Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica/Notices

This is a subpage of WikiProject Mesoamerica. Some or all of this subpage may be transcluded on the main Project page(s). Portions of this page which are not meant to appear on the main Project page(s) should be placed between "noinclude" tags. Links to Project Mainpages and commonly-used subpages: DEFINITION ACTIVITY CATALOGUE Article watchlists Categories Recognised content Monitoring Assessments Resources Citations Journals Guidelines Participants

This subpage contains a running log of Project-related news, notices, achievements and alerts. The 'Current notices' section below appears on the main page, and is intended to provide a "quick-look" facility to highlight key items or updates to WP:MESO participants.

(Current Project-related notices, main activities, issues, milestones and other news (for example, recent discoveries in the field) may be listed here (in brief) for ready visibility. This bulleted listing appears on the main Project page. Most recent at the top. Provide a link to any ongoing discussions. The listing should be kept relatively brief. Once a notice is no longer current or recent, if required it can be moved to the historical sections, below.).

• 2008-10-31 - 1300+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• 2008-09-05 - 1250+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• 2008-08-29 - Mesoamerican ballgame Passes GA nomination
• 2008-08-26 - Pierre Colas, VU professor & Mayanist epigrapher, fatally shot at his home
• 2008-06-06 - 1200+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• 2008-06-04 - Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Passes GA nomination
• 2008-05-12 - Nahuatl featured on Main Page
• 2008-04-06 - Nahuatl Passes FA Nomination

• Mesoamerican external newsboards (can be reviewed for latest developments)
  • The Mesoamerica Center newsboard
  • Ancient America newsboard

2008

• 2008-03-04 - 1100+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• WP:MESO citations listing
  overhauled, broken down into separate subpgs
• 2008-02-04 - Aztec cuisine passes GA nom

2007

• Oct 19 2007 - 1000+ in-scope articles indentified and tagged for the project!
• Oct 15 2007 - Nahuatl (hopefully temporarily) downgraded from GA to B
• Jun 15 2007 - 950+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• May 01 2007 - 900+ in-scope articles identified and tagged for the project
• Mar 31 2007 - Mayan languages promoted to Featured Article status!
• Feb 24 2007 - Mayan languages up for Featured Article nomination (discussion here)
• Feb 19 2007 - 800+ in-scope articles identified for the project
• Feb 14 2007 -
  WP:DYK appearances for Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures and El Manatí‎
• Jan 24 2007 - Significant Olmec-influenced archaeological remains uncovered at Zazacatla [1]
• Jan 18 2007 - 750+ in-scope articles identified
• Jan 16 2007 -
  WP:PR
  , prep. looking good for future FA nomination
• Jan 05 2007 -
  Featured Article
  .

2006

• Dec 31 - 700+ in-scope articles identified for the Project
• Dec 27 -
  FA
  ) appears on Wikipedia Front Page
• Nov 2 - project banner modified with option to identify disambig pages, associated Category:Mesoamerica disambiguation pages can be periodically reviewed for dab cleanups
• Oct 19 - 600+ in-scope articles identified for the Project
• Oct 4 - Major Aztec ruins uncovered in Mexico City. [2]
• Sep 15 - article published in Science journal describes an inscription (the "Cascajal Block") recently found, which may be the oldest specimen of Mesoamerican writing - see Olmec hieroglyphs
• Sep 12 - 550 in-scope articles identified for the Project
• Sep 01 - 3 WP:MESO articles have appeared in
  P'urhépecha language
  .
• Aug 07— Two more successful GA noms,
  Yuri Knorosov
• Jul 31— Commenced addition of links to primary and historical source documents at
  WP:MESO/REF
  .
• Jul 25— We now have 500+ articles tagged with the project's banner and
  assessed for current status
  - that's more than a few to get started with...
• Jul 20— Article to-do lists have now been repopulated with list of the Top- and High- priority articles per appropriate section, per the assessment scheme.
• Jul 22—
  Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
  passed GA nom.
• Jul 05—
  Article assessment and rating scheme
  is now implemented. Class and importance ratings can now be recorded, see the scheme for details.
• Jun 23— V2.2: Article to-do lists now available at
  WP:MESO/A
  , ready to be populated & worked on
• Jun 20— new guideline added for orthography of Mayan words (M04)
• Jun 10—
  SPATRA
  team. The article now needs factual checking, citations, and some prose & organisation changes. Please lend a hand.
• Jun 11— primary category migration to Category:Mesoamerica now complete; the old Category:Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica is now a category redirect to there.
• Jun 10—V2.0 of Project layout and design implemented, Project main page (which looked too crowded in V1.0) now split into three, and some other reorg.
• Jun 9—V1.0 of Project layout and design overhaul implemented. See here for details or comment.
• May 31—
  here
  .