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July 1 Canada Day

• Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2008. Please help develop our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Site in Saskatchewan articles!

Museums

• Several community museums are only open during the summer months in Saskatchewan. Virtual Museum of Canada - Calendar of Events - Discover events which are offered during the summer months.

Parks

• July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 12 to 18 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan. "Take A Hike" is the theme in 2008. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.

• According to Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention/Canada, a merger is proposed: Delta Bessborough or Hotel Bessborough join the discussion
• Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology needs clean up and citations.
• According to Articles with minor POV problems from February 2008 this pages need work: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,Regina, Saskatchewan,Regina, Saskatchewan neighbourhoods
• Saskatchewan Bill of Rights introduction needs work.
• Saskatoon has a section needing citations.
• According to uncategorized Saskatoon Royal Connections needs categories
• Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory needs to be wikified.
• Crystal Lake (Saskatchewan) , Kannata Valley, Saskatchewan are orphaned as few or no articles link to them.
• Briercrest College and Seminary and Saskatchewan River Sturgeon Management Board both need a re-write.
• List of Cree topics needs to be translated from English to Cree.
• Saskatchewan photographs needed.

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. Take time to adopt a user. At Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles.

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 37 members. Please welcome M@sk (talk · contribs) and Wandering_canadian (talk · contribs) to the project!
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 11 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

Move images to commons

• From the US roas newsletter - A handy tool has been developed for moving images to the Commons.

Work the Wiki Saskatchewan

• Work the Wiki Saskatchewan is an independent article about wikipedia and writing Saskatchewan articles for this encylopedia. Are there any comments in regards to work the wiki web site.

Saskatchewan quick links template

• Add this template {{Saskatchewan quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Misplaced Pages. This template has been modeled after the {{Canadian quick links}} template.

Canada wikimedia / Canada wikiproject on Commons

• Discussion started regarding a Wikicommons Canadian wikiproject to help create consistency amongst image naming and categories on commons for Canadian related images. This could also be cross wiki linked to Wikimedia Canada's project to organise drives to produce free photos of Canadian locations. Please comment about French English image description or naming for Canadian images to enable both the English and French wikipedias access to images for articles in either language.

Class Project - Higher Education in Canada

• Please assist students of this Class project to wikify and produce citations for the various provincial articles coming online. The article for Saskatchewan has been started, and if there is any assistance you may be able to offer the students please mention it on the appropriate talk page. Watch also for tags on the articles such as AFD and guide the students for Misplaced Pages principles. Thank you.

• Cccleo (talk · contribs) is the student who has created the Higher education in Saskatchewan article, a class project which has a deadline of June 30, 2008. The class project has improved wikipedia's coverage of higher education of Canada, and this article in particular is an excellent beginning for coverage of Higher education in Saskatchewan. A thank you and Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight goes out to you at this time.

• Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Misplaced Pages who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Misplaced Pages Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's fifteenth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2008, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2008, Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2008,Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2008, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008 Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

• Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

• Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Misplaced Pages talk WP SK :

• For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Misplaced Pages talk WP SK

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

• Range road clean up and citations needed.

• Trans Canada Highway new template has been created!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

2 Million New Articles:

• Discussion re commmunity or settlement started at WP CA noticeboard. .... FritzpollBot creating up to two million new articles which will give placenames an article page on wikipedia. There is also a discussion on the Canadian wikiproject discussion page about compiling a listing of incorporated placenames of Canada as a response to this discussion on the village pump. Please add to the Saskatchewan discussion about adding Saskatchewan placenames.

• According to Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention/Canada, Colonsay No. 342, Saskatchewan needs clean up.
• Moose Jaw needs a citation.
• Whitewood, Saskatchewan needs clean up.
• According to uncategorized Pangman, Saskatchewan is uncategorized.
• Wolseley, Saskatchewan is being disputed regarding its neutality.
• Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan needs to be wikified.
• Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan needs a re-write in encyclopedic style.

• The user template: {{user Saskatoon}} needs some TLC as its image has disappeared! If someone has some photographic / image manipulation talents, and a good idea to improve the user template, it is much appreciated.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods

Trivia Question

• The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to Trivia question #3 before month end. The answer to Trivia Question #3 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - August 2008 newsletter.

• Trivia Question #3: Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?

• Answer Question #3: Will be announced August 1, 2008

• Trivia Question #2: Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan? from the June Newsletter

• Answer Question #2: Kenaston, Saskatchewan

Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008.

		??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
		The correct editor/s will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

Provide us with your news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.

To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .

WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.

• C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.

• A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles for instance is a new list List of company towns. Saskatchewan company towns could be added to this list as well. Coal in Canada is another new article, which could be added to with the new coal development near Hudson Bay. Also check out the new Higher educaiton task force

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 37 members.
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

List of basic Canada topics

• Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.

Automate Deletion sorting to Candidates for Deletion

• Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.

Ghost towns

• Please contribute to the converstation regarding ghost towns of Saskatchewan, as there is a robot deleting pages from the Category:Ghost towns

Barnstar Contest

• Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.

Trivia Question

• The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.

• Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?

Answer Trivia Quesion #3: , Saskatchewan. (From July Newsletter -Answer the Skytrail in Outlook a part of the Trans Canada Trail

• Trivia Question #4: The current question for August 2008, is which park in Saskatchewan is celebrating its 80th year anniversary in August of 2008?

• Trivia Question #5: Does anyone wish to submit the next trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 10 - October 2008.

		??? Saskatchewan Trivia Award ???
		The correct editor/s will receive this award on their user page, as well as an announcement in the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2008 newsletter !!!

Welcome to summer, and WikiProject Saskatchewan!!:

• Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

• Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

• Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Mitchazenia. Even though he might not be heavily involved all things Saskatchewan, one area he is greatly involved in is roads and highways. Not only that he started the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways WikiProject. His other edits don't go un-notice. So much so that he was even awarded the WP: Sask Barnstar for his contributions to highway and road articles of Saskatchewan.

• Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Misplaced Pages who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Misplaced Pages Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.

Misplaced Pages talk WP SK :

• For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Misplaced Pages talk WP SK

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

• There is conversation covering the usage of exit list guides ELG's and junction tables ({{jctint}} Please join this M of S conversation!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

• The SKCN navigation template has been slightly re-designed. The colours have been changed. Let us know what you think.

• The assesment template for SKCN is still in the works. Stayed tuned for more developments on this issue.

• The Assesment Department has been undergoing some updates, additions, and changes. The new sections have of the Assesment Department have modeled after the WP: Saskatchewan Assesment Department. Many articles need assesments or re-assesments. Go to the Requesting an assesment of Assesment Department to see what needs an assesment.

• As always, we are looking for new members. Don't hesistate to join WP: SKCN. We look forward to welcoming you to the project.

Signed..Mr. C.C. .

Articles with error tags Felix Douma, Saskatoon railway station and Carlos Windiz need citations. The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Centre for the Study of Canada needs citations and categories, and added to the U of S article. James Curry needs to be wikified and citations. Father Mercredi High School needs expansion and is orphaned.

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

Please look at the New articles section to keep updated on new articles related to Saskatchewan.

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