Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/News
 THE U TURN
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The U Turn is the WikiProject Australian Roads project newsletter. The current edition is transcluded below. Drafts of future issues will be collaborated on at the
January 2014
Welcome to 2014 – a new year and new opportunities, in the real world and on Wikipedia. While you are celebrating the future, don't forget the past... take a look back with the second issue of The U Turn from WikiProject Australian Roads. – Evad37, Issue 2 Editor
Features
News summary
- There is a now a portal for Australian roads, which you can contribute to!
- The projects has a new article standards department, covering the project's advice on article content and style.
- The AURD shields department has closed down, with requests for shields are now undertaken at the new global WikiProject Highways Route Markerspage. Recent request that have been fulfilled include:
Standard numbered tourist drives, and one non-numeric route
Old Brisbane and Melbourne freeway routes
- Our project was featured in The Signpost on 9 October 2013! (Read the interview)
New and improved
The spring months have seen a number of article spring up the
Mandurah railway line (pictured) opened, constructed in the freeway median strip.
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Guildford Road, created by Evad37 (t c), appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 21 December 2013.
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Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road linking the
convict labour, with the road base made from sections of tree trunks.
Departments report
Assessment
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2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |||
| B | 3 | 3 | |||||
| C | 2 | 8 | 27 | 14 | 51 | ||
| Start | 2 | 20 | 84 | 165 | 2 | 273 | |
| Stub | 7 | 111 | 322 | 1 | 441 | ||
| List | 2 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 30 | ||
| Category | 46 | 46 | |||||
| Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
| File | 14 | 14 | |||||
| Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Project | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Redirect | 37 | 37 | |||||
| NA | 235 | 235 | |||||
| Other | 43 | 43 | |||||
| Assessed | 6 | 50 | 237 | 512 | 388 | 3 | 1,196 |
| Total | 6 | 50 | 237 | 512 | 388 | 3 | 1,196 |
- Graphs of our progress (and the raw data) can now be found at Google Docs spreadsheet, maintained by Evad37 and update once a month: [1]
- As well as the newly improved content listed above, a reassessment push in December saw a slight upwards trend in quality in the lower-class article. The percentage of articles classified as stubs has now dropped from 60.75% in July 2013 to 56.68% for January 2014, with the relative wikiwork factor decreasing from 5.51 to 5.45 over the same period.
- Pages can now be assessed as Redirect-class, Disambig-class, and Portal-class. In the assessment banner, pages classified as redirects or disambiguation pages will automatically be marked as map not applicable and KML not applicable without having to set the
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Resources
- New traffic volume templates are available, which build a table of data: {{traffic volume top}}, {{traffic volume row}}, {{traffic volume bottom}}
- The old {{Lua module, and allows for colour keys relevant to the table above to be displayed, instead of including all colours, whether used or not. Read more at the Templates for discussion log entry(20–27 August 2013)
- Project members are reminded not to use as soon as possible, such references should be replaced with citations to reliable sources.
Miscellaneous
- Our other departments are still around! Check out the Discussions Library for old consensus forming discussions, or find friendly helping hand with Advanced Permissions
- Australian Roads is now on Wikidata! Check out the project page and perhaps lend a helping hand.
Credits
Comments
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