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Contents 1 Projects 1.1 Actors and Filmmakers 1.2 Admin Oversight Board 1.3 African art 1.4 Aircraft photo collection 1.5 Alabama 1.6 Analog Photography 1.7 Ancestors of Modern Games 1.8 Assessment of unassessed articles 1.9 Anime conventions 1.10 Antarctica 1.11 WikiProject:Appreciation 1.12 Aviculture 1.13 Banners 1.14 Berlin 1.15 Bittorrent 1.16 Bleach 1.17 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 1.18 Boulder, Colorado 1.19 WikiProject: Careful Editing 1.20 Cambodia 1.21 Canadian Rock 1.22 Cantopop Music 1.23 California Schools 1.24 Charmed 1.25 Childrens television programmes of the united kingdom and northern ireland 1.26 Chile 1.27 Christian Liturgy 1.28 WikiProject Cite 1.29 Cold War History 1.30 Cologne 1.31 Comedians 1.32 Colorado Rockies Baseball 1.33 Columbia University 1.34 Consulting 1.35 Cosmetics 1.36 Costa Rica 1.37 Cruise Ships 1.38 DaimlerChrysler 1.39 De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles 1.40 Delaware 1.41 Derbyshire 1.42 Diplomatic Missions by Country 1.43 Drum set and drumline 1.44 EAScripting Collection 1.44.1 EAScripting Defaults 1.45 Eastern Africa 1.46 Eastern Europe 1.47 Engineering 1.48 Entourage 1.49 Fishing 1.50 Football (soccer) in the United States of America and Canada 1.51 Foundation (skateboards) 1.52 Frasier 1.53 WikiProject Free images 1.54 List of Franchise Companies 1.55 Global Democracy 1.56 Gloucestershire 1.57 Greenland 1.58 Grunge & Alternative 1.59 Half-Life 1.60 Hall of Fame 1.61 Hamburg 1.62 Harmonised Classification of all Wiki Articles 1.63 Hertfordshire 1.64 Historical People from Yellowknife 1.65 Homestar Runner 1.66 The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project 1.67 Hotels 1.68 Idaho 1.69 Iglesia ni Cristo 1.70 Inline templates 1.71 Interbank networks 1.72 Interwiki 1.73 IPA 1.74 Iraq, post-invasion 1.75 Journals 1.76 Kansas 1.77 Kinks, The 1.78 Knowledge Games 1.79 Latvia 1.80 Lexical similarity index 1.81 Maine 1.82 Mario Party 1.83 Math Verification and Improvement 1.84 Micronesia 1.85 Middle Africa 1.86 Mobile Phones 1.87 Monk 1.88 Mythbusters 1.89 Nevada 1.90 New Mexico 1.91 Nicaragua 1.92 Nine Inch Nails 1.93 North American Motorsport 1.94 Lead Paragraph Cleanups 1.95 WikiProject Living People 1.96 Oriental Orthodoxy 1.97 Paranormalities 1.98 Pharmacology (and/or Medicinal Chemistry) 1.99 Philippines 1.100 Photography 1.101 Pixar 1.102 Political Scandals and Controversies 1.103 Polish heraldry 1.104 Polynesia 1.105 Project Support Services 1.106 Provide Alternatives to Technical Jargon 1.107 Relativity 1.108 Religious leaders 1.109 Revolutions of 1848 1.110 Road transport 1.111 Rhode Island 1.112 Rhodesia 1.113 Robotics 1.114 The Rolling Stones 1.115 Scifi Channel Original Films 1.116 Shipwrecks 1.117 Shopping Malls 1.118 South America 1.119 Southern Africa 1.120 Southern Europe 1.121 Southern United States 1.122 Spelling Bee 1.123 Sports Venues 1.124 Steely Dan 1.125 WikiProject Student Affairs 1.126 Synthesizers 1.127 Three Stooges 1.128 Titanic 1.129 Trucks 1.130 Tunisia 1.131 Television children's shows 1.132 UK Roads 1.133 Unassessed Articles 1.134 Unicycling 1.135 Uttar Pradesh 1.136 Veterinary medicine 1.137 Video Game Images 1.138 Weezer 1.139 Western Africa 1.140 Western Asia 1.141 Wiki Markup Standardization 1.142 WorldCat Identities - external links 1.143 Wyoming 1.144 Yorkshire 1.145 WikiProject Secrets of Droon 1.146 WikiProject Geometry 1.147 District of Columbia 1.148 Thang Online 1.149 WikiProject Surrey 1.150 WikiProject classroom coordination 1.151 Roads in New York City

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[edit] Actors and Filmmakers

Description I am proposing a new wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject:Film biography or Wikipedia:WikiProject Filmmakers and actors, which, if allowed to develop, could become a major project. Model starter proposal is here User:Ernst Stavro Blofeld/Film biography page model (Please note that it is still in its infancy stage and the templates have not been fully completed. THis is how I'd like the page to look but with an adaption of the task side plate further to incorprate film and biography goals on wikipedia).

As a member of WP Films, I have noticed that articles on actors, film directors, producers, cinematographers, etc. are often too much for the Biography project to deal with. I strongly believe we need an institution on Wikipedia to take care of these articles. I would like to see rapid improvement of film biographical articles by means of assessment, project targets, special attention to problem articles, the addition of missing film biographies, and the standardization of infoboxes. By tagging an article with this project's template, the article would automatically be listed under both this project and the Biography project. By this I mean the project would be under the parameters of the Biography project, but with the second half of the template stating "This article is in the scope of and maintained by WikiProject Filmmakers." In addition, in order to give each occupation within this project's scope its proper due, the project page would be divided into these subsections:

• Actors.
• Film directors.
• Screenwriters (I am hoping to integrate the Screenwriters project into the project.)
• Cinematographers
• Film producers
• Others (e.g score composers, editors, etc.)

Please let me know what you all think. Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 14:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Interested wikipedians

• ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 14:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• PhantomS 15:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Jreferee 15:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• — WiseKwai 16:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Hoverfish Talk 16:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Anas ^Talk?
• Nehrams2020 17:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Doctor Sunshine talk 20:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Cleo123 20:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Cbrown1023 talk 22:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Ekantik ^talk 02:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
• Prolog 20:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)i

Comments:

• I like the idea for this project, but, IMO, the tagging should probably be handled in the same way as WP Musicians. --PhantomS 15:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Actors largely make income as a result of their image. Time and again on WP:BLPN, Office Actions, WP:ANI and other places , I see requests regarding posts to actor biography articles that potentially disparage an actor which may lessen their ability to make income. There is a significant need for a project that specifically handles people in entertainment. To clarify the scope of the project, I would suggest renaming it something like Wikipedia:WikiProject:People in Entertainment, that would include WP Musicians and the other occupations mentioned. It also might be a good idea to create something like Wikipedia:WikiProject:Entertainment industry products to handle films, books, songs, etc.-- Jreferee 15:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  • "People in Entertainment" sounds interesting, and comprehensive enough that we can include multi-talented performers. Xiner (talk, email) 15:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I strongly agree with the point made by Jreferee. I don't care what the project is named, I feel there is a significant need for a specialized project. This is an excellent proposal. Cleo123 20:57, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

commentThis sounds like a very good idea but I'd imagine it would be too large in scope? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 15:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• Whatever it's called, I'm happy to join because I've been active at starting and maintaining articles about film personalities. Like PhantomS, I think the tagging should be done in the same manner as WP Musicians, as a parameter of the existing Biography project. — WiseKwai 16:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• It's definitely a good idea providing you can get it moving. The most pervasive problem is the lack of sourcing leading to tons of WP:BLP violations. I disagree with Jreferee's expansion into entertainment people since... I believe having this as a subproject to WP:FILM and WP:BLP is a good idea. Maybe renaming Wikiproject Film people is simpler. I would definitely look at the project page and try to help out especially for Indian film people. The greatest help would be helping to link editors to online resources they can use to sources pages... which, I don't even know if they exist. gren グレン 16:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

COmment I'd suggest just naming it Wikipedia:WikiProject:Film Biography. Although people in Entertainment sounds like a very good idea I'd imagine this would be too broad as it would include the music industry, television, porn etc. Film biogrpahies would focus on all biogrpahies related to world cinema ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 16:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• "Film biographies" doesn't sound right. I think actors should be in such a larger group (Entertainers), but their "section" (department?) should keep a closer relation to WP Films as, say, Musicians. However film directors, producers, cinematographers, editors and hopefully screenwriters (which became a WP of its own) should stay under Filmmakers. I am not sure how this would connect to the more general project, or if it should be rather independent, but its relation to WP Films would be as close as it can be. I don't know how the new WP reform proposal sees all this. Maybe we should ask for advice, so we end up in line with these concerns. If we create a huge WP, we will still have to operate in separate Tier 2's (or departments) to get things organized in each field. / And by the way, one missing link in the Entertainment sector is a common area for Entertainment Awards. I know it's not quite in our discussion, but since we are dicussing here about WP Entertainment infrastructre, we might as well consider this too. Hoverfish Talk 16:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment' My idea would be that the project would be very much a part of Film and Biogrpahy. When articles are tagged I'd like to see a category system which automatically puts them in the Film bio category and also the main Biogrpahy and Film project categories to show how they are interrelated and what they are a part of. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 16:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I've already written many articles for actors and filmmakers and I even have an actress's article with GA status, so I would support such a project and would join as an article contributor — can't promise much more. Whatever the name for the project the consensus settles on, I'll go with it. - Anas ^Talk? 16:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I have worked on getting several actors to GA and will continue to do so, so I this seems like a good idea to help bring the focus on the people involved in the films. I'm sure this project would have close collaboration with WP:Films (as many of the members will probably be from both projects). As suggested above, it would be a good idea to follow near the same guidelines/makeup of WP:Musicians with similar departments and focus. I'll be willing to help implement this and assess articles when it's established. --Nehrams2020 17:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keeping the scope narrow, namely Actors and Filmmakers instead of Entertainers, would be best as WPBio already has an arts and entertainment work group. Also, semantically, filmmaker includes entertainers and artists related to film, so it encompasses the film-biography middle ground well. Anyway, I'm fer it. Doctor Sunshine talk 20:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment This is definitely needed. Since the start of WikiProject Films we have been planning a new project to be created for actors and other Film related biographies. "Film Biographies" may not sound right, but it is the best title to explain what is covered by the project. Cbrown1023 talk 22:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• This sounds like it would be better done as a task force that is shared between WP:WPBIO and WP:FILM. That would reduce greatly in project overlap. -- Ned Scott 00:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment The project is intended to be equally a part of Film and Biography but I feel the need for a significant project organized like the others to regulate it. The subject is a major area of wikipedia in its own right but in tagging I am happy for it to be a task force of both the WP:Bio and WP:Film labels. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 09:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

For exmaple in tagging it may be for instance: {filmbio|director=yes|class=start|importance=high}. This tag would automatically place it in both project categories. I recently set up WikiProject Tibet and with permission modified the main China template to incorporate tibet= into the framework which automatically puts the article talk page in both project categories ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 09:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

There have been concerns expressed about there being too many banners on some talk pages. Having two different "biography" banners might strike some people as being overkill, particularly as several of them will probably require the "biography of living persons" template. If the Biography project were able to integrate in your banner with theirs, like they already have with British Royalty and their various work groups, would you object to such an arrangement? John Carter 15:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Oh only one tag will be used it will be a biography tag but half of it at the bottom will state "This article in maintained by the Film Biography group perhaps with a small image and minor details about the WP:Film connection. It is just the categories that will be both film and biogrpahy. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 15:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment: I just came across the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment, which is a workgroup that broadly covers actors and directors, as well as other artists. It even has its own parameter for the WP:WPBIO template ({{WPBiography}}), a&e-work-group=yes. Of course there is a musician work group, which overlaps with this and has its own tag, so there's no reason why folks interested in filmmakers can't break out into their own work group. I just mention this as something else to look at as the film bio workgroup or project gets rolling. — WiseKwai 16:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems what we are planning to create here has been alive and running just around the corner. Well, instead of new template designs, I guess we have to join them as a department. Right? Hoverfish Talk 22:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Arts and Entertainment is very wide in scope and includes Actors • Architects • Artists • Illustrators • Painters • Photographers • Sculptors • Comic artists • Comedians • Dancers • Directors • Musicians • Poets • Writers and critics. I have been troubled WPBiography tagging articles as part of Arts and Entertainment when I could have easily tagged them as a painter, photographer, dancer, director, actor, etc. I presently see only two members who are part of Arts and Entertainment Work Group - Actors. Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians has its own {{WPBiography}} parameter and is its own WikiProject, with parantage leading to WikiProject Biography. I think it might be time to break off Actors from WikiProject Arts and Entertainment into a WikiProject Actors. Along these lines, I proposed more detailed parameters for the WPBiography banner here-- Jreferee 16:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Exactly Jreferee. The project would be a parameter of biography but would function as a seperate project which would be closely tied to WP Film too. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 12:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Excellent idea. I'd like to remind every participant to be aware of WP:BLP. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 16:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Oversight Board

Description - To try to determine if it is feasible to create a board of administrators and non-administrators, possibly with wikipedia bureaucrats and staff as well, which could act in a judicial capacity to review behavior of administrators, specifically regarding the propriety of their actions, and how such a board could be specifically constituted. The existence of such a board composed of respected non-administrators and administrators alike may be sufficient to forestall questioning of whether a decision made by it is truly fair and independent, as opposed to being a group of administrators who might be seen as acting to reduce the possibility of being sanctioned for similar actions of their own. It also might be sufficient to preempt the possibility of disaffected editors from going so far as to bring civil complaints against wikipedia as an entity or against individual administrators in particular.

Temporary Project Page: User:Badbilltucker/Admin Oversight Board

Interested wikipedians (please add your name below):

• Badbilltucker 14:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• Diez2 14:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Smcafirst 21:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Surena 17:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Mcr616 15:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
• DTGardner 17:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

• You might want to get some more feedback about this, even if others gain interest in the project. Maybe a note about this idea should be left on WP:AN? -- Ned Scott 10:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
• Ermm, sounds burocratic to me. -- Selmo ^(talk) 21:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Sounds more like warmongering to me. "Warn me again, and I'll drag you in front of the Oversight committee!" --InShaneee 22:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Actually, I thought of it as more of the opposite. I personally imagine that most of the complaints would be dismissed summarily for lack of evidence or for perhaps small criticism of the admin in question (maybe for using a remotely potentially insulting phrase, for instance), but the simple fact of having an independent body doing so would, I hope, eliminate the number of complaints about admin collusion and suchlike. Much like the average police board, it might investigate a lot of complaints, but in almost all cases they find that there has been no real abuse of power. Also, I don't think that it would necessarily have any real authority, other than that given it by the community as a whole. However, the mere presence of the body and the rebukes it would offer over time would I think be enough to prove that it is independent, and thus hopefully avoid complainants indulging in other procedures, like lawsuits (as has been mentioned before by others), defamation of the admin in question, etc. etc. etc. Badbilltucker 02:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
      • First of all, I can garentee you that the second this is created, there will be accusations that it's run by 'the cabal'. Secondly, this smacks of a judicial system. Regardless of what power it may or may not be given at creation, you're asking it's members to weigh judgement on other admins. We do have processes to determine this, and simply put, we need less lawyering around here, not more. --InShaneee 16:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
      • No disagreement to the last point. As stated above, the primary purpose of the group would be to create a body which by its existence would serve to help keep real lawyers and lawsuits getting involved in wikipedia's actions. Badbilltucker 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
        • That's what OFFICE does, though. --InShaneee 00:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
          • Actually, that restricts itself only to content. The possibility of a disgruntled editor who has been banned and later files a legal action based on that ban has been raised more than once, and in the event that any admin were named as a defendant in such a lawsuit even once, and has to hire council to defend his/her actions, I think there is a very real chance of total chaos erupting. That is what this proposal is trying to prevent ever happening. Badbilltucker 00:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
            • I'm sorry, but I don't see how a wikiproject with no official power on the wiki could have any bearing on a legal proceeding. --InShaneee 03:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
              • I can see this working, It would have the power of the community, and if enough people speak in favor, or not in favor of something, it cannot be ignored. DTGardner 17:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• Who currently does "oversight" for the admin? What made you want to create this, have you seen an admin that needed oversight? Yaanch^Speak! 23:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• Before an action like this is taken I'd like to see that there is a real need for this. Most of the complaints against me as an admin are from those with no concept of copyright... and if this is the case for most admins then I see this board as getting tired of stupid listening to silly cases repeatedly. When people feel the need they take it up at WP:AN. Are you arguing that this isn't enough? That being said, I don't know how other admins act... but I try to keep my debating a topic completely separate from admin duties. gren グレン 16:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• I don't see the point. We already have mechanisms for this, ranging from RfC to AN to DR to mediation to ArbCom, depending on the context and the serverity of the dispute. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 17:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] African art

Description WikiProject African art would be dedicated to creating and improving a battery of articles on African art, art movements, artists, curators, collectors, and museums. The area's woefully undercovered on Wikipedia, and while I've been trying to put a few things together, there's only so much I can do. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Temporary Project Page: User:AlbertHerring/WikiProject African art

User: AlbertHerring

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested)

1. General Eisenhower (t·c) we need something like this for a WikiProject
2. Szvest - ^{Wiki me up ®} 18:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments: I think that this project should be included in WikiProject Africa, that is to say if WP Africa becomes an official project. // PoeticDecay 00:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

addendum, which it now is, Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa Chris 08:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I have now duplicated the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa, as it really needs to be a subproject. Chris 01:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aircraft photo collection

Description

[This project will aim to collect and organise arcraft photo on wikipedia/wikicommons so that a single database for ref of pics can be made easliy.]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. [yousaf465]

Comments

• Wouldn't this be better done under the auspices of WP:AIRCRAFT? Kirill Lokshin 14:20, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• I think so too Redskunk 00:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alabama

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Alabama.

