Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation
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Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of aviation.
- Create guidelines for articles about aviation.
- Unite all projects relating to aviation under one roof!
- Scope
- Famous people:
- Aviators (e.g., Amelia Earhart)
- Designers (e.g., Burt Rutan)
- Aviation pioneers (e.g., the Wright brothers)
- Aviation terminology (e.g., stall, Mach)
- Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., Airport Surveillance Radar)
- Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
- Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
- Aviation history
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[edit] Announcements and Open tasks
| Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks watch · edit · discuss |
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Requested articles
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Aircraft
Rotorcraft
Military aviation
Red Bull Air Race World Series
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Airlines
Gliding
Glider aircraft
Defunct airlines
Airports
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[edit] Guidelines
[edit] Disambiguation pages
[edit] Templates
[edit] Articles
[edit] Infobox templates
There are a variety of infobox templates and auxiliary boxes available for use in aviation articles. To allow stacking primary infoboxes with supplemental boxes, all of the templates use a common infobox style.
A few general guidelines apply to all of the infoboxes:
- Most of the fields in each infobox can be omitted if desired; the choice of which ones are appropriate for a particular article is left to the discretion of the article's editors.
- Multiple values given in a single field should be separated by both commas and, where appropriate, line breaks; merely spacing them onto separate lines can confuse screen reader software, and is ambiguous when long terms wrap onto multiple lines in their own right.
- In general, the use of flag icons is not recommended.
[edit] Primary infoboxes
A primary infobox is intended to provide a summary table for some topic. It should generally be placed at the top of an article, before the lead section; this will cause it to be displayed in the top right corner.
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- Aircraft Infobox
- Used for aircraft (Including gliders and rotorcraft).
- Airport infobox
- Used for airports.
- Airline infobox
- Used for airlines.
- UAV infobox
- Used for UAVs.
[edit] Categories
- Category:Aviation and stub type {{aviation-stub}}
- Category:Aviation terminology and stub type {{aviation-term-stub}}
- Category:Aviation articles needing expert attention
[edit] Project organization
[edit] Members
The full list of project members is located on a separate subpage; please feel free to add your name to it if you would like to join the project!
[edit] Departments
- Assessment
- The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
- Collaboration
- The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.
- Outreach
- The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
- Review
- The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.
[edit] Child projects and task forces
[edit] Sub-projects
- WikiProject Aircraft
- WikiProject Airlines
- WikiProject Airports
- WikiProject Gliding
- WikiProject Red Bull Air Race World Series
[edit] Task forces
- Aviation accident task force
- Military aviation task force
- Rotorcraft task force
- Glider task force
[edit] Other related projects
[edit] Related portals
[edit] Project banner
The {{WPAVIATION}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are documented on a separate subpage.
