> > > By the way Q5869386 is really rather funny. For some reason your bots think > that [[History of the English penny (1066–1154)]] is equivalent to > [[History of the English penny]]. > > -- > geni >
I am now slightly more educated than I was this morning on the topic of the history of English currency. Did everyone else know that there are actually at least 8 distinct periods of penny? Naturally enough, there's a series of [English] Wikipedia articles about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Penny_(English_coin)#Pennies_by_period And - in a desperate attempt to bring this thread BACK TO THE POINT - they, and over 3,500 other articles, are coordinated by Wikiproject Numismatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numismatics Because if its clear scope, detailed academic resources, dedicated interest-group, and relatively small wiki-community size, this is the kind of wikiproject that would probably be a fantastic candidate for testing some of the ideas worked on with 'Wikiproject X'. Wikiprojects that want to sign up as testers can go here: https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Pilots Wikiprojects are a very important and long-standing part of the community infrastructure of Wikipedias - and (IMHO) hold the key to helping support new editors through the crucial first 20 newbie edits. However I don't believe they have EVER received any specific attention about how they can be supported more (by the WMF, Chapters, with grants, software features, bugs fixed, etc etc). This is a fantastic opportunity to support on-wiki collaboration. If anyone has ideas for how Wikiprojects can be improved. List them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_X To subscribe to the newsletter, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Newsletter p.s. Yes, this is English-wikipedia focused because the volunteer who applied for the grant is an English-speaker... It wouldn't be very useful for the WMF to fund grants for volunteers to work in languages that they don't understand... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
