Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/October 2009 Newsletter

Project news

• After a long wait, the Tag & Assess drive will start at the beginning of next week. The banner will now be updated to accept the C-class, and remove some of the parameters to simplify the banner and allow the project to better focus on its articles. Instructions will be provided on assessing articles for the drive and prizes will be awarded to members based on the number of articles reviewed.
• We are currently having a roll call to update our membership records. If you still consider yourself an active member of the project and would like to continue to receive the monthly newsletter as well as notices related to the project, please readd your name from the inactive list to the active list.
• A new page now allows us to see what the project's most popular articles are. The page will be updated monthly and will be helpful to determine which articles should be expanded or further improved. The project's most popular article this month was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with over 770,000 views!
• Our project currently has over 61,000 film-related articles, with 56,000 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.
• Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in October 2009. Several articles were also delisted from GA-status.
  • Star Trek: First Contact (10/3)
  • Film noir (10/3)
  • Tracy Flick (10/20)
  • Hard Boiled (10/27)
  • Krrish (10/29)
  • Big Fish (10/29)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (10/2)
  • Wizards (10/3)
  • Dreamgirls (10/12)
  • Silent Hill (10/12)
  • Spider-Man 2 (10/12)
  • Goldfinger (10/31)

Member news

• New members to the project since the last issue include: 03md, Dancingturtle8205, Deftonesderrick, Cinemaniac86, Reincarnut, Rudybowwow, & Erkman27.
• Recipients of the WikiProject Films Award: Jimknut for rewriting and reworking the Charlie Chaplin filmography list.
• 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
Quality
	Total
FA	189
FL	482
A	1
GA	1,415
B	1,399
C	9,885
Start	69,559
Stub	96,180
List	13,016
Category	52,448
Disambig	359
File	106,708
Portal	19
Project	229
Redirect	11,258
Template	9,329
NA	7
Assessed	372,483
Unassessed	676
Total	373,159
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 971,443			Ω = 5.44

Coming to theaters

Opening last weekend (10/30):

• Michael Jackson's This Is It (10/28)
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (limited)

Opened this weekend (11/6):

• The Box
• A Christmas Carol
• The Fourth Kind
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Precious (limited)

Opening next weekend (11/13):

• 2012
• The Boat That Rocked
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (limited)
• The Young Victoria (limited)

Other November releases:

• The Blind Side (11/20)
• New Moon (11/20)
• Planet 51 (11/20)
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (11/20) (limited)
• Broken Embraces (11/20) (limited)
• Ninja Assassin (11/25)
• Old Dogs (11/25)
• The Road (11/25)
• The Princess and the Frog (11/25) (limited)

Did you know...

• ... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
• ... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?
• ... that during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park, director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
• ... that John Travolta's older brother Joey Travolta produced the documentary film about autism Normal People Scare Me?
• ... that Raymond B. West developed a new standard of double exposure photography while directing a 1917 film in which one actress played two sisters?
• ... that the Indian film Shehar Aur Sapna, a love story set in a drain pipe, won the National Film Award for Best Film and Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for actor Nana Palsikar?
• ... that the 1915 film The Italian tells the story of an immigrant played by George Beban who goes to America in search of fortune but finds a "Darwinian jungle" on New York's Lower East Side?
• ... that the epic anti-war film Civilization (poster pictured), depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916?

From the editors

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