Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville

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WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006 to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia.

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up. Also, please feel free to post any ideas and suggestions on the project talk page.

1 Scope
2 Members
3 Departments
4 News
5 Tasks
6 Resources
7 Relations

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to coordinate development of new articles as well as improvements to existing articles related to Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, consisting of thirteen counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Since the Louisville city article is already a Featured Article, this project also aims to make that article even better. Ultimately, we may also seek to create Portal:Louisville.

This is an open project that is owned and controlled by all its members. Its open tasks are a compilation generated by many of its members. All concerns with elements of this project should be discussed on the project talk page.

[edit] Members

To join this project or see the current list of members, go to the Membership Department.

[edit] Departments

[edit] News

February 5, 2007: Number of pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville surpasses 1,250.
January 11, 2007: Requested Articles department redesigned for clarity.
December 28, 2006: Peer review department added.
December 9, 2006: Assessment department added.
September 30, 2006: Number of pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville surpasses 1,000.
August 26, 2006: Change patrol tools added.
August 25, 2006: Number of pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville surpasses 750.
August 14, 2006: Old Louisville is designated a Good article.
August 4, 2006: Number of pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville surpasses 500.
August 3, 2006: Without warning, a Wikipedia administrator removed the Louisville seal from WikiProject templates due to a perceived violation of fair use. A public domain image of the fleur-de-lis was substituted.
June 7, 2006: WikiProject Louisville begins.

[edit] Tasks

Louisville articles		Importance
Louisville articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1					1
	A
	GA	2					2
	B	5	17	18	5		45
	Start	8	91	184	95	3	381
	Stub	1	20	72	182	277	552
	Assessed	17	128	274	282	280	981
	Unassessed	0	0	0	0	155	155
	Total	17	128	274	282	435	1136

[edit] Article development

Wikipedians and especially WikiProject Louisville members are encouraged to continue developing any articles of their choosing that are (or should be) covered by this project. The following pages suggest articles that have a special priority for addressing.

Articles needing attention:
- Department (Instructions)
- Category: Louisville articles needing attention
Articles needing peer review:
- Department (Instructions)
- Category: Requests for Louisville peer review (Instructions in category)
Articles requested to be developed:
- Department (List)

[edit] Change patrol

To ensure that all changes to Louisville-related pages are sound, here are "recent changes" pages to aid in that endeavor:

ALL CATALOGUED: Recent changes to all pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville
MAIN ARTICLE: Recent changes to all pages linked to from the Louisville, Kentucky article
SELECTED LIST: Recent changes to project-covered articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism
- Edit /Watchlist to add articles to this list

[edit] Miscellaneous

Continuous: Keep Louisville, Kentucky as compact as possible, moving as much details into sub-articles as is reasonable.
Continuous: Ensure that all Louisville-related articles are properly categorized and catalogued for the project.
Continuous: Ensure that all links going to the main Louisville article are disambiguated, especially to ensure that links to 'Louisville' aren't instead meant to go to University of Louisville.
Continuous: Ensure that all Louisville-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism are listed in the Project Watchlist.
Finish assessing all the articles catalogued for the project.
Target additional Louisville-related articles to take to Featured or Good status.
Consider the development of new Louisville-related infoboxes and navigational templates.
Plan and develop Portal:Louisville (See Portal:Philadelphia for an example).
Create a "WikiProject Louisville Fleur-de-lis Award" (suggestion) to honor exceptional contributions to articles catalogued by the project (See WikiProject Philadelphia's Liberty Bell).
Develop a guideline for creating new Louisville-related articles.
Come up with some kind of approach for prioritizing work in the project (e.g., collaboration of the week or top ten list).
Develop a collaborative methodology for determining when to assess an article as an 'A'.
Possibly establish an "Outreach" department.
Possibly develop specialized task forces for members interested in specific topic areas (e.g., Government or Sports).

[edit] Resources

[edit] Subpages

/Alerts — WikiProject Louisville Alerts System.
/Assessment — WikiProject Louisville's assessment department.
/HallOfFame — WikiProject Louisville's Hall of Fame.
/Members — WikiProject Louisville's membership department.
/NeedingAttention — Department that aims to help members identify specific improvements that are needed in various articles and communicate them to other project members and Wikipedians in general using Wikipedia techniques and tools.
/Peer review — WikiProject Louisville's peer review department.
/Requests — Department where requested Louisville-related articles are listed.
/Watchall — Please do not edit this file, as a bot periodically fills it with links to all pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville. See Change patrol for usage.
/Watchlist — Edit to add Louisville-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism. See Change patrol for usage.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Infoboxes

{{CardinalsBBCoach}} | {{CardinalsCoach}} | {{Colleges and universities in Louisville}} | {{Louisville TV}} | {{Louisville AM}} | {{Louisville FM}} | {{Louisville Catholic Elementary}} | {{Louisvillemalls}}

[edit] Project templates

The following are templates related to WikiProject Louisville:

{{WikiProject Louisville}} — Designates that an article is covered by WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the article's Talk page.
{{WPLouisville page}} — Designates a project page or category dedicated for use in WikiProject Louisville.
{{WPLouisville-Member}} — Designates that a user is a member of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page.
{{WPLouInvite}} — placed (using subst) on talk pages to invite potential members to join the project.
{{WPLouWelcome}} — placed (using subst) on talk pages of newly joined members.
{{Louisville-stub}} — Designates that an article is a Louisville-related stub. Placed at the bottom of the article.
{{User WPLouisville}} — Designates that a user is a member of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page. Can be used in addition to or instead of the banner above.
{{User Louisville}} — Designates that a user is from Louisville Metro. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page. Doesn't require membership in this project to use.

[edit] Sources and references

Following is a list of major sources for researching Louisville-related subjects:

Courier-Journal archives back to 1999
Kleber, John E., et al. (editor) (2000). The Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 1-5689845-1-0.
LouisvilleKY.gov - Louisville Metro Government Official Website
Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County, 2nd edition, Louisville, KY: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.

WikiProject Louisville coverage area — the Louisville MSA

The coverage area from a state-level view

[edit] Relations

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

WikiProject Louisville takes over what the following projects would ordinarily handle but which is a Louisville-related subject. Project overlap should normally be avoided.