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WikiProject Media
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WikiProject Media has a two-fold purpose: 1) To improve the organization and quality of existing articles, catagories, lists and resources of, or related to, those things commonly known as print, electronic (electromechanical) media, and to help generate ideas for new items and expansion to same. 2) To improve the organization and quality of existing articles, catagories, lists and resources of, or related to, those things commonly known as mass media and to help generate ideas for new items and expansion to same.

(See: Sister project Journalism for News media specific focus.)

Our aim is to have this WikiProject assist other Wikipedians in positive and constructive ways for the betterment of this universe of articles and resouces and to Wikipedia as a whole.

If you are new to WikiProjects, take some time to get familiar with what WikiProjects are all about. For new and experienced Project participants, your comments are invited at the Project's talk page.

For more information on WikiProjects, see:

• Wikipedia:WikiProjects
• Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices
• Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProjects

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Related WikiProjects 4 Related groups of Wikipedians 5 Participants 6 Goal 7 General strategy and discussion forums 8 Templates 8.1 Infoboxes 8.2 Stub templates 8.3 Project templates 9 Categories 10 Articles 10.1 Project relevant Wikipedia articles 10.2 New Wikipedia articles related to Media 10.3 Did you know? 10.4 Article improvement drive 10.5 Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates 10.6 Collaboration of the week 10.7 Peer review 10.8 Good Articles 10.9 Featured article candidates 10.10 Featured articles 11 Wikipedia surveys 11.1 Ad hoc surveys 11.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 11.2.1 Votes for deletion 12 Requests 13 Resources 14 Media Meetups 15 Archives 16 Background and project basics 17 Suggestions for new projects

[edit] Title

WikiProject Media

[edit] Scope

Log line -- A broadbased WikiProject covering 1) the technical and creative factors required for print and electronic media, and 2) the economic and social issues related to media.

1. Technical and application:
   1. All articles relating to Media, mediums of all types and formats, covering -- aquisition, editorial, creative, authoring, delivery, transmission, storage, archiving, consumer and professional equipment and formats, networks, broadcast, cable, microwave, satellite transmission and low-power broadcasting.
2. Theory, analsysis, ecnomics, ethics, criticism
   1. Articles dealing with specific issues in mass media, media regulatory issues, media culture, eletronic journalism, media bias, news propaganda, criticism, media ethics, standards and pratices, media economics, news industry, political media, media creative specialties and skill sets.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Films
• WikiProject Filmmaking
• WikiProject Journalism
• WikiProject Media of wrestling
• WikiProject Music genres
• WikiProject Professional sound production
• WikiProject Stagecraft
• WikiProject Technology

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

Put # {{user2|YOURUSERNAME}} at the bottom of this subsection in order to become a part of the project:

1. Calicocat (talk • contribs • count)
2. Quinobi (talk • contribs • count)
3. Will Lakeman (talk • contribs • count)
4. Maurreen (talk • contribs • count)
5. Jorfer (talk • contribs • count)
6. ebmonkey2 (talk • contribs • count)

[edit] Goal

This project was formed primarily to form an objective approach to develop a conceptual framework that might shed some light on systemic bias within the Mass media industries. The scope has been expanded to be inclusive of the circumstances of the technology involved as it applies to the cultures it effects.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Media}}

[edit] Stub templates

• {{Media-stub}}

[edit] Project templates

The following templates are in use in the project.

• {{WikiProject Media}}
• {{templateMedia}}- template for internal project use
• {{MediaProjectTemplate}} - for possible use in article related to the project.
• Project Templates gallery (subpage)

[edit] Categories

• Category:Media

[edit] Articles

[edit] Project relevant Wikipedia articles

Articles can be found at Category:WikiProject Media

The Media_(disambiguation) page.

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Media

Please feel free to list your new Media-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates

[edit] Collaboration of the week

• Media Bias

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Good Articles

• Al Jazeera
• BBC
• BBC News 24
• BBC UK regional TV on satellite
• DuMont Television Network
• Film
• Monty Python
• Napster
• Nelvana
• Thomas Edison

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured articles

• Blues
• Compact Cassette
• Panavision

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

• Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] Requests

[edit] Resources

[edit] Media Meetups

[edit] Archives

[edit] Background and project basics

A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific family of information within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing. The attached talk pages are a convenient forum for those interested in a particular project. Projects can also have associated Wikiportals.

[edit] Suggestions for new projects

1. Read Wikiproject Best practices for tips on leading a WikiProject.
2. Create the main project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject projectname. (See Starting a new page)
3. Create an outline on your project page:
   • Add {{subst:WikiProject|projectname}} into your main project page and save. (See m:Help:Template for details.)
4. Identify pages within the scope of your project:
   • A good way to do this is to copy the listings of Special:Whatlinkshere for the most important articles related to your project.
   • You will probably want to save a copy of the list on a project status subpage.
5. Create a project to-do list to focus and coordinate your collaborative efforts.
6. If possible, link to a sample article to give other Wikipedians a feel for the project's goals.
7. Advertise!
   • Create a project notice template, and insert it at the top of the talk page of related articles.