Temporary project page:

• User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Alabama

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

1. AlaGuy 20:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Rob C (Alarob) 17:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Analog Photography

Description : A wikiproject covering wet photographic processing, film, chemestry, paper, darkroom tools, and anything else releated to photography using silver and releated materials.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Reub2000 00:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
2. jstraw623 01:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
3. Kamope · talk · contributions 00:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Ancestors of Modern Games

Description

Basicly this project will revolve around gathering information on older games. Games that were not classics but inspired them. In other words forgotten games. It will also be for placing new more detailed information into already exsisting games, as well as adding new titles that were never seen here but nonetheless inspired game developers to make better games! One small paragraph is not enough for a game that took months or years to develop! I am calling to all Old time gamers and those younger ones that have acctually played the game to speak up and participate on this project. Bring back the wisdom and dignity of our older and more forgotten games! If we dont then they will remain forgotten.Yes this project will include old computer games and counsle games, along with sport games and board and table games that exsisted even before video games were created. Tetris, checkers, and even jousting and games from midevil eras and eras older are to be included. If not for these Modern Game Ancestors people would of had a very boring evolution and many games today would more then likely not exsist! In other words All Old Games will be helped by this project. Maverick423 20:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Update I have checked the Gaming project and suggested doing this however they say that they cover this issue already; however whenever i adress them on such issues as far as updating and adding infomation to other older games, they are ignored. this is leading me to making a temporary project page as clearly the video gamming project doesnt care about older games as they state they do Maverick423 16:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Temporary Project Page: Wikipedia: Wikiproject: Ancestors of Modern Games

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Maverick423 15:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

I might ask for maybe a bit more clearly defined scope. Will this project be limited to computer, board and/or table games, or would older sports-type games be included as well? Badbilltucker 19:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the temp page, he means computer games solely. Really needs to be a subproject of the Gamin WP. Chris 00:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment of unassessed articles

Description

There is currently a great deal of work being done across projects to assess articles for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, and that's great, but a great number of articles are not currently tagged by projects which assess for this, and may never be. Therefore, the purpose of this project would be to tag and assess articles not currently covered by an assessing project, for the purposes of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 17:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Badbilltucker 18:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
3. John Carter 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Great idea. Questions come to mind, however. Specifically, would this group basically set up other projects which are not yet doing assessments, and do the assessments for them, or would it have it's own banner and include assessment criteria there? Personally, I would favor the former. If so, I would certainly welcome rolling the proposed Project Support Services project proposal into this one, one way or another. Badbilltucker 18:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I had originally planned the latter, however the former seems a better idea. The group could probably get away with also having it's own banner for articles with no project whatsoever, including some quite important ones; Hell comes to mind. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 18:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I myself am in the process of doing all the religion related articles, and just haven't gotten to Hell yet. However, I do enthusiastically support the idea. Badbilltucker 18:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep. In cases where there's an existing project banner to use, it would probably be better to add that than to create some generic one. Kirill Lokshin 19:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

However, the project could create it's own banner to use in addition to the other applicable project banners. Badbilltucker 17:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

What would be the point? The articles only need to get assessed by a single project in order to enter the system; having an additional banner that's not actually tied to a functional subject-area project doesn't seem useful. Kirill Lokshin 17:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking of something like the existing automatic stub template, possibly with even similar wording. Or maybe a similar addition to existing banners along the same lines as that. Or maybe a small one similar to those used by the Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors or similar to indicate that the work had been done by the project. I small three or four line ad, as it were. Also, some projects explicitly say only project members can assess articles, and they might want to know why outsiders assessed the articles for them.Badbilltucker 17:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

For articles not covered by any project wahtsoever, these would need a seperate banner until a suitible project could be found. I guess part of the scope of this project would be to locate projects for such articles. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 17:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

It would probably work best if we ran User:PockBot or something similar on a given category we know falls within the scope of a given project, and assess those articles which aren't listed as being assessed yet. Badbilltucker 17:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Please do! Certain projects would be very happy to have help with getting untagged articles tagged and/or assesed. :-) Kirill Lokshin 17:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how mnay people we would need to get this to go, considering it isn't at this point so much a project as a function. There is now a {{AAA}} template which could be added to articles to indicate who did the assessment. We'd still need some sort of project page. I've contacted the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team regarding this, and am awaiting a response. Badbilltucker 15:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

(Unindent) Sorry I took a while to respond to the above request, I got distracted while working on this earlier. (We're also beta testing Version 0.5 :)). This idea would certainly be an excellent addition to the 1.0 project. We are moving from a manual system of picking articles (as used at Version 0.5) to an automated system (outlined here), to allow us to get much larger collection (V0.5 was only 2000 articles). One ongoing concern with the automated system is that there may be gaps in our selection, if we don't have projects representing that subject area. For example, we have about 2000 Pennsylvania articles (1000 assessed) to pick from, but no Maryland articles. This can affect even broader subject areas - we have Dance and Film covered, but many fine arts like painting and sculpture are not (I think!).

I think I would like to combine the efforts of this proposed group with WP:WVWP (Work via WikiProjects), which was very active (indeed WVWP + Oleg set up the bot assessment scheme), but which has lain dormant since the fall because of people's commitments elsewhere (e.g. to Version 0.5). People have also become less interested in contacting WikiProjects now that the projects are coming to us at the rate of about one per day! It is clear that the focus of WVWP should shift from trying to contact all projects, and switch to trying to focus inactive projects. Traditionally (i.e., last year!) many of these functions you describe have fallen to WVWP - we have recorded information manually from projects that are not using the bot, we have helped projects get started with the bot, and sometimes just given general guidance (the role now played by this council). We did a lot of assessments for projects that were new to the concept - Doctor Who, Adelaide, all sorts - just to help them get started. Once they had some examples of assessment of their own articles, they were able afterwards to perform their own assessments and start using the bot. Tagging articles that fell outside the jurisdiction of any active project was less relevant when we only had 50 projects using the bot; it is an excellent idea, and it is a natural evolution for WVWP to work on this.

Therefore I would like to propose that the 1.0 team and the Council collaborate closely on this, with perhaps a joint team. Two ways to do this:

1. Rewrite the goals of WVWP to incorporate the new modus operandi, and also bring it under joint jurisdiction of WP:COUNCIL and WP:1.0. Much of the existing infrastructure can be used and adapted. (By the way, one of my next projects is to write a site map for the rabbit warren that is Wikipedia 1.0, that may help!).
2. Set up a completely new project under WP:COUNCIL as described above, with a more narrow focus than WVWP, but work closely with WVWP.

I strongly favor the former, mainly because I think we don't want to multiply groups when we may only have a couple of active people in each! Also, despite our inactivity in recent months, there are still occasional edits to our manually listed tables and questions on our talk page. About a year ago we contacted all the WikiProjects ("all" as of Oct '05, much fewer than today) so the community has heard of us. Tables like Philosophy & Religion and (even worse) Humanities) desperately need updating, but there is a lot of valuable information on these tables that should be used. I'd like to find some way of expanding & updating lists like this bot list, which is (in effect) "All the Arts article assessments that come from projects not using the bot". It can be a lot of work, but in fact a couple of us were able to achieve a great deal when it was a major focus for us. What do others think? Walkerma 19:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I think that sounds brilliant, probably by far the best way to do this. I too favour your former idea, much better to run as part of the project then to become a seperate one in our own right; it will probably get off the ground quicker that way, and gain more contributers, too. Also, the fact that the project has already existed for some time, and is well known, will greatly help us. Another deciding factor is that WVWP is on the verge (i.e. may do in a year or two, seems fine for now) of going inactive, which would be a great shame as it was a highly successful Wikipedia group, whereas this would keep the old project going, just under a new direction in adition to it's present duties. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 20:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds great to me. Badbilltucker 16:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Great! Should the 3 of us (+ other interested parties, eg Tito or Kirill?) get together on IRC, or have a conference call on Skype, to work out the best way to do this? Or should we just thrash out our ideas over at Talk:WVWP? I'll try and do some cleanup at WVWP in the next few days, and also work on the site map I mentioned. Walkerma 18:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I've never used IRC, and don't have Skype, so I would be much more comfortable over at Talk:WVWP. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 18:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I've copied over this discussion to WVWP and started the ball rolling at least, please add comments to the new discussion - feel free to elaborate on what you think should be done. Also poke around the WVWP pages and see what we've done beside the bot work! I will try and do cleanup in the next few days, as well as writing a site map and contacting old WVWP members. Cheers, Walkerma 04:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I like the idea. But can anyone tell me if assessments are standard across the board? Also, what if anything do I do when I find an article assessed at two different levels, for instance, B and A classes? John Carter 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anime conventions

Description : Basically with the amount of Anime conventions out there today, some of the articles are stubs and are horrible un-sourced. Anime Expo, Otakon, and Fanime would be all examples of large conventions that are most definitely notable, but do need some work.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 06:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
2. Confusing Manifestation 12:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 02:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
4. Phantasy Phanatik

Comments

• Wouldn't it be better to create this as a sub-project or task-force of Anime and Manga? --Kunzite 20:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I have to concern with Kunzite. Do we really need a WikiProject for every aspect of anime, manga, and its accompanying culture? --TheFarix (Talk) 22:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
    • In this particular case, it would be fitting to have it as a subproject. I created a demonstration page with a few examples and ideas. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 21:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
      • I too think it would go better as a subproject of WP:ANIME instead of a totally new one. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 02:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
• Concerned about two things here: sourcing and systemic bias. How many of these things get reported in reliable sources? The big ones? The little ones? Also, I have concerns that conventions in non-Japan and non-Western countries will be left out (but I'd say that's probably typical, yay for cynicism), possibly some of the non-big Japanese ones will be left out too. ColourBurst 02:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctica

Description: This proposed WikiProject would deal with the continent of Antarctica. As, seemingly, most of the information available relating to the continent is tied closely to the geography of the continent, I believe that the project will deal primarily with the geography of Antarctica, and, to a lesser extent, the climate, the scientific research taking place in Antarctica, the wildlife of the area, and some geological history.

Temporary Project Page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Antarctica

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians:

• Badbilltucker - Will help out where possible.
• Dentren
• Keesiewonder
• Chris
• Crested Penguin
• A mcmurray (talk • contribs)

Comments:

• I think you should broaden the project a bit to include perhaps everything about Antarctica; i.e. Research stations. You could tie the various research stations together very nicely in the project. --MPD ^{T / C} 21:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Agreed.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 07:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject:Appreciation

Description

This is a proposal for a WikiProject in which is similar to the random smiley award but it is not random award, it's main purpose would be to recognise peoples contributions to our encyclopedia, no matter how many or how minor they are, as-well as to make wikipedians know that all of the contributions are greatly appreciated and therefore creating optimism on wikipedia and encouraging further contributions. If there were enough active members I'd be willing to create templates for members to distribute onto other users' talk pages just saying about the project and thanks for their contributions. I'd be willing to help on this myself and create the project page etc and hopefully make it a success with many members.Tellyaddict 15:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Temporary project page

User:Greeves/WikiProject User appreciation

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)}
2. Jerry_lavoie (talk • contribs • count)

Comments

[edit] Aviculture

Description

The purpose of this project is to help increase the amount and quality of content related to aviculture on wikipedia, and to maintain articles relating to the subject, eventually bringing as many as possible up to good- or featured-article status.

Proposed project page

• None at this time.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Badbilltucker 16:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Snowman 16:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
3. jimfbleak 06:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
4. User:flash19901 23:31, 09 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

I'm all for improving articles, but I'm concerned that the goal of this project could end up being to supply "care sheet" type information to articles, which falls specifically under what Wikipedia is not, and there is already a draft project for bird related articles. This could easily be organized into a set of standards for those birds kept in captivity within that project. -Dawson 17:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I think that ornithology is sufficiently different to aviculture to need a separate project. The project would aim provide verifiable information in an encyclopaedic format. It would not aim to give advice and it should not give advice on the wiki. Snowman 18:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

good idea, as long as the "how to" bits are rigorously expunged. jimfbleak 06:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Banners

Description

A WikiProject to set standards for, and help projects with, WikiProject banners.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Miketm 10:52, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Agathoclea 15:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Wouldn't this be something that the Council could assist with? I would help out with this new WikiProject if it was formed but I don't know if a Project with such a narrow focus is needed.↔NMajdan•talk 16:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Yeah, this seems like something that could be better done directly through the Council; we probably don't need more "meta-WikiProjects" at this stage. Kirill Lokshin 18:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Setting this up as a specific task for Council would probably be more efficient. -- Ned Scott 18:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I don't think it's up to anyone but the projects to design, make, and handle their own banners. Any effort by the Council to manage the banners would have to be approved by all the projects, IMO. --MPD ^{T / C} 21:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
    • I was under the impression that this was intended as an effort to help projects with the technical aspects of banners, not an attempt to control them. (FWIW, I don't like the latter idea either.) Kirill Lokshin 21:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
      • The word "standards" in the description brings up thoughts of cookie-cutter banners. Technical aspects and help is perfectly fine and would be appreciated, I'm sure. Perhaps then, it could be a sub-project of the Council, rather than its own project. I define banners as the template at the top of a page...so it could be broadened to be a more "Templates" sub-project, which would help with all templates needed by a project(unless that's what's implied and I'm not on the same page). Just to clarify. :) --MPD ^{T / C} 22:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
        • In that case you might just want to collaborate a revamp of WP:TPT, which could be a lot more useful than it currently is. -- Ned Scott 22:19, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
          • Or WP:WPT.↔NMajdan•talk 23:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

