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| == ''Ichthus'': June 2012 == | |||
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| |style="color:gold;"|'''June 2012''' | |||
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| ===Membership report=== | |||
| The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 331 active members. We would like to welcome ], ], ], ], ], ], ], Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the ] or with me or other individual editors to request it. | |||
| ===From the Editor=== | |||
| ''Ichthus'' is one of the ways that the WikiProject Christianity’s ] department helps update our members. We have recently added some new sections to the newsletter. Please let us know what you think of the new departments, and if there are any other suggestions for departments you would like to see. And if you have anything you would personally like to add, by all means let us know. The talk page of the current issue is probably the best place to post such comments. | |||
| With that, I wish you all happy reading! | |||
| P.S. Please to add the new ] to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects. | |||
| ===Church of the month=== | |||
| <center>]<br> | |||
| by ]</center> | |||
| <center>]</center> | |||
| ===Vote for the project mascot=== | |||
| We had last month asked our members to help "bring into the fold" ] as the project's mascot. Voting will take place this month for which image we should adopt at ]. Please take a moment to review the images and vote for whichever is your favorite, or, if you so prefer, suggest an additional one. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| ===DYK=== | |||
| *...that ], a Russian medieval princess, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? | |||
| ===Calendar=== | |||
| Thie coming month includes days dedicated to the honor of ], ], the ], and ]. | |||
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| ===Featured content and GA report=== | |||
| ] recently achieved FA status. ], in the Church of the Month section, was recently promoted to Featured Picture status. | |||
| Our thanks and congratulations to all those involved. | |||
| ===Wikimedia Foundation report=== | |||
| ] | |||
| ] currently has many old texts available, most of them in the public domain. This is a potentially very valuable source for several things, including for instance links to Biblical verses, because we know that it will, basically, be around as long as we are. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| <small>with inspiration from ]</small> | |||
| ===Christian art=== | |||
| ] | |||
| This section would include a rather large image of a specific work of art, with a link to the most directly relevant article. | |||
| Suggestion: ], an English 15th century ]. Groups of painted relief panels were sold via dealers to churches on a budget , who had wood frameworks made to hold them locally. From a huge new donation of images from the ] to Commons, see {{commonscat|Collections of the Walters Art Museum}} | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| ===Spotlight=== | |||
| A new WikiProject relating directly to Christian history is being developed at ]. Also, a group specifically devoted to the Mennonites and other Anabaptists is now up and running at ]. Anyone interested in assisting with the development of these groups and topics is more than welcome to do so. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| ===I believe=== | |||
| ... in the statements contained in the ]. I believe that the Bible is one of the two defining bases for belief. The other is the ], which provides us with means of interpreting the Scriptures, as well as some teachings which have been handed on by God outside of the scriptures. I believe that the ] has been empowered to fill this interpretative function. I believe that ] is a rule that should generally be followed. I am a member of the ]. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| ===Help requests=== | |||
| Please let us know if there are any particular areas, either individual articles or topics, which you believe would benefit from outside help from a variety of other editors. We will try to include such requests in future issues. | |||
| </div> | |||
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| <center><small>''Ichthus'' is the newsletter of Christianity on Misplaced Pages • It is published by ]<br>For submissions contact the ] • To unsubscribe add yourself to the list ]<br>] (]) 02:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)</small></center> | |||
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| == ''Ichthus'': July 2012 == | |||
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| |style="color:gold;"|'''July 2012''' | |||
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| '''Membership report'''<br> | |||
| The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 336 active members. We would like to welcome ], ], ], and ], Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the ] or with me or other individual editors to request it. | |||
| '''From the Editor'''<br> | |||
| ''Ichthus'' is one of the ways that the WikiProject Christianity’s ] department helps update our members. We have recently added some new sections to the newsletter. Please let us know what you think of the new departments, and if there are any other suggestions for departments you would like to see. And if you have anything you would personally like to add, by all means let us know. The talk page of the current issue is probably the best place to post such comments. | |||
| With that, I wish you all happy reading! | |||
| P.S. Please to add the new ] to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects. | |||
| '''Church of the month'''<br> | |||
| <center>]<br> | |||
| by ]</center> | |||
| <center>]</center> | |||
| '''Vote for the project mascot'''<br> | |||
| We had last month asked our members to help "bring into the fold" ] as the project's mascot. Voting will take place this month for which image we should adopt at ]. Please take a moment to review the images and vote for whichever is your favorite, or, if you so prefer, suggest an additional one. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''Calendar'''<br> | |||
| Thie coming month (mid-July through mid-September) includes days dedicated to the honor of ], ], ], ], ], and the ]. | |||
| </div> | |||
| <div style="float:right; width:49%;"> | |||
| '''Featured content and GA report'''<br> | |||
| ] was recently promoted to Featured List status. ] was recently promoted to Featured Picture status. ] and ] were promoted to GA level this past month. | |||
| Our thanks and congratulations to all those involved. | |||
| '''Wikimedia Foundation report'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| ] welcomes the development of textbooks of all kinds, children's books, recipes, and other material. It currently has just under 2500 books, including several Wikijunior books for the 12 and under population. There is, at present, not even a book on Christianity. Anyone interested in helping develop such a textbook is more than welcome to do so. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''Christian art'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| ]. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''Spotlight'''<br> | |||
