Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/August 2009 Newsletter

Project news

• Are you interested in helping the project continue to grow while collaborating with other users? Elections for coordinators will be starting this month. The term is for six months and any member who has at least 500 total edits can nominate themselves for one of the seven seats. Interested members can sign-up at the election page. Nominations will run from September 1-14, with the voting stage lasting from September 15-28.
• The tag and assess drive has been postponed to the beginning of October. The drive will focus on reassessing all of the Start, Stub, and Unassessed articles. In addition, articles will be tagged with the proper task forces and improvement tags. Keep an eye out for details of the drive, as awards will be provided to participating editors.
• After a recent discussion concerning Future templates, it was decided that they should be deprecated in articles. As a result, {{future film}} is no longer being used in our articles. Discussion over keeping the Future-class within the project will be discussed later this month, so keep an eye on WT:FILM.
• The results of the July 2009 article improvement drive are now available. With an initial goal of each member contributing to a single article to a higher class over the course of July, participation only included a few members. Consider visiting the improved articles to see how you can further expand a film-related article you are interested in.
• Our project currently has over 60,500 film-related articles, with 55,900 that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class.
• Are you new to the project or are interested in getting involved with new areas of WP:FILMS? Remember to keep an eye on the announcements page, which constantly updates current articles that need assistance or are attempting to be upgraded in class. There are a variety of task forces open for various genre and regional film topics. If working on backlogs interest you, there are multiple articles that you could use your help.
• Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in August 2009. One FA and two GAs were also delisted.

• • National Film Registry (8/18)
  • The Warped Ones (8/12)
  • Vampyr (8/15)
  • Hard Target (8/17)
  • Watchmen (8/17)
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream (8/18)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (8/20)
  • The Hudsucker Proxy (8/23)
  • Triumph of the Will (8/21)
  • The Care Bears Movie (8/16)
  • The Lion King (8/16)

Member news

• New members to the project since the last issue include: Bertaut, Theologian777, Paperoverman, Andrewire, Godardmelville, Tim1357, Valkyrie Red, BlueLankan, Jusdafax, FixingEntertainment, UKER, & Jihad Santoso.
• Recipients of the WikiProject Films Award: Andrzejbanas for improving several Core articles.
• Remember that any editor can give the WikiProject Films Award to another WP:Films member. If you do present this award, please make mention of it here or tell one of the newsletter editors who will then include it in the next issue.
• Please add your name to the member list if you have not already.

Film pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	190
FL	482
FM	33
A	1
GA	1,428
B	1,477
C	10,525
Start	71,470
Stub	96,443
List	13,182
Category	54,506
Disambig	372
File	110,852
Portal	19
Project	229
Redirect	11,725
Template	9,510
NA	11
Assessed	382,455
Unassessed	4
Total	382,459
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 985,397			Ω = 5.43

Current proposals and discussions

Coming to theatres

Opened last weekend (8/28):

• The Final Destination
• Halloween II
• Taking Woodstock

Opening this weekend (9/4):

• All About Steve
• Carriers
• Extract
• Gamer

Opening next weekend (9/11):

• 9 (9/9)
• I Can Do Bad All By Myself
• Sorority Row
• Whiteout
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt#Remake

Other September releases:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (9/18)
• The Informant! (9/18)
• Jennifer's Body (9/18)
• Love Happens (9/18)
• Bright Star (9/18)
• Pandorum (9/25)
• The Invention of Lying (9/25)
• Surrogates (9/25)

Did you know...

• ... that Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival, was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title?
• ... that My Boy Jack, a 2007 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig, is based on one of Haig's plays of the same name?
• ... that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning?
• ... that The Murderer Lives at Number 21 was director Henri-Georges Clouzot's first feature film for the Nazi-owned company Continental Films?
• ... that the creators of the 1996 documentary film The West traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) to gather footage and conduct research?
• ... that Takeo Kimura made his feature film directorial debut at age 90?
• ... that Only Clouds Move the Stars has received more international film awards than any other Norwegian film?
• ... that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits?

From the editors

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• Nehrams2020 (Lead Editor/Distributor)
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