• When I say standards I'm talking about a naming convention, a starter template that projects can expand and customize and things like that. This project would not tell projects what there banners should look like, or how they should work, but how they can improve and make them work more effectively.— miketm - Queen WikiProject - 02:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• In reply to Kirill, seeing as how unchecked wikiproject template spamming has now reached levels where it is starting to noticeably degrade the usability of talk pages, I think some measure of control/regulation is necessary. However, it is inappropriate for the wikiproject council to define those standards. As the TFD nomination has shown, the wikiproject council and its members have an obvious bias in favor of wikiprojects, and against what is in the best interests of the average reader and contributor (who are not wikiproject members). Or, as I previously noted, the NRA should not be writing gun control legislation. Raul654 15:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  • • There are some bold asseertions here. If this were an article I would definitely tag Raul's statement with {{fact}}. I'd like to see any evidence Raul can provide to back up the claim that "the wikiproject council and its members have an obvious bias...against waht is in the best interests of the average reader and contributor". I think that is a scandalous claim. Force10 15:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Nice to see that AGF is alive and well these days. Kirill Lokshin 15:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
    • It's not their good faith I doubt - I don't doubt that they mean well. It's the fact that they have an insurmountable conflict of interest. Already, there's at least one bot wikiproject-tagging hundreds of articles per day, and the best solution the wikiproject council has come up with to date is the small=yes non-solution. The *last* thing I want is the wikproject council forming some sort of banners meta-project with airs of authority, setting "standards" which obviously favor its own interests (that is, many large and obtrusive banners which are displayed by default) above the interests of the community at large (which prefers small, uncluttered talk pages). Raul654 16:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
      • Insurmountable conflict of interest indeed! It's not like Council members had any role in developing {{WikiProjectBanners}} or anything like that. I would have thought that our sincerity, at least, would not be in doubt; but it seems that I was mistaken. C'est la vie, as it were. Kirill Lokshin 16:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
      • I would only note to the above editor that the person to whom he seemingly directly addressed the above comment created the User:Kirill Lokshin/Sandbox/Template14 template, which if used would probably do more to decrease clutter than just about anything else I've seen to date. John Carter 16:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
        • "which if used would probably do more to decrease clutter than just about anything else I've seen to date." - then I guess you haven't seen Template:WikiProjectBanners, which ((unlike the above) is already deployed and used on 600-or-so articles. Raul654 16:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
          • No, actually, I have seen it, as is evidenced by my comment here. The template above referenced by me goes a step further, though, and actually displays the projects' names, something the example you cited does not do, and, at least potentially, decreases the need for interested parties to ever have to see the specific banners, and could, at least potentially, replace them in some cases somewhere down the road. John Carter 16:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• Um... would WikiProject Banners have a banner? *head asplodes* No, seriously, I don't think this is a good idea. Not even a good idea for the Council, either. This should be done in the Village Pump. Titoxd^(?!?) 23:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• I don't think we should have this at all. It is not fair for one WikiProject to have authority over how other WikiProjects use banners. Johntex\^talk 15:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• I like this idea if and only if one of the goals of the project (besides regulating banner styles and whatnot) would be to assist WikiProjects in specializing their banners (with the complicated code most of us haven't learned) to best meet the needs of each project. I know my project could benefit from someone with technical expertise. KSchutte 22:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• This is needed, but it should be a Council task force. There's no reason to create a new project about this, from my point of view. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 17:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC) PS: I agree a bit with the concerns about control; "setting standards" can be interpreted more than one way. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 17:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Berlin

Description

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Berlin, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Berlin in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. [your name here]

Comments

• If someone can run this, it would be great. There are already a style for this project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for style. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bittorrent

Description: A Wikiproject for the bittorrent protocol, related technology, and clients. To maintain and expand all related articles, keeping existing articles up-to-date, and possibly putting together a standard how clients are presented. There might be an expansion in to other p2p clients if there is enough support.

User: Darthnader37 06:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below)

• Bernalj90 23:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• k1ngyo 21:55, 04 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Bleach

Description: A WikiProject dedicated to the manga and anime series Bleach, not the cleaning product. The focus of this WikiProject would be to work on Bleach (manga) and get it to GA, or possibly even FA, status; copy-edit all Bleach-related pages in need; italicize and define terms borrowed from the Japanese (examples being: benihime = "crimson princess"; zangetsu = "moon cutter"; senbonzakura = "a thousand cherry blossoms"; etc.), as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Foreign terms and italicize every instance of Bleach; and much more.

Temporary Project Page: User:Poetic Decay/Sandbox

User: Poetic Decay 15:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

1. Tohru Honda13 (talk • contribs)
2. Grimjaw (talk • contribs)
3. SUIT (talk • contribs)
4. Vee159 (talk • contribs)
5. Hitsugaara (talk • contribs)
6. Dark Dragon Flame (talk • contribs)
7. tjstrf (talk • contribs)

Comments:

• Why not create a work group under WP:ANIME similar to the Conventions Work Group? Do we really need a WikiProject for every major anime series? --Farix (Talk) 15:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• I guess it doesn't really matter if it's a work group or its own seperate WikiProject. // PoeticDecay 15:53, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• And yes, I guess that major anime series could have their own WikiProject. That way, you could focus more on that series and look at the to-do stuff of that project, rather than have them bunched up on the main Anime project, I guess. And besides, the anime series that have their own project are very well known and are major. Note that there aren't that many of those kinds. — ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 16:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
  • • Okay, I agree with the rest, this project should be a subpage of WP:ANIME. But I still like the idea of this project... ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 00:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually, the anime being major or not doesn't really have a lot to do with it. Being something like a task force would still allow individual focus on Bleach, but wouldn't require re-inventing the wheel like making new templates or over-all guidelines. -- Ned Scott 07:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• There doesn't seem to be any real need for a separate Wikiproject. Centralized discussion can be mantained at the talk page for Bleach (manga) or the anime Wikiproject.
• I agree with the others' sentiment: it makes more sense to be a task force under WP:ANIME than to make a new project. The focus of the proposed project is too narrow, IMHO, to be worth all the overhead an entirely new project requires. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 20:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Too broad of a project: should just be a subpage and/or taskforce as part of the anime project. Wikipedia isn't a fan club. Just because you like something enough, doesn't mean a project should exist for it. RobJ1981 08:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• I personally don't see what's so wrong about it. Come on, we have a Digimon Wikiproject and we can't have a Bleach one? Give me a break. If this is rejected, there better not be a Naruto WP anytime soon. Hitsugaara 06:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • As a very active participant of WikiProject Digimon (that's right, I said it) I take issue with that comment. I've noted many times in the past that Digimon has an active project not because Digimon is important, but because there's a lot of stuff to clean up. The work load itself gave the project life. At one point we had almost 1,000 articles for Digimon.. right now we're doing a mass merge and helping all articles to comply with WP:WAF, WP:FICT, etc. It doesn't matter if the show is good or lame or small or big, sometimes there's a lot of stuff to clean up. I've even said that I could easily see the Digimon project becoming just a task force once the bulk of the work is done. If Bleach has that kind of work load, then go right ahead and make it a WikiProject. -- Ned Scott 07:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Actually, thinking more about it, there's really no reason WP:DIGI couldn't do the same work as a task force. I guess you could say the real reason WP:DIGI is it's own project is because the idea of task forces has only recently been given major promotion, and wasn't known as an option when it was starting. -- Ned Scott 07:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

As per the note at the top of this page: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. What's the big issue with a taskforce instead? Not everything should have projects just because people propose it, and there is some interest for it. Also, the thought of "because this has it, this one should too" isn't reasonable logic to create a new project. RobJ1981 06:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

That note was added after I proposed the project. With that aside, I already said above that I don't care if it's a task force or its own seperate WikiProject. // DecaimientoPoético 12:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• I would prefer a taskforce system or even just leaving it alone, we do not run so many articles as to require our own seperate project. We already post things like standardization notices to Talk:Bleach, so there wouldn't be much advantage to splitting that out. --tjstrf talk 00:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• I am interested, however I do support the creation of a Task Force rather than a Project, Task Forces are more focused and can work faster and more consistenly. -DDF 22:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

• Task force it is, then. Thank you for your comments and criticism, everybody. // DecaimientoPoético 22:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Description

To Attend to all artilces Recarding the Anime and manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. This can either be a full wikiproject or a just a task force.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Lego3400
2. StrangerAtaru
3. (your name here)

Comments

This is very needed. These pages are a MESS There are templates that are only used some times, images are only off site links. Yuck! Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• I seconded it mostly due to the chaos this set of pages has become. I've been working on the Wiki for Bo-bobo for the last year and its been one thing after another in adding pages and information, with some pages with too much information and others with false stuff thrown in. While me and a few other editors have been working for a while to figure out what to do, I guess we've become as chaotic as the show. -StrangerAtaru 16:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• As per the top of the page: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Wikipedia doesn't need projects for every anime. A taskforce can do the job just fine. RobJ1981 18:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• I agree; MUCH too narrow for its own WikiProject. It's fine under the Parent Project. Peace, ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 02:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  • It doesn't matter, as long as these are made to look nice! 72.95.214.92 20:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Uh, yes, it does matter. Besides, there doesn't need to be a Bobobo project when it's already fine in the Anime and Manga project. The anime and manga wikiproject is broad in scope. Bobobo has few articles relating to it. A taskforce, as mentioned above, would do great. It'll end up in the same result without the Wikiproject: They'll look "nice". ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 22:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boulder, Colorado

Description Hello. I believe that there should be a project about Boulder, Colorado. I see there are many mistakes in Boulder related articles, and inportant information is left out. Also, detailed atricles about schools in the area, and people who had influence in Boulder and people who were born there. Also, there would be a more detailed section about the JonBennet Ramsey case, and more.

Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name if interested)

• user: Jimbo Herndan
• user: Jmath666

Comment You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. Chris 05:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject: Careful Editing

Description

This is a Proposal for a WikiProject which supports careful editing while using Wikipedia. If there was enough members for this project I would be willing to create userboxes etc and totally create the project Page about this. As well as this, this project would support the use of taking your time and not hurrying edits on Wikipedia. This would also be a good help for new users on how to give them good article editing tips as well as helping to make Wikipedia written in a correct and formal tone with no mistakes. Tellyaddict 21:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. AxG ^(talk) _{(guest book)} 22:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
2. [your name here]

Comments

[edit] Cambodia

Description : This is a wikiproject for those interested in cambodia, its people, its art and culture. This is to bring wikipedians together to make Cambodia more important in wikipedia. For those interested in Angkor Wat, or anything regarding Cambodian Culture please contribute.

Temporary Project Page
Cambodia Project

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. CanCanDuo 04:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC))
2. NeoApsara 05:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
3. Cantharellus 00:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
4. LaNicoya 02:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Chris 08:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
6. Melanochromis 11:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC) Happy to help!! I have been maintaining Cambodia Portal for several months already.
7. --William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC) been maintaining Cambodia and adding to Khmer language as well as Khmer Royalty and history.

Comments:

• This is, in theory, a good idea. But it will have to be kept to some academic standards. I've been hoping for more educated Wikipedians taking an interest in Cambodia and adding to the articles. However, I find most of the people wishing to contribute to the Cambodia/Khmer articles are not familiar with WP:V, WP:NOR, or WP:RS. Most, in fact, seem to be Khmer high school students who add legends or beliefs as fact or Khmer POV pushers who blame the Thai or the Vietnamese for all of Cambodia's problems throughout history and want to remove anything percieved as "negative" from the articles. With so few academics specializing in Southeast Asia here at Wikipedia (or anywhere for that matter), I'm afraid that having a project like this will group those sorts of people into one place, giving them the power to dominate consensus. While projects are excellent vehicles for article improvement when there are many academics around, I fear, in this case, it may serve to bring down the quality of the articles. Please convince me otherwise, because I am excited about the opportunity to work with others to constructively build the Khmer-related articles.--William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

• Hi William. Just want to let you know that I share your idea. We, as a wikiproject, have to prove ourselves be as much academic and neutral as possible. Unfortunutely, we Southeast Asian were taught and raised up in strong nationalistic and ethno-centric environments. As a Thai person, I have seen many nationalist-go-ugly kind of comments countless times, from Thai, Khmer, or other people. It is sad that this kind of thinking takes over academic standards sometimes. So, I think this issue has to be addressed somehow in the project page and make it clear that what our standards are. This is particularly crucial, as there are many online sources or even some mainstream Southeast Asian media that promote nationalist versions of history over the academic ones. It should be made clear that those sources are, in most cases, not credible or citable. Cheers. --Melanochromis 18:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

We have the exact same problem with WikiProject Myanmar (Burma). The high schoolers and those wishing to honestly contribute we encourage and direct as per Wikipedia method. Much more insidious is our resident POV pusher, made all the more so that our repeated attempts to bring sanction so that he acts reasonably have fallen on deaf ears. This is particularly bad as the nation is not free, and in our project this takes up a lot of time cleaning up after him, or fighting his constant attacks, that we could be spending doing something productive. If you can find some way to enforce a standard, please, we want in! Chris 06:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Rock

Description: A wikiproject devoted to improving the many different artists and genres in Canadian rock. At this point I'm trying to figure out how many are interested and if such a project is really necessary.

Temporary Project page
User talk:Scorpion0422/Canadian rock

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. icelandic hurricane #12 _(talk) 12:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments: You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. If they're willing to, they get to do all the hard administrative work, which I always thought was best avoided whenever possible anyway. Badbilltucker 21:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cantopop Music

Description

My Wikiproject is based on information on Cantonese Music. (See Cantopop) This WikiProject includes information of Hong Kong singers, songs, and albums. This WikiProject would help Wikipedia by adding more information, and improving stub articles about Hong Kong's cantopop music.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Stephy100
2. Smcafirst

Comments (Any questions? I would be glad to answer them.)

• Is this WikiProject necessary? Express your opinion?

A:Yes,it will give more information on cantopop music and it will sure make people understand about cantopop music,it will also help Wikipedia because we will make more articles and improve the stubs.

• How are you going to improve the stubs?

A:we will research on more in formation on the topic and extend the article to improve it.

• How big is your coverage of this WikiProject? Does it extend to as far as 1930s, to the early developement? If not, this WikiProject, to me, would be seemed pointless, as the developement of Cantopop in the early ages is important.

A:My Wikiproject's coverage includes music of Hong Kong Singers and albums and chinese songs.We will include 1930's music,the history of Chinese songs and the development of music.we will include topics like singers,songs,albums,history of music and the music of long ago.To accomplish our goal,we need your help to work on this.

• Wouldn't it be a better idea to expand it to Project Chinese Pop? That way you snag the Mandopop fans as well, which would get you more support for the project.

[edit] California Schools

Description: I have noticed that schools, particularly in Central California, have aging information, disorganized articles, or just plain nothing. There needs to be a foundation to standardize these articles, and make sure that there is adewuate information for each one. There would be seperate groups (within the Cal School WikiProject) dealing with different counties and general areas.

Interested Wikipedians:

1. Wikimania1011

Comments:

[edit] Charmed

Description

to maintain and improve quality on all Charmed related articles. Similar to WP:BUFFY

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 20:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Maelwys 20:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
3. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
4. NeilEvans 17:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Think outside the box 13:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 00:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Childrens television programmes of the united kingdom and northern ireland

Description

This wikiproject will be about organizing and expanding all articles on Childrens television programmes of the united kingdom and northern ireland. Hopefully this will enlarge wikipedia's information on this topic. Unfortunately most Wikipedia articles on the subject are poor and I personally despise all those vandals, because they are teenagers just talking about their childhood, there is very little basis on the articles whatsoever. They need improving, beacuse Wikipedia isn't about diary entries, it's about information

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Zesty Prospect 16:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Soopa hoops77 17:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Driveus

[edit] Chile

Description: A project to deal with all articles relating to the country of Chile.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User
John Carter 19:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Christian Liturgy

Description

Another attempt to diffuse the number of articles potentially covered by WikiProject Christianity. In particular, this WikiProject would cover articles relating to Christian liturgy: articles about rites, liturgical calendars/holidays, vestments/paraments, and anything else covered by the topic of Liturgy.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Pastor David
2. [your name here]

Comments

[edit] WikiProject Cite

Description This project basically aims to find citations for articles in Category:Articles lacking sources with templates {{unreferenced}} and {{primarysources}}. Also, it would make a new template, ({{refformat}} or {{properref}} maybe) that would indicate an article with sources, but not in the proper references format. Many articles have their citations as external links like this [1]. This would put the article in a category and members of the this WikiProject could change it to the proper format. We could also work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations, a list of articles that woul be GA if they have citations.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User
Nauticashades (talk • contribs)
RICKistheBOSS 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Keesiewonder

Comments
I like the idea. --Ineffable3000 21:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC) --CyclePat 06:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC) Us Uni student have access to all the worlds biggest databases.! Sure.