| A new WikiProject relating directly to Christian history is being developed at ]. Anyone interested in assisting with the development of these groups and topics is more than welcome to do so. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''I believe'''<br> | |||
| ... in the tradition of ], ], and ]. I believe that Jesus had two essences (or natures), human and divine, unmingled, that are everlastingly united in one personality. I am a member of the ]. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
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| '''Help requests'''<br> | |||
| Please let us know if there are any particular areas, either individual articles or topics, which you believe would benefit from outside help from a variety of other editors. We will try to include such requests in future issues. | |||
| <center><small>''Ichthus'' is the newsletter of Christianity on Misplaced Pages • It is published by ]<br>For submissions contact the ] • To unsubscribe add yourself to the list ]<br>] (]) 15:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)</small></center> | |||
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| == WikiProject Christianity August 2012 newsletter == | |||
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| |style="color:gold;"|'''August 2012''' | |||
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| '''Membership report'''<br> | |||
| The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 341 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the ] or with me or other individual editors to request it. | |||
| '''From the Editor'''<br> | |||
| ''Ichthus'' is one of the ways that the WikiProject Christianity’s ] department helps update our members. We have recently added some new sections to the newsletter. Please let us know if there are changes you would like to see in the format, or if there are any particular things you would like to see included. And if you have anything you would personally like to add, by all means let us know. The talk page of the current issue is probably the best place to post such comments. | |||
| With that, I wish you all happy reading! | |||
| P.S. Please to add the new ] to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''Church of the month'''<br> | |||
| <center>]<br> | |||
| by ]</center> | |||
| <center>Frauenkirche (Church of Our Blessed Lady) in ], taken from the tower of ]</center> | |||
| '''Contest of the month'''<br> | |||
| We currently have a remarkable lack of ]. Right now, ] contains only 12 books. We certainly could have at least one book on each major grouping within Christianity. One of the challenges for this month, then, is working to put together books on relevant topics. For this month, one contest is for editors to assemble the basic Misplaced Pages books for each of the main topics of the extant related projects. When finished, they should their creation of the books at the ], and at the end of the month the project will award barnstars to those who have made a significant efforts in developing this underdeveloped content. | |||
| Also this month, we are going to have have a challenge to create and improve some of our more important missing or low-quality articles. As biographies are often a bit easier, this month we are choosing two biographies: ], which has yet to be started, and the currently Stub-class article ]. A barnstar will be awarded to any editor who can get these articles up to ] and ultimately selected for the DYK section of the main page. | |||
| '''Calendar'''<br> | |||
| Thie coming month (mid-August through mid-September) includes feasts dedicated to the honor of ], ], ], and the ]. | |||
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| '''Featured content and GA report'''<br> | |||
| Since the last report, ], ], and ] were promoted to GA level. | |||
| Our thanks and congratulations to all those involved. | |||
| '''Wikimedia Foundation report'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| ] is our sister site for developing news stories. Several events relating to Christianity, like the installation of bishops for instance, do not necessarily merit extensive coverage in wikipedia encyclopedic articles, but can and easily could be covered at greater length in a news article format. Given the number of significant news events that relate to religion, including claims of miracles, assignment of bishops and other religious leaders, church conferences, and other events, this site provides an excellent opportunity to provide in-depth coverage of current events at greater length than wikipedia. | |||
| '''Christian art'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| <center>''Christ Crucified'' by ]. </center> | |||
| '''Spotlight'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| One of our newer editors, ], has recently gone through much of our content related to Methodism and assessed it. We are very grateful for his efforts, and that of all the editors who have had a role in developing that content. We have every reason to believe that this will make it significantly easier for the ] to create and develop content relevant to Methodism. To help that along, we certainly encourage everyone to do what they can to help David and the other Methodism editors to bring the content relevant to their tradition to the highest possible level of quality. | |||
| '''I believe'''<br> | |||
| ... in the ], the sacraments of ] and ], the ] conception of ] through God's ], and the regular renewal of the individual's ] with God. I am a ]. | |||
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| '''Help requests'''<br> | |||
| Please let us know if there are any particular areas, either individual articles or topics, which you believe would benefit from outside help from a variety of other editors. We will try to include such requests in future issues. | |||
| <center><small>''Ichthus'' is the newsletter of Christianity on Misplaced Pages • It is published by ]<br>For submissions contact the ] • To unsubscribe add yourself to the list ]<br>] (]) <includeonly>~</includeonly><includeonly>~~</includeonly><includeonly>~~</includeonly></small></center> | |||
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| The Military history WikiProject has started its ], where we will select a team of coordinators to organize the project over the coming year. If you would like to be considered as a candidate, please submit your nomination by 14 September. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the ] on their talk page. <small>This message was delivered here because you are a ] of the Military history WikiProject.</small> – '''Military history coordinators''' (] • ]) 09:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC) | The Military history WikiProject has started its ], where we will select a team of coordinators to organize the project over the coming year. If you would like to be considered as a candidate, please submit your nomination by 14 September. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the ] on their talk page. <small>This message was delivered here because you are a ] of the Military history WikiProject.</small> – '''Military history coordinators''' (] • ]) 09:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC) | ||
