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The Organizations WikiProject is currently building a new framework for the Organizations category! We are planning to add all notable organizations by location, field, kind, and ideology from the "bottom-up", as well as move existing pages into the new scheme from the "top-down". Feel free to add content below, or share your thoughts on the discussion page.

Organizations WikiProject (Under Construction)

General information Main project page talk Main Categories Organizations by field talk Organizations by location talk → Organizations by region talk Organizations by ideology talk Organizations by type talk  → Discussion archives Announcements and open tasks talk  → Categories needing adjustment talk  → Requests talk Departments  → Assessment talk  → Automation talk  → Collaboration talk  → Outreach talk  → Peer review talk Showcase  → Featured picture gallery talk Portals Project organization Coordinators talk Members talk Project banner talk Project category talk Guidelines Naming conventions Notability Article structure Content and style Infobox templates  → Military conflict infobox talk Categories Featured article advice edit · talk · changes

Shortcut: WP:ORGZ

Welcome to the Organizations WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of local, regional and international organizations. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members!

Please note that this WikiProject was recently overhauled and will be streamlined and developed further in the coming days. Oldsoul 00:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe organizations.

• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of organizations by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.

• To develop and maintain a featured quality portal, with an intuitive system of navigation templates, as well as various infoboxes and an integrated assessment process for articles.

• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to organizations in Wikipedia.

Scope

The project generally considers articles about any incorporated, registered, or otherwise legitimate organization to be within its scope. The term "organization" is applicable to any active or historical association, society, union, foundation, or corporation as well as any related and notable conferences or events.

Structure

Modelled after WP:WARS, internally the project will develop several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:

• Coordinators, who are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project.
• Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as the main portal, article assessment, peer review, or other project-wide collaboration.
• Task forces, which are more informal groups for collaboration on specific areas of organizations, such as particular locations, regions, or types.

Contents 1 Announcements and open tasks 2 Guidelines 2.1 Naming conventions 2.1.1 Organization not Organisation 2.2 Notability 2.3 Article structure 2.4 Content and style 2.5 Infobox templates 2.6 Categories 2.7 Featured article advice 3 Showcase 3.1 Featured articles 3.2 A-Class articles 3.3 Other content 4 Project organization 4.1 Coordinators 4.2 Members 4.3 Departments 4.4 Task forces 4.4.1 Location 4.4.2 Field 4.4.3 Ideology 4.4.4 Type 4.5 Portals 4.6 Project award 4.7 Project banner 5 Resources 5.1 Resources

[edit] Announcements and open tasks

• Step 3 (basic editing) of the Portal, (instructions here)
• Paste in main article structure
  • Paste in 2nd and (relevant) 3rd tier headings from example
• Create WP:ORG redirect (example)
• Fix and configure Navigation and announcement templates.
• Implement system for bot tracking articles in order to assess them.

*change name of templates to reflect new shortcut (WPORGZ)

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Naming conventions

[edit] Organization not Organisation

For the purposes of this WikiProject and all related articles, and categories, we will use the organization standard. Also, all categories shall be lower-case organization.

American spelling accepts only -ize endings in most cases, such as organize, recognize, and realize. British usage accepts both -ize and the more French-looking -ise (organise, recognise, realise). However, the -ize spelling is now rarely used in the UK in the mass media and newspapers, and is hence often incorrectly regarded as an Americanism,^[1] despite being preferred by some authoritative British sources, including Fowler's Modern English Usage and the Oxford English Dictionary, which until recently did not list the -ise form of many individual words, even as an alternative. Indeed, it firmly deprecates this usage, stating, "The suffix, whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek... (or) Latin -izare; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling in -iser should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic."^[2]

Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly used by many international organizations. .

[edit] Notability

[edit] Article structure

A central discussion on proposals for a format (or various formats) for articles related to organizations can be found here.

• Every article talk page should include:

{{talkheader}} {{skiptotoctalk}} {{WikiProject Organizations}}

[edit] Content and style

[edit] Infobox templates

/Infoboxtest

Template_talk:Infobox_Organization

[edit] Categories

The various Organizations category's sub-categories are under discussion here, and a new scheme is being developed here.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28categories%29

• Each category should have these templates on the top of it's discussion page:

{{talkheader}}
{{skiptotoctalk}}
{{WPORGZ Navigation}}

[edit] Featured article advice

[edit] Showcase

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] A-Class articles

[edit] Other content

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Coordinators

[edit] Members

[edit] Departments

[edit] Task forces

Task force pages have been set up for each of the four main organizations categories.

[edit] Location

The Location task force has been set up in order to coordinate efforts in that category tree.

[edit] Field

[edit] Ideology

[edit] Type

[edit] Portals

Portal:Organizations

[edit] Project award

[edit] Project banner

{{WikiProject Organizations}}

This article is within the scope of the Organizations WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of organizations. We are developing a framework that will sort every category by location, field, ideology, and type. We need a few more people to help coordinate this ambitious project. If you have any technical experience with templates, or just have an interest in the topic, add your name, and check out the talk page to get involved.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Resources

This needs to be arranged.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Geographical/North_America
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Colours
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigational_templates
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Alberta
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Todo
• Existing Organization template
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organisations_by_city
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organizations_by_country

• Organization
• Organizational studies
• Society
• WikiProject Sociology
• WikiProject Business and Economics
• Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information
• Category:Organization_stubs

{{WPORGZ Navigation}}