If there's support and enthusiasm for this, this could be a really great thing for the whole wiki. --InShaneee 03:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

What about this? It's been dead since June though. Spookane 20:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cold War History

Description

A project to foster better coordination and collaboration on articles relating to Cold War history.

Interested Wikipedians

1. Nobs02 21:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
2. KarlBunker 22:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Eleland 13:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
4. --Jimbo Herndan 04:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
5. A mcmurray 09:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
6. Destructo 087 22:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Chris 04:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC) let's jumpstart this bad boy
8. Crested Penguin 08:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but wouldn't just calling it "WikiProject Cold War" be easier? Kirill Lokshin 10:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, we are faced now with divergent schools regarding the roots of the Cold War [2]; we now find ourselves bringing in a large group of articles pre-1945 that had an important impact on policy decisions in whats called the early Cold War period. The two editors that have signed on are already working in this particular area. Nobs02 17:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Meh. I meant that "history" was implicit; the Cold War being over, everything dealing with it is by definition an aspect of history. It doesn't really matter too much, though. (In any case, it ought to be Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War history, as WikiProject titles follow sentence case.) Kirill Lokshin 19:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• You may want to check out the Cold War portal.... NDCompuGeek 16:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cologne

Description

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Cologne, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Cologne in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments

• If someone ca ntake this on it would be great. A style is already in use. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for the style. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comedians

Description: This would be a specific type of Biography project, specifically for working with comedians, living and dead, from all countries, etc. This would not include things such as sketch groups or comedy clubs, etc...

User: --Twintone 16:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

• Druss666uk (talk • contribs)
• NDCompuGeek (talk • contribs)
• Wwwhhh (talk • contribs)
• Destructo_087 (talk • contribs)
• Tohru Honda13 (talk • contribs)

Comments: There's just something funny about this category I can't quite put my finger on.... 8^) NDCompuGeek 02:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Note also similar project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Owarai Chris 02:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colorado Rockies Baseball

Description

To help figure out what rumors and news articles are true and to help other Rockies or baseball fans understand that Colorado Baseball Team

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. rockiesfan4ever

Comments

You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. Chris 04:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Columbia University

Description

In order to facilitate the expansion of Columbia projects (pun perhaps intended related to current events) as well as to mediate frequent controversies and disputes

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Valley2city 07:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Matan 01:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Consulting

Description

This is a proposal for a project that is aiming to coordinate efforts around articles that are related to consulting. All types of consulting are going to be included: management, IT, financial etc. Primary goals would be identifying all existing articles that fall under the scope of the project, creating a list of required articles, identifying criteria for importance of entries for this category, etc. Given that consulting business is heavily growing at the moment, this project has lots of potential.

User

Gimlei 18:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments

This should probably be a subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics. Chris 00:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cosmetics

Description: To improve information on cosmetics, especially from the points of view of history, industry, biography and science. To remove the advertorial copy that affects many cosmetic industry articles at present, create NPOV, and add citations. To ensure a fuller context for cosmetics articles, linking to issues including feminism, culture, animal welfare, religion, social history, medical ethics and so on.

User: TinaSparkle 14:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: available at my user page.

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

• Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Sam195 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• AliceJMarkham 07:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments: How do we protect against advertorial vandalism? Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I guess that's where we chemists come in, isn't it?--Sam195 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and we copyeditors too! I think diligence and a sharp eye are the best lines of defence, unless anyone has the skills to write a super cosmetics anti-vandalism bot. -- TinaSparkle 15:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Now that there is Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion, consider a collaboration. Chris 00:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Within that project, I have suggested the creation of many separate task forces or working groups, and I think this would come under Beauty (which would allow it to include hair, skin and nail content as well). Daniel Case 17:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Costa Rica

Description: This is a proposal for a project aiming to the improving and expanding of Costa Rica-related articles. Articles such as List of schools in Costa Rica and Battle of Rivas (which are extremely important to understand Costa Rica's history and social structure) are left in a permanent stub condition and left with none or vague info. Other institutions, such as Saint Mary High School, have taken of Wikipedia's lack of information about Costa Rica to set up personal web pages or biased articles about themselves. This project would aim to improve and radically change this articles until they are in a professional and unbiased format.

User: Bernalj90 18:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Bernalj90/WikiProject Costa Rica

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

1. Badbilltucker - will try to help as much as I can, which, regretably, may not be much.
2. Darwinek - created many stubs about geography in the past, still many to write ... - Darwinek 14:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Cruise Ships

Description

This project seeks to organize all articles pertaining to cruising in a decent manner. There are many articles in wikipedia regarding cruising and cruise ships. This project also seeks to further develop the smaller articles as well as maintain the fully developed ones.

User

mmerali

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments

[edit] DaimlerChrysler

Description

This project will cover all branches and cars associated with DaimlerChrysler. The Chrysler area on Wikipedia is large, so it would be useful to organize it. Some important aspects would include Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge.

User

JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 02:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments

• A good idea for a task force of an existing car WikiProject. -- Ned Scott 06:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Description: This is a proposal to make articles on mathematical concepts more accessible to a general audience through the use of analogies, diagrams, and examples.

Temporary project page: User:Mistercow/De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Linus M. I personally think that this project would be excellent.

Comments:

• How does this fit with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics? This may work better as a sub project of that, it should certainly be mentioned there. I think most members probably support making articles more accessable, as long as it does not compremise acuracy. --Salix alba (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Perhaps this should support the creation of seperate articles, such as those for both Theories of Relativity? superscienceman 16:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Yes, I agree that seperate articles, or at least seperate sections would be advisable. Otherwise, Wikipedia would suddenly become useless to math-nuts. -- Zanimum 18:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
  • If you mean having one technical article, and one non-technical article, that seems a messy work around.Alexnye 08:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • This idea — to have separate "simple" and "standard" articles — is already covered by the separation of simple.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org. So don't need "simple" sections inside this one. But improving our articles here is a good goal. In this regard I fully support what Salix alba said. Ocolon 15:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

• Please keep me informed of what happens; I may be able to help whether in a wikiproject or sub-project or whatever. I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics (and economics). Keesiewonder ^talk 14:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Delaware

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Delaware.

Temporary project page:
User:EaglesFanInTampa/WikiProject Delaware

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• EaglesFanInTampa
• Hgebel
• Eleigh33

Comments:

• I'm glad to see something like this in the works. While it's the 2nd smallest state, there's so many articles about it that could use some work if given some TLC from the right project. I wholeheartedly support it and look forward to working on it soon EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 00:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Derbyshire

Description

I would like to set up my own project for the english county of Derbyshire. There is a similar one for Cheshire, here [[3]]].

Interested Wikipedians

1. AxG ^(talk) _{(guest book)}
2. Erebus555 (talk • contribs)

Comments There are similar projects for other counties such as Cornwall and Cheshire and feel that one for Derbyshire would be neccesary. I have been living in the county all my life and so have the other interested wikipedians. We are all experianced wikipedians and we are all knowledgeable of the area and I am sure the project would work. JFBurton 14:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diplomatic Missions by Country

Description Listing all the diplomatic missions each country has.

Interested Wikipedians

1. Kransky

Comments

About 82 countries done so far.

I think other editors might be more likely to support the possible project if it were to expand its scope a little. Certainly, I do not yet know of a Wikipedia:WikiProject Diplomacy, which could cover the existing diplomatic missions, former diplomatic missions, diplomats' biographies, diplomatic history, and so on. In the process, of course, specific articles relating to each nation's individual existing missions would be pivotal. Badbilltucker 17:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Badbilltucker. The intention would only to focus on the diplomatic networks of each country, i.e: where they are, and have a consistent and publically endorsed format. Additional details like current or prior ambassadors or other details is possible later (some articles have this information already) but it would be laborious to keep current. Kransky 10:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drum set and drumline

Description

When I looked at the drum set article, I was disappointed to see that there was no drum set project group to join.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. pikasneez27

Comments

• You might be interested in the proposed musical instruments project below. Badbilltucker 22:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EAScripting Collection

Description

The goal of this project is to find, document, catagorize, and complete everything there is to know about EAScripting. Its secondary goal would be to find all pages that should link to EAScripting and have them link to EAScripting.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. user:Comperr

Comments

Because there are so many different versions, modules, systems and such for EAScripting it would be wise to get as many people as possible working on documenting them all.

What is EAScripting? Ocolon 15:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EAScripting Defaults

Description

The goal of this project is to convert all EAScripting programs on Wikipedia to the default compiler standards defined by this project. Its secondary goal would be to determine if the wikipedia standard is being used elsewhere and if not change the standard used to one that is being used.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. user:Comperr

Comments

The standard used on wiki would be chosen by this project and then this project would convert all existing programs to use this standard.

[edit] Eastern Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Temporary Project Page:

• User:/WikiProject Eastern Africa

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

• Ezeu 21:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
• ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • ;contribs • Ethiopia 10:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project.

• Note that there's already Eritrean and Ethiopian WikiProjects up. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 10:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
  • So noted. This project, if created, would only try to supplement any existing projects within its scope, perhaps with assessment, peer review, and additional collaboration, and only actively involve themselves in the articles of another project if that other project becomes deleted or inactive. It's primary focus would only be for those countries whose articles are not yet supported by any project. Badbilltucker 20:43, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Please see my comment down at #Southern Africa about the inclusion of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia in the scope of this project. This project has quite a wide scope already, and those countries are, in my experience, nearly always referred to as Southern Africa. (See also the article East Africa and its accompanying image.) Meanwhile, seeing as South Africa already has a project, and the other countries have few active contributors, a larger scope might benefit WikiProject Southern Africa. Picaroon 21:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eastern Europe

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Eastern Europe

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• User:Zscout370
• KissL
• —dima/s-ko/
• Chris
• — Kpalion^(talk)

Comments This project would focus its efforts primarily on those Eastern European countries not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

I would suggest that the project should concentrate on issued whose scope is broader than one particular nation. Cooperation is particularly needed in articles about history (wars, battles, rulers etc.), politics (international relations), geography (transnational regions, border towns), culture (common traits in national cultures of the region), languages and the like. I also think that Central Europe would be a more appropriate name. And that German-speaking user should be invited. — Kpalion^(talk) 10:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe a good idea. However, the guy who first proposed the project seems to have gone bye-bye. On that basis, I am creating the project page, and I am more or less following the specs he gave above. As stated above, the project will deal primarily with articles that don't already fall within the scope of any specific national projects. In time, if specific national projects are created, that would probably eventually lead to the project focusing exclusively on trans-national issues. John Carter 00:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Engineering

Description

A Wikiproject Centering on engineering with a deep base in mathematics and physics, and linked to the Engineering portal. This project would expand engineering knowledge.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Molinogi (talk • contribs)
2. Ageo020 (talk • contribs)

Comments ; (Feel free to add any comments)

[edit] Entourage

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality and quantity of Entourage related articles, and decide and implement uniform editing guidelines on pages related to Entourage.

Temporary project page: User:Argash/WikiProject Entourage

User: Argash

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

1. Sven Erixon (talk • contribs)
2. Davey4 (talk • contribs)
3. LoyolaDude (talk • contribs)

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 00:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fishing

Description: A WikiProject for Fishing, and the multitudinous articles related thereto. I think scope is dependent on participants. Some organization of the many articles is definitely needed, and this is where group participation is particularly valuable. Plenty of grunt work in fleshing out and cleaning up articles is, of course, possible, too.

Temporary Project Page: User:ENeville/WikiProject Fishing

User: ENeville

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

User:CaptainXel

Ootmc

[edit] Football (soccer) in the United States of America and Canada

Please offer suggestions for a better name (preferably shorter.) The scope of the project includes improvement of all the soccer leauges, such as the MLS and USL, in Canada and the USA. Also included would be their national teams. The project would also develope articles on players, coaches, and other influencial figures in the game. XYZ CrVo 02:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• Temporary Project Page User:XYZ CrVo/WikiProject Football (soccer) in the USA and Canada
• Interested Wikipedians (please your add name below)

• Jazznutuva 06:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Bill Oaf 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Canadiana 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• м info 23:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

D. BULL 12:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comments Feel free to leave any comments

• Possibly name project WikiProject North American Football (Soccer) but suggest we just add a sub project to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football since it's already established. Jazznutuva 06:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• I agree with the name suggestion. I'm not clear on the structure of WikiProjects - when a subProject is better, when it should be its own thing, etc., so I'll defer to the experts on that. Bill Oaf 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• You don't want to say "the USA and Canada"; see guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations: "When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the “United States” (for example, “France and the United States”, not “France and the U.S.”)." I'm good with North America which you can easily defines as the United States and Canada. Existing articles on soccer specific to the United States and Canada use "soccer" rather than "football" and I think that is consistent with Wikipedia principles regarding spelling and usage, but that is certainly a good topic for discussion if we had a project page. Canadiana 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• I think the title should definitley be Wikiproject North American Soccer as in North America football is football. м info 23:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foundation (skateboards)

Description

This project will be aimed to create, format, do basic edits, and link all Foundation skatebording related articles together.

Interested Wikipedians

1. ClayteX 17:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 00:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frasier

Description

The project's goal is to improve the main article Frasier, and to create new articles for the episode list and also to expand the characters articles.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Ageo020 18th March 2007
2. Bernstein2291 20th March 2007

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 00:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it is that narrow. Remember Frasier has over 264 episodes and there are no articles for half of them. There are Wikiprojects for the Simpsons as well as Fawlty Towers which just has 12 episodes.--Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 22:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Free images

Images can be divided between free and non-free ones. Recently, there has been a push to eliminate the non-free ones that, apparently, can be recreated. However, until now I have seen many places with suggestions about how to request free images, but not a project to coordinate efforts. Because of this I am giving the first push to WikiProject Free Images, aimed at centralizing discussion about free images. Currently, it is situated at User:ReyBrujo/WikiProject Free Images, but with enough positive feedback and help, it will be moved into the Wikipedia namespace.

The WikiProject aim is broad: first and foremost, educate users about the benefits of free images, but also to teach the differences between free licenses when applied to images. Aside this, the WikiProject will focus in replacing the current fair use images with free ones of good quality, by contacting the media, agencies, publishers or other copyright holders as necessary. It would keep a list of requested images to different organizations, with the different steps that had been taken and the different replies. It will also have an index of all the images that had been donated by these organizations, so that they are able to review their contributions. Also, the members of the WikiProject would review the usage of these images in Wikipedia, verifying that attributions are applied at all times when requested by the copyright holder.

