Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter desk

Newsletter

The main goal of The Inside Corner is to highlight some of the best work by WikiProject Baseball, and thus attract editors to help out with editing baseball articles. Along the way we hope to have some fun!

If you would like to encourage a new editor to contribute to baseball-related articles, consider writing an invitation on their talk page to help out, while including a hand-delivered summary of the latest issue of The Inside Corner (see the bottom of the newsletter for instructions).

• Latest issue: Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter – March 15, 2015
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Volume 3, issue 3: no date scheduled (on hiatus)

To all contributors:

• If you are writing something that fits under the existing headings of the draft newsletter: please go ahead and update the draft page.
• If you have something else in mind: please add a link to your proposed content under #Works in progress. (Note "7th inning stretch" is not a regular part of the newsletter as it is a catch-all category, so any content proposed for this area should be placed under the "Works in progress" section on this page.)

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• Go Phightins! 01:08, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
• Secret ^account 01:08, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
• - Jorgath (talk) ^(contribs) 03:14, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
• Newyorkadam (talk) 21:26, 10 March 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
• Atomic XYC 18:33, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
• Wizardman 02:07, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
• Seattle (talk) 02:29, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Sections

Works in progress

Holding area for links to any work in progress.

• Drafts by AtomicXYC:
  • Miscellaneous items (7th inning stretch)

Templates

• Newsletter template: see #Starting a new issue for instructions to create a skeleton newsletter

Templates used by the various methods to subscribe to the newsletter:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification: notification message delivered by the mass mailer bot
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Summary: template that users can include on a user page to have an updated summary of the latest issue (no notification)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Current issue number: current volume and issue; see #Publishing a newsletter for instructions on releasing a new issue. Users can watchlist this page to see when a newsletter issue is released.

Stats

Volume 2, issue 5: 84 views from July 27–August 31, 2014

• issue-specific page: 48 — 25 in July; 23 in August; 19 on July 27, no other day exceeding 4 (from stats.grok.se: July, August)
• current issue number page: 5 — 2 in July; 3 in August (from stats.grok.se: July, August)
• current newsletter page: 37 — 6 in July; 31 in August; no day exceeding 5 (from stats.grok.se: July, August)

Volume 2, issue 6: 90 views from September 2–27

• issue-specific page: 43 views from September 2–30; 33 views on September 1 (includes copy-editing); no other day exceeding 6 (from stats.grok.se: September)
• current issue number page: 10 views from September 1–27; 6 views on September 1 (probably 1 related to copy-editing) (from stats.grok.se: September)
• current newsletter page: 37 views from September 1–27; 1 view on September 1 (probably related to copy-editing); 8 views on September 3; 7 views on September 23 (from stats.grok.se: September)

Volume 2, issue 7: 64 views from September 29–October 31

• issue-specific page: 31 views from September 29–October 31; 6 views from September 29–30; 38 views on September 28 (includes copy-editing); 25 views in October (from stats.grok.se: September, October)
• current issue number page: 12 views from September 29–October 31; 5 views in September, all on September 28 (probably 1 related to copy-editing); 7 views in October (from stats.grok.se: September, October)
• current newsletter page: 21 views from September 29–October 31; 3 views in September (probably 1 related to copy-editing); 18 views in October (from stats.grok.se: September, October)

Volume 2, issue 8: 63 views from November 4–27

• issue-specific page: 35 views from November 4–27; 18 views on November 3 (includes copy-editing); 18 views (!) on November 16 (from stats.grok.se: November)
• current issue number page: 6 views from November 4–27 (from stats.grok.se: November)
• current newsletter page: 22 views from November 4–27 (from stats.grok.se: November)

(note: stats for the following dates are skewed by views related to copy-editing: September 1, 2014; September 28, 2014)

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