Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Victoria
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[edit] Bon Voyage
From all of us at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia - best wishes for the new project and the christmas season !SatuSuro 15:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not actually a Victorian, but...
Hope I can help with some of the tasks, particularly those in the geographical or political sphere. Orderinchaos78 15:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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- He's in the West Australian project and a fine participant there! SatuSuro 15:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A couple of questions...
- Will there be a conflict with residents of Victoria, British Columbia?
- Does this project specifically exclude Melbourne, or will Melbourne-based-topics be included in both the Melbourne and Victoria wikiprojects? -- Chuq 00:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Re second - maybe they might take a clue from the WA project - we have tried to keep WA=yes items separate from Perth=yes items -as most of the subjects/articles are one or the other. SatuSuro 00:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Re the first - if Victoria BC ever gets its own project, they can always call it Greater Victoria as any article would have to include Saanich, Oak Bay, Sooke etc...
- Re the second - my suggestion would be the following schema:
- If it relates to the state as a whole, or (state) government, should be in WP Victoria
- If it is outside of the region which Melbourne takes responsibility for, should be in WP Victoria
- Melbourne has taken responsibility for all areas including and enclosed by the Shires of Mornington Peninsula, Cardinia, Yarra Ranges, Nillumbik and Melton, and the Cities of Hume and Wyndham.
- This is only my thoughts - feel free to add, clarify, disagree etc Orderinchaos78 02:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
"I was born, lucky me, in the land that I love." Victoria, Ray Davies.
There is a more famous Victoria. Hmm, another project idea. The name is likely to lead to confusion. I also think the canadian state and other 'Victorias' scattered around globe would justify a project merely to list them. See also Victoria. Best wishes for new project Fred 03:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Is anyone interested? -- Punk Boi 8 07:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tasmania is now up and running as well
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania SatuSuro 03:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PLEASE NOTE
To anyone considering creating stubs for this project - please read Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting carefully - regarding processes involved - so as to avoid issues with WP WSS D (which can mean both discovery and delete :) ) SatuSuro 02:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment templates
Does this project really need to use such a *loud* (and dare I say, ugly) template? An example is at Talk:Melbourne. (diff)? Could it be toned down a little to better match the remainder used? -- Longhair\talk 06:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- For those who click after this point - the "GA" green icon was previously three columns high and just over half a page wide. It was very green, and very loud. Orderinchaos78 07:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- My personal opinion - does it even need one at all? The WA and Tasmanian wikiprojects have been able to get by just fine with the generic Australian one, marking "This is supported by Wikiproject ____" using the tags. A big advantage in doing things this way is updatability - the less things you have to update, the more likely they are to be properly updated. Also shared resources - the WP Australia assessment team is capably and well staffed, whereas WP Vic has a low membership at the present time (although will grow) so is not really in the position to assess its own articles just yet. By the time it is, we'll probably have figured out a way to incorporate that into WP Australia. I did fix what appeared to be a colspan error in the WP VIC box which created the loud look :P Orderinchaos78 07:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm brainstorming a system where all Australian articles will share the one assessment system, based on the Military history model. Hopefully we'll end up with a 'one shoe fits all' type of arrangement, where the master project provides for sub-project assessments by default. -- Longhair\talk 22:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nhill railway station
Nhill Railway Station is now served by the Overland. As every other station served by a passenger service in Victoria has a page, can Nhill have one too and be linked to the other pages? Thanks. JROBBO 10:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