This WikiProject was given as a thought during the Wikipedia:Elimination of Fair Use Rationale in Promotional Photos discussion, and since apparently there has not been a similar one, I decided to try it out. -- ReyBrujo 18:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Ned Scott 06:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
2. NeilEvans 17:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
3. Pharos 00:30, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Great idea, there needs to be co-ordinated effort to replace images if possible.--NeilEvans 17:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

This is related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use. You might want to see how you can cooperate and coordinate your activities. — Ocolon 16:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Franchise Companies

An exhaustive list of every global franchise company in the world, and a description of what the company does

[description here]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. [Shawnborgia]

Comments

I would like to make an exhaustive list on every franchise company in the world. These companies are known as 'franchisors'. I need help from people around the world. Shawnborgia 04:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

This should really be a subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics. Chris 00:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Global Democracy

With the human rights portal in place, discussing human rights around the world, it seems right that there be a similar portal for democracy (or lack of). The voting rights or suffrage of every country on Earth could be profiled, with a chronological history of the spread of democracy. I'm relatively new here so technical help would be especially appreciated. Thoughts?

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Josh
2. Crested Penguin 07:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Perhaps expand to Human Rights for a broader appeal. Chris 08:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
• I think democracy should have its own wikiproject Crested Penguin 07:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gloucestershire

There are many articles that concern Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, and I belive that a Gloucestershire wiki project would strong benifit these articles. (As many articles about places in south Gloucestershire are covered by the bristol wiki project) there could be a joint project.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. mark999

Comments

[edit] Greenland

Description: This project will serve to increase the overall scope of awareness and knowledge of the island of Greenland and create and improve articles relating to it. It will serve, in an atmosphere of cooperation and diversity, as a guide and a model to assist fellow wikipedians who wish to improve the quality of their articles.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Greenland
Interested Wikipedians (please your add name below)

• Badbilltucker
• Maunus
• Valentinian (my editing time will be rather short for the next months).
• Keesiewonder
• Chris
• [[D. BULL 12:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)]]

[edit] Grunge & Alternative

Description: This WikiProject will help to create, expand, and complete articles about grunge and alternative music. It will create articles for songs, albums, or artists/bands that fall under grunge or alternative. It will serve to help keep the music section of Wikipedia up-to-date and user-friendly.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

• Ka5hmir
• Red_Phoenix
• icelandic hurricane #12 _(talk) 12:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
• ClayteX

Comments: How would this project be different from Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music, which already exists? John Carter 18:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Half-Life

Description: To improve all Half-Life related articles, and maintain current FA articles such as Half-Life 2

Interested Wikipedians (Please Add Name Below)

• --Azslande 03:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
• NiGHTS into Dreams... 20:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Selmo/WikiProject Half Life

Comments

• This may be better off as a task force of WP:CVG, I think; it's a bit too narrow a focus to need a full project's worth of infrastructure. Kirill Lokshin 05:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
• Definitely should be a WP:CVG task force. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 17:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hall of Fame

Description

I had started this page as an effort to develop as a part of Wikipedia culture, but later decided it might be a good idea to convert it into a voluntary wikiproject rather than a process or policy. Thus I would request a fresh look and input on whether this is a good idea for a wikiproject (if judged not, I will delete it promptly). I just wanted a good way in which Wikipedians can celebrate the achievements and growth of Wikipedia together and feel proud of themselves and their colleagues for performing thankless jobs. A hall of fame seeks to remember and celebrate the contributions of those users who have helped fellow editors and this project in a way that should not be forgotten and deserves some form of permanent remembrance, especially as an example for future Wikipedians. I think such an endeavor is necessary in wake of the end of Esperanza and other civility projects. Rama's arrow 19:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Rama's Arrow

Comments

[edit] Hamburg

Description

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Hamburg, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Hamburg in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. 亮HH

Comments

• Itwould be great if someone ca ntake this on. There's already a format for the project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for format. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• In this case, I could agree. However, I personally think it would make more sense if these subprojects focused on states of Germany, rather than simply individual cities. Considering Hamburg is both a city and a state, though, that wouldn't apply here. Badbilltucker 14:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harmonised Classification of all Wiki Articles

Description

[The classification of all relevant articles according to the WCO's harmonised notes and addition of an info-box to the aforementioned articles with the relevant heading. This will involve many thousands of articles. This is a universal standard in international trade from which all local tariffs are taken from.]

Interested Wikipedians (user:librarianofages)

1. [librarianofages]

Comments

[edit] Hertfordshire

Description

This project aims to help coordinate and improve all articles relating to the county of Hertfordshire, UK.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Simply south 08:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Soopa hoops77 18:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Easily the greatest county in the world, I was born in Stevenage Soopa hoops77 18:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical People from Yellowknife

Description: The project will aim to create a category with working articles and links for active reference use on the history of Yellowknife, NT, Canada. It will contain a category page that "contains" all of the people that I/we have created articles on.

User:

• User:YK Times 01:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

• Kingjeff 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment

• I would be interested in Yellowknife instead of a specific topics about it. Kingjeff 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• I think that would be a good idea too. I am in the process of incorporating this project under Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada; as well, please note my change of username.

[edit] Homestar Runner

Description

[This project will try to improve all articles related to the flash cartoon series "Homestar Runner"]

Interested Wikipedians

1. Wikizilla ^{(Talk)signme!} 20:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

There are many Homestar fans out there, and if we joined up, we could benefit wikipedia.

Too broad of a scope. It should be a taskforce as per what the top of the page says: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. I don't understand why people just choose to ignore what it says. RobJ1981 21:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project

Description: The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project is a seminal project for English language policy and planning around the world. Although focused on Hong Kong government and society, its theoretical foundation can be applied to most East Asian countries and many countries in other regions where the English language is promoted as a mandatory universal second language in public school systems. The HKLNA-Project is about language quality and language diversity and the preservation of both. The project combines a variety of scientific disciplines including economics, linguistics, political science, statistics, as well as anthropology, sociology, and history. The project took two years to assemble, contains many hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables and a large number of links. If it has an important drawback, then it is the outdated software with which it was produced and a need for software updating and online maintenance.

Comment

• As the creator and promoter of the project I would be interested in helping to formulate its listing User:R. A. Stegemann 08:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hotels

Description: I'm proposing this WikiProject as I feel that the hotel articles on Wikipedia could benefit from such a coordinated effort. The project would aim to collaborate and direct the efforts of editors interested in improving and building upon hotel articles. The primary aim of this WikiProject would aim to establish a structure and consistency with hotel-related articles. I'm aiming to keep this as broad as possible at this time - open to suggestions.

Any comments regarding the proposed creation of this project would be much appreciated.

Temporary project page: User:Luckyluke/WikiProject Hotels

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

• Luke! 05:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• MCB 06:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Patricknoddy

Comments

• I agree with Luckyluke. I think this Wikiproject would be very helpful to a lot of articles. I say get going and start it! Good luck with the creation. Chupper 23:33, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Idaho

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Idaho.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• Patricknoddy

Comments:

[edit] Iglesia ni Cristo

Description: This proposed WikiProject centers around Wikipedia articles about the religious organization known as Iglesia ni Cristo. We aim to create and maintain articles that are both well referenced and in a neutral point of view, keeping them at the level of quality Wikipedia intends all articles to be. The Wikiproject will also serve for centralized discussion and collaboration about such articles.

Temporary project page: User:WikiLeon/WikiProject Iglesia ni Cristo

User: LBMixPro ^{<Speak|on|it!>} 09:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

• --Ironbrew 08:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Saleem 01:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Da'jhan 20:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• Badbilltucker 19:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments I'm not sure if there is enough interest to start a separate project. However, I am relatively certain that the Christianity WikiProject would be willing to take on a work group or task force to focus on the subject. That might be the best way to go. Badbilltucker 19:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inline templates

Description: A (Wikipedia self-referential) project to centralize the creation and management of inline superscript templates such as {{Fact}}. Goals:

Protect templates from well-meaning reformatting attempts that are known to cause problems in various browsers

Develop a "meta-template" from which all of these templates are derived, so that layout problems with them can be fixed in one place

Ensure consistency between all of these templates, as to their formatting, naming, content and mouseover (tooltip) messages

Provide a talk forum for discussion of problems with the templates, or other needs with regard to them

Provide a proposals area for the organized creation of new templates of this sort instead of today's random creation of often redundant inline templates

Possibly provide a ITfD mechanism, the way WikiProject Stub sorting has provided the SfD mechanism

Actually identify and categorize all of the templates of this sort

Ensure that the Template messages documentation is updated with regard to these templates

Write a guide to their usage (possibly stand-alone, or possibly as part of the MoS

Improve each template's documentation

Scope:

• Inline superscripted cleanup and dispute templates such as {{Fact}} and {{Clarifyme}}
• Reference citation inline templates such as the {{Ref}} and {{Note}} family of templates
• Recommendations on improvements to Cite.php-style reference citation mechanism (<ref ...>...</ref>, <ref ... />, and <references />)
• Possible scope expansion into other inline templates such as the {{tl}} family of templates

Temporary project page: None at present, but see Template talk:Fact for some reasons why this project is needed.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

1. SMcCandlish (proponent)
2. Mostly busy with school, but can pop in from time to time. --Ling.Nut 03:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
3. --Kevinkor2 08:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
4. -- Gimmetrow 00:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Given the very limited scope of this project, I think three active participants is plenty, actually. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 23:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

See User:Kevinkor2/Inline templates for a list of inline templates. --Kevinkor2 05:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interbank networks

Description: This project is intended to expand Wikipedia's current coverage of the world's various interbank networks (a.k.a. ATM networks or ATM consortiums). This involves writing about these interbank networks, their services, as well as where they provide their services, whether on an international, national or regional level.

Temporary project page: User:Sky Harbor/Interbank networks

User: Sky Harbor 14:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments

• Very narrow in scope-is there a Banking WikiProject? Chris 00:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Agreed; unless this is a formal split from an existing bank project, this should be covered by the bank project (and create that project if it doesn't exist). — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 16:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki

Description

To coordinate the use of interwiki bots, limiting database load and increasing coverage of the entire wiki.

Temporary page

User:ST47/WikiProject Interwiki

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. ST47Talk
2. User:Nuno Tavares talk 15:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Currently on a wikibreak, but would join on return. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 08:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] IPA

Aim: To introduce IPA pronunciation guides to more articles, a feature that is currently sorely lacking on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Poolkris/Wikiproject IPA.

Interested Wikipedians:

1) Kris 15:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
2) Jaxten 00:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
3) Limetom 02:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• I'm not sure how this benefits from being a WikiProject. Guidelines for adding pronunciation information is already available at WP:PRON, and discussion of changes to the guidelines takes place on that article's talk page. --Safalra 12:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• IPA is pretty confusing for the people who don't understand it. Sure, we have guidelines for it, but I think it would be a good idea to have a group of people who understand it implementing said guidelines in some kind of an organized fashion. --Limetom 02:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq, post-invasion

Description: This project would focus on cleaning up, restructuring and organising the various current articles that cover the post-invasion Iraq.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: User:AndrewRT

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

• I can see the purpose in having a project working on articles relating to Iraq, but why limit the project to only articles relating to Iraq since the war started? Many of those same articles will clearly have content related to pre-war Iraq as well. Also, so far as I can tell, there is no project specifically dealing with Iraq as a whole. John Carter 16:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with John Carter. I have been thinking of proposing the creation of a WikiProject Iraq. Iraq War-related articles would obviously be included. Cattus 20:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

There is now a Wikipedia:WikiProject Iraq. Chris 16:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Journals

Description

This project will focus on improving the number and quality of articles about journals and other academic output.

Temporary Project Page

User:Jayvdb/Journals

Interested wikipedians (please add your name below)

Comments

[edit] Kansas

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Kansas.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: NapalmSunday, Candidhq

Comments: Just curious, what would happen if someone wanted to create a project for Kansas the band? icelandic hurricane #12 _(talk) 15:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kinks, The

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to british rock band The Kinks.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Painbearer

Interested Wikipedians: Painbearer

Comments: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 00:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Knowledge Games

Description

The project would plan and support knowledge games based on wikipedia content. Some games could require special content in Wikipedia (e.g. list of questions about articles for a quiz). Examples for games that try to provide more learning motivation, but that do not link to Wikipedia, are (e.g.) Genius - Task Force Biologie [4], Chemicus II and Mathica [5] [6]. Obviously games should aim to support the OLPC.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Fasten 14:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

see: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic_talk:Computer_Programming#Learning_Project:_Knowledge_Games

[edit] Latvia

Description This project would exist to create, expand and maintain articles related to the nation of Latvia.

Temporary project page:
User:Warlordjohncarter/WikiProject Latvia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• -- Xil/talk 19:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keesiewonder
• Chris 05:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• John Carter 00:23, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Lexical similarity index

Description

The website Phrasebase provides percentages of similarity between languages (see [7] for an example). I think it would be nice to put these data into either the language box template, or a new template similar to the one which lists the usage rankings of words in the English language. Also, maybe a page structured to somehow show language trees and the languages' lexical similarities.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your wiki handle)

1. Alexnye
2. Red_Phoenix

Comments

There are no citations provided on the website to document where the information is coming from. It seems to me that the conclusions violate WP:RS and WP:V. I would suggest it not be included.Nposs 18:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, much of the information is copied and pasted from Ethnologue. See for example Anyin: Ethnologue vs. Phrasebook (region information) - no citation provided.Nposs 18:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I oppose this idea. As Nposs says, Phrasebase appears to be simply duplicating data from the Ethnologue. However, even if based on data from the Ethnologue this is not a good idea, since (1) frequently the Ethnologue doesn't cite its sources either; (2) lexical similarity counts are only available for a limited number of languages/lects; (3) a lexical similarity count is virtually useless without information on how exactly it was arrived at (Which lexical items were compared (see e.g. Swadesh list)? How were they collected? How was the similarity or distance calcuted (nearest neighbour, clustering)? — mark ✎ 19:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maine

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Maine.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

1. Ventric
2. icelandic hurricane #12 _(talk)
3. Lostvalley

Comments:

[edit] Mario Party

Description

This project will focus on maintaining the Mario Party articles and citing sources where they are needed. In this Wikiproject, users should discuss changes to "crufty lists" to prevent other users suddenly starting an edit war. It will also make sure users discuss tags and how to remove those already there.

