Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia Tech

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the Georgia Institute of Technology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

If you would like to help, please add your name to the List of Participants below, and see what you can do. We'll be happy to have your help!

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07:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Things are progressing nicely; we have our first featured list, and eight Good Articles, the most recent being Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. We also have updated goals, contribution instructions, and an improvement section on the main page ("Assessment") with links to past/present/future peer reviews and nominations. Also, the shortcuts WP:TECH/A (article list) and WP:TECH/RC (related recent changes) have been created. –Disavian (talk • contribs)

07:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Georgia Institute of Technology, History of Georgia Tech and George P. Burdell are current good article nominees. If you review other articles in those respective subjects, people will get to ours faster. Also, we have a new assessment system and two ongoing peer reviews. Check them out. –Disavian (talk • contribs)

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This project was established with several purposes in mind.

1. Improve the quality of all Georgia Tech-related articles, with a specific goal of GA or FA; specifically:
   1. Get Georgia Institute of Technology to Featured Article status.
   2. Get List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni to Featured list status.
   3. Focus on specific "core topics" through the article list and the weekly collaboration.
   4. See "Assessment" for specific quality measurements and resources.
2. Improve Georgia Tech's exposure by incorporating appropriate text and references in non-project articles
   1. Given Wikipedia's use as a general resource, the more exposure that Tech gets, the more our work is appreciated.
   2. Write up specific (notable) research projects, departments, and professors, and then link to them from other parts of the encyclopedia
   3. Use these contributions to build up other parts of the project; an article on a GT Research project can be used to improve Georgia Institute of Technology#Research.
   4. An article on a dorm can be used to help create Georgia Institute of Technology#Housing or, if so desired, an entire article on the subject.
   5. Write articles for notable alumni; Add notable alumni (whether or not they have an article) to the alumni list.
3. Recruit people, especially students, faculty, and alumni, to acheive the afformentioned goals.
   1. Encourage a community of editors to act upon the guidelines set forth by the project
   2. Recruit contributions from the general Tech population, so that a handful of people aren't doing everything
   3. Once a significant goal has been accomplished, organize a Wikimeet!

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Project things to do:

• Write articles for all of the subjects listed as "Core topics without articles"
• Use {{GeorgiaTechAthleticDirector}} and {{Georgia Tech Presidents}} on appropriate pages.
• Use {{Welcome Student GaTech}} and {{Invite Student GaTech}} to welcome students at Georgia Tech that haven't nessasarily contributed to the project. To find them, look through Special:Whatlinkshere/Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Add persondata to WPGT articles about people. See Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.
• Nominate articles for GA status as appropriate

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Article statistics

Georgia Institute of Technology articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	1
	A
	GA	8	8
	B	25	25
	Start	50	50
	Stub	43	43
	Assessed	127	127
	Unassessed	0	0
	Total	127	127

• Article list by quality
• Quality changes log
• how to refresh the statistics

Good Article Nominations

• The Technique (talk, to do)
• Georgia Tech traditions (talk, to do)

Current Peer Reviews

• Peer review on The Technique (talk, to do)
• Peer review on Tech Tower (talk, to do)

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Project notices

• {{WikiProject Georgia Tech}} - For article talk pages
• {{Invite User GaTech}} - For existing editors' talk pages
• {{Welcome Anon GaTech}} - For anonymous editors' talk pages
• {{Welcome User GaTech}} - For new editors' talk pages
• {{Welcome Student GaTech}} - For GT students new to WP
• {{Invite Student GaTech}} - For GT students

Article templates

• {{Georgia Tech Navbox}}
• {{Georgia Tech Presidents}}
• {{GeorgiaTechAthleticDirector}}
• {{GeorgiaTechFootballCoach}}
• {{GeorgiaTechBasketballCoach}}
• {{GeorgiaTechBaseballCoach}}

Userboxes

See also: Category:Georgia Institute of Technology user templates

• {{User gatech}} or {{User GIT}} - For user pages of Georgia Tech students and alumni
• {{User Project GaTech}} - For user pages of project members
• {{User:Disavian/Userboxes/GT Homeboy}} - A more humorous approach to life :)

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Things you should know about WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Best Practices
• Article Quality Scale

We share some articles with these projects:

• WikiProject College basketball
• WikiProject College football
• WikiProject Biography
• WikiProject ACC

Parent projects:

• WikiProject Universities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)

Projects based on WP:TECH:

• WikiProject Cornell University
• WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis

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No matter how experienced you are, we could use your help!

If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

1. Introduction to Wikipedia
2. How to edit a page
3. Starting a new page
4. Wikipedia syntax

If you're looking to join the project or for something to do, try the following:

1. Add your name to the list of participants (optional)
2. Contribute to an existing article; there is a list of articles below (or click here)
   1. Have a look at this week's collaboration (on the left).
   2. Consider starting with a topic you're familiar with, and working out from there.
   3. Every article in the project has a "to do" list with suggestions and helpful links for that article. If you can think of something the article needs, or have completed one of those tasks, feel free to edit that list!
   4. Be on the lookout for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions.
3. Start a new article!
   1. There's a list of requests below (or click here).
   2. Be sure to add {{WikiProject Georgia Tech}} to the talk page.
4. Add an image to an article!
   1. Check the image requests below and to the left (or click here)...
   2. Or look at project articles for somewhere a picture you've taken might look good.
   3. Image uploading and licensing is difficult, so don't be afraid to ask for help!
   4. If you upload an image you've taken, licensing it under Creative Commons cc-by-2.5 (or a similar license) will reduce the chance that it will be deleted.
      1. cc-by-nc and cc-by-3.0 licenses are considered "unfree";
      2. If you upload an image, you have to swallow the fact that any person or corporation (including the institute) can (and will) use your image.
   5. Add images you upload to Category:Georgia Institute of Technology. If you upload them to Commons, add them to the category on both Commons and Wikipedia. (Yes, you can categorize a Commons image on Wikipedia.)

And remember, provide sources for your edits.

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• awhsnow83 (talk • contribs) - MS Info Sec Graduate Student, GTRI Signature Technology Laboratory
• Brianmathews (talk • contribs) - GT Librarian
• Disavian (talk • contribs) - 3rd-year CmpE, Co-op at GTRI (ELSYS), copy editor for The Technique
• Excaliburhorn (talk • contribs) - 4th-year PTFE
• happypete (talk • contribs) - AE 1993, Coop, Grad Coop, DramaTech, Psi Upsilon, Alpha Phi Omega
• Jthorn0 (talk • contribs) - 1st-year MBA student
• LaMenta3 (talk • contribs) - 4th-year Public Policy, Advertising Manager (and general office bitch) for The Technique
• Lbr123 (talk • contribs)
• MaxVeers (talk • contribs) - 1st-year HCC Ph.D. student
• Niayre (talk • contribs) - INTA major
• Patricknoddy (talk • contribs)
• SCEhardt (talk • contribs) - Computer Science student at Tech
• VinnyR (talk • contribs) - Computer Science Senior, OIT Student Developer
• Warpflyght (talk • contribs) - 4th-year CS major and ResNet technical assistant
• wshutters (talk • contribs) - EE 1987, Systems Security Engineer

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This is a list of "core articles" that are most actively maintained by this project. Alumni, faculty, and staff are only included on this list if they are especially notable to the university. Add articles or move them to different lists where appropriate. Items in bold are of higher importance. See also: related changes (shortcut: WP:TECH/RC).

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This is a list of Georgia Tech-related articles, templates, and categories listed for deletion.

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