- Project news
- The Tag & Assess drive has completed another month. There are over 50,000 articles that need to be reviewed. We have already assessed over 13,400 articles! This will take a project-wide effort to complete, and it will be helpful if you complete even just one range (of course, you may like it and want to do more!). The vast majority of the Stub-class articles are available to review, and each article usually takes just a few seconds to complete. The top three reviewers so far are Big Bird (1,600), Bovineboy2008 (1,200), and Peppage/Pjoef (800). With many ranges still available, you can still compete for the top awards. Instructions can be found on the drive's page.
- As the 50th anniversary of Psycho will occur on June 16, a collaboration has started to improve the article to FA so that it can be included on the main page in time for the anniversary. A to do list and an assortment of sources are available. Consider helping out in one area of the list to help the article reach the front page by its milestone.
- Our project currently has over 63,000 film-related articles, with 60,800 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. Many of our unassessed articles have been reviewed thanks to participation in the Tag & Assess drive.
- Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were: Avatar (2009 film) (for the second month in a row, and with over 5.1 million views), The Book of Eli, List of highest-grossing films, Paranormal Activity (film), and 2010 in film. For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see here. Consider helping to improve one of these articles that is seen by thousands to millions of people each month.
- Lists that details awards, nominations, and honors films receive have been renamed from "List of awards and nominations for film" to "List of accolades for film". Please use this title when it is necessary to split off accolades from the main film article into a separate list.
- Erik has compiled several recent changes links that can be used for watching film articles. The links can be searched by future release dates, task forces, and class assessments. The links can be helpful for joining in on discussions or reverting vandalism.
- When including Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores within film articles, be sure to correctly describe their review collection methods. By following this description, confusion can be avoided over the websites' rating systems.
- Spotlight Update: Multiple films reached GA status in January 2010. One article was delisted as an FA.
- Member news
- New members to the project since the last issue include: Evalpor, Christianster94, Trollcat56, & Aardvarkzz.
- 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
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| Quality
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| Total
|
 FA
|
191
|
| FL
|
483
|
| FM
|
44
|
 A
|
1
|
 GA
|
1,430
|
| B
|
1,528
|
| C
|
10,792
|
| Start
|
71,885
|
| Stub
|
96,093
|
| List
|
13,242
|
| Category
|
50,846
|
| Disambig
|
331
|
| File
|
110,683
|
| Portal
|
19
|
| Project
|
221
|
| Redirect
|
11,075
|
| Template
|
8,863
|
| NA
|
6,242
|
| Assessed
|
383,969
|
| Unassessed
|
13
|
| Total
|
383,982
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 986,592
|
Ω = 5.42
|
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- Current proposals and discussions
- Coming to theaters
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Other February releases:
- Did you know...
- ... that the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland was the first talking picture to be based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
- ... that the director of the 2009 film The French Kissers chose to use mostly untrained actors because he feared that professional actors would be too egotistical?
- ... that the 1972 science fiction horror film Night of the Lepus was panned by critics for its failure to make killer bunnies seem scary?
- ... that the short film Second Effort, starring former American football coach Vince Lombardi, has been called the best-selling training film of all time?
- ... that while recording swordfights for Barbarian, the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer?
- ... that Johan Kling, a Swedish filmmaker whose career started with making TV shows and McDonald's commercials, won the award for best Swedish film for his debut movie, Darling?
- ... that The Irish Filmography is a reference source for nearly 2,000 films made from 1896 to 1996 in Ireland, about either Ireland or the Irish?
- ... that Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida, and the third in the United States, equipped to show sound film?
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