By the way Q5869386 is really rather funny. For some reason your bots think that [[History of the English penny (1066–1154)]] is equivalent to [[History of the English penny]].
-- geni
I am now slightly more educated than I was this morning on the topic of the history of English currency. Did everyone else know that there are actually at least 8 distinct periods of penny? Naturally enough, there's a series of [English] Wikipedia articles about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Penny_(English_coin)#Pennies_by_period
And - in a desperate attempt to bring this thread BACK TO THE POINT - they, and over 3,500 other articles, are coordinated by Wikiproject Numismatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numismatics
Because if its clear scope, detailed academic resources, dedicated interest-group, and relatively small wiki-community size, this is the kind of wikiproject that would probably be a fantastic candidate for testing some of the ideas worked on with 'Wikiproject X'. Wikiprojects that want to sign up as testers can go here: https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Pilots
Wikiprojects are a very important and long-standing part of the community infrastructure of Wikipedias - and (IMHO) hold the key to helping support new editors through the crucial first 20 newbie edits. However I don't believe they have EVER received any specific attention about how they can be supported more (by the WMF, Chapters, with grants, software features, bugs fixed, etc etc). This is a fantastic opportunity to support on-wiki collaboration.
If anyone has ideas for how Wikiprojects can be improved. List them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_X To subscribe to the newsletter, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Newsletter
p.s. Yes, this is English-wikipedia focused because the volunteer who applied for the grant is an English-speaker... It wouldn't be very useful for the WMF to fund grants for volunteers to work in languages that they don't understand...