Interested wikipedians

(Please sign your name)

1. Henchman 2000
2. Bowsy 11:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This WikiProject might be too narrow; I tried a Mario WikiProject here a few months ago, bus got some comments saying that "we already have WikiProject Nintendo and CVG; this one may be too narrow." –Llama man 21:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• It is indeed too narrow. Just discuss with the Nintendo project and CVG project about the Mario Party games. RobJ1981 22:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 23:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Math Verification and Improvement

Description: A WikiProject devoted to verifying articles in the mathematics portal and if at all possible, improving them as well. This will be a beneficial modification to WP:MATHCOTW, which is at best, inoperational. Not much progress is being made, hence the solution. The project is only devoted to math because it would be to lengthy and incapable of reaching every single article on Wikipedia. Sr13 (T|C) ^{Editor review} 04:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Temporary Project page
User:Sr13/Temporary

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

• User:Mathmo

Comments:

• Um, isn't this basically WikiProject Mathematics? Kirill Lokshin 04:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Close, but focused on verifying articles...my attempt to convince John Broughton about a verification project on all articles has failed. I have concentrated efforts on just on the math portal. Maybe this could be a subpage for all portals, bu that's another discussion... Sr13 (T|C) ^{Editor review} 02:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
• Please keep me informed of what happens; I may be able to help whether in a wikiproject or sub-project or whatever. I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics (and economics). Keesiewonder ^talk 14:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Micronesia

Description: This is intended to be a WikiProject dealing with the area of Micronesia, specifically including the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Guam, and Johnston Island.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Micronesia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• CyberAnth 05:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC) - I have a good amount of expertise in several of these islands.
• User:gadfium. I'm the maintainer of Portal:Oceania, and have an interest in the area, although little knowledge.
• —Nightstallion (?) I'd be in favour of making this a WP encompassing all of Oceania. 01:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Chris 05:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments: Given the existence of the Portal:Oceania, would people like to see the proposed Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia projects merge into one proposed Oceania Project, to develop a similar scope? Badbilltucker 21:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd be in favour of doing that, yes. —Nightstallion (?) 01:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Middle Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Temporary Project Page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Central Africa

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

• I've joined WikiProjects in the past, but in the end, my time and energies have been diverted away. However, this is a project I could support wholeheartedly. My efforts would mostly be directed toward Cameroon-related articles. —
• Like BrianSmithson, and as someone who has a strong personal interest in several of these countries, I would support this proposal. However, I do think that some thought needs to be given to how this new project will be coordinated with existing initiatives at continental (e.g. Africa regional notice board) and national (e.g. WikiProject Chad) level. -- Kahuzi 09:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• I support this effort one hundred percent. As someone that has added considerable content to this area, I am happy to see it finally proposed.--Thomas.macmillan 03:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• While the idea is very attractive, I'm afraid it may end like WikiProject Chad, i.e. instead of a collaborative project mostly a one-man's work. That said, the idea, as I said before is highly tempting, especially with regards to the part concerning peer-reviews and collaborations. As to my efforts, I will deliver them mostly to Chad-related articles, but will always be happy to help with other countries to. Just a note regarding the scope of the project: wouldn't it be better to keep Angola out, as culturally and historically little linked with the other countries, while include Rwanda and Burundi?-- Aldux 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Or maybe those countries could be included in more than one project, considering their "border" status. Personally, I am far from an expert in these matters myself. Badbilltucker 21:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sure, I'll support this. I need a break from Nigeria from time to time. I think it should be a goal of this project to aid in the maintenance of Portal:Democratic Republic of the Congo. The instructions at the top say 5-10 people, and the project page indicates that I'll be the sixth; should we kick it off now? Picaroon 17:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

The project page is named Central Africa, actually. But right now I am working on consolidating a list of religions and denominations and gathering the data for a new revision to the Project Directory, so it might be the case that actually starting the project might have to wait a day or two. And I do think that the Africa proposal will probably be removed at the same time the other "subdivision" projects are, unless it is the case that one or two "subidisional" projects don't gather enough independent interest to take off on their own immediately. In that case, the Africa project might officially deal with all of Africa but practically deal only with those parts of Africa not already covered by smaller-scope projects. Again, I think that largely depends on how much support the various regional projects show. Badbilltucker 22:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project. So, basically, for existing projects like Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad, we would in no way seek to preempt any of their efforts, and only act in relation to them by providing support services, like maybe assessment, peer review, and collaboration, which they might not provide. Also, I personally hope that the project gets enough members to "spin off" other projects for other countries as well. A similar approach would be taken with the African notice board, with the proviso that this project might be seen, as a sense, in being the more "focused" group.

[edit] Mobile Phones

Description : This WikiProject would be for the improvement and standardisation of Mobile Phone articles. Many of the exisiting articles lack category boxes and there is a distinct mix of info boxes across the entire range. I therefore propose a project be created to offer standards for all mobile phone articles.

Interested Wikipedians

1. [User:ELaverick|ELaverick]

Comments

[edit] Monk

Description : This project would create episode data for the Monk episodes, as well as character updates, and other things of that sort.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. WTRiker-Talk to me

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 23:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mythbusters

Description

This project would focus on creating standards for recounting each show, giving biographical data for all hosts, describing each myth, and better organizing data for the Discovery Channel sho Mythbusters.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Jaypenguin150

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Jaypenguin150

Comments

MythBusters has only about 20 articles on Wikipedia. Now if it had more than 100 articles on Wikipedia, I would approve it, but MythBusters is way too small for a WikiProject right now. If this project was created anyway, it would probably be deleted (like WikiProject The Naked Brothers Band). Wait until MythBusters grows bigger. — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 21:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nevada

Description: This project would focus on creating, developing, and maintaining articles related to the state of Nevada.

Temporary project page: User:Warlordjohncarter/WikiProject Nevada

User: John Carter 20:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Participants:

Comments:

[edit] New Mexico

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of New Mexico.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• Chris 05:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Nicaragua

Description

Wikiproject to create and advance pages related to Nicaragua. Also, in helping advance the Portal:Nicaragua that i recently created. There are alot of articles in need of expanding and creating.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. — User:LaNicoya\^talk

Comments

[edit] Nine Inch Nails

Description

This WikiProject could be useful to anyone who is interested in Nine Inch Nails. The band is very notable, and I think it would support the band and the article in many ways.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. User:WereWolf
2. Alex 03:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC) This band rocks! I enjoy listening their albums like Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral and With Teeth. I also just expanded the article about their upcoming album.
3. User:Mathmo Possibly, I do like this band.

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 23:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North American Motorsport

I think there a need for a WikiProject about all motorsports in North America that are not covered under other existing WikiProjects: WP:NASCAR, WP:IROC, WP:American Open Wheel Racing, Sports Car Racing, etc. The WikiProject would be similiar to Wikipedia:WikiProject British Motorsport in scope. The introduction would be "WikiProject North American Motorsport aims to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Motorsport in the North America." These other WikiProjects would take over the articles as drivers move up in the ranks, and would replace the article's marking template with their own.

I initially thought about proposing a WikiProject would encompass all motorsport articles in the United States. There is a fair bit of border hopping into Canada by NASCAR (especially with the new NASCAR Canadian Tire Series), and I would like to see the Baja 1000 included in the WikiProject.

It would be organized as an sibling WikiProject to WikiProject NASCAR/WikiProject IROC, etc. It would not do oversight of the WikiProjects, as that is covered by WikiProject Motorsport. Applicable articles would include notable racetracks, drivers, halls of fame, sanctioning bodies, etc. A sample of specific articles would include: ARCA, American Speed Association, IMCA, UMP, CORR, SODA (series), USAR Hooters Pro Cup, National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame, Mike Eddy, Manzanita Speedway, Knoxville Raceway, Lake Geneva Raceway, Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, Berlin Raceway, Bonneville Speedway, Knoxville Nationals, Dirt track racing in the United States just to name a few. Other WikiProject could claim any of these articles as they see fit.

Proposed by Royalbroil ^{T : C} 15:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Royalbroil ^{T : C} 15:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Barno 18:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC) (copied from WikiProject NASCAR)
3. User:WhiteEcho 18 February 2007 (UTC) (copied from Royalbroil's talk page)

Comments

[edit] Lead Paragraph Cleanups

Description

The problem of lenthy lead paragraphs here on wikipedia is becoming very serious, perhaps 20% of all articles open with very long segemented and complicated lead paragraphs. I propose to manage a group to work on tagging and cleaning up a large number of the articles with lead paragraphs that are either to long or too short in accords to WP:LEAD. Tasks will entail, tagging, editing and bringing discussions to a consensus on the issues relevant to the topic. The appropriate length of a lead depends on subject of the article. This is an important matter since the "lead" immediately grabs the attention of the reader. to meet quality standards.

User: Frummer

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Frummer
2. Filll
3. Nishkid64
4. Sam Dorrance
5. Scholarus

Comments

[edit] WikiProject Living People

Description

Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. This category exists to help Wikipedia editors improve the quality of biographies of living persons by ensuring that the articles maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and are properly sourced.

Interested Wikipedians

Comments

• The purpose of the living people category seems to fit what a WikiProject is suppose to do. I think this will help take a more pro-active approach to what the purpose of the category. Kingjeff 19:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Wouldn't this be better off done through WP:WPBIO in some fashion? Creating another extremely high-level project for biographies doesn't seem like the best idea. Kirill Lokshin 05:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
• This is more specifically dealing with the category. Kingjeff 21:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oriental Orthodoxy

Description

This proposed WikiProject would deal with the various churches of the Oriental Orthodox Church, their history, adherents, beliefs, etc.

Temporary Project Page:

• None at this time.

Interested Wikipedians:

• Badbilltucker 22:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Lijujacobk 23:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 16:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

People Please tell everyone about this Wikiproject, So that we can have more interested wikipedians. Lijujacobk 01:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Please see the new Oriental Orthodox Portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Oriental_Orthodoxy Lijujacobk 20:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paranormalities

Description

A WikiProject dedicated to the unusual happenings and experiences around the world; such as haumtings, fortune telling, & Alchemy. As to bring together all the articles dealing with "unexplainable events & concepts". Therefore, articles of said events wont just be floating around meaninglessly & will be handled appropiately.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

• Xertz

Comments

• Sounds good. --Xertz 00:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• This is already covered by WikiProject:Paranormal and WikiProject:Supernatural.--NeilEvans 19:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pharmacology (and/or Medicinal Chemistry)

While looking for information on Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry I found that Wikipedia was woefully lacking - just look at the two title articles. With lots of stub articles lacking essential information. This is not about drugs or medicines but the fundamental basics for pharmacological science and drug discovery that could do with some major input. Anybody want to help out - it is essential these articles get sorted as they are the foundations for modern therapeutics?

Interested Wikipedians - please see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine

Proposer: User:Lethaniol 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

1. bibliomaniac15

Comments

• I know nothing about medicime, but one thing that I think might work would be to contact WikiProject Medicine and see if they would be interested in creating a work group or task force to deal with this area. By making it a "subproject" of Medicine, it is more likely that the members of the Medicine project will be aware of it, and such a subproject arrangement might get more members of the Medicine WikiProject to join or contribute to articles in this field than a completely separate project would. Badbilltucker 15:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• I will take that on board - thanks - have taken discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine Lethaniol 14:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• People over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry and Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology might be interested. --Bduke 07:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject Drugs, especially this. Walkerma 22:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philippines

Description

I noticed that there are some countries that have their own Wikiproject, and I just love the Philippines. Both of my parents are from there and I currently live in Virginia. I can't even begin to count how many filipino friends I have.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. pikasneez27
2. BrokenSphere 17:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC) - There is an existing WikiProject Philippine LGUs, however their scope is limited to "the various political subdivisions of the Philippines or Local Government Units (LGUs), namely, regions, provinces, cities and municipalities." Something covering the history, culture, and notable citizens was what I had in mind.

Comments

There's a noticeboard for the Philippines and Filipino Wikipedians at Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines. They've talked about making it a WikiProject (check their talk page archives), but they seem to prefer using the noticeboard instead. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 20:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photography

Description: This is a project to help users identify which articles need pictures which can and will help the viewers of the article get a better understanding of the article itself. Articles (or stubs) are being created every day on Wikipedia, and many do not have a single picture to illustrate the article's point of view.

Temporary Project Page: none at this time

User:
User:Keo Takamine

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments

Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography already exists Gnangarra 08:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pixar

Description

Pixar Animation Studios have created some of the most memorable films of modern times, but its article and that of its films require a lot of work. We need to rewrite lots of parts, define what references and trivia are acceptable and reach our ultimate goal, namely that we get Pixar and its films up to Featured Article quality. Our secondary objectives are articles related to people related with Pixar like John Lasseter, Joe Ranft and Steve Jobs. Anyone else interested?

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Proposer: RMS Oceanic 09:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Driveus
3. --$UIT 17:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

I wasn't sure if this should have been a task force, but since we're looking to improve at least eight articles (and more, as the films are released) I felt that was sufficient to warrant a project. RMS Oceanic 09:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

You might want to join up as a task force or child project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney. -- Ned Scott 00:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

That seems fine.--$UIT 04:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Political Scandals and Controversies

Description

A project dedicated to accurately describing past and current political scandals and controversies so that readers will have an accurate account of the facts and sources

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. — Remember 15:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
2. — dkatten 16:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
3. — Sholom 17:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
4. — --Uncle Ed 19:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

1. I think this would be a good project for a focused group to work on so that current political scandals and controversies have accurate information and are done in a NPOV way. Because so many people rely upon wikipedia to get access to current controversial information, it is important that we make sure to provide the best information we can. Remember 15:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

• I believe a group focused on political scandal has a very strong possibility of becoming a de facto decider of fact and the potential to become a POV hit-squad. I think the idea is well intentioned, but I just see too many potential problems with a group dedicated to scandals & controversies (groupthink, POV, infighting, etc.). I respectfully decline the offer and hope that this project does not meet with the fate I predicted. Good luck! /Blaxthos 16:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I think it will be just the opposite of that, Blaxthos. The purpose, as I see it, is to identify when there is a controversy and then to prevent a Wikipedia article from trying to "decide" facts. I've been a Wikipedian longer than 99.99% (I am user #188), and the perennial problem has been a groupthink which has the effect of making Wikipedia endorse certain POVs. If we try, we can counter this trend. --Uncle Ed 19:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I see your point, but looking from other side of the looking glass, I would hate to see this group become the self-appointed "guardian of what's right." I've seen (most notably in AfD discussions) a particular organized group or wikiproject able to organize enough support / likeminded editors to dominate WP:CONSENSUS discussions (becoming the de facto authority). High minded ideals aside, the obvious solution would seem to be what Lincoln did in the civil war days -- include enough viewpoints in your council that none shall dominate. I think, however, that such a group which consciously forms to become the deciding body is inherently dangerous. I'm glad to see its stewardship in experienced / capable hands. :-) I still must respectfully decline. /Blaxthos 19:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

• In my opinion there are probably more "controversy" articles than we really need (at least in certain high-profile areas, like American politics), and I hope that this project could narrow these down and improve their quality, rather than see a proliferation of new "controversy" articles.--Pharos 19:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polish heraldry

Description

A child project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology concentrating on Polish heraldry, both family (arms of Polish clans) and civic (arms of Polish towns, regions etc.).

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. — Kpalion^(talk)
2. — //Halibutt
3. Gustavo

Comments

1. The only problem is that so far I see no changes to the articles on the topic we created years ago. Which means that, most likely, the project would be dead anyway. Or am I wrong? //Halibutt 13:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I hope you are. For a start, I added blazons in Polish and English to some images of Polish coats of arms on Commons (e.g.: Commons:Image:Herb Debno.jpg, Commons:Image:Herb Dabrowa.jpg). I'm ready to start working on the articles myself, but I would like to see some cooperation, especially with uploaders of the images. — Kpalion^(talk) 13:36, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear Kpalion: what is your idea to do? --Gustavo Szwedowski de Korwin 04:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polynesia

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Polynesia

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

• User:gadfium. I'm the maintainer of Portal:Oceania, and have an interest in the area.
• User:Zora. Did graduate research in Tonga and Hawaiian archives. Speak Tongan and some Hawaiian. Unfortunately, I'm grotesquely over-committed to several other projects (Indian cinema, Islam, clothing).
• Chris 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• Avenue 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC). Not sure how much I can help, as I have little expertise or (currently) spare time, but I am interested.

Comments It is I believe understood that this project would focus its efforts primarily on those countries which are not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

• Given the existence of the Portal:Oceania, would people like to see the proposed Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia projects merge into one proposed Oceania Project, to develop a similar scope? Badbilltucker 21:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Support Services

Description: This WikiProject would serve primarily to provide some of the support services (assessment, peer review, newsletter, portal maintainance, etc.) for other WikiProjects, primarily aimed at being a stop-gap for projects when members who had been performing those duties have left and to help new projects with some of their start-up activities. Wikipedia's version of a temp agency, if you will.

Temporary project page: None at this time.

Interested Wikipedians: Badbilltucker 14:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Provide Alternatives to Technical Jargon

Description

There is an understandable tendency within any specific profession to use shortcut words to help make communication quicker and clearer between the experts in that profession. Unfortunately, in an encyclopedia, that's a bad thing, since the goal is for the encyclopedia to teach general consumers interested in self-educating about those specialized concepts, and that insider-driven jargon tends to alienate or intimidate outsiders.

The overall mission/goal for the project would be to keep technical articles accessible to non-expert readers. While technical jargon specific to any field can keep the prose concise and accurate, the unfortunate side-effect is to increase the amount of effort required for a non-expert, or a person not part of that scholarship to understand the topic and the encyclopedic prose.

