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This week, we focused on the windy city by interviewing the director of WikiProject Chicago. The third largest city in the United States is associated with over 22,000 articles, including 64 featured articles and lists. Originally started on 5 July 2005, the project has been home to multiple collaborations and other initiatives from time to time. Currently, the project is sponsoring a featured topic drive intended to bring a collection of articles related to Millennium Park up to featured status by 1 September 2010.

1. First, tell us a bit about yourself and your role in WikiProject Chicago.


2. When did you first join WikiProject Chicago? What are some of the challenges that the project has met since you joined, and how were they dealt with?


3. What aspects of the project do you consider to be particularly successful? Has the project developed any unusual innovations, or uniquely adopted any common approaches?


4. Have any major initiatives by the project ended unsuccessfully? What lessons have you learned from them?


5. What experiences have you had with the WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with yours? Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?


6. What is your vision for the project? How do you see the project itself, as well as the articles within its scope, developing over the next years and Chicago improvement?

7. How do you feel about the dissappointment of WP:Meetup/Chicago 3 after the success of WP:Meetup/Chicago 2?

8. Any announcements for the project?

On behalf of the Signpost, we'd like to thank TonyTheTiger for his time. In addition, we invite you to check out WikiProject Chicago! Anyone who would like to help out can take a look at the project's list of open tasks or browse their articles, particularly the backlog of unassessed articles. Next week, get ready to root, root, root for the home team! Until then, play pitch and catch with our old reports in the archive.



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