originally written by D.M.N., has been hammered out across several PRs and FACs, to the point that I believe it is quite watertight. It is an important explanation, because modern qualifying practices in F1 are actually fairly hard to understand if you have never come across them before.
There is a project userbox, if you're interested. I don't even use it, but you can if you want.
The status box should be updated whenever an article changes class, which I believe people have been doing to this point anyway. I also use it to indicate (with links) whether an article is at PR, GAN or FAC, so it can be quite a useful page to keep an eye on.
Members
When I created the project page, I wrote that I was "fully expecting that the only name there will always be me". Four months later, we have seven users listed in the members section. I want to thank all of them for the effort they have put in so far, and to remind them that there is still a long way to go.
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