Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges

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This project is about articles related to Bridges.

Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about bridges, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.

Scope: This project is related to articles about specific bridges, types of bridges, lists of bridges, bridge categorization, and related templates.

If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention. Feel free to include yourself to the list of participants.

[edit] Membership Template

Template for members to include on their user page: {{WikiProject Bridges}}, or the userbox form: {{user bridges}}.

[edit] Article Template

Template to place on an article (pretty basic) {{WikiProject Bridges article}}.

[edit] Participants

Cacophony (talk • contribs)
Elkman (talk • contribs) - mostly Minneapolis-St. Paul area bridges
Ghirla (talk • contribs), responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
IntrigueBlue (talk • contribs) will lend a hand with editing/clarifying, despite knowing nothing about anything.
Kvetner (talk • contribs) - UK bridges, bridge engineering generally.
Joturner (talk • contribs)
MakeChooChooGoNow (talk • contribs) - Railroad bridges, trestles, and viaducts are my specialty.
Lar (talk • contribs) will help out when he can.
Leonard G. (talk • contribs)
Lpangelrob (talk • contribs) — associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
SamuelWantman (talk • contribs)
S charette (talk • contribs)
Myselfalso (talk • contribs)
Internazionale (talk • contribs)
Dskluz (talk • contribs)
TheBridgeOmnibus (talk • contribs) - Southeastern US bridges.
Vishwin60 (talk • contribs) - anywhere, anytime I can.
Bpaint (talk • contribs) new to wiki, old to bridge painting, lotsa pics, some knowledge, willing to help somehow?
fajji (talk • contribs) Portland, Oregon bridges
VerruckteDan (talk • contribs)
Bernstein2291 (talk • contribs) I do NYC bridges

[edit] To Do

Expand the guidelines for bridge articles
Nominate articles for good or featured status
Add infoboxes to articles
Standardize categorization for bridges - discuss on the talk page
Add introductory paragraphs to bridge category pages (defining the category)
Update the List of bridges in the United States with info from Cat:Bridges in the US
Add latitude and longitude information to articles (either using a template or {{Geolinks-US-streetscale}})
Expand Category:Bridge (structure) stubs articles.

[edit] Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Pulaski Skyway serve as good models.

[edit] Introduction

The introduction sentence should include what type of bridge it is, what it spans (river, canyon, etc.), and where it is located:

'''bridge''' is a [[bridge type]] that spans [[body of water/land]] between [[city, state]] and [[city, state]]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].

[edit] Images and media

Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

[edit] Templates and infoboxes

Template:Infobox Bridge is the prefered template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.

[edit] Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of bridge that it is (example Category:Suspension bridges). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Bridges in New York

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all bridge articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of bridge articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Bridges in Japan), or small countries with relatively few bridges (Category:Bridges in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Bridges in New York). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the bridges in Category:Toll bridges in New York and Category:Bridges in New York City will be included in Category:Bridges in New York). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.

[edit] Infoboxes

Template:Infobox Bridge is the prefered infobox for individual bridges. There are instructions on how to use it on the template page. Template:BridgeTypePix should be used for bridge design types.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles (bridge types)

Bridge

[edit] Articles (specific bridges) in need of attention

Mountain Creek Lake Bridge was copied fron an external source and needs to be rewritten.
Niagara Cantilever Bridge Needs review. I expanded it a lot but it still could use more work. ++Lar 05:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Peoria, Illinois bridges needs to be broken into individual articles.
Triborough Bridge needs to be reworked, possibly to include 3 infoboxes, more images, diagrams, etc.
Hampton Bridge is marked with a cleanup template

[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Highways

Categories covered
- Category:Bridges
- Category:Roads
Stubs
- Category:Bridge (structure) stubs
- Category:Road stubs
Cleanup needed (updated by bot)
- 10 - Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), List of roads in Kuala Lumpur, Most expensive residential streets in Europe, N1 road (Gabon), Perimeter Highway (Winnipeg), Peter Bruff, Shunpiking, St. Cloud Rail Bridge, Types of road, Yangtze River Crossing
Expansion needed (updated by bot)
- 17 - List of Alberta provincial highways, List of Manitoba provincial highways, List of Mexican Federal Highways, List of State Highway Loops and Spurs in Texas, List of United States federally-maintained roads, List of bridge disasters, List of bridges in the United States, List of crossings of the Susquehanna River, List of highways numbered 25, List of road-rail bridges, List of road-rail tunnels, List of toll bridges, List of toll roads, List of traffic circles in New Jersey, Route 115, Trail, Tunnels and bridges in Hong Kong
Expert attention needed (updated by bot)
- 0 -
Wikification needed (updated by bot)
- 1 - Roads and expressways in Poland
Neutrality in question (updated by bot)
- 0 -
To be merged or split (updated by bot)
- 3 - List of Virginia numbered highways, Martin Luther King Bridge (St. Louis), Pont Fawr

[edit] Useful websites

Pghbridges.com (external link) - good for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania area)
bridges.midwestplaces.com Historic Bridges of the Midwest - Good for bridges anywhere in the US Midwest
historicbridges.org Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere - Good for bridges in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ontario.
Structurae.de (external link) - Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures - largest bridge database on-line

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

List of largest suspension bridges

[edit] Featured pictures

The Golden Gate Bridge.	The Sydney Harbour Bridge	London Millennium Bridge	Tamar Bridge and Royal Albert Bridge panorama
The Brooklyn Bridge at night	Tower Bridge at night	Alcántara Bridge, Spain	The Maza bridge at San Vicente de la Barquera
The bridge over the River Rhône at Avignon	Golden Gate Bridge from above	John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge	The Golden Gate Bridge in fog

[edit] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the day

Passy Viaduct Paris, France

Vaalankurkku railway bridge

Tsurumi Tsubasa Bridge

Quebec Bridge at night

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