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| == WikiProject Christianity September 2012 newsletter == | |||
| <div style="font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> | |||
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| |style="font-size: 350%; color:gold; "|<br><big>'''I</big>CHTHUS''' <br><br> | |||
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| |style="color:gold;"|'''September 2012''' | |||
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| '''Membership report'''<br> | |||
| The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 344 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, ], ], and ]. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the ] or with me or other individual editors to request it. | |||
| '''From the Editor'''<br> | |||
| ''Ichthus'' is one of the ways that the WikiProject Christianity’s ] department helps update our members. We have recently added some new sections to the newsletter. Please let us know if there are changes you would like to see in the format, or if there are any particular things you would like to see included. And if you have anything you would personally like to add, by all means let us know. The talk page of the current issue is probably the best place to post such comments. | |||
| With that, I wish you all happy reading! | |||
| P.S. Please to add the new ] to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects. | |||
| <small>By ]</small> | |||
| '''Church of the month'''<br> | |||
| <center>]<br> | |||
| by ]</center> | |||
| <center>The Chapel of ]</center> | |||
| '''Contest of the month'''<br> | |||
| We currently have a remarkable lack of ]. Right now, ] contains only 12 books. We certainly could have at least one book on each major grouping within Christianity. One of the challenges for this month, then, is working to put together books on relevant topics. For this month, one contest is for editors to assemble the basic Misplaced Pages books for each of the main topics of the extant related projects. When finished, they should their creation of the books at the ], and at the end of the month the project will award barnstars to those who have made a significant efforts in developing this underdeveloped content. | |||
| Also this month, we are going to have have a challenge to create and improve some of our more important missing or low-quality articles. Last month's challenge articles were ] and ]. Both articles are currently candidates for the DYK section of the ]. This month's challenge articles are the Stub-class article ] and the not yet started ], A barnstar will be awarded to any editor who can get these articles up to ] and ultimately selected for the DYK section of the main page. | |||
| '''Calendar'''<br> | |||
| Thie coming month (mid-September through mid-October) includes feasts dedicated to the honor of the ], ], ], ], ], ], the ], ], ], and ]. | |||
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| <div style="float:right; width:49%;"> | |||
| '''Featured content and GA report'''<br> | |||
| Since the last report, ], and ] were promoted to FA. ] was promoted to Featured List, and ], ], ], ] and ] were promoted to GA level. DYKs featured this past month include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved! | |||
| '''Wikimedia Foundation report'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| As some of you may have seen, the ] has been experiencing some difficulties lately. This particular entity could be of great value to several individuals who are trying to learn English. As some of you who do speak foreign languages know, one of the most easily available, and, in general, useful learning aids for people is a text they know already, which allows them to focus on the specific words of the new language. Various recorded readings and translations of the ] are among the best examples of this. Any efforts to try to enhance this vital means of informing a large segment of our readership is more than welcome. People interested in helping develop it are encouraged to leave a note regarding their specific articles of interest at the ]. It would be wonderful if we could report some significant contributions to this sister site next month. And, of course, if we do have something to report, those involved would receive our greatest thanks. | |||
| '''Christian art'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| <center>''The Guardian Angel'' by ]. </center> | |||
| '''Spotlight'''<br> | |||
| ] | |||
| ] is one of our more important subprojects. It is specifically devoted to developing content relating to the Calvinist tradition, and the primary point for development of content relating to the ], ], ], ], ], and ]. We definitely encourage everyone to do what they can to help this project develop the content relating to this extremely important Christian tradition. | |||
| '''I believe'''<br> | |||
| ... that human nature is insufficient for salvation, and the grace of God is required to do so. I believe that God has preordained who will and will not achieve salvation. I believe that Jesus's atonement was sufficient for the purposes for which it was done. I believe that God's grace is of such power that it can overcome any person's resistance. I believe that those whom God has chosen for salvation will, by the undeniable power of God, persevere in God's grace. I am a ]. | |||
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| '''Help requests'''<br> | |||
| Please let us know if there are any particular areas, either individual articles or topics, which you believe would benefit from outside help from a variety of other editors. We will try to include such requests in future issues. | |||
| <center><small>''Ichthus'' is the newsletter of Christianity on Misplaced Pages • It is published by ]<br>For submissions contact the ] • To unsubscribe add yourself to the list ]<br>] (]) <includeonly>~</includeonly><includeonly>~~</includeonly><includeonly>~~</includeonly></small></center> | |||
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The Military history WikiProject has started its 2012 project coordinator election process, where we will select a team of coordinators to organize the project over the coming year. If you would like to be considered as a candidate, please submit your nomination by 14 September. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the current coordinators on their talk page. This message was delivered here because you are a member of the Military history WikiProject. – Military history coordinators (about the project • what coordinators do) 09:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)