Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon/Collaboration

message: NRHP articles created since the beginning of the drive, though not necessarily a result of the COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NRHP stuff 

message: *Larry George
*Richard Devlin
*Brad Avakian*
*Frank Morse (Oregon politician)
*Bob Tiernan
*Kurt Schrader
*Jeff Kruse
*Bruce Starr
*Charles Starr
**Was a Senator when we started, now not.
*Please add any others you find. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  House & Senate folks created 

message: *Two articles per week is a good choice for the current number of active WP Oregonians.  Consider increasing it when "narrow" articles are CTOW (example: Thuja plicata), and as the number of participants increases.
*Minimize pairing of similar COTW articles.  For example, the week of October 292007 featured two biographical articles.
*Likewise, a variety of types of articles from week to week would provide a sense of progress, accomplishment, appeal to different people, and spice things up.
*Here is my thought for a collaborative effort - According to the Oregon Statistics, we have 29 articles that have an importance of TOP but only are at START class while we have 9 HIGH/STUB and 429 MID/STUB.  I would like to see a list of these TOP and MID articles that are START or STUBS and see if a collaborative effort could be done to bring these up to C class or better. C. Williams (talk) 05:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: State park articles created during the week of the COTW drive: Aboutmovies (talk) 07:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  State park tracker 

message: Pick one (other than the GA ones) and go to town making sure it has sections, proper spelling, inline citations and proper references, is fully categorized, and has a picture (all the living ones have one, thus any without would qualify for fair use if you can't find a free image). Plus, as all have infoboxes, make sure any other political offices they held are also included besides the governorship. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:10, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governors 

message: I visit to suggest possible use of a couple tools supporting collaboration, namely:
*use of general Recent Changes tool, applicable for any collaboration that involves multiple articles
*use of new batch-draft-generator-of-NRHP-articles tool, applicable for any drive involving multiple new NRHP articles
See this Recent Changes to Grand Forks County NRHP articles (last 500 edits or 30 days).  That report is supported by  this list of articles covered in the given article drive.  I've found it surprisingly useful to let me know about other editors deliberately contributing in an article drive, or just randomly arriving, in this Grand Forks example and in other ongoing drives for Connecticut NRHPs and elsewhere.  It's encouraging to know about others activity, both on and off your own personal watchlist, while working on an article drive.  Where random others enter, you can make specific invitations to collaborate more directly.
See this corresponding set of rough draft NRHP articles.  The drafts include material that can be useful in improving many pre-existing articles or in creating new NRHP articles at a level somewhat further advanced than the Elkman NRHP output with which many of you might already be familiar.  A quite useful feature is that the draft index and the drafted Talk pages includes useful, customized "Find Sources" links set up for each article topic.  And there are other innovations reflected.  I'd be happy to support a Wp:Oregon drive on any NRHP list and its indexed articles, if there was interest.
Both tools would be relevant to support a COTW like you did for National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Oregon, a COTW during December 2009.  The Recent Changes type report could easily be applied to any other article drive, or to all your recent collaborations as a set.  I'll watch here briefly in case there may be any comments or questions, which i would welcome.  Or contact me anytime in the future at my own Talk.  
Also, congratulations on your very nice Spruce Production Division collaboration!  Keep up the good work! --Doncram (talk) 16:58, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As for the first suggestion, see the top of many of the WP:ORE pages, such as the WT:ORE talk page, for the blue bar with Recent Talk and Recent Changes.  That has changes project-wide and is an effective replacement for personal watchlisting of the 10,000+ Oregon-related articles.  I think I'll add the blue bar here too.  —EncMstr (talk) 18:31, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration tools for general article drives and for NRHP articles