Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta
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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the Province of Alberta with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles as well as to do lists for Albertans
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[edit] Scope
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to Alberta, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Alberta in a fair and accurate manner.
[edit] Relations
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Similar WikiProjects
[edit] Participants
- Bhavesh.Chauhan I live in Calgary and am willing to contribute to Calgary Neighbourhoods.
- Canadian Scouter
- Climie.ca - I live in Calgary, but I'm willing to, as with in all the other projects I'm a part of, help out wherever I'm able.
- Blacknail
- -b (Calgary articles only)
- Kevlar67
- GrantNeufeld
- Em3rald
- Qyd - living in Calgary, interested in geography and mapping.
- Superior1 18:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC) - I'm in Edmonton, I'll try to help.
- kc4 - the Server Monkey Enforcer 05:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC) - I have already contributed to a number of Alberta atricles so I might as well be part of the official WikiProject.
- Kmsiever - living in Lethbridge. I have contributed extensively to the Lethbridge article and its sub-articles. I have also contributed and added to several articles in southern Alberta.
- Canadian Joeldude - I live in the Edmonton area (Spruce Grove) and am trying to edit articles related to my area
- Mar Tiger - I currently live in Edmonton, but I grew up in the Barrhead area and plan on increasing the amount of information for that area.
- Sbmcmull - also an Edmontonian, originally from Olds. Also member of Canadian military history taskforce.
- Realdeal 55 - I'll do what I can; I live in Fort McMurray, so that's my area of most knowledge.
- Rhombus - I live in Calgary but am willing to help out where possible. If there are photographs from the region needed, let me know.
- Phoenix2 - Lethbridge-related articles.
- Chuck Szmurlo - I live in Calgary and would be interested in providing useful Alberta photographs.
- johntwrl - I live in Edmonton and have been happily adding new articles and expanding existing articles on Edmonton neighborhoods and some other articles relating to Edmonton.
[edit] Meetups
[edit] Featured and good articles
- Featured articles: Banff National Park • Ammolite
- Candidates: none
- Featured lists: Towns of Alberta • List of Alberta general elections • List of ice hockey teams in Alberta • List of Alberta premiers
- Candidates: none
- Good articles: Calgary • Edmonton • Lethbridge • Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
- Candidates: none
[edit] To do
- Expand articles listed in:
- Expand and improve articles listed in:
- Establish collaborations and improvements for Alberta related articles
[edit] Photo Requests
For Alberta-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Alberta}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alberta. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{Canadian Town}} - I have added the info box {{Canadian Town}} to all the towns in Alberta. I think the same info box could be used for the villages and hamlets, etc. —Cadillac 17:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- {{Alberta municipality infobox}} - For cities/towns in Alberta
[edit] Navigational boxes
- {{Alberta}} - Communities in Alberta.
- {{Topics on Alberta}} - A general navox for topics related to Alberta.
- {{Alberta politics}} - For inclusion on articles relating to the provincial government, political parties, and issues in Alberta politics.
- {{First Nations in Alberta}} - For First Nations, Governments and Reserves; needs extensive work; see also WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
- {{Alberta rivers and lakes}} - For rivers and lakes in Alberta
- {{Alberta Provincial Highways}} - For roads; some articles still need to be created; see also WikiProject Canada Roads
- {{Alberta parks}} - For national, provincial, and urban park, as well as museums, etc.
[edit] For Wikiproject Alberta pages
- {{Albertaproject}} - to be included in talk pages of articles related to Wikiproject Alberta. Articles (talk pages) will be included in Category:WikiProject Alberta articles.
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This article is part of WikiProject Alberta, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Alberta, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |  |
[edit] Userbox
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[edit] Stubs
- {{Alberta-stub}} - Basic stub, now also includes a link to this project.
- {{Calgary-stub}} - For Calgary stub articles.
- {{Lethbridge-stub}} - for Lethbridge and southern Alberta stubs.
- {{Alberta-geo-stub}} - For incomplete articles about regions, places and localities within Alberta.
- {{Alberta-school-stub}} - For incomplete articles about schools and school districts within Alberta. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada for more information.
- {{Alberta-airport-stub}} - For incomplete articles about airports within Alberta. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports for more information.
- {{Alberta-protected-area-stub}} - For incomplete articles national and provincial parks and other protected areas. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas for more info.
- {{Alberta-politician-stub}} For short articles about Alberta-related politicians, from any level of government.
- {{Alberta-road-stub}} For stub on road and streets in Alberta.
[edit] Volunteer recognition
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This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia.
The Canadian Content Award
[edit] Resources
- World Lake Database - There are a few Alberta lakes in this database.
- Atlas of Alberta Lakes
- Alberta First - Communty profiles, with statistics, link to local structures, etc
- Alberta Source - resources about Alberta Heritage (places, people, etc)
