Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Finland
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[edit] Open Discussion
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nordic / Scandinavian task force on WikiProject military history?
It has been proposed on WikiProject military history to set up an either Nordic or Scandinavian task force. If you are intrested in this topic, please comment on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Two_task_force_ideas. Cheers. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Flag
You guys are aware of the fact that the flag currently displayed on the project page is the Icelandic flag and not the Finnish one, right?--Carabinieri 16:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- So I forgot to change it when I copied over the page. I do that a lot. Fixed now. Sorry about that. Badbilltucker 16:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problem with the Template:WPFinland sidebar
I've created the sidebar above, but any time I include it it automatically restricts the "type range" of everything below it to it's own size. If anyone knows how to fix this, please feel free to do so. Badbilltucker 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- Fixed. The markup looked alright, so I tried closing another DIV tag and that seems to have done it. Thanks for creating the template. Prolog 09:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal for Project Page Additions
Hello! I'm interested in joining the project, but I couldn't bring myself to signing under the Project organisation header. So I would like to propose a few changes to the Project Page.
The first change I would like to see would be the renaming of Project organisation to Participants, and also changes to the structure of it. Here is an example:
[edit] Participants
This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please feel free to add your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment.
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC) - currently adding missing Finnish films and actors and directors to wikipedia
- Thereen 07:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC) - currently tagging articles for the project.
I find that the current Project organisation is good, but a bit too specific (sorted into Sports, Bio, Arts, etc.).
The second thing I would like to see would be a more prominent userbox section, which could help to entice casual passers-by. Again I have an example:
[edit] Userboxes
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| {{User:Thereen/Userboxes/WPFinland}} |
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Thank you for your time, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thereen 07:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hey. There was a Participants section but it was moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/Members. I have included this in the main project page as a transclusion now, since it currently does not take much space. Your userbox looks good. Feel free to add the Userboxes section and make bold changes to the project page. Prolog 08:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] project finland banner
do we have a banner that can be placed on each article stating that the page is part of wikifin?Razor romance 17:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC) sorry found it. Im blindRazor romance 17:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- If you are also interested in assessing articles, you might want to see the assessment department. The current statistics for progress, updated every day, can be seen at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Finland articles by quality statistics. Prolog 20:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Navigation boxes in Finnish railway station articles
How should we do the "previous - next" navigation boxes in articles about Finnish railway stations? For the VR commuter rail network, it is easy: simply treat Helsinki Central railway station as the heart, and have one box for each route, or group of routes, having the same previous and next station and this one.
But long distance trains pose a huge problem. The long distance railway network in Finland (see List of railway lines in Finland) is much more interconnected and decentralised than the VR commuter rail network. How should we mark each box? With the ultimate endpoints (Helsinki and Kolari in the best case)? This would create a problem when deciding which stations are more important than which. Or should we do it like the Finnish Wikipedia appears to do, by only marking one individual, nonambiguous piece of track at a time? For example, the track from Helsinki to Riihimäki is a straight line with no forks. From Riihimäki it then forks to Tampere and other directions. And how to decide which way the routes go? Automatically treating central stations in large cities as starting points and minor stations in surrounding municipalities as ending points can lead to collisions between two major cities, such as between Helsinki and Turku. Should we decide "it begins in the south" or "it begins in Helsinki"? JIP | Talk 19:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
