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at Commons or other wikipedias. The goal is to strengthen our relationships with featured processes in those sister projects, and to benefit from the different perspectives they bring. I know that our Managing Editor, HaeB, has no problem with this, provided we choose carefully, and the organisers of the Commons's peak competition for featured pictures seem ideally positioned to be occasional judges; we are delighted that they are agreeing to act in this role, actually. With 52 editions a year, we have the potential to invite many editors of varied background. We are grateful for your own contribution a few weeks ago, and will seek to invite you again before many months elapse, hoping you will agree. Cheers.
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J Milburn, thanks for your comment. While we have and will continue to draw mostly on the expertise of our regular editors at the featured article, list and pictures processes, the idea of inviting a judge each week always included another purpose beyond this: to draw on interwiki colleagues, whether
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quality, it shows details I'd never seen before from the liftoff. Even though from a technical viewpoint it's just as easy to include videos in articles as it is to embed pictures, in my opinion there is still not nearly enough video footage on Knowledge; in particular, videos are often overlooked in
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said the original was so big it took three hours to crop, rotate, and adjust the colour. "Ground my system to a halt, and I have a reasonably good computer. Mind you, I also spent three hours cleaning up the blank border surrounding the image – and maybe an hour or two on the image itself.... every
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I agree, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with asking an outside party to comment on the weeks nominations, they don't always have to be FPC regulars, and as Tony says, theres 52 editions/year, we don't have anywhere near that many regulars at FPC, we'd exhaust those in maybe two or three
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the featuring process. The newly featured video gives me hope that this might improve in the future, confirms NASA's status as one of the foremost contributors of public domain material, and is a jewel in our slowly but steadily growing collection of commercial-quality encyclopedic footage." (
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JovanCormac seems a very odd person to ask for his choice of the week at FPC- he's not involved with FPC in any way at the moment. There are plenty of FPC regulars who I have no doubt would be happy to share their thoughts and opinions.
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pointed out how rare it is to find "so much soft tissue fossilized—and with so much fossil/matrix color differentiation; that is just awesome", and that "the lighting angle is great and the resolution is very high". (Created by
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Kudos again to those involved from SP who put together what is, for me, the most inspiring section of my weekly read. It's always wonderful to be reminded of the exceptional quality of some of our content.
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series revolves around the eponymous Digimon creatures and their human "Tamers", who both serve as player and non-player characters depending on the game (
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has written 26 featured lists, mostly on the subject of baseball. Here is his pick: "Much as I might like to go with a baseball list, my choice has to be
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FLCs, grinding out all the little details for this in-depth, very nice list covering the chain of volcanoes near the Hawaiian archipelago.
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slight smudge shows on blank paper (created by G. W. Fasel and Charles G. Crehen; published by Nagel & Weingaertner).
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from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The reviewers were all enthusiastic;
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are never easy to pull off, and Mario and Awickert did a great job."
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Thanks Star. (can't think of anything else to say).
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