My contention is that if Wikipedia truly is for the masses, as Wikipedia:Wikiproject Countering systemic bias and Wikipedia:About seem to imply, it's our responsibility to keep language clear and accessible for all of the people who would use it. I don't think it's necessary to stamp out the use of technical jargon, but I do think it's possible and would be helpful to provide parenthetical or footnoted alternate explanation for those who might not understand the technical jargon.

For example, while editing an article recently in the Medicine WikiProject, I was struck by the term, "Psychosocial Morbidity" used to describe a possible developmental symptom of Klinefelter's syndrome. While the term does not mean that a person displaying the symptom necessarily has a terminal illness, it would be easy to draw that conclusion from the terminology. It would be helpful, perhaps, to insert a parenthetical comment into the article, or a reference, that talks about how the "morbidity" of the term talks about the psychological self not developing fully and doesn't address the topic of literal death at all.

Similarly, it could conceivably be just as important to a new scholar of military history to know that there is a difference in accuracy and other traits between a musket and a rifle, or a bow and a crossbow.

Additionally, it's possible for the heavy use of technical jargon to hide NPOV issues in articles, and for that reason as well, it would be good to try to make the details of an article something everyone could easily understand.

As with all of these kinds of semantics issues, there are obviously poor ways to go about compensating for the issue and good ways, and it would be an interesting challenge with worthwile results, I think, to try to address dynamic this within Wikipedia itself.

Interested Wikipedians

1. MalcolmGin (talk • contribs) 21:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Relativity

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

Temporary project page: User:MathPhys/WikiProject Relativity

User: MP (talk) 12:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Harald88 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

ems57fcva 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

JRSpriggs 05:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

ErNa 13:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

... Do you want us to put our names at both places? Harald88 13:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC) ... Yes. :) MP (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

This looks like a bad idea to me. I fear that splitting discussion of relativity-related issues away from the physics project will increase our chances of collectively missing something. A relativity article collaboration within the physics project might make more sense. -- SCZenz 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Good point! It makes sense to me, yes. Certainly open for discussion. Harald88 19:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Might be better to make this a task force of WikiProject Physics. See how the Military History WikiProject does it. --Aguerriero (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religious leaders

Description: Many religious leaders, particularly founders of new faiths, arise from an existing religious tradition. However, the wikipedia content relating to this figures will generally be added in primarily by adherents of the faith the person founded, not those from the faith s/he arose from. On that basis, I am proposing a group which I anticipate would be a work group of either (or both?) WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Religion to help ensure that these articles are addressed in a comprehensive and NPOV manner.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User:

1. Badbilltucker 15:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:

1. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:'

1. I agree and think this is very important and needs to be put in place in order to help facilitate others having a better understanding of different religions and cultures. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revolutions of 1848

Description

In 1848, liberal, nationalist, idealistic and republican revolutions swept across Europe. All the revolutions eventually failed, but nevertheless, the years of 1848-49 were a monumental turning point in the history of Europe, and their repercussions are being felt to this very day. I am terribly dismayed that Wikipedia's coverage of these revolutions is so poor and I appeal to all Wikipedians interested in the history of Europe to join in this project. Next year marks the 160th anniversary, and I for one would like to see our set of 1848 articles vastly improved by that time.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. K. Lásztocska 21:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Chris 09:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
3. KissL 12:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Εξαίρετος (msg) 15:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
5. István 20:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
6. Harrypotter 08:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Road transport

Description

There is currently a WikiProject Highways, but this focuses on the actual roads themselves, rather than road traffic. WikiProject road transport would focus on articles related to the vehicles and street furniture, covering articles such as bus, truck and traffic light.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Laïka 12:08, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Might just want to see if the Highways project might want to expand/rename to include this topic as well. Or make a broader project and then put both concepts as task forces of that project, so you can easily share over-lapping elements such as templates and related discussions. -- Ned Scott 06:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhode Island

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Rhode Island.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Phantombantam 05:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Nick Lima 08:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Moodyboy11 00:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Loodog 02:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments: Sounds like a good idea. --Moodyboy11 00:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhodesia

Description

to improve and preserve articles related specifically to this area prior to 1980

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Chris 07:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

With the proliferation of national WikiProjects, even one for Austria-Hungary, 90 years gone, would there be enough interest to justify such a project as this?

You might want to check with the proposed Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Eastern Africa group first. Personally, it seems to me that there may be more editors with interests in Europe than Africa, and that might be why the Austria-Hungary project exists. It might be a better idea to create the larger group first, and then, when it is known whether there is enough interest, to create task forces of that larger group. Badbilltucker 15:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Robotics

Description

WikiProject Robotics- This project would incorporate all the robotics articles together and improve/clean them as with all WikiProjects. UAV's, industrial and domestic, as well as military robots would be covered. Developmental aspects would be covered. Also components of robots, (motors, microcontrollers, electronics) would be covered. Finally, locomotion systems, electronic theory, artificial intelligence and generally anything else in the scope of robotics would be covered. The regrettable thing is, I am nowhere near competent enough to do such a project. So if anyone is interested, and knows how, please start it up!

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. NightFalcon90909 19:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Maverick423 16:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

I used to make small robots and all that good stuff when i was younger. So i know i can help out here =) Maverick423 16:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Rolling Stones

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to the British rock band, The Rolling Stones.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject The Rolling Stones

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

• Wwwhhh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.7.238.17 (talk • contribs).

Comments: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 23:49, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scifi Channel Original Films

Description

I've noticed many of the Scifi Channel Original films don't have articals this wikiproject would make and maintain articals on these films.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Superx 02:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• No need for an individual project for something like this. We have WP:TV, WP:FILMS, and even WP:SCIFI, which could easily take on this task. Also consider recruiting help from Talk:Sci Fi Channel (United States). -- Ned Scott 02:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shipwrecks

Temporary Project Page: User:Esoltas/WikiProject_Shipwrecks

Description: Project goals include creating pages for shipwrecks. There are literally hundred left. See List of shipwrecks, it's absolutely ridiculuous how many need to be done. There are so many wonderful books on shipwrecks to use as well. The project will be an excellent project for users experienced with infobox usage as well as newcomers, who haven't learned, necessary, how to improve an already decent article.

User: Evan^{(Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!)} 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

• SatuSuro
• — Moondyne 16:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shopping Malls

Description: To make/unstub articles about famous shopping malls, as well as making sure that shopping mall articles are directed into the ri9ght places.

I am not going to be able to lead a wikiproject, therefore I would like someone else (if at all possible) to do this.

Comment - Actually, very few people "lead" projects, they simply help organize them. You might be very well qualified to do that. You can certainly find some suggestions of how to do so at the Project Directory. And, on a side note, there is an extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls, which covers the rather more moribund malls exclusively right now. Maybe you could contact them and see if, possibly with some help from you, they would be willing to expand their project to cover the living malls, too. Badbilltucker 22:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South America

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject South America

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• Bruno18 17:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
• Chris 05:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments: It is understood that this project would focus the bulk of its efforts on countries which are not yet included in the scope of any other existing projects.

[edit] Southern Africa

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of Southern Africa, including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: It is understood that this project would focus the bulk of its efforts on countries which are not yet within the scope of any other regional or national projects.

• At the #Eastern Africa section up there, you listed Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. If that project gets off the ground and this doesn't, then they should stay within it's range. But if the reverse happens, or both get off the ground, Zambia and Zimbabwe should definitely be within the scope of this project, and Malawi probably should. I'm unable to offer my support for this project at this time seeing as Malawi is the only one of these countries that piques my interest - even were it included, I couldn't guarantee my participation. Picaroon 21:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• If I can offer my two cents (I once attempted organizing a WikiProject Zambia), I must agree with Picaroon; if this project passes, the three states he mentioned, for historical, geographical and cultural reasons, be placed with Southern Africa, possibly also with Angola (see Southern Africa). If the current range is kept, this project takes the serious risk of becoming a fork of the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa, as the weight of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland combined is nut much compared to South Africa in terms of both sources available, demography and wikipedia coverage.--Aldux 22:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  • So noted. As someone who just recently tried to partially revive the South Africa Project (it has a banner now), I can see the difficulty. However, given the lack of response to date, I'm not sure that we'll have anything to worry about anytime soon. Badbilltucker 22:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• I'd potentially be interested but I couldn't see myself contributing to articles other than on Botswana. MLA 17:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Southern Europe

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of Southern Europe, including Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Vatican City, and Yugoslavia.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: It is understood that this project would devote the majority of its efforts to those countries which are not already within the scope of another regional or national project.

[edit] Southern United States

Description: A WikiProject to improve articles related to the Southern United States. The project will deal with Southern states, cities, culture, literature, art, music, etc. Major organization of Southern-related articles is needed.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

• Stallions2010 19:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
• Chris 20:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
• TexasReb
• WillC WillC 02:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• I see a lot of potential for over-lapping projects here, and I'm not sure if this is the best way to break up articles. It's not a very efficient way to go about it, and can spread discussion across two projects for some articles, making collaboration harder. -- Ned Scott 05:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• What states will this project cover? We need to know, because many people define the South differently. — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 21:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling Bee

Description

A WikiProject to improve articles related to spelling bees, especially those affliated with Scripps National Spelling Bee. Specific standards and guidelines for spelling bees and spelling bee winners/contestants are needed.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested)

1. <3Clamster 03:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Sports Venues

Description: There are a lot of sports venues without quality articles. The scope of this project would be to take stubs and start rated articles to a far superior quality. This shouldn't be a hard project since some stuff already exist like Football (Soccer) stadiums. But be aware, even though other projects have this stuff, that doesn't mean anything has been done about it.

User: Kingjeff 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Sports Venues

• Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

me WillC 23:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Steely Dan

Description: This WikiProject is for (you guessed it) Steely Dan. Right now, only is the Steely Dan article itself lacking information, but the albums' articles are not formatted properly and disorganized. Finally, most songs are missing as articles (and the ones that do have articles don't have infoboxes and such), which is a shame, since most Steely Dan songs are quite deep and their unique lyrics make them interesting to analyze. So what do you say? All you Steely Dan fans out there sign up!

User:
Nauticashades (talk • contribs)

Temporay Page:
User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)
Sign up at User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan also

1. BabuBhatt (talk • contribs)
2. Daniel Case (talk • contribs)
3. Theoldanarchist (talk • contribs)
4. DrDevin (talk • contribs)
5. Chadbryant (talk • contribs)
6. Fenrir2000 (talk • contribs)

Comments:

• Very narrow project. Just ask on talk pages for help about Steely Dan. Wikipedia isn't a place to make fan clubs. Ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music for help as well. If there was a project for every popular singer or band here, Wikipedia would be overrun with too many narrow projects. RobJ1981 01:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Concur Baristarim 17:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
    • You might check with one of the larger projects in the field about possibly setting up as a task force or work group. Badbilltucker 14:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Student Affairs

Description

A Project that will better include information and articles about the field of student affairs and related information. Many authors, organizations, ideas, and concepts are missing from Wikipedia in this field.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Noetic Sage 17:29, 12 February 2007 (UTC)(talk)

Comments

[edit] Synthesizers

Description: This wikiproject aims to document synthesizers and their use in popular music. These instruments have played an increasingly important role in shaping the musical output of artists over the last 50 years. They have also spawned completely new genres of music as musicians work with electronic instruments exclusively. Unlike general classes of instruments, such as guitars, each model of synthesizer is engineered with the ability to create unique sounds and each is therefore a unique instrument in its own right.

User: Mperry 19:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: There is no page as of this moment.

• Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

1. Phantasy Phanatik

• GreyCat: I'd like to join and help this project, starting with most basic theory about synthesizers - such as describing all major components, synthesis types, algorithms, then proceeding to individual pieces of equipment / software.

• pacmanfever
• iguana_nirvana14
• pacman997

Comments:

[edit] Three Stooges

Description: To Expand, Create, Fix, and verify Three Stooges related articles, including their shorts, films, co-stars, and crew.

Interested Wikipedians

1. DTGardner 20:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments: Existing Articles related to The Three Stooges:

• Three Stooges

• Moe Howard
• Curly Howard
• Larry Fine
• Shemp Howard
• Curly Joe DeRita
• Joe Besser
• Bonnie Bonnell
• Emil Sitka

• Three Stooges Films (Category)
• List of Three Stooges shorts

As per the note at the top: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. It should be a task force for the films project in my opinion. RobJ1981 07:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Titanic

Description: Basically a WikiProject to improve the Titanic related articles, including the passengers and officers.

Interested Wikipedians

1. Superior1 02:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Trucks

Description

The purpose of this WikiProject is to co-ordinate articles on light, medium and heavy trucks. It aims to improve the coverage of manufacturers and models, and to make articles on trucks uniform and informative.
Rotten Stone 13:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Temporary project page

User:Rotten Stone/WikiProject Trucks

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Kieran T ^{(talk | contribs)}
2. Fabio^Talk Definatly agree, there needs to be a more uniform article structure on trucks and i think a project may accomplish this.
3. G®iffen likes to help, but it's probably not much from me as mentioned below
4. Hasannur OK, I'm interested and willing to help
5. Tepoo I agree with projects description. I'm willing to help but regrettably I don't have enormous amounts of time to contribute towards this project.

Comments

1. Trucks

What's wrong with the current article that we need a new project? Peter Horn 16:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Copy and paste of a comment on Rotten Stone Peter Horn 16:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Compare Automobile and Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles to see the worth of a project which draws people in to the breadth of the field. – Kieran T ^(talk) 17:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the main article about trucks. However, if you compare with the coverage of automobiles, aircrafts and trains, there are surprisingly few articles about various truck models. To be honest I also find most articles on truck manufacturers rather thin (example). Of course this won't be solved by just adding a new project, but a project will help make new articles more conform and thereby of grater value to the readers. It will also be easier for users to add new information or new articles if there are suitable templates, like infoboxes, to pick from. Rotten Stone 17:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Following the example link I see that Unimog is well overdone compared to the other models...

I miss some more country-specific details on rules etc. to the truck-article. About models I see that Volvo is even worse, I actually started up one model with a photo only in the hope that sby would feel provoked to write the text to it (since I don't have the faintest idea of model history - I only drive the things). My problem on a truck project would be that

1. I have a work without computer
2. I have 2 small kids taking a lot of my home time
3. I work mostly at the da:Wiki, especially when it comes to technical articles, since my school-english didn't include technical terms.

Anyway I think a project could help this subject, but I am afraid I cant help as much as I would like to :-( --G®iffen 17:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

• Ok, there's a temporary project page up and running. Please visit, and feel free to comment on the talk page. Rotten Stone 16:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• comment What about broadening to cover all Road transport, as a parallel to WikiProject Trains? Or should that be in the scope of WikiProject Transport which appears to be essentially inactive? --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• If it covered road going trucks, trailers, buses, motorhomes and perhaps implements (ie everything not covered by the existing automobile and motorbike wikiprojects), I think that it would have more chance of gaining the member numbers needed for viability. I've looked at this proposed project several times and concluded that, as currently proposed, its scope is too narrow. --Athol Mullen 06:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tunisia

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nation of Tunisia.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Tunisia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

1. Darwinek - created many stubs on geography in the past. - Darwinek 15:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
2. --escondites 06:17, 10 February 2007 (UTC) - I would be interested in it.
3. Chris 05:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

• Georgie Anne Geyer called Tunisia the country that works, let's make the project work! Chris 09:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Television children's shows

Description

I've noticed that TV show articles are vandalized a lot, and since children's shows hold a startlingly high percent of this; some have not had articles made. Users in this project would monitor children's show articles that they know well and make sure that everything is in check and has not been vandalized, and create pages for shows lacking them and monitor them. P.S. I would need help making this. Superx 00:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Superx 00:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Expressing interest

Having just spell-checked and copy-edited the above description, I would anticipate that if this project did go ahead it should be under Children's television shows although it doesn't have much support yet... Mdcollins1984 14:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK Roads

Description

This wikiproject aims to improve the standard and quality of the UK road articles, i have noticed that there is lots of roads missing, so if you are a roadfan like myself I suggest you support this wikiproject and help me complete the major road articles for the UK- thanks

p.s I might need someone else to lead the project someone a bit more experienced than me. DINOMAN 11:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians

Comments

[edit] Unassessed Articles

Description

The excellence of many articles (including some Featured articles) goes unappreciated because they have no sponsoring WikiProject to assess their quality and importance by the Mathbot. This WikiProject would offer a temporary home to all such homeless articles until they find their own Wikiproject, and allow them to be assessed.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Willow

Comments

#Assessment of unassessed articles, perhaps? Kirill Lokshin 02:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict) It's already been suggested! Please see the result - come and join us! We're just starting (with VA tagging) and we'd really appreciate your help! Walkerma 02:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm really embarrassed that I didn't notice your earlier suggestion, and will be glad to help out — way to go, guys! But I still think that there's a need for a WikiProject for "homeless" articles, articles that do not fall under any presently existing WikiProject. For example, until we got our Textile Arts WikiProject a few days ago, that was the case for hundreds of articles on knitting, weaving, spinning, fashion, etc. It'd be nice to have a temporary home for such articles until their field reaches "critical mass" for forming a WikiProject. What do you all think? Willow 02:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

PS. Perhaps the name of this Wikiproject should be changed, though, to prevent confusion?

That's all part of the plan for what's going on above - do please join us! Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unicycling

Description

This project would help promote and coordinate articles related to unicycling and unicycles. It would provide a location to outline and enhance the structure of existing and future articles, and it would perhaps be similar to the existing projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling and Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. AndrewDressel 18:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
2. User:Mathmo

Comments

Existing articles include:

• Unicycle

• Eunicycle
• Impossible wheel
• Robotic unicycle
• Ultimate wheel

• Unicycling

• Extreme unicycling
• Mountain unicycling
• Unicycle trials

• Events

• UNICON

• People

• Kaleigh Grainger
• Kris Holm

And The Unicyclopedia

• Might want to take a look at WP:TASKFORCE, which will tell you how to set up this idea as a sub-project of an existing project, which will both help you attract more participants and make starting up faster. -- Ned Scott 06:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uttar Pradesh

Description

Uttar Pradesh is a state in India. This wikiproject will be a child project of WikiProject Indian states which in turn is a child project of WikiProject India. Projects for several other Indian states already exist.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Maquahuitl 14:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Veterinary medicine

There are currently a number of projects dealing with specific species and kinds of animals. Almost by definition, many of these projects treat, at least peripherally, the health matters of these animals. Regretfully, there is no coordination of these efforts, and the number of true experts in the field who are best qualified to address the matters of veterinary medicine are thus often spread about among these groups. This project proposes to provide some degree of coordination of these editors, and more generally, to create, improve, and maintain articles dealing with matters of veterniary medicine.

User: Badbilltucker 23:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC) - Not one of the most qualified editors to address this matter, but will do what I can, probably primarily in support of the more expert editors.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Veterniary Medicine - yeah, once in a while my spelling sucks. It'll get corrected on the move.

• Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

1. Joelmills - I'll do what I can as far as organizing and the actual writing.
2. Montanabw 00:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Maybe, at least, I know where a lot of existing articles on various horse diseases are...

• Comments

[edit] Video Game Images

Description

a WikiProject devoted to the inclusion of images in Video Game articles. Many articles are missing boxart and in-game screenshots, and that needs to change.

User

NiGHTS into Dreams...

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

[edit] Weezer

Description

Weezer is considered one of the most important and influential bands of recent times.^{[citation needed]} There is so much to be written about the band. I feel albums like Pinkerton (album) and Weezer (The Blue Album) have enough potential to be feature articles.

The Person who proposed it

User:wikiwonka12

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

• M A Mason 00:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC) I can be quite busy most of the time but when I have a free moment I'd love to help in some way.

Comments

• You might want to try this idea via task force. We've been trying to promote this idea as an alternative to starting a whole new WikiProject, as it still allows the focus of editing but a lot less hassle in starting up. -- Ned Scott 07:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Western Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Western Africa

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

• Thomas MacMillan
• Darwinek. I have created many geographic articles related to Western Africa. Wikipedia coverage of this area is pitiful. This project and concentrated work of many users are much needed. - Darwinek 16:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• MLA

Comments I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project.

[edit] Western Asia

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, and possibly Iran, dependent upon the opinion of the potential participants.

Temporary Project Page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Western Asia

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

1. Eshcorp 18:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
2. Orionist 20:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments It is I believe understood that this project would focus its efforts primarily on those countries which are not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

• I think the project should include Iran as it is located in West Asia. As for Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Cyprus, aren't they considered a part of Europe?Orionist 06:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Regarding the status of Georgia, et al., the countries in this group were selected on the basis of the existing UN world regions. They also include Iran in southern Asia. However, this is a proposed project and everything is open to change. There is an extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran, which presumably deals with all the Iranian issues, but part of the intention of this proposed project is to provide back-up if any national project goes inactive, so, basically, if you want to include Iran here, we could probably fairly easily do so. Badbilltucker 15:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
    • That is a weird classification by the UN as all geography books and atlases put Iran in West Asia (it also competes in the West Asia soccer championship). However, they have they're own project. What I hope is, maybe including Iran will draw some Iranian users to the project (we may contact their project?). This area needs much work as it seems neglected by most, and because Iran has always been a part of it historically, we might get some good contributions from Iranian users about their neighbors. Just my two cents. Orionist 16:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
      • I see the logic of your position, and acknwoledge that there is absolutely no reason why the members of that project should not be contacted, nor any reason why a message regarding this project could not be included on the Talk: Iran page. Please tell me if you want me to make such a contact, or, if you prefere, feel free to contact them yourself. Thank you for the suggestion. Badbilltucker 22:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
        • Thanks! I hope we can make this real so soon. This is a region that really needs much work (having a tough time working on it myself!). I've just added my name (how did I forget to do that?). Orionist 20:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Markup Standardization

The idea behind this is to develop standards for wiki markup. Hopefully, in order to offset the MediaWiki markup POV so rampantly prevalent here, we would be able to recruit a large number of users of other wiki software to provide their own input. I'd also be happy to accept ideas for shorter/more creative names for the project :)

Temporary Project Page: User:Dinoguy1000/Wikiproject Wiki Markup Standardization

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

• I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "MediaWiki markup POV".. -- Ned Scott 11:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I half-meant for it to be a joke, it was referring to the fact that WP uses the MediaWiki software, so that's the only wikimarkup that most editors here are exposed to, and it was also poking fun at the whole POV issue that is at the back of the minds of most serious contributors here. --Dinoguy1000 ^Talk 19:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Ah, so basically a WikiProject that would come up with markup proposals for the MediaWiki software itself. -- Ned Scott 04:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
      • Yeah, and possibly at least recommendations for other wiki software suites as well... --Dinoguy1000 ^Talk 05:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WorldCat Identities - external links

Description

The recently prototyped WorldCat Identities provides pages - linked to the WorldCat union catalog - for 20 million 'identities', mainly authors and persons who are the subjects of published titles. This project would aim systematically to provide external links from biographical pages in Wikipedia to their WorldCat Identities page.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. [your name here]

Comments

Tim O'Reilly's reaction to WorldCat Identities was to call for a project like this: “I'd really love to see this tied in programmatically to wikipedia. There ought to be an automatic link to this site for every identity in wikipedia!” WorldCat Identities currently provides thousands of links in the reverse direction, i.e. to en:Wikipedia. Of the over 200,000 biographical articles on Wikipedia, around 20% are reliably automatically matchable to Wikipedia Identities via the Library of Congress Name Authority file (see User:Dsp13). Once WorldCat Identities is stabilized with 'cool' URLs, this project could proceed at full throttle: it would allow easy passage from Wikipedia biographical articles to associated library holdings. Dsp13 15:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

How precisely would they be linked from Wikipedia articles? External links, special metadata templates like WP:PERSON, or what? --Gwern (contribs) 21:36 20 February 2007 (GMT)

I was envisaging external links, though that's not incompatible with an external link template like these. Dsp13 23:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure external links is the best solution. It runs afoul of some peoples sense of SPAM, it's a lot of work to create new entries, and there is no guarantee someone in the future won't just delete it - it won't be very consistent. I think the way Wikipedia handles ISBN's would be a better solution to finding library holdings. So long as an author has an ISBN listed, the user is directed to an internal Wikipedia page that lists 100s of sources for books. For example ISBN 0198114915 takes us to a page with WorldCat listed as the first entry. This seems like a cleaner, more consistent solution already in place. -- Stbalbach 15:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, ISBNs are excellent, and very clean. However, two points. First, ISBNs have only been assigned for recently published works. (For historical works, an OCLC number is emerging as a sort of stand-in.) Second, WorldCat Identities gathers together titles by/about a single individual: adding a single external link is certainly no more work than adding several ISBNs (though I see the two as complementary). You're right, though, that external links (especially if not backed by an external link template) run foul of some people's sense of spam. Dsp13 15:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I really don't like them. The pages are nice enough, but they don't really show anything remarkable - certainly they don't seem to be expansive on the subject in the same way that linking to IMDB for films is. We should think very hard before rolling out a comprehensive project to link to a single external site across tens of thousands of pages - like it or not, it constitutes a pretty significant statement on our part as to the importance, usability and significance of their material.

The information on them is automatically generated, not cleaned up by human oversight, and it shows - the Kipling page tells us he wrote "Adventure fiction" and worked as a "Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Lyricist, Translator, Performer, Illustrator, Correspondent". (I am unaware of any notable levels of translating, performing or illustrating - plus what use is 'bibliographic antecedent' to a nonspecialist? - and he wrote a damn sight more than 'Kim'!) The major biography on him is apparently by "Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Birkenhead", a name that only an authority catalogue could love. The cataloguing graph can't handle the fairly standard "19--" and has at least two or three completely wrong datapoints manual oversight would have caught, and the list of works is confusingly arranged and bizzarely constituted. (I am really not convinced the two named collections of poetry represent identifiably distinct groups of work... one being dated 1956 and "published between 1890 and 2006" seems dubious)

Really, there doesn't seem to be any major content on these external pages that we couldn't do better just writing into the article, and it doesn't serve as a gateway to anything much more than the holdings of a single self-selecting consortium of libraries (which is a lot less comprehensive than it can seem at first glance).

There is a use for these - their aggregate figures on the number of editions of different works is promising, and would be good to cite in passing for a lot of works - but I think we'd be doing our readers and editors a disservice to imagine that these are universally helpful external links. Shimgray | talk | 22:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

To call WorldCat nothing 'much more than the holdings of a single self-selected consortium of libraries (which is a lot less comprehensive than it can seem at first glance)' seems entirely misleading to me: it's by far the biggest union catalog ever attempted, includes some major academic libraries and has over 1.1 billion holdings: just watch it grow. As far as your careful criticisms of a WorldCat Identities page goes, though, perhaps I was premature to make this project proposal while WorldCat Identities is such a recent beta project: several of these issues seem teething problems which I hope will get ironed out. What do others think? Dsp13 15:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we need a "person" equivalent of this service for coordinates or this one of books? Andy Mabbett 01:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wyoming

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Wyoming.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Wyoming

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• Buaidh 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC) – Former Wyomingite now living in Colorado.
• --MONGO 07:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• CosmicPenguin (Talk) 00:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC) - Also a former Wyomingite living in Colorado. :)
• A mcmurray 13:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC): Fan of any U.S. state, they all have their splendor. Anyway I could be pretty helpful with Wyoming Registered Historic Places, as I am a duly contributing member of the NRHP WikiProject and also work on various Wyoming articles, especially Wyoming ghost towns.

Comments:

• Retiono Virginian 16:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC). I love Wyoming, always helping out with it and related articles. Retiono Virginian 16:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yorkshire

Description

A project to build a exclusive and accurate guide to the a known as Yorkshire in the North of England. Including the counties of north Yorkshire, east Yorkshire, west Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire. Including the cities of York, Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford. The region is populated with 6 million people. Contains the large rural areas of the Yorkshire dales and moors, and is generally well known and famous, I don't know why they haven't made a project on it yet. Retiono Virginian 17:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Tellyaddict 19:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Adam J Hepton Talk 09:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Aaronsharpe 10:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Willow177 15:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Derek R Bullamore 18:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] WikiProject Secrets of Droon

Description

This WikiProject would focus on the children's book series, The Secrets of Droon, which would greatly benefit if there is more info added to its relevant articles.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. [Aidofight]

Comments: I just wish to let everyone know that of course if you feel that my proposal is unreasonable and does not abide by wikipedian rules, then of couse you do not have to accept it. I merely wanted for these Droon articles to improve. Thank you very much. Aidoflight 16:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, it's not that, you are free to start such efforts if you wish, but sometimes the editors you are trying to reach aren't watching pages like this and don't know about your proposal. You might want to mention the idea on related article talk pages. Also, you might want to try this idea via task force, something we're trying to promote more often as an alternative to starting WikiProjects from the ground up. Basically you get all the benefits of a focused editing group, but with less hassle and not having to worry about starting from scratch. -- Ned Scott 08:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Geometry

Description

A WikiProject covering polygons, polyhedrons, geometric shapes, angles, and any other mathematical topics related to geometry.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Kamope · talk · contributions 22:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

I think this is a good idea (I'm surprised it already didn't exist), but I'm afraid I'm not particularly interested in Geometry. :-P | AndonicO ^{Talk · Sign Here} 00:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

This would be better off integrated into Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics (as a task force or otherwise), I think. Kirill Lokshin 23:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Not sure what's intended to be included in this WikiProject's scope. The examples in the description above — "polygons, polyhedrons, geometric shapes, angles" — are all covered in high-school Euclidean geometry. There's a lot more to geometry than that: see the article Geometry for a taste, or the list of geometry topics for a partial list. So I'm not sure whether the description above is meant to imply that these topics are not in the scope of this WikiProject, or if they were merely chosen as examples of topics that will also include Bruhat-Tits buildings, the Hodge conjecture, and so forth. (I'm just seeking clarification, not meaning offense.) —msh210℠ 04:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] District of Columbia

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the District of Columbia.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Ebyabe

Interested Wikipedians:

1. [your name here]

Comments:

[edit] Thang Online

Description

We wish to show people what the game Thang Online is all about and to get more players at the same time.--Destructo 087 23:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Temporary Project Page

Wikipedia:Wikiproject Thang

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

--Destructo 087 23:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Chris 23:42, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if I understand correctly, but you probably shouldn't be using a WikiProject to find more players for a game. -- Ned Scott 00:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Surrey

Description

I would like to start a WikiProject in the name of this fine Home County, in which I live. There are too few articles on Surrey beyond basic town articles - for example, Nikolaus Pevsner describes Surrey (in his Buildings of England) as being one of the richest counties in the country for Gothic Revival churches. I will start the project, but I am announcing it here anyway to try and get people interested--Vox Humana 8' 17:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Project page

WikiProject Surrey

[edit] WikiProject classroom coordination

Description

Would expand upon Wikipedia:School and university projects and create a space where experienced Wikipedians coordinate with professional educators toward classroom assignments that benefit both Wikipedia and the classroom.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Durova^Charge! 18:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Pharos 20:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Alex Bakharev 07:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Zesty Prospect 17:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Lenoxus " * " 15:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Should just be a taskforce of the project mentioned, it's too broad. RobJ1981 13:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • No parent project exists. The referenced page is a list in the Wikipedia namespace. I agree its name is somewhat confusing, which may be why nobody worked this into a WikiProject proposal until now. Durova^Charge! 13:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roads in New York City

Description

This Wikiproject will be dedicated to expanding pages about roads and bridges in The New York City Area

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. Bernstein2291